CnCD2K i s a Yuri's Revenge mod which adds new units and buildings to all sides, new subfactions to make all side has 5, new special units to each subfaction, a new side, a new campaing, a couple of new hero, remakes of RA,CS,AM and RA2 missions. Mod is still WIP and not finished yet.
I'm uploading new versions as quickly as possible. To install mod, copy all files in archive to your clean Yuri's Revenge folder. Don't forget to backup YR before installing mod. Run RunAres. Its announcement in May took many by surprise including us and now it seems barely has the marketing machine had time to get into first gear than the game has been finished, packaged and readied for release.
Consequently, thanks in no small part to the worldwide panning of Tiberian Sun, expectation for Westwood's new real-time strategy game has been only marginally higher than that we would reserve for a decent English summer.
To its credit, developer Westwood has neither proclaimed Red Alert 2 be ground-breaking nor Earth-shattering and, after the tragic anti-climax that wasTiberian Sun, we wouldn't have believed them if they had.
Using an enhanced -unnoticeably so - version of the Tiberian Sun game engine and sporting many gameplay features and units from a four-year-old game, Red Alert 2 could be seen as a glorified remake of its predecessor. Westwood has done the same thing before, with Dune - the botched up remake of real-time strategy's most influential game - so it wouldn't be beneath them to do the same again.
Now before you all start sending me death threats for my cynical indifference, let me just say if I hadn't been so pessimistic before playing the game, I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did. Think about it - and be honest - what are your expectations for the next Star Wars game?
I'd wager not too high after having wasted your money on Force Commander. But because we are all Star Wars fans, or at least we should be, there is the hope that the next one will be brilliant. However, in Red Alert 2s case I wasn't hoping for much at all. You'd do well to think the same, for if you do, I guarantee you'll be pleasantly surprised.
When you review a game - or at least when I do - one essential technique is to jot down pages of notes while you're playing, so when it comes to writing the review, you can refer back to them. Normally what is written down, though illegible, makes some sort of sense, but one of the last things I wrote was 'missions good.
Nothing special. I am at a loss as to what I was on about, but I can tell you this: the missions in themselves are pretty undemanding, yet taken as a whole and separated by a story that sees the USA being invaded the two campaigns on offer you can play as Allies or Soviets are very engaging.
As is par for the course, you build a base, harvest ore, expand your borders and kill the unending trickle of enemy units until you overrun their base, all with scant regard for tactics - been there done that, we all have. With that in mind, what has been baffling me is why I enjoyed Red Alert 2 so much and yet could not derive any pleasure from Tiberian Sun.
Both games are practically identical in structure, offering similar units to play with across a linear series of missions, liberally interspersed with high-quality video sequences. The only answer I can offer is a subtle difference in feel and mood.
Where Tiberian Sun was a dark and faintly absurd yarn full of square-jawed heroes and boo-hiss villains, Red Alert anti its illustrious predecessor are somehow believable, despite being even more outlandish. Graphically, Red Alert 2 is far from great. The animation for some of the larger units, ships especially, is juddery and the explosions are hardly spectacular. However, bearing bright colours and full of tiny details - like baseball and football pitches, fast food bars and houses - many levels are full of civilian life that have little impact on the game, but add a touch of fun to the proceedings.
Sunbathers run half-naked on the beaches and cattle make themselves targets for your restless attack dogs on the farms.
Elsewhere, across maps frozen with ice, all the buildings are draped with snow as if to fool us that they had been there forever. They haven't of course, but it's seemingly insignificant details like this that add a bit of colour to our interminably dull lives.
In regard to the two sides you can choose to play, both are as distinct as any you'll find in a real-time strategy game. One of Westwood's strengths is that it always offers two very different challenges in all its strategy games, by throwing in units and buildings that look and play to different styles.
Many of the units are standard fare with infantry and tanks in abundance, but there are a number of clever differences between even those. Soviet conscripts are both cheap and weak, American GIs are marginally more expensive and can be deployed in a defensive role, able to fortify themselves in an instant within a cocoon of sandbags. Alone it is a weak reconnaissance tank, armed with a simple rocket launcher.
But put a Gl inside and its turret becomes a powerful anti-personnel platform. With an engineer at the controls it alters into a mobile repair vehicle and there are other transformations that can be achieved by trying out other, more potent infantry units inside. Things like Rocket Launchers, Tech Yards and Gap Generators we've seen before, but many units, both old and new, can combine in interesting ways.
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. The game now reflects those battles around the world, in which strange new technologies and cunning strategies were utilized.
Installation of this mod will make changes to the initialization settings in Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge. It is designed for multiplayer games, enhancing many aspects of gameplay and providing a very different experience. This version is designed for use only with Red Alert 2 with the Yuri's Revenge expansion pack installed and provides you with all features from the standard version of Red Alert 2 DeeZire plus additional features and enhancements specifically for Yuri's Revenge - giving you both mods in one.
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