Command & Conquer: Red Alert (PC)

Taking video game franchies from the hands of the original developers can be an unpredictable affair. Sometimes the new developer will respectfully produce a follow up while making the game their own (Fallout 3), sometimes they will miss the point entirely (Sim City Societies) and then sometimes they will produce an adequate but uninspired continuation. Red Alert 3 is one of these games. I remember being wary of Command and Conquer 3 and then being pleasantly surprised. Westwood studios had been all but absorbed and the last in the series, Generals, had been a poor cash in but somehow C&C3 pulled through and I loved it. With that in mind, I sat in ...  Read the complete review

This is where it all started - do you remember? *Nostalgia incoming* Now, back in the day, PC games cost like, 150 quid, and game in these ENORMOUS boxes, and the good ones always had 10 CDs and took a day to install. And every game had a 200 page instruction manual. And on the back of the box, the games would boast about the graphics having 256 colours... Red Alert was one of those games. And it blew us all away. I mean, nowadays we're faced by an absolute deluge of real time strategy games, for the most part following the same formula. When Red Alert came out, it was pretty much the only thing out there, apart from it's precursor ...  Read the complete review

Where the Red Alert series all began. Taking the C&C series into a completely different story line away from the Brotherhood of NOD and the GDI, see's this command and conquor outing set in the Cold War, with the Soviets being the bad guys, bent on world domination. This game is a good game that shows that 3D graphics are not a necessity for the indredients in a good game, this is not to say that it is without good cut scenes, as all command & conquor games the cut scenes are beautifully rendered. the game play is much the same as the previous C&C game in that you build a base, establish youtself, build and army and wipe out the ...  Read the complete review

Where it all began with Command and Conquer the orginal Red Alert game was released in 1995 by Westwood The graphics are very basic even for the time they were not cutting edge the game instead relied on the game play and the story to sell. The series is based on an alternate timeline when Albert Einstein travels back in time and removes Adolf Hitler in an attempt to prevent World War II, this backfires and results in the Sovient invasion of Europe, and the game sporns from here. You play as either the Sovient or Allies in an attempt to control the world. Each side has there own special units with different abilities to make the game ...  Read the complete review

Seeing from nowadays, Command & Conquer: Red Alert is not at all a good game. It is not a 3D game, without many graphic and sound effect, but it is true a mark stone of its time, which 3D game is still a sound in the air. First, RA got a quite good story background. It lies in the cold war,where Russia is against NATO. And one man named Kane (stem from C&C) travel from modern time to this period the stir the time. Kane choose the side of communist, and control its leader Stalin. By doing this, war beweet the two power summit broke out. Second, RA create a stardard for RTS (real-time strategy) game. Besides C&C and WOC, RA is the first ...  Read the complete review