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Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 from EA brings back the fan-favorite real-time strategy game in its latest incarnation with new features, powers, technologies, and a different world. Now, you can play not just by yourself but also cooperatively with a friend as you take on the enemy in this glorious, over-the-top romp.

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Co-operative mode lets you and a friend play together in campaign mode. View larger.

Wage battle on sea as well as on land and in air. View larger.

There is over an hour of in-game video..

Red Alert 3 introduces new units and a brand new faction.. Intriguing Plot Twists
In previous games, the war between the Allies and Soviets was coming to a close with the Allies nearing victory. In desperation, the Soviets created a time-travel device that they've used to assassinate Albert Einstein before he is able to develop the weapon technology the Allies later use to defeat the Soviets. Upon returning, they notice a new world, and there is a world war taking place between three groups for control of the world.

Play As Three Different Factions for Varied game play
In Red Alert 3, you have the choice to play as the Allies, the Soviets, or the Empire of the Rising Sun. Each faction has its own story-line and distinct units with advantages and disadvantages that you have to master in order to win. The new faction to the series is the Empire of the Rising Sun, derived from Imperial Japan, with an all-new cast of units and characters.

The three factions have many differences, exemplified by their wildly different types of units. The Soviets, for example, have armored attack bears, Allies have the Dolphin ship which can high jump and use a sonic attack, and the Empire of the Rising Sun features such quirky units as a giant transforming mecha and ninjas. As they've done with the series, EA injects humor into the game when possible, keeping a smile on your face as you wage war.

Fight on Land, in the Air, and on Sea
Red Alert 3 has land units, air units, and naval units, all integral parts of the game. Unlike most strategy games that don't bother with naval warfare, Red Alert 3 makes controlling the seas an essential part of the game. Controlling resources in the seas and mounting attacks from all directions are strategies that must be employed to achieve victory.

Cooperative Mode Lets You Team Up with Your Friends
Red Alert 3 has a fully co-operative campaign mode where you and a friend can play together to achieve victory. This means that you have to develop a strategy together, as well as execute it in synch in order to win. If your friends aren't online, you can also choose one of several AI commanders as your teammate.

Play Against Your Friends in Multiplayer
With the different units and play mechanics of each faction, you and your friends will have a great time playing against each other, perfecting different strategies to best suit the units you have and the maps you play on. And thanks to the balanced game play, no one will have an unfair advantage.

For previous fans of Command and Conquer, Red Alert 3 will provide the same light-hearted game play, but with more units, more strategies, and more fun. Newcomers to the game will soon see what all the fuss and laughter is about.


 Minimum System Requirements Operating System Microsoft Windows XP / Vista (32-bit) CPU XP: 2.0 GHz (Intel Pentium 4; AMD Athlon 2000+; Multiple Cores) / Vista: 2.2 GHz (Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon 2200+/Multiple Cores) Memory 512 MB for Windows XP; 1 GB for Vista Hard Drive Space 6 GB / 12GB for EA Link Graphics Hardware NVIDIA GeForce 6800, ATI Radeon X1800 or higher end DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card Sound DirectX 9.0c compatible (Creative Sound Blaster Audigy cards require a Intel P4 2.6 GHz or similar under Vista, Yamaha Xwave-512 not supported) Online Multiplayer 512Kbps or faster Internet connection Input Keyboard, mouse

Please note: Online multiplayer support for this game is provided by GameSpy and they are deactivating these services. This change will not affect the single-player campaign or any additional Origin features. For more details, please read EA’s online service updates page (http://www.ea.com/1/service-updates).

EA DISCLAIMER:

INTERNET CONNECTION, ONLINE AUTHENTICATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY. TO ACCESS ONLINE FEATURES, YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE WITH THE ENCLOSED SERIAL CODE. ONLY ONE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE PER GAME. EULA, EA ONLINE TERMS & CONDITIONS AND FEATURE UPDATES CAN BE FOUND AT www.ea.com. YOU MUST BE 13+ TO REGISTER WITH EA ONLINE. THIS GAME USES SECUROM CONTENT PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY FROM SONY DADC. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SECUROM, INCLUDING HOW TO UNINSTALL SECUROM, VISIT WWW.SECUROM.COM. EA MAY RETIRE ONLINE FEATURES AFTER 30 DAYS NOTICE POSTED ON www.ea.com.

