Recent reviews by Kovacs

It's Elona, but again, and even more of it. Insane potential for further development.

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An excellent remaster containing all the bells and whistles you'd want and expect, but the surprise addition is really the new episode, which is some of the finest ROTT mapping I've seen. Greatly recommended.

Unfortunately my positive review slipped through the net and will be coming soon, sorry for the disappointment!

This is Toy Story 2... 2 (as in, the PS1 game), plus a dash of Pikmin, and it's incredible.

This is worth it for the change in skill inheritance alone (added manual inheritance) and is definitely the best way to play the game currently, especially if you mod in the higher quality soundtrack. However, wait for a sale, as it's still a (good) game from 2003 that's mostly the same after all.

Surprisingly competent melee combat and an array of inventory items that are actually useful in this FPS that looks like it was unsealed from a 1996 vault. Awesome level design too!

Possibly one of the best remasters I have ever played. Almost perfect.

I will leave some cons here as I feel that is more helpful than gushing over everything that it does right:

- No real gameplay changes. What you had back in 95 is what you get here, save for some (much-needed) QoL features like unit queueing. No improved AI, no advanced modern RTS commands, no improved pathfinding. No, there is still no attack-move. I really do not mind this as it's not a remake but it might be a con to some.
- Hard difficulty in Tiberian Dawn (added by this release) is nigh impossible. Your units are outright 20% worse in every aspect; damage, ROF, you name it. No other real changes like better AI or new encounters or anything. You will not win equal engagements without some gnarly amounts of micro. An enemy light tank can beat your medium tank in a 1v1, for god's sake. Not sure they tested this. RA1 is probably fine because Hard existed in the original but I haven't attempted it.
- They tried, but the neural-upscaled FMVs just don't look very good. Not only do they look like moving JPEGs, they sometimes also look like a moving JPEG someone painted by hand. On canvas. I don't think this can really be helped as the original footage had the resolution of a postage stamp, but they don't include an option to revert to that either (maybe thankfully? Release big enough as it is).
- Adding onto the earlier point, the entire thing is around 26GB. Quite the jump from what it originally was.
- Jukebox feature isn't split by game, so you can't make two playlists, one for each game, they're shared.
- How the multiplayer is set up seems kind of a mess, as there aren't any private lobbies and you can't rename lobbies, so what happens is you join a bunch of them just to get kicked. No LAN but they said it's coming later.
- Hum-vee got renamed to "Light Scout" and Longbow got renamed to "Attack Helicopter". Game is basically unplayable now omfg, but there are mods that fix it.

Do not let the above points discourage you however; it's possibly the best injection of life the C&C franchise needed and it's incredible that it came from EA, of all places. Hopefully this is just a taste of things to come.
Buy it so we get TS and RA2.

My favorite TD game, with basically infinite content.