Considering all the delays, hype and disappointment that surrounded last year's release of Command & Conquer sequel TiberianSun, Red Alert 2 has, in comparison, had a rather quiet time of it. Its announcement in May took many by surprise (including us) and now it seems barely has the marketing machine had time to get into first gear than the game has been finished, packaged and readied for release.
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Consequently, thanks in no small part to the worldwide panning of Tiberian Sun, expectation for Westwood's new real-time strategy game has been only marginally higher than that we would reserve for a decent English summer. To its credit, developer Westwood has neither proclaimed Red Alert 2 be ground-breaking nor Earth-shattering and, after the tragic anti-climax that wasTiberian Sun, we wouldn't have believed them if they had.
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Using an enhanced -unnoticeably so - version of the Tiberian Sun game engine and sporting many gameplay features and units from a four-year-old game, Red Alert 2 could be seen as a glorified remake of its predecessor. Westwood has done the same thing before, with Dune 2000 - the botched up remake of real-time strategy's most influential game - so it wouldn't be beneath them to do the same again.
Now before you all start sending me death threats for my cynical indifference, let me just say if I hadn't been so pessimistic before playing the game, I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did.Think about it - and be honest - what are your expectations for the next Star Wars game? I'd wager not too high after having wasted your money on Force Commander. But because we are all Star Wars fans, or at least we should be, there is the hope that the next one will be brilliant. However, in Red Alert 2s case I wasn't hoping for much at all. You'd do well to think the same, for if you do, I guarantee you'll be pleasantly surprised.
The Tiberian Sun installer will guide you through on how to install the game. Including options on if you wish to install music. Once the installer has finished, you will be prompted to open the configuration tool. In the configuration window, you can set your in-game resolution. Tiberian Sun Remastered is a mod for Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, created by Navy5EAL. Description: Tiberian Sun Remastered is mod for Tiberian Sun which improves graphics, audio, gameplay and other not fixed things of the game. OpenRA for Mac v20200202 Play classic real-time strategy games with this free version of the Red Alert engine. Add to Watchlist Comment Share Rating: Operating Systems: Mac OS X. Fight hectic pitched battles against a determined enemy in this classic real-time strategy game. This page was last edited on 22 April 2020, at 21:51. Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Game content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of their respective publisher and its licensors.Heroes And Villains
When you review a game - or at least when I do - one essential technique is to jot down pages of notes while you're playing, so when it comes to writing the review, you can refer back to them. Normally what is written down, though illegible, makes some sort of sense, but one of the last things I wrote was 'missions good. Nothing special. Addictive'. I am at a loss as to what I was on about, but I can tell you this: the missions in themselves are pretty undemanding, yet taken as a whole (and separated by a story that sees the USA being invaded) the two campaigns on offer (you can play as Allies or Soviets) are very engaging.
As is par for the course, you build a base, harvest ore, expand your borders and kill the unending trickle of enemy units until you overrun their base, all with scant regard for tactics - been there done that, we all have. With that in mind, what has been baffling me is why I enjoyed Red Alert 2 so much and yet could not derive any pleasure from Tiberian Sun. Both games are practically identical in structure, offering similar units to play with across a linear series of missions, liberally interspersed with high-quality video sequences. The only answer I can offer is a subtle difference in feel and mood. Where Tiberian Sun was a dark and faintly absurd yarn full of square-jawed heroes and boo-hiss villains, Red Alert anti its illustrious predecessor are somehow believable, despite being even more outlandish.
Graphically, Red Alert 2 is far from great. The animation for some of the larger units, ships especially, is juddery and the explosions are hardly spectacular. However, bearing bright colours and full of tiny details - like baseball and football pitches, fast food bars and houses - many levels are full of civilian life that have little impact on the game, but add a touch of fun to the proceedings. Sunbathers run half-naked on the beaches and cattle make themselves targets for your restless attack dogs on the farms. Elsewhere, across maps frozen with ice, all the buildings are draped with snow as if to fool us that they had been there forever. They haven't of course, but it's seemingly insignificant details like this that add a bit of colour to our interminably dull lives.Animal Magic
In regard to the two sides you can choose to play, both are as distinct as any you'll find in a real-time strategy game. One of Westwood's strengths is that it always offers two very different challenges in all its strategy games, by throwing in units and buildings that look and play to different styles. Many of the units are standard fare with infantry and tanks in abundance, but there are a number of clever differences between even those.Download Tiberian Sun For Mac
Soviet conscripts are both cheap and weak, American GIs are marginally more expensive and can be deployed in a defensive role, able to fortify themselves in an instant within a cocoon of sandbags.
The Allied Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) is another interesting unit. Alone it is a weak reconnaissance tank, armed with a simple rocket launcher. But put a Gl inside and its turret becomes a powerful anti-personnel platform. With an engineer at the controls it alters into a mobile repair vehicle and there are other transformations that can be achieved by trying out other, more potent infantry units inside.Things like Rocket Launchers, Tech Yards and Gap Generators we've seen before, but many units, both old and new, can combine in interesting ways.
