To be honest Red Alert 3 is not exactly that fun; its nowhere near Company of Heroes despite the latter being around for already two years, but that was sort of expected for a game coming from Electronic Arts haha.
But I appreciate the effort put in by the team to come up with all the seemingly silly, but rather interesting features to make the game fun; that was unlike Tiberium Wars where the game was almost to the point of boring [until this day I have yet to complete the campaign, let alone start the expansion haha.]
To digress, I was disappointed when I realised Tiberium Wars came only with video cutscenes but no animation. Back in the glorious days of Tiberian Sun when I was a Primary Six kid:
Sure animation standards weren't as high as what we see today, but in those days they were enough to make me go wah!
[To digress more, Company of Heroes had plenty of them!]
Even the cutscenes from Tiberium Wars [and unfortunately, also Red Alert 3] aren't as exciting as previous games.
This time round Red Alert 3 came back with limited animation, nowhere near the games of yesteryears but still better than none.
Plot-wise one will rarely find a game where stupidity and fantasy are woven together into a package, like using sonar-equipped dolphins to down ships, attacking present day bombers using future day Japanese-style mechas that switches between land and air and sea modes, or building choppers that freeze units or shrink them into 'embarrassingly small sizes'.
Even the menu and the music is refreshing for a change!
The singing without the music. Sets the tone for the mighty Soviets. I like!
Kiddish enough to set a not-so-dark atmosphere, but decent enough to appear in a 21st century game.
All in all Red Alert 3 is not bad a game; at least this time its not 拿旧的概念翻炒一遍。
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Being overseas for two months [oh ya reminds me I have yet to do my Wallaby Part II] has left me out of touch with my dearest home. Yesterday when I wanted to ask my friends out for a movie, I realised that Yahoo, and also the papers, no longer carry the showtimes for Overseas Princess!
Turned out Overseas Princess has maybe/likely/could be/there's a chance/I think so closed down! And it happened almost a month ago!
In the end we watched Bolt at Tampines Mall, after squeezing through a horrendously large crowd.
Gone are the days where one movie ticket cost $5 during weekdays and $7.50 during weekends. Gone are the days where I had to catch bus 69 to meet my friends there [because they live there and only I live here!] [and I remembered taking a taxi once because I was too late to take the bus haha]. Gone are the days where we could ahem, openly bring in McDonalds haha. Gone are the days where we did not need to sit according to the seat numbers we were allocated.
Despite all the complaints about the place being dirty with rubbish and spills and whatnot[which might just be true given that the place was already dark when we go in, so we can't see anything] I, in good fortune, had not encountered any. In fact I thought the surround sound system in the bigger theatre was quite good.
Just like what the dramas and movies always say, when things are in place we will take them for granted. Only when they are gone do we realise the importance of their roles in our lives. Yet like spilled water, once they are gone, they may never return.
But after watching so many dramas and so many movies and listening to the same 'words of advice' so many times, we still commit the same mistakes.
So ten years down the road, a new cinema will by then have already been up and running and is part of everyone's lives. No one will remember the old cinema anymore and all the nice memories that came about because of it. Humans can just...drop everything so quickly.
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