Command & Conquer: Red Alert series
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Real-time strategy |
| Developers | Electronic Arts, Westwood |
| Publishers | Electronic Arts |
| Platforms | Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Mac OS X, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, PlayStation Portable, DOS, iPhone |
| Year of inception | 1996 |
| First release |
Command & Conquer: Red Alert November 22, 1996 |
| Latest release |
Command & Conquer: Red Alert October 16, 2009 |
Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a series of real-time strategy video games set within the Command & Conquer series.
The Red Alert series takes place in an alternate timeline, created when Albert Einstein travels back to the past and eliminates Adolf Hitler in an attempt to prevent World War II from taking place. This plan indirectly backfires and results in an unchecked Soviet invasion of Europe by Joseph Stalin in the 1946. The Stalin-led invasion of Europe serves as the backdrop for the first Command & Conquer: Red Alert game. Two expansion packs for Red Alert were released: Counterstrike and The Aftermath. New units, missions, multiplayer maps and music tracks were included in these expansions.
The story of the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert game portrays the early in-universe history of the main Command & Conquer storyline, and leads directly to the Tiberium story arc of the Command & Conquer franchise. However, with the addition of the title Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 at the hands of a new team of developers in September 2000, this connection was rendered unclear, with fans of the series becoming split as to whether or not the time travel excursions of the Red Alert series were forming a separate continuity altogether, or just another side adventure on the way to the Tiberian era. At the time of the release of the 10th anniversary compilation pack, known as Command & Conquer: The First Decade, this new and second Command & Conquer development team claimed in interviews on the pack's bonus DVD that the games existed as three separate universes -- Tiberium, Red Alert and Generals. However, with the release of the title of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars in 2007, at the hands of a third new development team from EA Los Angeles, Electronic Arts published a featured document pertaining to ''Tiberium Wars's storyline in which a direct reference to Kane's appearance in the 1950s of Command & Conquer: Red Alert is made. On July 25 of the same year, a Command & Conquer: Renegade-themed modification for the game Crysis was officially announced by Electronic Arts, which is stated to directly link the first Red Alert game to Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn.
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