Takes the game in a new, and sometimes hilarious, direction. Revenge is a dish best served cold - we served it colder than others, but we still ate heartily.
Still a great RTS that I enjoy playing online to this day. It has variety of play-styles and maps for multiplayer and an entertaining, albeit silly campaign story.
Well.. the Game is just a masterpiece for its time. But it is also still playable, thanks to many modifications. In General, I spent my childhood so well that today I can go and play.
It is also worth noting a company that is developing properly. Everything is very interesting and chic!
Gives you enough to be entertained but doesn't leave you thinking you just wasted a bit of cash on features that should've been included in the first game.
The game adds enough new missions, locations, structures, weapons and units to justify its purchase and will likely keep you clicking until the wee hours of the morning.
As I wrote to the original game: "One of the best strategies of my time that I have ever played. This is just a bomb among the strategies. An excellent, thoughtful and interesting plot that was played by live actors. Very strong and appropriate atmosphere conveyed by this plot and game-play. Excellent drawing of the environment and controlled units and buildings. And, of course, this soundtrack... you'll recognize it from thousand others by its first seconds. A masterpiece of the classics of its time".
...I will add only a few things: It is a completely independent game, with its own company and many changes in fractions. And all these changes, without exception, gave to the game only the benefits. Yuri’s revenge is no less a masterpiece than the original game. I would even say that in terms of game-play it is even better, since it complemented much of what its original brother lacked a little.
This game stands the test of time. It still has strong replay over a decade later. It is particularly awesome in network multiplayer for its gameplay. The map variations, units, etc. There are some quirky interface controls, esp. if you are used to game releases in recent years. The voices, the acting, the humor are exceptional. Great game, if you can find it.
This is the best Command & Conquer game ever! So much fun and addicting, still playing it in 2013!!!
The missions are fun, the graphics are superior to it's time. It's just a perfect game!
In short, this is the best, the one and only 2.5D real-time strategy computer game of all time in the history of mankind. It was released in 2001 and yet it still had a much better story lines and creative ideas created from the developers as compared to others. I played many other real-time strategy computer game but I do not feel the "X Factor" excitement as this one. From the moment of installation which has a nice song till finish installation it gave the feeling of you are inside the story. I do not really care much about the acting of the actors as this is a review of the game and not the movie. This game had great storylines, missions and most importantly many skirmish maps and modded extra missions which you can download from the fans/C&C community WEB sites. I had never bored playing this game and still playing till now (June 2012). Thank's to the fans and C&C community on this. There is no doubt that Red alert 3 and its expansions Uprising had a much better graphics. But Red Alert 2 & Yuri revenge definitely had a better story lines and missions. I wish they could be reproduced or remastered it in a better graphics. Command & Conquer 3 and 4 are not even close to compare. I played Command & Conquer 4 and stop at mission 3 or something. I have no interest to continue anymore. Command & Conquer 3 is a much better version than Command & Conquer 4. Red alert 3 is a much better version than any Command & Conquer series. Red Alert 2 Yuri Revenge is the winner of all.
SummaryThis Red Alert 2 Expansion Pack finds Yuri ready for world domination in a post-peace treaty, free world. Refining his mind-control technologies, he's created an army of terrors, from mind-controlling tanks to long-range psychics, whose brains are their biggest weapons. Play as Allies or Soviets, and take on Yuri in Hollywood, Egypt -- ...