Command & Conquer: Red Alert | 20th anniversary
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:15 pm
http://imgur.com/gallery/0hxYc
"Acknowledged," "Yes Sir"
Soundtrack for this image album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttAMZfXpjgw
Music by the great Frank Klepacki
Developer: Westwood Studios Release Date: 31/10/1996 Platforms: MS DOS, Windows 95 (PlayStation (1997)) The second game to bear the "C&C" title, Red Alert is the prequel to the highly acclaimed original Command & Conquer of 1995, and takes place in the alternate early history of Command & Conquer when Allied Forces battle an aggressive Soviet Union for control over the European mainland.
It's 1946. Mankind has just gone through one of the most brutal wars it ever faced. While the rest of the world is still in shock and trying to find ways to prevent such an event from ever taking place again, a Jewish/German scientist decides to act. With a device he was engineering for the US government, he travels back into time to kill the person who he sees as the root of all misery; Adolf Hitler. He catches up with Hitler in 1926, as Hitler is still a young - but already embittered - man and 'disposes' of him. Without thinking through the consequences thoroughly enough, as will soon turn out. Without Hitler and Nazi-Germany to keep the him in check after all, Hitler died before he ever became of any importance, Stalin takes his communistic USSR to unknown heights and then decides to speed up the world-wide Marxist revolution a bit by invading the free countries of Western Europe. Obviously, the West-European countries aren't too pleased with this and starts a grim guerilla war against the Russian invaders. And so, in spite of our dearest scientist's efforts, a new World War starts.
After the major worldwide success of Command & Conquer in 1995 Westwood quickly set out to make a new game. They had always liked the idea of a World War II game but didn't want to be constrained by unit types and real world setting (as well as the publisher telling them it might be a tricky sell for a game back in those days) Red Alert would incorporate naval warfare and a greater range of aerial units. 14 months later, Red Alert was released for the eager fans.
Red Alert was widely played on the internet via Westwood Online, leading to massive tank rushes in the dawn of online RTS play.
Check out the original website for the game: http://web.archive.org/web/199706120228 ... alert.html
The game received two expansion packs in 1997, Red Alert: Counterstrike & Red Alert: The Aftermath which both added new units, multiplayer maps (over 100 each) and multiplayer modes. They also included new skirmishes and missions, included the Counterstrike add-on is the addition of the secret Ant Missions titled "It Came from Red Alert", where the player battles against an army of giant, mutant ants, much like the secret dinosaur misi
Happy 20th Birthday Red Alert! Command & Conquer 20th anniversary imgur post from last year: http://imgur.com/gallery/cTyJG
Now you can play too!
A modern video game remake and re-implementation of the game engine was created by fans called OpenRA. It adds gameplay elements from successors such as fog of war. The focus is primarily on skirmish/multiplayer gaming with partial support for the single-player missions. OpenRA allows you to play Command & Conquer, Red Alert & Dune 2000 on modern systems, online with your friends or other people.
http://www.openra.net
"Acknowledged," "Yes Sir"
Soundtrack for this image album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttAMZfXpjgw
Music by the great Frank Klepacki
Developer: Westwood Studios Release Date: 31/10/1996 Platforms: MS DOS, Windows 95 (PlayStation (1997)) The second game to bear the "C&C" title, Red Alert is the prequel to the highly acclaimed original Command & Conquer of 1995, and takes place in the alternate early history of Command & Conquer when Allied Forces battle an aggressive Soviet Union for control over the European mainland.
It's 1946. Mankind has just gone through one of the most brutal wars it ever faced. While the rest of the world is still in shock and trying to find ways to prevent such an event from ever taking place again, a Jewish/German scientist decides to act. With a device he was engineering for the US government, he travels back into time to kill the person who he sees as the root of all misery; Adolf Hitler. He catches up with Hitler in 1926, as Hitler is still a young - but already embittered - man and 'disposes' of him. Without thinking through the consequences thoroughly enough, as will soon turn out. Without Hitler and Nazi-Germany to keep the him in check after all, Hitler died before he ever became of any importance, Stalin takes his communistic USSR to unknown heights and then decides to speed up the world-wide Marxist revolution a bit by invading the free countries of Western Europe. Obviously, the West-European countries aren't too pleased with this and starts a grim guerilla war against the Russian invaders. And so, in spite of our dearest scientist's efforts, a new World War starts.
After the major worldwide success of Command & Conquer in 1995 Westwood quickly set out to make a new game. They had always liked the idea of a World War II game but didn't want to be constrained by unit types and real world setting (as well as the publisher telling them it might be a tricky sell for a game back in those days) Red Alert would incorporate naval warfare and a greater range of aerial units. 14 months later, Red Alert was released for the eager fans.
Red Alert was widely played on the internet via Westwood Online, leading to massive tank rushes in the dawn of online RTS play.
Check out the original website for the game: http://web.archive.org/web/199706120228 ... alert.html
The game received two expansion packs in 1997, Red Alert: Counterstrike & Red Alert: The Aftermath which both added new units, multiplayer maps (over 100 each) and multiplayer modes. They also included new skirmishes and missions, included the Counterstrike add-on is the addition of the secret Ant Missions titled "It Came from Red Alert", where the player battles against an army of giant, mutant ants, much like the secret dinosaur misi
Happy 20th Birthday Red Alert! Command & Conquer 20th anniversary imgur post from last year: http://imgur.com/gallery/cTyJG
Now you can play too!
A modern video game remake and re-implementation of the game engine was created by fans called OpenRA. It adds gameplay elements from successors such as fog of war. The focus is primarily on skirmish/multiplayer gaming with partial support for the single-player missions. OpenRA allows you to play Command & Conquer, Red Alert & Dune 2000 on modern systems, online with your friends or other people.
http://www.openra.net
