Here, you take control of Yuriko, the Empire's commando unit, and take her dungeon crawling, using her four psionic powers to wreak havoc. Red Alert 3 lovers who wanted a greater challenge may enjoy the occasional punishment, but anyone looking for more of the original's brand of joyful action will be alienated by the slapdash nature of the missions.Īlmost as if to counter the derivative mission grind, Uprising features an entire campaign that breaks free of RTS conventions. And twice during the game, you are instructed not to engage units that you actually must engage if you have any hope of succeeding. Should you lose, the continuing voice-over indicates that the mission is continuing, even as a competing one signals your defeat. In another sloppy, heavily scripted sequence during the Allied campaign, rocket angels may pummel your MCV before you're even aware that you've been provided your own rocket troops to counter them. For instance, as the Soviets, your first encounter with the Allied cryo legionnaires (one of Uprising's new units) will likely be disastrous because you won't be ready for their icy attack until it's too late.

Given that Uprising requires very specific tactics in these instances, you may need to save and reload a few times until you get a handle on these highly scripted events. All too often, you are handed a small group of units and pressed into a very specific tactic, a contrivance that was less mundane with a co-op commander at your side, but now feels quaint at best, and at worst, frustrating. Red Alert 3's greatest claim to fame, cooperative gameplay, has been jettisoned completely to make room for too many ho-hum, derivative puzzle-type objectives, the kind that have long plagued mediocre strategy games. The real storytelling highlight is found within the unusual Yuriko campaign, which breathes humanity into the Empire's quietly creepy commando. Even the fantastically inelegant Ric Flair, appearing in the new Commander's Challenge mode, can't muster these troops into action. The less-enthusiastic Gemma Atkinson, and newcomer Holly Valance as a smarmy anchorwoman, simply can't compete, and a bizarre performance from Julia Ling isn't so much melodramatically cheesy as it is a bit insincere and embarrassing.

He and a few other new personalities join some returning ones, but the histrionic, live-action magic of Red Alert 3 is muted here, a testament to the hammy energy of George Takei, Tim Curry, and J. If there's one individual you can't fault for Uprising' lifeless meanderings, it's the blustery Ric Flair.

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