Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (2000)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is a 2000 real time strategy (rts) video game made by Westwood Pacific and Electronic Arts.
The Soviets are back, and this time the tanks roll through American streets. Red Alert 2 leans all the way into comic-book Cold War: you command the Allies or the Soviets while the mind-bending Yuri readies his own grab at the world. The arsenal is gloriously silly, Prism tanks, Tesla Troopers, Terror Drones, mind-controlling giant squid, and dolphins armed with sonic blasts. Grand set-piece battles sprawl across landmarks from the Atlantic coast to Red Square, and campy full-motion briefings sell every ounce of it with a straight face.
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What is Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 about?
The Soviets are back, and this time the tanks roll through American streets. Red Alert 2 leans all the way into comic-book Cold War: you command the Allies or the Soviets while the mind-bending Yuri readies his own grab at the world. The arsenal is gloriously silly, Prism tanks, Tesla Troopers, Terror Drones, mind-controlling giant squid, and dolphins armed with sonic blasts. Grand set-piece battles sprawl across landmarks from the Atlantic coast to Red Square, and campy full-motion briefings sell every ounce of it with a straight face.
When was Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 released?
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 was released on 25 October 2000.
Who made Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2?
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 was made by Westwood Pacific and Electronic Arts.
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For more knowing Cold-War pulp with a wink, the spy caper The Man from U.N.C.L.E. shares the same glossy period-romp attitude. If it is the tug of war between two mismatched armies you want, StarCraft delivers it with tighter tactics.
Real-time strategy warfare
Red Alert 2 throws Tesla Troopers, Prism Tanks, and mind-controlled squid into a fast, funny real-time war. For more of that build-and-blitz rush, these are the strategy greats. Out-expand rivals in StarCraft and its sequel, micro heroes in Warcraft III, or economy-race through the Age of Empires games. The base-versus-base thrill never gets old.
Cold War paranoia and Soviet-era spy thrills
Red Alert 2's alternate Cold War, all Soviet invasions and secret superweapons, echoes through these spy and war pictures. Trade blows East against West in Bullet to Beijing and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., or drop behind enemy lines with Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz, First Squad, and Universal Soldier: The Return. Iron-Curtain tension, cranked up.
Alt-history war anime and mecha
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Turn-based conquest at your own pace
If you would rather scheme than scramble, these turn-based strategy games slow the war to your pace. Build a civilization across the ages in Sid Meier's Civilization V and VI, seize the map castle by castle in Heroes of Might and Magic III, or run careful party tactics in Baldur's Gate III. Command without the clock.