Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1

• Popularity:

  #1 in Modern (out of 12 products)

• License:

  Free to try

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.5 stars (out of 1503 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  1,384,520

• Requirements:

  Pentium-60, Windows 95, DirectX drivers

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  July 27, 1999

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Publisher's description of Command & Conquer: Red Alert

From Westwood Studios:

Command and Conquer, one of the most popular strategy games in recent memory, is back and bigger and badder than ever with Red Alert. The story takes place in an alternate stream of history, around the time of World War II. In this version of world history, World War II never happened, and Hitler was nothing more than a minor annoyance. The real threat here is something hundreds of times worse than Hitler could ever have been: Joseph Stalin. The Soviet Empire is killing its way through Europe. Towns are falling and countries collapsing before the overwhelming might of the Soviet forces. Does anyone stand a chance, or will the Red Menace engulf all of Europe? New features include improved AI, new game units and structures, a Skirmish mode, and a detailed, interweaving story line.

Editor's review of Command & Conquer: Red Alert

• 4.0 stars

One of the greatest real-time strategy games of all time, C&C: Red Alert brings a sci-fi twentieth-century conflict into the C&C mix. According to the background story, Albert Einstein invents a time machine and kills Adolf Hitler to prevent WWII. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, however, launches a full-scale attack with advanced Mammoth tanks, Tesla coils, and V2 rocket launchers. Red Alert is intentionally unbalanced. The Soviets have more powerful infantry, tanks, artillery, aircraft, and defensive towers. The United States and Western Europe have only a couple strengths: warships and "smart" units such as medics and mine-layers. Great music tracks, an excellent control system, good-looking graphics (by mid-'90s standards), and superb gameplay make C&C: Red Alert a classic. Former C&C fanatics will shed a nostalgic tear after launching this small demo, but first they'll have to make sure they have Windows 95/98, since the installer won't run on Windows XP or Windows 2000.

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• 5 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1

  "Most amazing strategy games"

  by pakcikkantin on May 2, 2007

  Pros: So good to have it

  Cons: Nothing, excepts online games sometimes lag

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• 5 stars

  7 out of 7 people found this review helpful

  Version: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1

  "Best game ever"

  by realcr on August 26, 2005

  Pros: Red alert is the best staregy game ever. It is fast and full of action. I have been playing it since 96 and it never gets boring. It has a set of interesting missions ,and also an option to play against the computer in skirmish mode. Multiplayer game is also possible if using the KALI program.

  Cons: Westwood studios stopped supporting this game a long time ago , so it is hard to find a working version to play with online. I recommend viewing the red alert archive website for more recent versions of this product (3.03) and ability to play online. Also sometimes it might be difficult to make the game run on newer version of windows like win XP or win 2000 , as it was designed to run in win95.

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• 4 stars

  1 out of 8 people found this review helpful

  Version: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1

  "Pretty good gane"

  by Andrew932 on February 11, 2005

  Pros: Hours of fun

  Cons: There are better versions

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• 5 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1

  "vary good game online"

  by itsmehehe on August 12, 2006

  Cons: it's the demo 8(

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• 3 stars

  4 out of 6 people found this review helpful

  Version: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1

  "USERS OF XP READ THIS!"

  by Game Police on July 25, 2006

  Cons: Use compatibility mode for Windows 98(right-click and click "Compatibility" then read the page)

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