As always, the pre-mission briefings are excellent - starring a cast of professional actors, they add spadefuls of character to the game. However, it would be wrong to say there's nothing new in Red Alert 2.
And to be fair, the previous games have always been well-received and excellent sellers. No flashy 3D graphics for Red Alert 2 here no fog of war, no multiple mission paths in single-player - not even a rotateable isometric view like Sim City or Rollercoaster Tycoon. So it's little surprise to find that Red Alert 2 follows the tradition of ignoring recent developments in real-time strategy games and delivering the same pacy gameplay the others in the series offered. But while other developers have been keen to expand on the theme, adding everything from 3D graphics to first-person perspectives, Westwood has always remained true to its retro roots. It's a simple formula, and a much-imitated one. Somewhere else on the battlefield your opponent is doing the same. A few units and a battlefield with scattered resource fields at your disposal, you build a base, harvest these resources, and use funds thus gained to construct an army. Command & Conquer games, in the past, have followed the same recipe. Red Alert 2 is a classic RTS game, and still fun to play today.Westwood isn't exactly a name people associate with innovation. If you Alt+Tab away to some other application, the game screen may not be displayed correctly when you switch back. The game should work on any modern PC - and most ancient ones, too - but keep in mind that it expects to be running full-screen and exclusively. (Although it might still take a while, as the download is a chunky 1.6GB.) The only "catch" is you'll need an Electronic Arts account and a copy of Origin to download it, but that doesn't involve much more than providing your email address, and everything else is handled more or less automatically. This isn't a trial or restricted version, it's the complete product. There are also various smaller "scenarios", quick skirmishes which you can use to learn the game or if you've only a few minutes to spare. The two bundled campaigns - Red Alert and Yuri's Revenge - follow on from the first game, and pitch the Allies and the Soviet Union against each other in a range of missions from small and stealthy to fast-paced, full-scale multi-unit battles. Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 is a classic real-time strategy game, first released for Windows back in 2000.
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