Command & Conquer: Red Alert
3 is a 2008 real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles
and published by Electronic Arts. It was released on October 28, 2008 in the
United States for Microsoft Windows PCs and October 30, 2008 in Europe. An Xbox
360 version was released on November 11. On January 21, 2009 EA officially
announced Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Ultimate Edition,
the PlayStation 3 version which contains bonus material extra to that of the
Xbox 360 and PC versions and released on March 23, 2009 along with the Mac OS
version by TransGaming. The game is a continuation of the Red Alert games
within the Command & Conquer series. Command & Conquer: Red
Alert 3 – Uprising, a stand-alone expansion pack, was released for Windows
in March 2009. It was offered via digital distribution.
Like the previous entries in the Red
Alert series, the game is set in an alternate reality from World War II, in
which the Western Allies fought the Soviet Union. In Red Alert 3 the
Soviet leadership, facing defeat, goes back in time to kill Albert Einstein and
prevent his assistance to the allies, paving the way for Soviet domination in
the present. However as an unintended consequence, a third world power, the
Empire of the Rising Sun, is created and all three sides go to war. All three
factions are playable, with the gameplay involving constructing a base,
gathering resources and training armies to defeat other players. Each faction
has a fully co-operative campaign, playable with an artificial intelligence
partner or with another human player online. The game intersperses strategy
missions with full motion video footage featuring an ensemble cast led by
Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry and George Takei as the leaders of the three
adversaries.
The game received mostly positive reviews, with
reviewers citing the co-operative and multiplayer components as strengths, along
with the enhanced role of naval combat compared to other real-time strategy
games. Commonly cited weaknesses included aspects such as unit pathfinding.
Minimum System RequirementsOS: Windows XP/Vista
(32-Bit)
Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2 GHz / AMD Athlon 2000+ (2.2 GHz/AMD Athlon 2200+ on Vista)
Memory: 1 Gb
Hard Drive: 6 Gb free
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6800 / ATI Radeon X1800 or later
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2 GHz / AMD Athlon 2000+ (2.2 GHz/AMD Athlon 2200+ on Vista)
Memory: 1 Gb
Hard Drive: 6 Gb free
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6800 / ATI Radeon X1800 or later
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
