Comments on: Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 – PC Game Review http://www.armchairgeneral.com/command-conquer-red-alert-3-pc-game-review.htm All things military history! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: FlatEric http://www.armchairgeneral.com/command-conquer-red-alert-3-pc-game-review.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17924 FlatEric Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:23:07 +0000 http://www.armchairgeneral.com/?p=6096#comment-17924 So many RTS games have the camera focused too closely in. I want to manage my battle, not look just look at the nice models. I loved Rise of Nations, and I love steampunk, so I was so excited about Rise of Legends... But then it's an exercise in maneuvering your camera around watching chunky models piloted by 'heroes' grrr. Then there was American Conquest, the sequel to the brilliant Cossacks. Two mapmodes: one zoomed too far in, the other way too bloody far away. Sigh. Why do they do this? Do their market researchers tell them board wargamers sit there with their heads a couple of inches above the map? Rant over. So many RTS games have the camera focused too closely in. I want to manage my battle, not look just look at the nice models. I loved Rise of Nations, and I love steampunk, so I was so excited about Rise of Legends… But then it’s an exercise in maneuvering your camera around watching chunky models piloted by ‘heroes’ grrr.

Then there was American Conquest, the sequel to the brilliant Cossacks. Two mapmodes: one zoomed too far in, the other way too bloody far away.

Sigh. Why do they do this? Do their market researchers tell them board wargamers sit there with their heads a couple of inches above the map?

Rant over.

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