Command & Conquer: Red Alert
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert (2009 on J2ME)
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert (2009 on iPhone, 2010 on iPad)
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What if Hitler never existed? Einstein pondered the question and created a time-machine to eliminate Hitler as a young man, thus preventing World War II as history remembers it. However, Einstein stopped one evil only to create another - because Stalin's Soviet Union is now poised to conquer Europe... and Allies must stop them!
Command & Conquer: Red Alert can be considered a prequel to Command & Conquer. Like its predecessor, it is a real-time strategy with an isometric semi-top-down perspective using 2D sprite graphics engine. The player takes control of either the Allies or the Soviets, as he battles for destiny of the planet. Gameplay features are similar to those of the previous game, including building a base with some defenses, massing units, harvesting resources, etc. The game has a variety of environments in its missions, adding some indoor missions that use only infantry units.
Spellings
- 커맨드 앤 컨커: 적색경보 - Korean spelling
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- Command & Conquer franchise
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert universe
- Console Generation Exclusives: PlayStation
- EA Classics releases
- Famous person: Albert Einstein
- Game feature: BGM / music player
- Games that include map/level editor
- Green Pepper releases
- Live action cut-scenes
- PlayStation Platinum Range releases
- Setting: Alternate history
- Setting: City - Moscow
- Setting: Country - Poland
- Setting: Country - Sweden
- Setting: Country - Switzerland
- Software Pyramide releases
- Theme: Famous politician
- Theme: Time travel
- Total Entertainment Network (TEN) multiplay platform
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Reviews
Critics
Average score: 88% (based on 44 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.9 out of 5 (based on 259 ratings with 16 reviews)
One of the best Strategy games ever
The Good
It's easy to play, and plus it has a skirmish mode!, that means hours of action and more replayability!.
The Bad
Some of the difficulty in the levels can close to impossible. And it seems a bit dated nowadays
The Bottom Line
One of the best RTS games you can get!
Windows · by Grant McLellan (584) · 2001
The best of the C&C games, and one of the greatest strategy games every made.
The Good
I didn't really ever get into the single-player missions nearly as much as the multi-player options and more specifically the skirmish mode. The AI won't usually be able to put up much of a fight, but you can still draw lots of satisfaction in wiping out their bases, or just watching them get fried one by one as they walk up to your base's tesla coils.
The game also has a great soundtrack that really works well with the battles.
The Bad
The cutscenes can often be rather cheesy, and logging on to play an online game isn't as easy as in this game's successors.
The Bottom Line
A classic strategy game that will never get old.
Windows · by Brian Jordan (19) · 2001
A typically bad Command & Conquer game.
The Good
The music and sound effects are OK, and so are the controls, but nothing more.
The Bad
I truly hate Command & Conquer. From the overhyped Tiberian Dawn this game should have been the downfall of Westwood. As an antithesis to the wonderful Dune II, C&C brought forth lacking gameplay, horribly dumb AI, completely pointless storyline and even the graphics failed to impress me.
This game is as bad as the first (albeit with a slightly improved engine, graphics-wise) and presents no real change from Tiberian Dawn, only with a new storyline (which is completely uncapitalized on) and slightly modified graphics. The units are equally dumb and the controls are equally bad (all three C&Cs have the annoying tendency to simply lose selection, which almost always happens during an intense battle causing you to have to reselect your units and losing valuable time).
In short, a very, very bad game.
The Bottom Line
A really bad game which should've brought Westwood's downfall but somehow actually gave the company a solid financial basis.
DOS · by Tomer Gabel (4536) · 1999
Discussion
Subject | By | Date |
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Anyone know whether there was multiplayer in PSX version? | And Wan | Dec 14, 2016 |
Trivia
1001 Video Games
Command & Conquer: Red Alert appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Freeware release
To celebrate 13 years of Command & Conquer and to promote the then-upcoming release of Red Alert 3, the game was made available for free on 31 August 2008. The link is available in the related web sites section.
German version
The German version removes Hitler from the intro and replaces all the soldiers with cyborgs.
Online servers
The game's online servers were migrated from the official Westwood Online infrastructure to the community-run XWIS (XCC WOL IRC Server), under approval and sponsorship from EA's German office on 20 October 2005. The Westwood Online domains have acted as a redirect to XWIS services since then, requiring no additional steps from the user to access the servers short of registering an account.
Sales
In 1998, the PC version of the game won the Platinum Award from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 200,000 (but less then 500,000) units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Awards
- Computer Gaming World
- May 1997 (Issue #154) – Strategy Game of the Year (Readers' Choice)
- Electronic Gaming Monthly
- March 1998 (Issue 104) - Strategy Game of the Year
- March 1998 (Issue 104) - Strategy Game of the Year (Readers' Choice)
- PC Gamer
- April 2000 - -10 in the "All-Time Top 50 Games" poll
- April 2005 - #17 in the "50 Best Games of All Time" list
- Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland
- 1998 - Platinum Award (more details in the "Sails" section)
Information also contributed by Grant McLellan, Sciere and Xoleras
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Command & Conquer Red Alert - Home Page
official game page at Westwood Studios' website from 1997, preserved by the Wayback Machine -
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Download the game for free, in celebration of 13 years of Command & Conquer. -
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The "Art Of War" site
A great RA site that allows you to download a fair bit of stuff.
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Game added by robotriot.
PSP, PlayStation 3 added by Charly2.0. PlayStation added by Kartanym.
Additional contributors: Cochonou, PCGamer77, Xantheous, Kasey Chang, Jeanne, paul cairey, Sciere, Alaka, Xoleras, Jang Eunsu, —-, Cantillon, Patrick Bregger, Plok, MrFlibble, FatherJack.
Game added November 28, 1999. Last modified March 19, 2024.