Recent reviews by Gatabanyo

It is kind of hard for me to express my feelings about it. I grew up with Command & Conquer, even though not the first ones but still. But i decided to give it a fair review before i am going to refund it. There are just some intentional flaws i cannot overburden in 2020 anymore, even if itself speaks remaster and was kind of stated to be this way. Also it dont really need this kind of review anymore since this game is already accepted one dimensional. So this take off is more of a state of how i need to justify my action for my mind.

First of all, this remaster is not bad at all, it is indeed good, but obivously not very good in my opinion. If you wanna seek out these very good remasters in the same genre look for Homeworld. But beware it is a different game. Im not trying to compare these to different games here. I was merely calling the „remaster“ part to be better in this case. It is definitely not the better game or that sort. That is something everyone of us decides on its own.

The score in this game is just pure eargasm. Frank Klepacki did a good job in reworking all that stuff and even adding some new ones. I even joked with my friend that i would buy this for the musik alone. I mean 20 bucks for an Album, why not?

The graphics are ok i guess, something to be expected from a remaster and we already knew what was coming since we already got some glimpse how it will look like from last year, if you followed the development. But a very nice feature was added and that is the instant swapping between the old and the new graphics which is very cool!

What i also like are the freshed out cutscenes. In particular the remade intro scene when you start your game for the first time. I liked it very much and found it a very cool idea to do so.

The combined campaigns of Tiberiun Dawn and Red Alert + all addons have dozens of hours to play. The content is massive and this alone would be already worth to buy.

But the thing that just kept me thinking to refund is just simply the A.I. behaviour/pathfinding alone. It just drove me insane the first half hour i played. But i am also confident that it gets better over time and can be easily ignored/to live with, especially if you are a fan. I honestly cannot recall how it was in the original, probably the same… but i personally just dont want to deal with it anymore.

After listing almost good features it is paradoxic and i also dont really understand it either. They also implied they dont want to differ the remaster’s experience from the original. But i ask myself, isnt the most original experience the original game itself? I think it may just be a broken love that cannot be fixed even if it would get patched, so the problem lies more fundamentally in me.