Command and Conquer 3 Red Alert

Developer: EA
Format: PC, Xbox 360
Genre: RTS

Red Alert returns - and not before time

It has been seven long and frankly rather dull years without a Red Alert game - but now the franchise that pretty much created the Real Time Strategy genre is all set to make a return in Command and Conquer 3: Red Alert. Once again, expect the script to be flipped as the title boasts the first fully co-operative campaign mode while also bringing back the series' light-hearted style and classic, action-oriented gameplay.

In Red Alert 3, the leadership of a crumbling Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of previous years. The time travel mission goes wrong (as they so often do), and ends up creating an alternate timeline where technology has followed an entirely different path. A new superpower has been thrust on to the world stage in the form of The Empire of the Rising Sun and World War III is kicking off in fine style. This is where you come in.

Players can take charge of a three-way struggle between the Allies, Soviets and the Empire with armies fielding start of the art weapons and technologies like Tesla coils, heavily armed War Blimps, teleportation, armored bears, intelligent dolphins, floating island fortresses, and transforming tanks.

Little is known about the much hyped co-operative play but Command and Conquer fans eager to experience Red Alert 3 before anyone else can get early access to the beta (available for the PC only - an announcement about the Red Alert 3 beta dates will be made this summer) by picking up a copy of Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath later this year. The rest of us will have to wait until September when the game is rumoured to receive a full retail release.

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