Reviews - Violet-n-red

first of all, the game is of very very high quality. now, the features:
* lots of different fun units for everyone
* campaign for each primary faction
* numerous AI options for PvE battles
* continuous competitive balancing
* numerous maps for different styles of play, including minigames!
* perfectly fitting art
* standard RTS features that the old CNC games partially lacked: fog of war, unit promotions, attack-move, sensible vision ranges, combat stances, highly customizable match setup, and many more.

it plays fun, it looks pretty and it gets a constant flow of balance updates (check Discord or Command Post if you want to see the smaller stat-changing updates)

pretty much everything has a synergy or purpose now, that's the biggest deal. also, every plain or mediocre unit and skill now has some situational boost on them. i'm looking forward to building some quirky armies with the "worst" units :)

KW AI can actually fight now!

lots of fun new stuff, everything looks nice and works mostly alright, BUT. AI just doesn't work like half of the time. and then visceroids are so powerful and easy to breed that your infantry's corpses becomes the most powerful unit in the game, which can't be stopped efficiently by anything but the highest tier units.

it has a campaign, it is pretty, it plays nice and it feels fresh. what else do you want?

a pretty solid expansion for Dune 2000. some imported artwork looks jarring, but the actual in-game models looks alright and works fine. can't talk about the balance, but at the very least it looks like every unit and power has it's use.

brutal, yet fair mod. i'm a big fan of the reworked skill and economy balance, plus new combat pace is pretty much what i wanted to see in this game from the start. i'm not too far into the mod so far and sometimes feel like complaining about the difficulty, but then i realise i'm not using this or that thing available to me because of the old habits and i start using it and everything becomes so much better.

diverse, fair, fun and beautiful :)

if you want to play first Red Alert with better graphics and unit control - this is the best choice.

also, pretty good mod overall. everything looks great, plays well and sounds properly.

oh, and if you're worried about changed ore deposits messing up default maps - no need to worry, all deposits are converted in game, not on the map, so every normal map will work, as long as it does not requires building on the water (because you could not build normal buildings on the water in RA1 and this is a proper RA1 mod).