All C&C titles are 75% off... Which ones are any good?

Midweek Madness Steam sale...

Drop your opinions like they're hot.

My opinion is that you might ought to wait for the proper Summer Sale that should be starting tomorrow if the Codemaster's page is any indication.

All of them apart from 4.

I really enjoyed Red Alert 3 and Uprising, funny and cool story missions and Uprising's commander mode is pretty damn awesome.

Red Alert 2, Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge and Red Alert 3.

Generals.

Tehe.

Red Alert 2 is one of my favorite RTSes of all time. So much fun. The first C&C is worth it to see the original, though Red alert is a little bit better. Generals is also pretty fun.

Also, avoid C&C 4 at all costs, that game is a steaming pile of shit, and I'm still pissed I payed $50 for it.

I was disappointed with 3 when it first came out so I never picked up the expansion or red alert 3. From what I heard the franchise just goes down slope from there.

The only C&C games on Steam (all of which are on sale) are C&C 3, RA 3, and C&C 4, plus all of their respective expansion packs.

Red Alert 3 is utterly fantastic. Along with C&C 1 and RA 1&2, RA 3 is a true high point in the franchise. It has some of the best gameplay of them all and is quite campy and hilarious. Greg Kasavin also worked on it, and it shows in some of the witty writing and unit designs.

C&C 3 is so-so and C&C 4 is terrible, sadly.

Neither the C&C 3 expansion pack nor the RA 3 expansion pack is particularly noteworthy; each just adds more content--but of lower overall quality--to their respective games.

Red Alert 2 was pretty boss. Nice blend of solid gameplay and that classic Red Alert campiness. Just BEWARE the end of the Soviet campaign... shit can be rough.

Any of them that aren't 4.

Red Alert 2 and Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge

They are all great, including C&C 4. C&C 4 has very little in common gameplay-wise to the previous games so if you're a massive fan of the series, you're going to be disappointed.

I don't follow C&C after EA dissolved Westwood Studios (the original developers of C&C) so my answer is...none! Save your money for other games.

The games before Red Alert 2 have not aged well unfortunately. But Red Alert 2, Red Alert 3, and C&C3 (and it's expansion) are still great games.

Red Alert 2.

Clone Vats and Conscripts.

In Red Alert 3 you can fire bears out a cannon that then land with a little parachute and maul your enemies, if that isn't enough of an incentive I don't know what is.

I bought C&C4 because it couldn't be that bad right? Wrong, it's a massive steaming pile of crap. There is no enjoyment to be had, not even from the cutscenes.

Well Tim Curry's in Red Alert 3, so that makes it worth it alone. Then again you could also watch the cutscenes on Youtube.  
 
Red Alert 3 isn't bad, nothing spectacular though. 

@Geno said:

Well Tim Curry's in Red Alert 3, so that makes it worth it alone. Then again you could also watch the cutscenes on Youtube. Red Alert 3 isn't bad, nothing spectacular though.

Tim Curry's reading of "SPACE!" late in the allied campaign makes the game worth buying for alone.

None of them with a '3' or higher in title.

The one were Rick Flair gives a tank a flying elbow.........Yeah! Thats a thing!

it's only the five recent C&C games... boo

None of them with a '3' or higher in title.

@RelentlessKnight said:

it's only the five recent C&C games... boo

Yeah. The sucky ones.

Skip Red Alert 1, go with Red Alert 2. That one is sweet. I haven't played RA3, but I've read various opinions depending on the platform.

@MrKlorox said:

My opinion is that you might ought to wait for the proper Summer Sale that should be starting tomorrow if the Codemaster's page is any indication.

Wait, what? What does that page suggest?

In my opinion Red Alert 2 was the best (Yuri's Revenge was fun but from a balancing standpoint not so much), followed closely by Tiberian Sun. I liked Tiberium Wars (the 3rd one) even though others did not. Red Alert 3 was just a clusterfuck of so many different unit types between all 3 sides that I just could not dedicate enough time to learning the system before I moved on. As for this sale specifically, I'd say go for Tiberium Wars and Kane's Wrath.

Also, there was never a C&C4. It never existed. Anyone or anything that tells you otherwise is a filthy liar who deserves to be punched repeatedly in the face until they remember its non-existence.

C&C3 and RA3 are both pretty brilliant

Glad to know I'm not the only one who considers RA2 to be the best one before it went to shit. But yes, go with that. Even if it's not there buy it some other way since it's so much fun to play, better with the expansion pack too.

Generals.

And Red Alert 3 - mostly for Tim Curry.

I'd say Red Alert 3 isn't bad. But beyond that avoid like the plague, especially 4.

Generals.

Tehe.

@MrKlorox said:

My opinion is that you might ought to wait for the proper Summer Sale that should be starting tomorrow if the Codemaster's page is any indication.

Wait, what? What does that page suggest?

red alert 2 is pretty good.

Just so you know... Tanya has a Timebelt in Red Alert 3. Oh yeah. A Timebelt.

Also warbears.

@Jimbo: CnC 3 was awesome, you shut your dirty whore mouth!

@Chavtheworld said:

@MrKlorox said:

My opinion is that you might ought to wait for the proper Summer Sale that should be starting tomorrow if the Codemaster's page is any indication.

Wait, what? What does that page suggest?

Last night everything published by Codemasters was on sale for 25% off with a "SPECIAL PROMOTION" date ending on the 12th. I thought they were rolling out the big summer sale, but I guess they just jumped the gun. As you can see everything's back to normal for the moment.

Nobody else here a fan of Tiberian Sun? =( Loved that one so much back in the day. The RA series are great, too, but I much preferred the cyber-punk atmosphere and aesthetic with the Tiberian games. Plus Kane and Michael Beihn, bitches.

@1337W422102 said:

@MrKlorox said:

@Chavtheworld said:

@MrKlorox said:

My opinion is that you might ought to wait for the proper Summer Sale that should be starting tomorrow if the Codemaster's page is any indication.

Wait, what? What does that page suggest?

Last night everything published by Codemasters was on sale for 25% off with a "SPECIAL PROMOTION" date ending on the 12th. I thought they were rolling out the big summer sale, but I guess they just jumped the gun. As you can see everything's back to normal for the moment.

I got a 75% coupon for Serious Sam 3 that expires on August 1st, so I'm guessing the Summer Sale won't start until then.

That would please me a lot, I'm back from holiday then.

I think the only way to answer this is to ask yourself: Is Josef Kucan in it?

If the answer is no, then it's just not worth it.