Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition (PC DVD-ROM)

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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition (PC DVD-ROM)

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In Red Alert 3, the desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia. The time travel mission goes awry, creating an alternate timeline where technology has followed an entirely different evolution, a new superpower has been thrust on to the world stage, and World War III is raging. The Empire of the Rising Sun has risen in the East, making World War III a three-way struggle between the Soviets, the Allies, and the Empire with armies fielding wacky and wonderful weapons and technologies like Tesla coils, heavily armed War Blimps, teleportation, armored bears, intelligent dolphins, floating island fortresses, and transforming tanks.

Red Alert 3 asks the question "What If?" What if every bizarre research project and technology experiment for the last 70 years had actually borne fruit? What if the Philadelphia Experiment, time travel theory, teleportation, invisibility, Tesla technology, and a hundred other intriguing research projects had all paid off and gone mainstream? What if the Soviet Union survived and thrived; what would it look like 10 years in the future? What if the Japanese Empire had never fallen and instead became the ultimate high-tech military superpower? The end result is an imaginative and playful vision of an alternate future filled with possibility.

Red Alert 3 Premium Edition for PC Extra Content:

Limited edition collector’s tin.
Five exclusive multiplayer/skirmish maps.
Bonus DVD featuring: Full-length Raising the Iron Curtain making-of movie with exclusive interviews from the star-studded cast, Concept art montage video (From Pens to Pixels), Bloopers and outtakes from the cinematics sessions, Women of Red Alert 3 montage video, An inside look into the future of Command & Conquer and Red Alert, Tips on how to unlock the secrets of each side, directly from the developers, Complete video walk-thru on one of the game’s hardest missions! And more!
Game Soundtrack including exclusive remixes of Hell March and Hell March 2 by From First to Last, plus the all-new Hell March 3.
Exclusive Beta Key to a future C&C game!
A C&C Red Alert 3-exclusive item for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (also available with the standard edition of C&C Red Alert 3).

*Note Premier Edition contents may change without prior notice

Product Info

Categories: Strategy

Barcode

5030942071528

Country

South Africa

Format

DVD

Genre

Special Editions

Label

Electronic Arts

Media

PC DVD

Notes

The desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia. The time travel mission goes awry, creating an alternate timeline where technology has followed an entirely different evolution, a new superpower has been thrust on to the world stage, and World War III is raging. The Empire of the Rising Sun has risen in the East, making World War III a three-way struggle between the Soviets, the Allies, and the Empire with armies fielding wacky and wonderful weapons and technologies like Tesla coils, heavily armed War Blimps, teleportation, armored bears, intelligent dolphins, floating island fortresses, and transforming tanks.

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Rating

Release Date

1 December 2008

Studio

Electronic Arts

Title

Command & Conquer - Red Alert 3 - Collector's Edition

Product Reviews (2)

Richard, Melkbosstrand. 3 November 2008

I'm a total Command and Conquer junkie, having played every game of the series since it first came out in the early 1990s. The Red Alert franchise was always my favourite, though, so naturally I made sure my Collectors Edition copy of Red Alert 3 was pre-ordered!

You can read proper reviews all over the net so I'll just give you a few of my thoughts on the game and its overall presentation.

1) Packaging: The steel book packaging of the collector's edition is STUNNING and worth the extra money on its own. The whole thing is sleeved within a hard plastic sleeve with screenshots and other art printed on it. The packaging of this game easily rivals the packaging of my Razer products, which I've always considered to be the best of the best in terms of game hardware packaging.

2) Graphics: For once, the screenshots are remarkably close to the real product. I'm able to run the game on full settings and it is really a treat for the eyes. The water is especially enjoyable, and wait till you see the sunken ships dotted around most maps. Gorgeous!

3) Playability: Fans of the RTS genre, and especially those with experience in the Command and Conquer franchise should feel right at home with the game mechanics in RA3. Of particular note is that EA has FINALLY introduced right-click commands, which makes much more sense as most other games use right-click move commands. If you're a die-hard old-school C+C fan though then the option to switch to left-click commands does exist. For anyone unfamiliar with RTS games, the included tutorials make learning the basics of the game a cinch, but there's no doubt that only practice can teach the real intricacies and nuances of playing this game the way it should be.

4) Sound: Crystal clear, and if you played RA2, you'll LOVE hearing the re-introduction of the classic 'Hell March' soundtrack, performed in game by 'From First to Last', a hardcore metal band from USA.

5) General thoughts: The collector's edition is well worth the money for the steel book packaging alone. However you'll also get a poster of all the beautiful women included in the game, plus a DVD of bonus content including video outtakes/bloopers, a video montage of the game's babes, and some other featurettes including an extended strategy discussion by some of the game's developers. The DVD is mostly pretty forgettable but it's nice to have. Another easter egg you won't read about until you own the game is that collectors edition owners are able to download an additional map-pack for the game once it is installed, by using a special code included in the packaging. Pretty cool!

All in all, I highly recommend the collector's edition. For only R100 or so more, you're getting great value for money in a package you won't easily lose.