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| From: Sierra
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $19.99
You Save: $10.00 (33%)
New (13) Used (15) from $14.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 487
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 1.5
MPN: WIC
Model: 72582
UPC: 020626725828
EAN: 0020626725828
ASIN: B000Q8XK30
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Just BUY It, PERIOD! July 4, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
As an OLD Guy turning 60, I am still playing this damned thing after 1 year. Just can't get enough of this. If you ever get tired of the main game? Play online for NEVER ending fun & "new" excitement.
 Display Management vs. Game Play June 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Spent more time managing the view of the battlefield then engaging bad guys. Not as much fun as I had hoped.
Strategy *IS* required...as is teamwork June 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're not a team player, this isn't the game for you. If you don't like the idea of having to rely on others and having others rely on you, then this isn't the game for you. This game is all about teamwork, and if thats not something you're interested in, save your money: the novelty of the graphics, sound and game environment (all of which are simply stunning) will wear off sooner or later. At that point one should really concentrate on joining a clan (there is extensive game support for clans and regular clan-war events) and learning to use teamwork.
There isn't much strategy to the game (as some have prematurely observed) *unless* you're utilizing teamwork. Most matches are 8 vs. 8. Each player can choose a role to play: armor, air, infantry or support (anti-air and artillery, basically.) Armor is weak versus air units, air is weak versus support units, et cetera...so if you're not actively working with and covering the weaknesses of other players (and vice versa), you're going to be picked apart and blown away pretty quickly. There's no need for strategy in that situation since nothing is going to get done in the first place.
However, when a team is acting as a cohesive unit, strategy becomes paramount--where to attack, and with what? Where to defend, and how tenaciously? How to exploit the enemy's weaknesses, and how to hide your own? What can you sacrifice, and what must you hold no matter what? In this sense, it can be compared to a giant game of three dimensional chess played by sixteen players at once.
One can find this sort of cohesion on public servers on occasion (and as of writing this in mid-June, there are well over a thousand servers in all parts of the world). But again, getting into a clan and learning how to play as a team is going to make the difference between a disappointment and a whole lot of fun.
Makes me miss the Cold War May 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This RTS hybrid is a great take on alternative history. What if the Soviet Union had invaded Europe and eventually the United States in the 1980's? Before this game my only answer to that would be to go rent Red Dawn, but now I can actually take part in this great what if scenario. The gameplay is refreshing for the RTS genre and I like the reinforcement system, just order units and go. The story is absolutely great and with voice acting by Alec Baldwin whats not to like? The graphics are superb as well, environments can range from lush forests to cities to snow covered mountains and they all look great. The multiplayer component was fun for the limited time I spent on it and the mission editor is deep and requires some studying before attempting to use it. Overall a great game.
Great game, but needs a lot to be great. May 4, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is one of the best strategy games in the computer history ever (as the critics and developers say.)
To me, I think it just a new strategic game that has some new features and ideas; which it makes it just a fun to play the game, nothing less nothing more. These new features or ideas to some people is good things to me is just normal, but for my cousin wasn't that good.
The game graphics and game play is great, but there one problem about it; which it needs a high-end game machine to play. Due 2 core processor around 2.13 with 4gb 667 of ram and 8800gts video card it's not enough and I don't know why?
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