Place some Tesla Troopers with their electrifying weapons around a static Tesla Coil and they'll boost the power of it and keep it charged even when the power is down during an enemy attack.As in all RTS games, both sides' infantry units are easily overrun, even in large numbers, but this time around they can find shelter in many of the neutral buildings that pepper the levels. It's a feature that is long overdue in a Westwood game (Age Of Empires IIanti the soon-to-be-released WWII RTS Sudden Strike both offer the same option) and although not every building can be captured, certain ones that are can be a powerful complement to your base by creating chokepoints through which a lightly armed enemy can quickly perish.
Furthermore, there are four neutral Tech Buildings that can be procured - Airports, Hospitals, Outposts and Oil Derricks - all of which can support and replenish units that might otherwise have to make a long journey back to base.
The Soviets are still the side of cheap mass-produced technology, underhand and willing to sacrifice numbers for victory. In contrast, the Allies rely on fast, high-tech units that are more adaptable, yet weaker if left in a sustained fight with Soviet units of similar role.
One aspect in which Red Alert always won out over CSC was its use of naval units. And once again, Red Alert 2 gives the Soviet side a greater underwater navy, while the Allied fleet is predominantly surface-based with Destroyers, Cruisers and Aircraft Carriers going against the Russian Typhoon Subs and Giant Squids.
Trained animals play a larger role in this sequel than they did in the original Red Alert. The Allies now have attack dogs, as do the Russians, and against the Squids the forces of good rely on herds (or pods if you want to be technical) of clicking dolphins and their sonar attack.Bring Your Friends
Even though the storyline and the level-by-level feed of new technologies are enough to keep you entertained throughout the two campaigns - and there is always the option of the skirmish game - there comes a time when the war will be over against the computer and the time will come to take on a human opponent.
We won't even pretend that we have played Red Alert 2 online yet, no servers are running anyway, but we did play over a LAN and, thanks to the diversity in units and the immediate familiarity of all of Westwood's games, playing against a real opponent was tremendous fun. In multiplayer or skirmish games you not only have to pledge allegiance to the Allied or Soviet sides, you have to choose an army from a particular country, each of which have a particular special unit they can use: Germany has tank destroyers; Libya has demolition trucks; Cuba has terrorists; the US has paratroopers; and Britain has snipers. Not a deal-clincher, as Steve Hill would say, but fun all the same.
As was the case in CSC, Red Alert, Ttberian Sun and now this,multiplayer games are all about throwing forces (onward to eat away at the opponent's defences. As you do so you are constantly thinking about what concoction of forces to send in next and while you leave your units to get on with it, you're cooking up another batch to send in. Westwood has never made strategy a priority in its games and here, too, the multiplayer game is about a slow pace of play that always ends up in spectacular fashion with entire bases wiped away by just one weapon. This - what we might term the railgun factor' -makes each game a race to build the most devastating weapon available rather than a plod through attack, counterattack and stalemate.The Bit At The End
About as ground-breaking as Windows 98 is to Windows 95, Red Alert 2 is no less essential for it. The interface has certainly improved since Tlberian Sun and the missions, varied and interesting, are carried along by a storyline that doesn't take itself nearly as seriously as other CSC games - for every cheesy line of dialogue, there's a knowing smile behind.
Remarkably well-rounded, the phrase 'more than the sum of its parts' could easily have been written with Red Alert 2 in mind. Unspectacular graphics, an AI that is clearly artificial and with little in the way of true innovation, Red Alert 2 is, nevertheless, an excellent game, well-designed and carried through with wit and style. In these times where realism is de rigueur, Red Alert 2 feels like a breath of fresh air.Just remember not to expect too much and you'll be as impressed as we were.Back To The FutureIs There Tiberian Sun For Mac
Red Alert, the story so far...
In theory it's a good plan, but the greatest theorist of them all failed to realise the implications of his actions. After developing a timetravelling device in post-war America, Albert Einstein returns to 1923 to wipe Hitler from the history books. Unchecked by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, lead by Joseph 'Madboy' Stalin, embarks on a European crusade to turn our continent a nasty shade of red.
Defeated by an uncharacteristic display of unity, Stalin is killed by European Allied forces and Premier Romanov takes over Soviet control. Seemingly compliant and peaceful, he is of course quite mad and plotting his revenge against the Allies, he decides that America is ripe for invasion. Using mind control technology, the USSR sabotages America's nuclear capability and a huge invasion is launched into New Mexico, Texas and California. Which is where you come in to save the day.
Tiberian Sun is the 4th game in the Command & Conquer series. It is the sequel to Command & Conquer (Tiberian Dawn). Tiberian Sun begins several decades after the conclusion of the first game.
