Like the original, Red Alert 2 pits the Russians against the Allies, but this time it's on American soil. A post-World War II invasion by Romanov and Yuri, aided by a Psychic Beam for brainwashing US citizens, must be repelled.

Lead 9 different nations in this all-out war for survival. Each side has ground troops, tanks, aeroplanes and sea units, although there are differences between the sides in which units can attack which others, largely based on real life equipment (for example, the US' AEGIS cruisers can only attack air units, but can beat almost any). Lots of fictitious technology is also featured, including new weather control devices and deadly animals.

Gameplay is fundamentally the same as other Real-Time strategy games - harvest resources to fund an army, then move the units around to win battles against your foes. Each side has 13 missions, some with specific objectives or unit limitations.

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Alternate Titles

"命令与征服：红色警戒2" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"RA2" -- Slang/Informal title
"Command & Conquer: Alerte Rouge 2" -- French title
"Command & Conquer: Alarmstufe Rot 2" -- German title
"C&C:RA2" -- Informal name

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Command & Conquer Red Alert 2	Windows	$3.00
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User Reviews

If you want a deeper strategy game, look elsewhere. If you want one of the most entertaining arcade war games ever made, look no further.	Kadath Bird (538)
Just another so-so RTS game	Rick Jones (108)
Better than Tiberian Sun by far.	Kartanym (10835)
The Best of the C&C's till now	Krystman (8)
It SUCKS.	Tomer Gabel (4429)
This is what real-time strategy games used to be like before age of empires....	James Kirk (159)	unrated
Crappy game, pretty fun - no one knows why.	Oren Hadas (4)
An excellent fast-paced RTS, don't miss it!	KaiserChicken (12)
If you liked Tiberian Sun, you'll probably like this...	Dr. Elementary (274)
A worthy sequel to a classic strategy game!	Brian Jordan (20)

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The Press Says

Game Informer Magazine	Dec, 2000	9.25 out of 10	92
ESC Magazine	Dec 08, 2000	9 out of 10	90
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Nov 03, 2000		90
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Nov 07, 2000	9 out of 10	90
Power Unlimited	Nov, 2000	8.8 out of 10	88
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Nov, 2000	87 out of 100	87
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Oct 25, 2000	84 out of 100	84
Game Captain	Nov 06, 2000	83 out of 100	83
Jeuxvideo.com	Nov 03, 2000	16 out of 20	80
Game Over Online	Dec 06, 2000	80 out of 100	80

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Trivia

When first released, Best Buy had a special offer: Command and Conquer Soundtrack Collection (soundtrack from ALL C&C games) on CD for the first 100 buyers of RA2 in every store.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Kartanym

(10835) on Oct 24, 2000.