[Flipside]

But your right on the tactical choices, although on the Nod front there were a bunch of missions that weren't so much about tactics as about timing. Avoid patrol A with your 6 units so you can hit base b unhindered then run away before patrol A can return to cick your ass. I just found them plain boring.

This is why my least favourite mission in the Freespace series is the 'Scan the Lucifer' one, I hate missions that work like that

[Dark Knight]

Yeah. I've been known to edit that one out of the campaign file on more than one occasion.

[Nix]

Hell March 1/2, Act on Instinct (without voiceovers), Face of the enemy, Mechanical Man, Radio, all quite good tracks. 
Speaking of RA music, is there any decent freeware to extract the music from RA's mix files, that doesn't CRASH in windows XP?  The GUI version of XCC mixer crashes, the DOS version refuses to run, most of the other extractors like Dragon Unpacker/Hyper Ripper do not look for the particular extension used in CnC1 and RA1. 

[Slasher]

Have you tried RA-MIXer:  http://www.cncnz.com/files/redalert/utils.shtml

This is the one I used to extract some of the tracks.  I can't remember which component I used to convert them to .wav files but this worked okay for me on my WinXP Home system.  I just tried running the ramix.exe and it opened and closed fine without the use of a DOS emulator.

[edit]  While we're on the topic of RA tracks, does anyone know where I could find the redbook audio from the Red Alert: Aftermath expansion CD? 

[Fineus]

The Red Alert soundtrack in MP3 format: http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/923

The site contains all others as well.

[Flipside]

Listening to Hell March now, keep expecting to hear Ozzy Osborne shout 'All Aboard!!' but other than that, pretty nice generic heavy rock track Reminds me a bit of the original Dungeon Keeper soundtrack.

[CP5670]

XCC Mixer works for me - it just takes an eternity to load, so it seems like it has crashed - but you can also use XCC AV Player. You can try RA Mixer (that was the only option in the old days), but that program has some other limitations and you have to use the old AUD Player or something to play the files.

The aftermath CD has its own scores.mix file that's different from the ones on the RA/CS CDs. Just load that up in XCC AV Player. It sometimes loads the files in the wrong order by default, but clicking the "ID" tab fixes that.

I always really liked both of the Face the Enemy tracks from RA and In the Line of Fire from the first game. I generally use those when playing skirmishes every now and then with my RA mod.

Check out the scores.mix on the C&C CDs, by the way. There are several "secret" musics that aren't used in the game. That applies to the movies too, for that matter.

[SadisticSid]

Hmm, I can't say Petroglyph could do much better than EA, considering the real-time garbage that was Empire at War.

[NGTM-1R]

The site contains all others as well.

Kal, thank you. Only place I have ever seen with ANY Two-Mix tracks. Praise be the Lord! (I'm kinda sad their version of Into the Wind is screwed up, though. Also don't seem to have all the CDs...ah well, I got a full version of Truth again. That's all that matters.)

The C&C music that ends up being on my playlist most often is probably Run (or Run For Your Life, but Run was the title ingame); the title fits so well, and I rather like the way it sounds too. Face the Enemy...I'd forgotten how good that was, my RA official soundtrack disappeared years ago.


EDIT: WTF!? It's not the full version of Truth! Bastards!

[IceFire]

you're going to be disappointed, i know already.  know why? i got 2 letters

EA

theyre going to rush the deadlines, the game will look pretty, but play and run like crap.  and it will most likely have no plot

While I don't have a huge affinity for EA either...the EA LA group seem to do good jobs.  I enjoyed and continue to enjoy C&C Generals as a great single player and skermish game.  The multiplayer was completely unimpressive with its performance....as have all C&C Games.  Blizzard has them beat there.

Looking forward to a good clash between Supreme Commander and C&C 3.

[kv1at3485]

I found this utlity a while back.  It allows you to extract the files from the C&C data files.  It works for C&C, C&C:RA and C&C:TS.

So if you have the game disks, you can do stuff like watch the movies, listen to the music, or play the ingame sounds.

[Vagabond]

Since it's EA, and since Westwood is not developing, I expect the game to have lost all it's soul and whatever else that made Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert brilliant.

[Ulala]

Original C&C was always the best with rl video briefings and music. I also liked Time Bomb from Tiberian Sun because it's intense and has a riff from a song in Tiberian Dawn (Industrial maybe, can't remember). I also liked Lone Troop from TS, not to mention the entire TD soundtrack.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Looks like EA are ndeed reviving old franchises... what's next? A new Wing Commander Game? (imagine the space genre becoming popular again)

[MatthewPapa]

EA is going to screw this up, just like they screwed up Generals

[Turnsky]

EA is going to screw this up, just like they screwed up Generals

i can see it now, one game, endless expansions

[TrashMan]

Heh...the old C&C was the best somehow...dunno - it was best designed, it felt somehow close, it had some soul.

[Roanoke]

I must be the only person who liked TS but didn't like the others.

EA d suck, but not everything they do is turd, despite their best efforts.

[Turambar]

the big problem is that ppl keep buying their ****

[Dave2040]

And that's because they created some good games...
I still like to play Battlefield 2 or the multiplayer part of C&C Generals...

Yes, they are buggy, but I enjoy to play them, so I don't really care about that...