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One of the greatest PSX games.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I first purchased this game in 1999,i don't know why i bought it exactly ( i hadn't played much strategy/war games ever, but something drew me to this one.

As soon as i got home with it i popped it in, and i was mesmerized The music... of the music is so grand, and the atmosphere (yes this 2D tiny model game has atmosphere!) i was blown away.Each level you played through is so challenging and refreshing, all game's out there now your finished with a level in 2-10 minutes, this one.. sometimes you don't finish for hours a mission.Now that can be good and bad... i take it as good.I love challenge and game-play.

Now all that 1 player stuff is all good and dandy... but where this PS game really shined for me was the 2 player mode.The Game contains 2 CD'S one for the allied missions and one for the soviets. what was great about this was you could use one of the CD's in your buddy's playstation and link your playstation's together. you didn't have to buy a extra copy of command and conquer to play together..ME and my best-friend at the time took well advantage of this every weekend we would linkup our playstation's for head-to-head skirmishes, i think the shortest skirmish we ever played against eachother was 6 hours, and the longest 12 hours straight of war.You might think wow thats a long time, but no when your playing against a live person on this game time flys by so quickly you dont realize.Building up your fortress your tanks your infantry, mining ore for resources to build up your army more..thats where the time really goes by, but then you get to unleash your army on your opponent tearing down their structures they worked so long on thrashing through their army.

Sorry, I am getting carried away, as you can see this game is near and dear to me, and i've never written a game review before :).

In Short-I Highly recommend this game, if your looking for alot of challenge and gameplay, over shiny graphics and boring story like todays games. goodbye!

Two-Player Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The main identifiable reason to buy "Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Retaliation" is that playing this game is like playing "electronic 'Battleship'" because of the 2-player mode, but much better because, unlike that game, there is virtually no element of luck in this game. This game's not boring like "Battle Ship": it works completely.

For 2-player mode, you need ONLY ONE copy of this game because it already comes with two discs for you and your competitor. You need two TVs, two PlayStation console units, and two joysticks of any style. Unlike many other PlayStation game titles, you need no memory card to set up a quick competition between you and your friend. However, you also need one link cable to play in its great 2-player mode. Because of this requirement, the model of your two PlayStations must have serial ports.

Some models of the PlayStation do not have serial ports. Sony excluded serial ports from later PlayStation models like the "Dual Shock" and "PSOne" editions, because games rarely used those ports. Furthering the infrequency, the games using the ports by link cable allowing two people to play together with two TVs and two consoles via this link cable connection meant having two on-hand copies of a game. Since most PlayStation owners usually do not have the co-incidence of owning the same game titles as their friends, I imagine hardly anyone thought of buying a link cable. Thanks to the developing software studio and distributor, "Retaliation" already includes the required two discs for playing the game in conjuction with a link cable.

To use "Retaliation" in 2-player mode, simply connect two consoles with Sony's link cable via the serial bus ports. Plug each console into separate TVs, but face the TVs away from each other, so each player can keep his tactics secret from the other person. Then, put each game disc into each console and start them. Enter the "Link Game" section: this is the section where two players with linked consoles can play a skirmish game. Then, start them.

"Command and Conquer: Red Alert Retaliation" is great fun for two buddies, and it has over a hundred "Skirmish" maps to play. Its previous edition, "Command and Conquer: Red Alert" has less than 20 "Skirmish" maps, so shoot for the "Retaliation" title.

You and your friend can play a "Link Game" cooperatively against two computer players, or the two of you can play every man (or computer player) for himself (itself.) If you do not wish to play with a friend, you can always play the "Skirmish" mode against up to three computer opponents.

You do not need a link cable to play a "Skirmish" against only computer opponents. However, if you have the linked set-up and your friend does not want to play, he can instead observe your match against computer players using the non-player console, the map unshrouded.

Many hours of fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If your a fan of command & conquer, or rts games in general, pick this up... The game is years old, and I still have a blast setting up the link cables and having hours of skirmishes with friends.

red alert retaliation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this is a great game i recommend it.

this is not a good game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: December 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game sucks. The game play is bad, the graphics are bad, the game is all around bad. You don't want to play this game. Find another one.

A game for those who don't play games.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: July 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Command and Conquer Red Alert Retaliation is the only game I can play every second of every year and never get tired of playing it. I ordered this game from amazon because I knew I could depend on it being here in one peice and this game is impossible to find, yet Amazon has everything.
When I purchased it, I had a special reason, I was off work for a week and all my roomates worked until 6:00, so I had all day in my house with no cable, car or phone, or even internet, so I knew this game would keep me company and happy. I have never been so exited about a game and I would never write a review on anything that didn't deserve it. Educational and so much fun, this war game is the top out of all games ever written. If you want something so many people have played but got caught up in the new scene of video games, than you need to come back to the good stuff.
Command and Conquer Red Alert Retaliation

good game but better for computer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

when i first got this game i was so excited and ran to my playstation and started to play it. the game had excellent music and a VERY WIDE selection of levels and arens. this game has almost no diffrence bettween red alert command and conquer. the only real diffrence is the new units. even that is not much. they have a tesla tank, M.A.D tank and a shock tropper, i will start with the tesla tank. the tesla tank is a nice wepoon to have but it is not that good for attacks. they are really a defense wepon for attacking men. the M.A.D tank is a tank that sends shock waves out to destroy building but not men. it does this by self destructing. it is a good wepon to send in and let is blow up a lot of junk and then send all you men in. now here is the shock tropper. he is a nice attacking unit. it costs $800 dollars and is worth the price. they can not be ran over so that is real helpful. they can easily take out a building with out many casulties. this game is over all pretty good but the graphics are pretty nice but not as good as computer. the computer version has couple of diffrend levels and has a pretty nice plot.(the computer game of command and conquer red alert retaliaton is is the expansion pack for command and conquer red alert: command and conquer aftermath) if you dont have very fast computer then you should get this for playstaion.

Command&Conquer RE:RET

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Truly a masterpeice! This game has all the strategy a precision gamer could want and all the blow-em-up an action junkie could want. Me personaly....nothing funnier in the game than seeing 6 or 7 TESLA coils light up a single infantry man all at once! I only hope to see the other C&C titles come to playstation console later in the future. And again as far as the fun,graphics,control, and replay value go for a gamer:MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

War in your own home

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: May 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If real-time war gaming is your thing, then this is your game. Truly addictive, it is also one of the best games to play with someone else through the link cable. It involves elements of financial & resource management, as well as military strategies and tactics. Control individual soldiers, tanks, ships, and aircraft - build factories, barracks, gun turrets and missile silos. All this and more - by far the best game Westwood Studios has transferred to Playstation - in fact, the best game by far in this genre

Awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is really awesome! If you like strategy war games this is the one. If you like this game I strongly recommend buying a link cable to play a friend on skirmish mode. I enjoyed the game and so will you!

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