/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1881178

Red Alert: Counterstrike is a lot like the C&C: Covert Operations expansion pack, if you've ever played that. It doesn't add new units, but does have a pretty memorable campaign, but like Covert Ops it's hard as fuck. One mission I recall basically forces you to savescum and memorize the enemy troops movements and triggers. It also has a lot of plain weird ones, like the secret ant levels, or this one where the Allied Chronosphere warps reality, so all your units get weird abilities, like your riflemen firing tesla beams and your V2 Rockets firing suicidal mini-nukes. It also contains the "Volkov & Chitzkoi" missions, if you have ever heard of them. It can be pretty unfair at times, though, so I'd only recommend it if you'd like a real challenge.

Red Alert: The Aftermath is the better expansion, since it adds actual new units, like the Soviet missile sub and the Allied Phase Tank, which can turn invisible and fire rockets. The new additions to the soundtrack are also much better than Counterstrike's, though it's fair to say that in the case of both expansions, the music is much more toned down and moody, compared to vanilla RA's more bombastic, hard-hitting electronic music. Overall, the campaign isn't nearly as hard as Counterstrike's, though at the same time it's somewhat less memorable, since it lacks the truly strange missions that Counterstrike had.

If you can, I'd also recommend playing it on The First Decade release of C&C with the 1.03 fanpatch, since this adds the FMV cutscenes from the PSX version of Red Alert, which were absent in the PC releases of the expansions.

Some noteable tunes from the expansions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkivaWOEzpY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4MUehsjRZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkwMaVbcslY