Command & Conquer: Red Alert

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

1996 Westwood Studios

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About Command & Conquer: Red Alert

Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) and strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Dice Multi Media Europe, released on 22 November 1996.

Travel to an alternate universe where dark experiments have permanently altered time. Or have they? Soviet tanks crush city after city while Allied cruisers shell bases. Spies lurk, landmines await, and strange new technologies aid both sides in the struggle for ultimate control. In this parallel reality, the mighty Soviet Empire has begun to “liberate” all of Europe. Cities fall and countries collapse before the overwhelming might of the Red Storm. The Allies are scrambling to meet the onslaught, but they have been caught by surprise. Red Alert puts the fate of the world in your hands!

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In 1946, Albert Einstein finishes his time machine, dubbed the Chronosphere, and travels back in time to 1924, just after Adolf Hitler was released from prison in Landsberg. There, he creates a time paradox which erases the dictator from history, and returns to his starting point. With Nazi Germany removed from history, the Soviet Union is left unopposed as Joseph Stalin sees an opportunity to expand into Eastern Europe. In response, most of Europe ally against this new threat, and start a desperate war against the new aggressor.

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Gameplay

Specs

Genres

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy

How long to beat

Main story 15h Completionist 35h Source: IGDB

Modes

MultiplayerSingle player

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric

Multiplayer

Up to 8 players online

Series

All Command & Conquer games in release order · 21

Tags

Best multiplayer gamesBest single-player gamesBest sci-fi games

Rankings

Best Strategy games on PCBest Strategy games on PlayStation 3Best PC gamesBest PC games of 1996Best games of 1996

Gallery

Media

Content

DLC & expansions

Command & Conquer: Red Alert Remastered

2020

Command & Conquer: Red Alert Remastered

2020

Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Retaliation

1998

Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Retaliation

1998

Command & Conquer: Red Alert - The Aftermath

1997

Command & Conquer: Red Alert - The Aftermath

1997

Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Counterstrike

1997

Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Counterstrike

1997

Collection

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Command & Conquer: Red Alert Remastered

2020

Command & Conquer: Red Alert Remastered

2020

Command & Conquer Remastered Collection

2020

Command & Conquer Remastered Collection

2020

Command & Conquer: Rivals

2018

Command & Conquer: Rivals

2018

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances

2012

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances

2012

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight

2010

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight

2010

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Commander’s Challenge

2009

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Commander’s Challenge

2009

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising

2009

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising

2009

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

2008

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

2008

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

2007

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

2007

Command & Conquer: Generals

2003

Command & Conquer: Generals

2003

Command & Conquer: Renegade

2002

Command & Conquer: Renegade

2002

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

2000

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

2000