Let's Play Command & Conquer: Red Alert #40 | Soviets Mission 13b: Capture The Control Centres II
6This is the last time we are going to try this! And what's with all the snow? The developers were really keen to use their new snow textures, weren't they?
Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy game produced by Westwood Studios and released by Virgin Interactive in 1996. The second game to bear the Command & Conquer title, Red Alert is the prequel to the 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 was initially available for Windows, and was subsequently ported to PlayStation and later to various other platforms. The game retains the core game play of the original Command & Conquer, and was originally intended to be an expansion pack.
Red Alert was praised for its user interface, which claimed to be more developed than the competing games of its time. Players can queue commands, create unit groups that could be selected by a number key, and control numerous units at a time. The game was known to be easy to control, simple to learn and responsive to users' commands.
The game features two factions that have differing styles of play. Red Alert is also hailed as one of the first games to feature competitive online play. The single player campaign received high praise for its detailed story line and missions, which often required the player to defeat the enemy with various sets of circumstances before continuing. Like the original Command & Conquer, the single player campaign is complemented by live action cinematic sequences.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert takes place in a parallel universe, deviating from our timeline due to a divergence that occurred in 1946. Starting out at the Trinity Site in New Mexico in 1946, Albert Einstein prepares to travel backward in spacetime.
He activates his experimental time machine to find himself in Landsberg, Germany, on 20 December 1924, where he meets a young Adolf Hitler just after the latter's release from Landsberg Prison. Following a brief conversation between the two, Einstein shakes Hitler's hand, which erases him from the timeline.
Hitler's death prevents him from rising to power as leader of Nazi Germany. This creates a new timeline, in which eliminating Hitler's actions has caused a change for the worse. Without Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union grew powerful under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Stronger than in our timeline, the USSR seizes land from China and then invades Eastern Europe, to achieve Joseph Stalin's vision of a Soviet Union stretching across the entire Eurasian landmass.
In response, America and the nations of Europe form the Allied Nations, and start a guerilla war against the invading Soviet army. Over the course of the game's story, the Allies and Soviets fight for control over the European mainland in an alternate World War II.
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