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4.1 out of 5 stars
4.1 out of 5
441 global ratings

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Customers appreciate the creativity of the video game software. However, some find the difficulty level frustrating, annoying, and aggravating to play. Opinions are mixed on quality, performance, graphics, and ease of installation.

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10 customers mention10 positive0 negative

Customers find the game very creative, artistic, and clever. They also appreciate the nice graphics and gameplay. Some mention that the cut-scenes are pretty cool. Overall, customers say the concept is great and the game controls and features are great.

"Pros -unique, interesting units -funny, cliche live action scenes and plot that doesn't take itself seriously -fast-paced..." Read more

"I love this game. It has such amazing graphics and gameplay. I own all of the Command&Conquer games from the oldest to the newest...." Read more

"...Classic. New faction adding the facts of todays world. Clever. The Japanese really are industrious and techno geniuses...." Read more

"...Anyway. this is a 4.5 game, its alot of fun. Very creative and the beloved standard C&C action...." Read more

6 customers mention6 positive0 negative

Customers find the strategy in the video game nice, with a decent campaign and great CO OP mode. They also say the multiplayer is outstanding, fun, and easy to lose yourself in for a few hours. Customers also mention that the different factions are great to play in a skirmish.

"...While the single player offers a decent campaign and a great CO OP mode, the multiplayer is simply put, terrible...." Read more

"...lol.** P.S. Buy C&C 3 Tiberium Wars. Best strategy game I've bought in a long time. No DRM either." Read more

"...The campaigns are awesome and challenging and the online play is seamless and a lot of fun...." Read more

"outsanding game play and, fun. easy to lose yourself in for a few hours. just as good as the classisc." Read more

4 customers mention4 positive0 negative

Customers find the acting quality of the video game software decent, awesome, and solid. They also mention that the cast they've gotten is great.

"...The game brings about a lot of humor, decent actors in cut scenes, and a comical yet saddening story of time travel gone wrong...." Read more

"...All of this is shown in very good CGI and solid acting from quite some hollywood A and B actors...." Read more

"...Over the top, yes. Stupid, no way! And the cast they've gotten is great...." Read more

"...Awesome actors video and tons of new features just tanya sucks the russian girl is much better and I miss yuri" Read more

79 customers mention50 positive29 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the video game. Some mention it's nice, fun, and provides hours of entertainment, while others say it'd be better with a better graphics card.

"...All in all, a very good game created with a carefully written story line. Would recommend to buy! Hope this helps." Read more

"...and Conquer, and the whole Communist propaganda thing is actually pretty amusing. If there's one complaint I do have, it's the lack of unit variety...." Read more

"...Cons -Resource gathering (Ore Mines) is slow and irritating -some serious unit pathfinding issues can be very frustrating..." Read more

"...It's a bit more cartoon like but the game play was great...." Read more

30 customers mention10 positive20 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the performance of the video game software. Some mention that it works well, while others say that it wouldn't work.

"...Errors(like connection errors are common), and stop games from starting, unless the players with the delay are kicked out...." Read more

"...The game will then run perfectly fine." Read more

"...But then it wouldn't run. First the video card wasn't good enough, then you needed internet registration...one thing after another...." Read more

"...but even after I tried downloading it twice I could not get the game to play. It was very frustrating...." Read more

16 customers mention10 positive6 negative

Customers are mixed about the graphics. Some find them amazing, cartoonish, and spectacular. They also say the explosions look really spectacular. However, some customers feel the graphics are really bad, silly, and a dumbed down garish parody of the real thing.

