You are looking at computer game Command and Conquer: Red Alert. 'One can only wonder where Westwood can take us from here.' - from Gamespot, giving Red Alert an incredible Editor's Choice score of 9.5/10!! What if... Hitler never existed? Einstein pondered the question, then created a time-machine and eliminated Hitler as a youth, and thus prevented World War II as we know it. Unfortunately, Einstein stopped one evil only to create another... because Stalin's Soviet Union is now poised to conquer Europe... And Allies must stop them... C&C: Red Alert is the prequel to the Command and Conquer, the game that re-invented real-time strategy using an isometric semi-top-down perspective using 2D sprite graphics engine. You control of either the Allies or the Soviets as you battle for the destiny of the planet. The interface is familiar: build base, build defenses, build structures, build units, harvest resources... Red Alert adds some 'in-door' missions that use only infantry units. The missions are more like puzzles where you need to defeat all the enemies in order to advance. Westwood's Command & Conquer series -- born into a great tradition of like RTS experiences first established by the seminal Dune 2 -- has always offered a robust sort of real-time strategy. But while the original C&C often found itself contending with Blizzard's Warcraft brand for supremacy, Red Alert really had no equal. Westwood's alternate history RTS presented unparalleled strategy that perfectly married currently-applicable RTS interface conventions with diverse units to create some utterly compelling gameplay. Still not convinced? Check out the trailer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXu_3qtsl4 Number of players: 1 - 4. Multiplayer over LAN. Developer: Westwood Studios Genre: Strategy Released: 1996 Might require an emulator such as DOSbox to run on newer computers. ~***~ Rare game, comes in super large box, all in near mint condition. Perfect collector's item. (S684)
