October 28, Tuesday. The sky is clear, and sun is hot. Well, this is not about the sky or about the sun, today is about red october, red october as the theme of Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 launch party. Thats right, after a 7 long years of waiting, Red Alert 3 is finally here. The launch party take place at Leo's Cafe, SS2, at 4pm. However, the queue start as early as 10am (wth) as the 10 early birds can get a "myterious" freebies from TSB (the software boutique). My friend and I wanted to try out luck, thought if we go there 1 hour early would still can stand a change. However, when we arrived there, the queue already exceed 10 peoples.

The party start at 430pm, with the gamer start to collect the game, along with some nice poster of RA3 babes. Then gamers and press are invited to enjoy some meal and drinks, while watching trailer of EA upcoming games, as well as testing RA3. Besides getting the game frist hand, another hit of the party is the lucky draw, which include a RM5,000 pc, sponsor by Gigabyte and Corsair. The lucky draw ended as a friend of Pua got a Corsair thumb drive, and KP got a 2gb Corsair RAM.

RA3 babes poster

After trying out the game, all I can say is, totaly diffrent from previous Red Alert series. With the Soviets travel back time and kill Einstein, thus alter the story of RA2, and Allied winning the war. However, there is a new fraction, called "Empire of the Rising Sun" (wth, the name is so lame). Everything is changed now, no more nuclear missiles, no more wheather machine and no more my fav, psim technology.WTH, this game just not up to my expectation, I'll guess I'll wait for World in Conflict expansion as well as Tom Clancy's game, the EndWar and HAWX (the name alone is very cool). Dissapointment...