"...REAL cut scene sequences played by REAL HOLYWOOD actors. Beautiful and sexy female officers provide intels and real-time strategy advices...." Read more

"...Naval bullcrap...." Read more

"...The graphics are a bit more cartoonish than previous installments of Command and Conquer, and the whole Communist propaganda thing is actually..." Read more

"...Not to mention the graphics have gotten an overhaul, the music is intense when playing, and there is so much to do within the game...." Read more

14 customers mention6 positive8 negative

Customers are mixed about the ease of installation. Some mention that it installs easy and work fine on their 3 year old laptop, while others say that it's a bit complicate to install, because of the Internet registration. They say the online infrastructure is too simple and that the product key was in little print.

"...Online infrastructure is too simple. It is built with tradition principle invite and join room...." Read more

"...did amaze me with all of the improvements made, but they did not make it too complex, which was my biggest worry." Read more

"...are not doable by matchmaking(unlike Starcraft II).They must be manually set up...." Read more

"...They always have such interesting endings. I also had no problem with installing it/Running it on Windows 7...." Read more

22 customers mention6 positive16 negative

Customers find the difficulty level of the video game software to be difficult. They mention that the gameplay takes some getting used to, the graphics are crummy, and the game is very frustrating. They also say that the game controls and features make it unplayable.

"...Overall, Red alert has some minor issues in terms of gameplay, and we can only hope the following game takes an entirely different online route, at..." Read more

"...I paid top dollar & feel ripped off. No replay desired or required. Finished it and put it away and deleted most! of it from my HD; aka DRM...." Read more

"...All in all, a very good game created with a carefully written story line. Would recommend to buy! Hope this helps." Read more

"...It interrupts the flow of battle, takes you away from your strategy, and always serves to disrupt whatever you are doing...." Read more

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HHD
5.0 out of 5 stars RECOMMENDED TO BUY!
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2011
Platform For Display: PCEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
PROS:
1) Great story line. Real world war history applied. This time the Soviet traveled back in time -> killed Albert Einstein -> no Einstein = no nuclear weapon -> Japan never got nuked (back in World War II) -> Japan got stronger! -> Now the world has 3 dominant superpowers: Allied, Soviet, and Japan.
2)REAL cut scene sequences played by REAL HOLYWOOD actors. Beautiful and sexy female officers provide intels and real-time strategy advices. They kept me HOOKED throughout the entire Campaign mode.
3)Graphic (when set to Ultra High) are remarkable, especially the Water Quality.
4)Co-op mode enable the users to play with friends in the Campaign (like Resident Evil 5). If not, AI Commander will take over.

CONS:
1) Texture and structure graphic are not much of a different from Red Alert 2. Although I have no issue with that.
2) Online infrastructure is too simple. It is built with tradition principle invite and join room. I prefer automatic search and join function like Call of Duty Modern Warfare series. That way, it is less hassle to look for and invite so many AFK co-op players in the room.

All in all, a very good game created with a carefully written story line. Would recommend to buy! Hope this helps.
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aznmavboi
4.0 out of 5 stars Good thing I bought this nearly 4 years after the DRM fiasco
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2012
Platform For Display: PCEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
Most of the reviews written for this game are pretty terrible, but solely because of the lousy DRM scheme EA applied to this game at launch. After installing and patching the game, I found that I can deactivate a computer at any time, which means I'm not limited to the 5 activations EA initially restricted this game to, so long as I remember to deactivate my computer before upgrading it or installing the game to a new computer.

As for the actual game itself, I find it to be quite fun. The different build systems for each faction definitely make it different from most of the Command and Conquer games I've played thus far. The graphics are a bit more cartoonish than previous installments of Command and Conquer, and the whole Communist propaganda thing is actually pretty amusing. If there's one complaint I do have, it's the lack of unit variety. Sure, the amount of units is adequate, but when I'm sending my troops out to attack the enemy, I always feel like there's something I'm missing in my assault. I never got that feeling when playing Command and Conquer 3.

