That's not to say that the missions are boring, or that they're any better or worse than the ones in the original Red Alert - it's just that while playing them you may feel as though you're ploughing through them for the sake of it as opposed to progressing through a structured campaign. There's no new campaign, and no new cutscenes either - you simply load up the missions in whatever order you like and attempt to complete the objective at hand.

What we've got here is 16 new single-player missions (eight Allied and eight Soviet) and a few new units (tesla tanks, elite super soldiers, wonder dogs and superjets).Īnd that's about it really. Well, you can forget the new campaign for a start. Having stated my wish-list it's time to have a look at the C&C: Counterstrike package. Hmmm, Let Me See, What Could You possibly be expecting from an add-on disk for Red Alert? How about a new plot, played out as a campaign over a long series of missions, and maybe a few new units to spice the campaign up a bit and make multi-player games more exciting? And then, of course, C&C just wouldn't be the same without those fantastic cut-scenes to set the scene before and after a mission, so yes, we'll have some more of that please.

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