Tiberian Sun was not as well received as the other games in the C&C series. It was criticized for being slow, and too much like its older counterparts, not to mention the bugs, balance issues and the promised features that were never implemented. However many of the issues with Tiberian Sun disappeared after the land slide of patches it got.DevelopersWestwood StudiosPublisherElectronic ArtsRelease dateAugust 1999PlatformsWindowsThe Plot
About 35 years have passed since the end of Tiberian Dawn. Kane is presumed dead and the Brotherhood is in disarray. Nod fights itself; brother against brother. Nod has been corrupted even through its highest echelons; a GDI controlled puppet named Hassan is in charge. With the Brotherhood divided and scattered the GDI have put their focus elsewhere; containing the threat of Tiberium. Over the last three decades it has become apparent that Tiberium is terraforming the planet by consuming Earthborne ecosystems and spawning its own alien ecosystems.
Tiberium is not the GDI's only problem; followers of Kane still exist and they will stop at nothing until they have revealed the truth about Hassan and his followers. Anton Slavik, the leader of this group, has been attempted executed by Hassan for being a 'GDI spy' but little do they know, even among Hassan's most elite soldiers there are people who oppose his rule and so Slavik is freed. Despite this Hassan broadcasts false messages about Slavik's supposed death, but this does not go as planned for Hassan. Slavik becomes a hero of the Brotherhood, and when people discover that he is still alive they rise up against Hassan. Hassan is cornered and captured, he is brought to the masses and in his last moments gets the shock of his life; 'You can't kill the Messiah!'
After this incident, GDI outposts are attacked; everywhere and from all directions. Even though it sounds ridicules there is no doubt who has returned; Nod's true leader....
So begins the Second Tiberium War!The FactionsThe Global Defense Initiative
'Welcome back, commander...' - EVA
'I'm not afraid of ghosts, nor you!' - General Solomon
The GDI have evolved from a strike force to a global peace keeping force. GDI has become the entire world's military power and they have established themselves all across the globe. Acting as both the police and the military.
Many of the GDI's tanks have been replaced by large bipedal mechs. The Orca project has been continued and has evolved into the Orca fighter, the Orca bomber, Orca transport and the massive Orca dropships.
The GDI's main priorities are keeping law and order. Other priorities are mainly Tiberium research.
GDI's high command is located in the massive space station called the Philadelphia.The Brotherhood of Nod
'Brotherhood! We. Are. Whole again! The sickness. Has. Been cut out!' - Anton Slavik
'If I'm cut, do I not bleed?..' - Kane
The Brotherhood have had hard times. They are no longer the great threat they once were. Nod usually fight among themselves, their leader is a GDI puppet. Still the Brotherhood have been able to evolve, their research in to Tiberium have given them the power to create Cyborgs, half man, half machine. They have also been able to create vehicles capable of travelling underground.
Nod priorities are still unknown but they are not as hostile towards GDI as they once were.
Nod high command are all controlled by the GDI puppet Hassa *bzzzzzzz* [scrambled] 'We shall destroy GDI!' [scrambled] *bzzzzzk* Hassan is watching his back though, as there are rumors of the Messiah's return.Tiberium
'The possibilities of Tiberium...... are limitless' - Dr. Moebius, World leading Tiberium Expert.Chemical CompositionAmountPhosphor42.5%Iron32.5%Calcium15.25%Copper5.75%Silica2.5%Unknown1.5%Harmful GasesAmountMethane22%Iron32.5%Sulfur19%Naphthalene12%Argon10%Isobutane6%Xylene2%Unknown29%
Tiberium, named after the Tiber River where it was first discovered, is both a crystal and a lifeform that arrived on Earth in a meteorite. It spreads through unknown means, but has proven to be very useful. Tiberium leeches minerals from the soil causing the formation of Tiberium crystals. These crystals are rich in precious minerals and are available at a minimum of mining expense.
Since the First Tiberium War the more mutagenic properties of Tiberium has become more apparent. It started with blossom trees and viceroids, but since then other creatures such as the tiberian fiend and veins have been discovered with reports of other Tiberium based creatures flowing in. One thing is certain Tiberium is changing our planet and if not combated it will create a world completely alien to us. The Forgotten
'Unlike you Blunts, the Forgotten are a people of honor!' - Umagon
As Tiberium spread across the world more and more people came in contact with it. Most people died of exposure and those who did not suffered the fate of turning into a viceroid. However, a few survived retaining both their own free will and humanity, but still left scarred by Tiberium mutation. These people are referred to as Mutants, or Shiners after the crystals growing on their skin. While some of these Mutants are the result of more natural exposure others are the result of Tiberium experimentation done by Nod.
Shunned, feared and misunderstood Mutants do not often get along with their 'pure' counterparts and thus they live far away from settlements or with their own kind. They refer to themselves as 'The Forgotten' as they are not considered a part of the lives of those unaffected by Tiberium mutation, whom the Forgotten refer to as 'Blunts'.
