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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008)

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 cover
Developer
EA Los Angeles
Publisher
Electronic Arts, ak tronic Software & Services
Platforms
PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Genres
Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Rating
3.7 of 5, 224 player ratings
Main story
about 23 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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A campy, over-the-top strategy romp through alternate-history warfare played for laughs.

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About

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is set in an alternate reality from World War II, in which the Western Allies fought the Soviet Union. In Red Alert 3 the Soviet leadership, facing defeat, goes back in time to kill Albert Einstein and prevent his assistance to the allies, paving the way for Soviet domination in the present. However, as an unintended consequence, a third world power, the Empire of the Rising Sun, is created and all three sides go to war.

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