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Article #21076Re: Inconsistencies in RA
From: A.N.H. van Dijk
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:00
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Marc Caron wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 23:19:09 GMT, hos...@ix.netcom.com (Hosaki Nitsu) > wrote: > > >I have to agree[unfortunately] the only thing good about this crummy > >game is you can modify it to suit what you want it to be! > >Unfortunately it was done better by Civ2, months earlier. Does this > >drive the final nail into the coffin of this miserable rip-off Red > >Alert? or do we have to spend another 3 months for each individual new > >buyer to decide this piece of trash is not what was advertised, or > >promised? > > > Well I haven't even played with the rules.ini, but when not abused, > being able to adjust things in the game can make it much better. Take > for example Grand Prix 2, my favorite game of all. It's great > original, straight out of the box, but being able to change the cars, > the drivers, advertising boards and everything else in the game makes > it better and more fun. > > I can't compare C&C to Red Alert since I've never played C&C, but I > like RA. I used to play Warcraft 2 before and I do miss some aspects > of WC2 like being able to build things further then two squares drom > the base. That's an extreme piss off, cause putting camo-pillboxes out > near forests would be so amazing and being able to install turrets > away from the base, like maybe near a bridge would hurt tank rushers. > > Marc You used to in C&C with sandbags you could build your way across the map now they changed it to 2 squares, but you can still sort off sandbag with silo's and sell them afterwards.
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