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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 PC
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82 out of 100

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6.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 214 Ratings

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  • Summary: Red Alert 3 breaks new ground in the RTS genre, featuring a fully co-operative campaign while bringing back the series� light-hearted style and classic, action-oriented gameplay. In Red Alert 3, the desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia. The time travel mission goes awry, creating an alternate timeline where technology has followed an entirely different evolution, a new superpower has been thrust on to the world stage, and World War III is raging. The Empire of the Rising Sun has risen in the East, making World War III a three-way struggle between the Soviets, the Allies, and the Empire with armies fielding wacky and wonderful weapons and technologies like Tesla coils, heavily armed War Blimps, teleportation, armored bears, intelligent dolphins, floating island fortresses, and transforming tanks. Red Alert 3 asks the question "What If?" What if every bizarre research project and technology experiment for the last 70 years had actually borne fruit? What if the Philadelphia Experiment, time travel theory, teleportation, invisibility, Tesla technology, and a hundred other intriguing research projects had all paid off and gone mainstream? What if the Soviet Union survived and thrived; what would it look like 10 years in the future? What if the Japanese Empire had never fallen and instead became the ultimate high-tech military superpower? The end result is an imaginative and playful vision of an alternate future filled with possibility. [Electronic Arts]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 55
  3. Negative: 0 out of 55
  1. PC Gamer
    92
    Any game in which a giant laser cannon pops out of Teddy Roosevelt's head on Mt. Rushmore is a winner in my book...Red Alert 3 is a highly polished game that doesn't take itself the least bit seriously, and co-op play might jus be the next big thing in RTS. [Holiday 2008, p.62]
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  2. 1UP
    91
    Red Alert 3 seems to have been designed entirely by Internet geeks, as hilarious Easter eggs abound. I won't ruin them for you, but I will say that at the end of one campaign, you'll witness the greatest, most unexpected cameo in videogame history.
  3. Absolute Games
    72
    Red Alert 3 is a typical EA product: well-crafted, but boring for experienced players. It's clearly better than C&C; 3, but it can't hold a candle to Red Alert 2. Pick it up only if you like great music, B-movie style humor, and cooperative multiplayer.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 83
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 83
  3. Negative: 36 out of 83
  1. citi100rider
    9
    Nice script, nice display and genius game play. I love the idea of co-op in campaign mode. But the game is in-balanced and it's hard to balancing the game among 3 races. If you play for fun, buy it. If you want to compete with your friends, think of it again.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. RichterB.
    6
    Don't let mountains of EA press releases fool you: the Red Alert series hasn't "always been ridiculous". The first Red Alert was a fantastic game that built upon the original C&C;, both in story and atmosphere; yes, the full motion video WAS cheesy, but unintentionally (and thus endearingly) so. RA2 definitely possessed an obvious silly streak, but the gameplay was solid enough to make a highlight of the C&C; family. RA3 is not a terrible game, but the changes (the over-the-top tone, the oversimplification of resource gathering, the boobs, etc) will alienate a lot of us fans who prefer to remember things differently. If this is what C&C; has come down to, then count me out.… Expand
    • 5 of 5 users said yes
  3. LászlóG.
    4
    Nice graphics, and the co-op mode is a good shot, but after i mentioned this two new features, there is nothing new to say. No, really there is nothing to say, this game has nice graphics ( water), bad actors ( especially, the russian characters were poorly played.) and the possibility to call your friend to help you complete a mission.... by the way it takes only 4 hours ( cigarette and coffe breaks included) to finish the russian champaign on hard..... oh my god... couldn't you just resurrect the old C&C; feeling?… Expand
    • 5 of 5 users said yes

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