Old favorites return, like spies (voiced with a Roger Moore-like Bond impersonation), Kirov airships, and Tesla troopers. The series phases out standard units like tanks in favor of helicopters that transform into walkers, amphibious naval destroyers, and armored trained attack bears. This level of camp extends to the units as well. And for some reason, every female on screen is wearing a mini-skirt as part of her military uniform. You know a game doesn’t take itself too seriously when one of the actors remarks that the enemy’s armies are “thrusting deeply into motherland’s nether regions” or casts David Hasselhoff as the Vice President. Simmons (of Juno fame), Jonathan Pryce ( Brazil), and David Hasselhoff ( Baywatch). There are also strong supporting roles from J.K. Tim Curry hams it up as the Soviet Premier, Jenny McCarthy plays special agent Tanya, and George Takei is the Emperor of Japan. Now, instead of resembling the History Channel, Red Alert 3 seems to draw more inspiration from the Power Rangers. I can’t think of a game that got me more excited for serious real time strategy than the original Red Alert.īut that was before Red Alert 2, a game that took the series in a more comical direction with cartoonish graphics, over the top cut scenes, and colorful, kid-friendly, less gritty environments. Campaigns took days to complete and the difficulty level was particularly brutal on select missions of the highly successful expansion packs.

The game had everything-great story, intense wartime action, and clever real time strategy. I’ve been a fan of the Command & Conquer series since I played the original Red Alert and got to see my little pixilated Tanya unit take out an entire enemy base.

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