{"id":1028,"date":"2008-08-18T11:29:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T15:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/18\/red-alert-3-faction-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T11:29:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T15:29:36","slug":"red-alert-3-faction-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/18\/red-alert-3-faction-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Alert 3 Faction Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Chick at Fidigt has published the first installment<\/a> of a series about the upcoming Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3<\/em>. He starts with the Allies.<\/p>\n

I was never a big Command & Conquer<\/em> person until C&C 3 came along, so I can’t be certain how many of the units and descriptions radically deviate from the usual Red Alert<\/em> nonsense. At E3, I was told that they don’t want long time RA players to feel confused by how old factions play in the new game, so I suspect there’s some overlap here. Feel free to confirm or reject my suspicion.<\/p>\n

Faction profiles are the bread and butter of strategy previews, and I don’t always find them useful<\/a>. Chick’s is a little different than most since it isn’t pure description; there’s some commentary in there about engineers being useful and how the allied Hydrofoil can be used tactically. It’s hard to make a faction preview interesting, though, especially when there’s not a lot of context on how the whole thing fits together. RTSes are, more than most genres, a form that draws meaning from how units interact with each other. This is only the beginning of the previews, so maybe there will be a wrap-up where Chick – one of the most thorough RTS commentators out there – speculates on the game as a whole.<\/p>\n

As for me, I’m not really enthusiastic about Red Alert<\/em>. It’s very much a C&C 3 game, and as much as I liked Tiberium Wars<\/em>, I think I’ve been spoiled by the slow majesty of Sins of a Solar Empire<\/em>, a much more leisurely RTS than what EA LA has been churning out.<\/p>\n

Keep your eyes on Fidgit for more Red Alert previews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Chick at Fidigt has published the first installment of a series about the upcoming Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. He starts with the Allies. I was never a big Command & Conquer person until C&C 3 came along, so I can’t be certain how many of the units and descriptions radically deviate from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,2,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-gA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}