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Let your enemies crumble to dust and your ears overflow with nostalgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBRDayaDg8Q

Westwood Studios, I want to sex you.

>> No.1878394

Am i the only one who loves the Saturn Version ?

>> No.1878416
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1878416

>>1878394
Playing .... without a mouse?

>> No.1878428

>>1878416
jipp, works pretty nice, i also played it on my PC back in the days...

>> No.1878436

>>1878394
I remember having the PS1 version of Red Alert and playing the ever loving piss out of it. I don't think I could ever thank my uncle enough for introducing me to this series.

>> No.1878461

>>1878416
Saturn C&C was maybe the only RTS title ever that played fine.

>> No.1878591

I spent an entire summer playing C&C on PS1. This fucking song man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAalQu9hvY shit went down when it was on.

>> No.1880476

>>1878591
Klepacki was truly a madman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_0wRrZSp8
The entire soundtrack really is beyond elder god tier.

>> No.1880562
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FOUR ON THE FLOOR

>> No.1881178

Fuck yeah, westwood.

Just put Windows XP on an old laptop I inherited so I can use it for old school vidya; needless to say every Westwood game is on here.

I've never played the expansions for Red Alert 1- Worth checking out?

>> No.1881325

Surely there's more love for old-school Westwood here?!

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>>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

>> No.1881446

>>1881325
There is, but half the fanbase hates the other half.

Those of us who liked Westwood RPGs dislike how the company seemingly ditched that genre in favour of Command and Conquer Bi-Annual Expansion Pack Oversaturation. The other side of course believes that hardly any Westwood RPGs made money and that the only reason the company was around at all was because the only memorable thing they did was C&C.

And so the twain, never shall meet common ground.

>> No.1881640

>>1881446
Wait, literally half of the fanbase believes C&C and RA were not selling well enough to turn a profit? It can't be right.
What's wrong with expansions though? They only made one for TibSun and RA2 and they were bought by EA before RA2 was made if memory serves me well.

>> No.1881663

>>1881640
>Wait, literally half of the fanbase believes C&C and RA were not selling well enough to turn a profit? It can't be right.

Only RA1 and 2 sold good iirc. C&C1 was up against Warcraft 2, TS was plagued with many problems and was up against StarCraft.

>> No.1881676

>>1881640
No, everyone knew C&C did fairly well. C&C fans wanted Westwood to throw stuff like Nox and Lands of Lore under the bus because they weren't making the same kind of cash as C&C and that developing those games was making C&C expansions take longer because the teams were divided.

It's a bit like saying Left Twix fans were upset that half the company were making Right Twix. What was, in fact, happening is that both sides have part of the truth but weren't willing to admit that half of the problems Westwood had were from their own base.

>> No.1881692

>>1881663
The first one was at least as much popular as WC2, no? Why did it sell less copies then?

>>1881676
I was damn surprised to see an action-RPG by Westwood (had no idea Lands of Lore existed back then). That atmosphere, those three absolutely different but perfectly balanced classes, that everything. Time to reinstall.

>> No.1881850

>finding those CnC 1 buildings in Tiberian Sun.

>Nostalgia intensifies