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Place some Tesla Troopers with their electrifying weapons around a static Tesla Coil and they'll boost the power of it and keep it charged even when the power is down during an enemy attack. As in all RTS games, both sides' infantry units are easily overrun, even in large numbers, but this time around they can find shelter in many of the neutral buildings that pepper the levels. It's a feature that is long overdue in a Westwood game Age Of Empires IIanti the soon-to-be-released WWII RTS Sudden Strike both offer the same option and although not every building can be captured, certain ones that are can be a powerful complement to your base by creating chokepoints through which a lightly armed enemy can quickly perish.

Furthermore, there are four neutral Tech Buildings that can be procured - Airports, Hospitals, Outposts and Oil Derricks - all of which can support and replenish units that might otherwise have to make a long journey back to base.

The Soviets are still the side of cheap mass-produced technology, underhand and willing to sacrifice numbers for victory. In contrast, the Allies rely on fast, high-tech units that are more adaptable, yet weaker if left in a sustained fight with Soviet units of similar role. And once again, Red Alert 2 gives the Soviet side a greater underwater navy, while the Allied fleet is predominantly surface-based with Destroyers, Cruisers and Aircraft Carriers going against the Russian Typhoon Subs and Giant Squids.

Trained animals play a larger role in this sequel than they did in the original Red Alert. The Allies now have attack dogs, as do the Russians, and against the Squids the forces of good rely on herds or pods if you want to be technical of clicking dolphins and their sonar attack.

Even though the storyline and the level-by-level feed of new technologies are enough to keep you entertained throughout the two campaigns - and there is always the option of the skirmish game - there comes a time when the war will be over against the computer and the time will come to take on a human opponent. We won't even pretend that we have played Red Alert 2 online yet, no servers are running anyway, but we did play over a LAN and, thanks to the diversity in units and the immediate familiarity of all of Westwood's games, playing against a real opponent was tremendous fun.

In multiplayer or skirmish games you not only have to pledge allegiance to the Allied or Soviet sides, you have to choose an army from a particular country, each of which have a particular special unit they can use: Germany has tank destroyers; Libya has demolition trucks; Cuba has terrorists; the US has paratroopers; and Britain has snipers. Not a deal-clincher, as Steve Hill would say, but fun all the same.

As was the case in CSC, Red Alert, Ttberian Sun and now this, multiplayer games are all about throwing forces onward to eat away at the opponent's defences. As you do so you are constantly thinking about what concoction of forces to send in next and while you leave your units to get on with it, you're cooking up another batch to send in. Westwood has never made strategy a priority in its games and here, too, the multiplayer game is about a slow pace of play that always ends up in spectacular fashion with entire bases wiped away by just one weapon.

This - what we might term the railgun factor' -makes each game a race to build the most devastating weapon available rather than a plod through attack, counterattack and stalemate. About as ground-breaking as Windows 98 is to Windows 95, Red Alert 2 is no less essential for it. The interface has certainly improved since Tlberian Sun and the missions, varied and interesting, are carried along by a storyline that doesn't take itself nearly as seriously as other CSC games - for every cheesy line of dialogue, there's a knowing smile behind.

Remarkably well-rounded, the phrase 'more than the sum of its parts' could easily have been written with Red Alert 2 in mind. Unspectacular graphics, an AI that is clearly artificial and with little in the way of true innovation, Red Alert 2 is, nevertheless, an excellent game, well-designed and carried through with wit and style. In these times where realism is de rigueur, Red Alert 2 feels like a breath of fresh air. Just remember not to expect too much and you'll be as impressed as we were.

In theory it's a good plan, but the greatest theorist of them all failed to realise the implications of his actions. After developing a timetravelling device in post-war America, Albert Einstein returns to to wipe Hitler from the history books.

Defeated by an uncharacteristic display of unity, Stalin is killed by European Allied forces and Premier Romanov takes over Soviet control. Seemingly compliant and peaceful, he is of course quite mad and plotting his revenge against the Allies, he decides that America is ripe for invasion.

Which is where you come in to save the day. It's an unfortunate fact of online gaming life that the more popular a game is the better it will be. For instance, amazing as Shogun: Total War is as a singleplayer experience, as an online game it loses something almost intangible, and thanks to a few bugs, inherent lag-ridden play and a bunch of good-for-nothing cheats, the game has lost much of its online audience as a result.

Not so Red Alert 2, which like its predecessor, is one of the biggest real-time strategy games played online and off. It's easy to see why: not only is CSC itself a tag as popular in gaming circles as Westlife is in pap music and infinitely more enduring , but the gameplay mechanics have changed little since Westwood single-handedly invented realtime strategy with Dune 2, back in It's a cinch to learn, runs on almost any PC and you don't have to fart about with IP addresses, obscure applications to the simpleton anyway like GameSpy or pay a monthly subscription.

