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Command and Conquer Red Alert, Strategy Guide for PC Cd-Rom Version
Command and Conquer Red Alert, Strategy Guide for PC Cd-Rom Version
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Author: Bradygames
Publisher: BRADY GAMES
Category: Book

List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars(9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 466411

Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.6

ISBN: 1566865514
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9781566865517
ASIN: 1566865514

Publication Date: October 1, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Presents detailed maps and strategy to let the user complete every Soviet and Allied mission. The book offers the chance to master all units, including spies, destroyers, MIGs, and subs, and includes extensive multiplayer coverage.

Amazon.com Review
Lee Buchanan and Stephen Schafer show you everything you need to know to beat Command and Conquer Red Alert. Not only do you get basic information on all game resources but also user tips, advice on general military strategies, and step-by-step guides to completing every combat mission. Of course, winning is tougher when you're playing against other people instead of the program. But for that situation you'll find complete information on playing over networks, plus lessons on creating your own battlefields with Red Alert's Terrain Editor. A well-rounded resource.


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1 out of 5 stars Build lots of tanks   January 29, 2002
  2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Did you read the title to this review? Good, now you don't need to buy the official RA strategy guide - that's all the good advice it offers, other than absurdly obvious things like "Don't kill the friendly medic" and "Avoid the flame turrets".

If the whole guide was full of examples like those two, it might be worth buying for amusement factor. But no. Those 240 pages aren't just awful, they're uncreatively awful. The mission walkthroughs give you no specific strategies and are indistinguishable except for the maps.

This book also has pep talk. "Give 'em hell, commander comrade comrade commander." This is a STRATEGY GUIDE for crying out loud! I don't want to hear about how we need to give 110% and there's no I in Team. But then, since there isn't much offered in the way of good tactics, maybe this guide could be seen as a self help book rather than a guide.

The list of units and structures was copied from the instruction manual, unchanged except for:

-the addition of unit stats that would be useful except they're incomplete
-the insertion of the phrase "eh, comrade?" in key places
-larger font and spacing

Okay, the maps. The maps aren't bad (I don't see why people want them in color; it would be pretty, sure, but would make the book cost three times as much and wouldn't help any). I liked the maps because I got to see what was going on in all those areas you aren't able to explore (aha! so there was a bunch of snow there!) and because I got to see the computer's starting forces (not that that's useful, I just liked to see them). They also had some use in forming my own strategies.

This is the worst strategy guide I ever read. The best strategy guide I ever read, somewhat ironically, is the unofficial RA guide, superior to this one in every respect except for the maps.


3 out of 5 stars Reasonably good, could have been better   March 18, 2000
  5 out of 6 found this review helpful

As gaming guide for bellaonline.com, I spend a good portion of my time testing games and reading the strategy guides to see if I missed anything. I *love* Red Alert as a game, but this book doesn't quite do justice to it. The maps they give you are pretty hideous, and the descriptions they give of the solutions to missions are often extremely vague. I realize it's hard to do a walkthrough for a game like this, but there are usually methods that work very well for a mission, and they simply don't give you those details. The first 60 pages are wasted on troop reviews! I like their tip system, and feel they were on the right track ... they just didn't quite get there.


3 out of 5 stars WAS SHAKEN TANYA BABY?   June 13, 1999
  4 out of 23 found this review helpful

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5 out of 5 stars one of the best books for this game   June 12, 1999
  6 out of 7 found this review helpful

The ONLY problem with this book is the maps arn't in color but I don't mind. This book has everything for the game. I beet the Solviet and got to level 13 on the Allieds (until it got stolen). It's the best book


5 out of 5 stars A great book   April 10, 1999
  3 out of 5 found this review helpful

A great book for any red alert player. With it I have completed soviet missions, and nearly completed allied missions

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