Overall, this is a fun game and fans of the series should pick it up if you haven't already. With the whole DRM thing more or less solved, I think it's worth a buy.
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C. Weaver
5.0 out of 5 stars A Interesting New Set Up For A Good Game.....
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2012
Platform For Display: PCEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
I sort of like the new look of the Red Alert 3. It's a bit more cartoon like but the game play was great. I haven't run into any problems with the DRM problems yet but that's because I haven't had to redo an installation yet. (I usually don't redo systems unless I up grade or install a new OS which is coming up soon.) The game played great on my system. (P4 2.8 gig, Nividia Geforce 6200 512 Mg video, 4 gig RAM) and I see no problem with running it on a system slightly below mine. So that should be no problem at all on an higher end system. As far as the story line goes, I really didn't expect the storyline to stay the same anyway. The only negative I can see is if one makes frequent changes to the system, then they could run into problems on the limited number of installations allowed. (BTW: I feel this really doesn't make sense to me to hit the person buying the game for what some other people are doing. Instead it seems required the original disk be in the drive sounds like a better way to protect the rights holder.) Overall, I like this game. Much better than "downloading" the games as in "Ultimate Command & Conquer" where you don't get a physical disk with the games on it.
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Nicky Mas
5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Buy
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2011
Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
I have played the Red Alert Franchise since the first game was released. I thought that this game was not going to be as good as previous games because Westwood Studios did not produce RA3, but instead EA Games Los Angeles did. However, this is simply not the case. The game brings about a lot of humor, decent actors in cut scenes, and a comical yet saddening story of time travel gone wrong. Not to mention the graphics have gotten an overhaul, the music is intense when playing, and there is so much to do within the game. You can even build your whole base on water! Even each unit says something different when clicking different things and when I picked up on this, I thought it was very cool. I rate it 5 out of 5 stars because the price was definitely worth it and every time I play I get a chill of nostalgia because I played most of the games in this franchise when I was younger and this particular one did amaze me with all of the improvements made, but they did not make it too complex, which was my biggest worry.
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E. Ghoneim
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in Canada on March 12, 2014
Platform For Display: PCEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
I love this game, I had before the 2nd version and I loved playing with it I spent hours playing. I did not try this one yet for a complete battle but it looks awesome and I believe I will love it.
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Swati Gharegrat
5.0 out of 5 stars Red Alert 3 pc game
Reviewed in India on August 20, 2015
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The best game ever played
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5.0 out of 5 stars 軍事ものRTSの隠れた名作
Reviewed in Japan on March 24, 2011
Platform For Display: PCEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
　日本語マニュアルがついていないだけで値段が1/4です．steamは難しいので，簡単に安く手に入れようと思えばこちらがオススメです．

　操作方法などは"right click" 目標は"destroy X"など，チュートリアルでひと通り試せますし，基本的な英語なのでそれさえよければマニュアルなどいりません．マニュアル添付版もストーリーの解説まではされておらず，Wikiや動画サイトを活用すればこちらで十分楽しめると思われます．ストーリーはないですがMODでUprisingユニットも操作可能です．
　ゲームモードはキャンペーン3国27ミッション，最大6勢力までのフリー対戦であるスカーミッシュが楽しめます．
　ゲームバランス，グラフィックス，ロード時間，COM難易度調整，冷戦をモチーフにした世界観，すべてにおいて高いレベルでまとまっています．強いて欠点をあげるならば，メタルなサウンドを聞ける専用のモードがないこと，オンラインでの対戦が難しいことぐらいでしょう．RTS自体がマイナージャンルですが，その中でも隠れた名作ではないでしょうか．

　日本語マニュアル版と同じディスクなので，動作そのものに問題はありません．Windows7 64bitで動作しました．
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Dwayne
4.0 out of 5 stars 👍👍😃😃
Reviewed in Canada on June 9, 2020
Platform For Display: PCEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
😃😃😃👍👍
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Amebie
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in Canada on January 19, 2017
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Its thai version..sad
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