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Command & Conquer: Red Alert

Available Platform: DOS - Alias: Command And Conquer - Red Alert

Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy game created by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin in 1996 for MS-DOS and Windows 95.

Year1996
GenreStrategy
Rating4.5

92/100 based on 7 Editorial reviews. Add your vote

PublisherVirgin Games
DeveloperWestwood Studios
OS supportedWin7 64 bit, Win8 64bit, Windows 10, MacOS 10.6+
Updated1 December 2020

Game Review

Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy game created by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin in 1996 for MS-DOS and Windows 95. It was later ported to PlayStation.

Red Alert is the second game in the Command & Conquer series but it's not exactly a sequel. Set in an alternate universe where Hitler has been killed and Stalin, with the USSR, has started invading the world, the game is based on the war between the Soviets and the Allies. It was designed as a prequel to the original Command & Conquer game, but it ended up being a spin-off, with two more Red Alert games coming in the following years.

The gameplay is similar compared to the first game, but the graphics and UI were enhanced, the balance was improved, the story and the units available extended.

Red Alert was a tremendous commercial and critical success, with more than 2 mln copies sold in the first 2 years, and extremely positive reviews (average higher than 90%). The game also won the title of Best Strategy/War Game at the Game Developer Conference.

Electronic Arts acquired Westwood Studios in 1998 and ten years later, in 2008, released Red Alert as freeware.

Review by: GN Team
Published: 30 June 2018 8:00 am


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Latest Comments

  • Karut Mai - 2021-08-17 - Reply

    been in love with this games since 1995 till latest.

  • Joe White - 2021-06-10 - Reply

    This is great, up to the point where it stops working

  • Gloovis - 2020-01-25 - Reply

    Xelp! The game stopped - can't start Soviet Mission 7 - from Ukraine to Russland on the main map, Does anyone knows how to bypass this error?

  • dobbin004 - 2018-07-28 - Reply

    Breed nothing but attack dogs and engineers. Win every time. Classic game

  • Chris Korff - 2018-06-30 - Reply

    AND GAMES NOSTALGIA STRIKES AGAIN!!!