April 2000 -10 in the 'All-Time Top 50 Games' poll.May 1997 (Issue #154) – Strategy Game of the Year (Readers' Choice).In 1998, Command & Conquer: Red Alert (PC) 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.

The German version removes Hitler from the intro and replaces all the soldiers with cyborgs. The link is available in the related web sites section. To celebrate 13 years of Command & Conquer, the game was made available for free on 31st August 2008. Total Entertainment Network (TEN) multiplay platformĬommand & Conquer: Red Alert appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.Console Generation Exclusives: PlayStation.The game has a variety of environments in its missions, adding some indoor missions that use only infantry units. Gameplay features are similar to those of the previous game, including building a base with some defenses, massing units, harvesting resources, etc. The player takes control of either the Allies or the Soviets, as he battles for destiny of the planet. Like its predecessor, it is a real-time strategy with an isometric semi-top-down perspective using 2D sprite graphics engine. and Allies must stop them!Ĭommand & Conquer: Red Alert can be considered a prequel to Command & Conquer. However, Einstein stopped one evil only to create another - because Stalin's Soviet Union is now poised to conquer Europe. 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.

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