"Nostalgia bait.. kind of, did they succeed.. yup, does it deliver.. oh yes it does"
So I got this game, not knowing what it will be, of course besides that it is a RTS and, just something I wanted to play, but oh boy was I suprised when I got to the gaming part. All I can say that this is a amalgamation of all the Command & Conquer games in one, you can feel the "Red Alert", blue vs red's, and the touch of Tiberian all in one. The only thing this game is missing the cringy live action cut scenes.
Story wise, some spoilers might show up past this point.. so bad guys vs the good guys with unexpected common enemy by the end of the game. So each faction pulling the rug to who will get the most out of it. It's a simple premise, but I would say well executed.
You have the GDF, that would be like Allies from RA, technically advanced, in the way they build and the arsenal they have for the troops, equipped with drones, stealth units and intel and range, but for the downside of being a bit less on how much heat they can take and dish out.
The other side of the Coin is the Dynasty, the more Soviet type from RA. A bit less on the tech they have bit more punch and power, more focused on brute force, but with some special elements as well.
And then.. you have the Veti, a common enemy of both factions that appear by the end of the game for each campaign. The Veti seem to be ancient beings from past or.. well aliens, this faction, at least at this point does not have a campaign of their own, but as some manuscripts in the forums say, they might.. maybe.. at somepoint.
Besides that you do have that old feel of playing the campaign, and you can take your time, or rush in.. I like to take my time building my base in a way that it would look cool.. although it does not change anything, but hey.. Im just having fun, but the base building for each faction is different and fun, they do have the same structures, but the way you build them does differ a bit. Besides that, you got your air, ground units aaand... they have good old veterancy, meaning.. the more they shoot, the longer they live, the stronger they get. Along with that, almost every unit has a special ability, now some say it can be a bit troublesome to use all of the skills once you are in the field, but that might apply more on MP, less so in campaign. Besides that, you have you structure upgrades.. but before you even get into the battle you have armory and doctrines, where you can spend points and money to boost your troops in so many ways, perks you can change for each mission to tailor your battlement and your troops in the way you see fit. Where do you get the points and money, well by completing each mission and the secondary mission objectives in each one of them. That is also a nice touch, that there not only main mission, but a side step for each mission as well.
Well in short, that about covers it, well.. the only sore parts of this game might be that there is multiplayer.. or well there is not, because.. you can't find a match.. at all, but playing against AI it seemed fine, but I wish devs would stop putting MP achievements for games that are not exclusively MP only. And the other sore part would be the pathfinding, your units if in a large group and engaging the enemy, if you would try to send one of your injured unit back, it will not circle around your units, it will try to squeeze through them, but they do no budge so it will leave your unit jittering in it's place while getting bombarded by the enemy.
In conclusion, I really enjoyed this game, much like I enjoyed the older C&C games, this is what RA3 should of been, but was far from it. So if you like RTS campaign games, this is for you, if you want a bit of nostalgia feel same thing. I do reccomend this game, it's fun, interesting and at least for me never seemed dull.