You just dial-in, click and play. Everything is navigated through the flAPmenu system, you won't have problems finding people to play against, day or night and if you're new to the delights of online gaming, there is no better place to start.

If you've played Red Alert 2 s Skirmish game, you won't have much of a problem with its Multiplayer. In fact, the only difference is that your opponents will be more vocal and varied in skill and predictability. Online, however, there is a ranking system in place. And, in theory, finding a like-skilled player to mouse-duel should be simple thanks to the fact you can click on their name and see at a glance where in the world they are from and how high they sit in the RA2 rankings. In practice, rankings aren't that helpful and sometimes don't even show up.

As a guide, lose your first tournament game and you'd probably go straight in at 40, Play someone ranked around as I stupidly did he was tagged as 'unranked' when I chose to play him and you can expect a mauling.

Still, the RA2 community is a pretty friendly bunch, whether they win or lose, as long as the game is a good one there are plenty of virtual handshakes and cocktails by the pool afterwards. One game not available to the skirmisher is World Domination. You choose one of the contested territories, fight, and whether you win or lose, the overall map changes colour and, at the end of each day, a side is declared victorious.

No big shakes really, but it's bizarre why you can only play Domination in x resolution. So, little has changed then. Online Red Alert 2 is just as good as all the other Westwood games have been since time began. It's not as good looking as many other RTS games we could mention, neither is it particularly the most strategically challenging game around.

As long as you know each unit and every keyboard shortcut, you can pretty much rule the online roost. While you're there, however, Red Alert 2 is a lot of fun, easy to play and unendingly popular - and if you've already got the game, it would be a crime not to bring your modem to the party.

It's not all 'destroy the base' so If you're stuck we've hopefully got the solution. Enjoy It while It lasts because it looks like it's the final 2D version to come from Westwood. And then we'll only have the Army Men series to look forward to in that genre. Oh dear. Train about 15 conscripts and head to the north. Mend the bridge to the west of the second small base to get your hands on four tanks. Go up and attack the Pentagon. Capture the Allied refineries to get some cash.

Construct a shipyard, build six or seven Subs and take them down south to sink all the Destroyers and the Allied shipyard. Build a lot of tanks and head down the left of the map. Destroy the construction yard the barrels nearby make it easier and they'll give up and shut down the base. Finish everything off and remember that the Chrono Miners count too. Capture the three derricks in front of your base.

Fortify the building down the slope. Use about fourV3 Rocket Launchers to clear up any pillboxes on the way north. Mop up infantry with Tesla Troopers and tanks. Destroy the pillboxes around the base with V3s again while using everything else to destroy enemy structures. You can use some engineers to repair the skyscrapers around the base to give you a fortified advantage if you want.

Before you capture the battle lab, train ten Flak Troopers and place them nearby. Beef up your tank division then hold on tight until the timer runs down.

There's two ways to do this, an easy way and a hard way. Guess which one we went for? Build up two or three Subs to guard the shore and about four Flak Cannons to defend the air. Now the sneaky bit: send about five conscripts and Tesla Troopers to the east to take over and guard the lighthouse at the end of the map. When the invasion starts an Allied MCV should attempt to set itself up close by. Blow it up before it can build anything or else you're going to have a lengthy battle on your hands.

Your own base should be safe from attack if you've fortified the buildings nearby and left a few Tesla Troopers guarding it. Go to the left and capture the derrick to get some cash. Travel around, fortifying the buildings near any enemies to give you an advantage. Keep some engineers nearby to repair them if they get damaged.

It's best to go in by the middle enhance to the north and take out the tanks in the park before moving in your Tesla Troopers to charge the Eiffel Tower. Retaliation offers 34 completely new and more difficult missions, new multiplayer maps, and a ton of new units to make it play somewhat differently from the previous Red Alert game. The new units are quite welcome and add some depth to gameplay, but they don't present anything that we haven't seen before in one form or another.

For example, there are Testa Tanks that simply shoot Tesla bursts from their turrets instead. Of shells and Shock Troopers that shoot the same bursts instead of bullets.

Suffice to say, if you're looking for all-new and fancy units, you might be a bit disappointed. Graphically, the game is identical to the original, but at least there are 16 new techno-tunes to wage war by.

As you can see, there are a lot of additions, but just as many things that are the same. Because of this, my recommendation for this game is two-fold.

If you don't have Red Alert or do and are a diehard fan, it's a good idea to buy Retaliation. But otherwise, it's probably a much better idea to rent it and try out some of the new levels to see if it's realty worth buying what is essentially the same game twice.

Retaliation is a great package for any realtime strategy fan. This two-disc set has tons of missions, lots of new units and more maps for Skirmish and 2P Link Modes than you'll ever need--over ! The intuitive controls take no time getting used to, although on larger maps, it gets really tough trying to coordinate everything properly.

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