Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
A beloved classic C&C with campy live-action cutscenes and three distinct factions. Steam patches broke the campaign economy, and online multiplayer is dead, so skip it unless you'll mod or roll back.
Great for
Nostalgic C&C and RTS fans who will install a balance-fix mod or roll back to 1.0 for the campaign
Main risk
The official patch makes the campaign brutally hard, with halved income and endless AI waves, unless you mod it.
20 recent reviews
Recent negative reviews mostly cite the patched campaign being too hard, including the Croatia mission, and call it broken even on normal or easy. Based on only a few reviews, so moderately sure.
20 recent reviews
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews
“everything in it was just right, starting with a simple but interesting story about a world split into two factions and ending with how well the developers balanced every single unit.”
Steam review · 321.6 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“after replaying the game it's not just nostalgia the game is just that good.”
Steam review · 2.2 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The architecture, landscape and maps are so unique and pretty, and all the different units and especially voice lines are so good and iconic.”
Steam review · 25.8 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“such a crazy cast for back then!”
Steam review · 31.1 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“The Scrin are an excellent addition to the GDI/NOD selection and every faction plays differently.”
Steam review · 19.6 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews
“It runs excellently on linux out of the box.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“the AI sending literally non-stop waves at you from the get-go whilst you harvest money at HALF the original rate”
Steam review · 13.3 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“This version of C&C 3 is plagued with crashes, and some of the skirmish maps don't work at all”
Steam review · 114.9 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“the AI blatantly cheats (infinitely spawning infantry swarms pouring out of barracks for instance)”
Steam review · 14 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“EA shut down the servers a long time ago, and LAN doesn't work anymore either.”
Steam review · 144 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews
“I have never seen such bad pathfinding AI as this game.”
Steam review · 6.5 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 30 negative reviews
“Hard-coded 30FPS cap. Cannot be changed without breaking the game.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
From the Steam store page
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