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[Devastator]

There is the "How is the Red Alert and Tiberian universes related?" thread but this is general discussion about the RA series.

So use this thread to talk about the Red Alert series, I suppose.

Alright, go on and hate on me, but I prefer RA2 over RA1

This post has been edited by Pepsi: Apr 22 2012, 12:41 AM

[Bittah Commander]

FYI, RA2 was made by EA as well. Even though it was called Westwood Pacific at the time, it was later renamed to EA Pacific and IIRC unlike with Westwood Vegas' staff (the ones who created RA1, TD and TS), most of Westwood/EA Pacfic's staff stayed with EA and were also involved with TW and RA3.

Also, graphic-wise I think RA3 might be even worse than RA2, realism concerned. With that I don't mean "impossible" technology and such, but rather the cheerful looking scenery and such, while it's supposed to be a battlefield. I bet that if you'd rip roller coasters and other theme park attractions directly from one of the Roller Coaster Tycoon games and place them in RA3 (and RA2 as well), they wouldn't even look out of place.
I personally just like the mood of the scenery of a game (including buildings, units and especially terrain) to fit the theme of the game itself. If you say sillyness just happens to be part of the intended theme of RA2/RA3 you might be right, but then I suppose I just happen to dislike that theme (or at least in an RTS which focuses on war).

Anyhow, story put aside; I still prefer RA1's gameplay over RA2's, I prefer TD's over RA1's and I prefer TS's over TD's.