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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

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First release
Oct 28, 2008
Engine
SAGE
Genres
Simulator, Strategy, Real Time Strategy (RTS) · Action, Fantasy, Science fiction, Historical, Comedy
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Mac, Xbox One, Xbox 360

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.

Also known as RA3, Command & Conquer: Alarmstufe Rot 3

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Storyline
On the brink of defeat at the hands of the Allied Nations, the leaders of the Soviet Union make a desperate gamble. Using a time machine hidden beneath the Kremlin, Colonel Anatoly Cherdenko and General Nikolai Krukov travel back to 1927 to assassinate Albert Einstein, hoping to erase the technologies that doomed them and rewrite history in their favor. When they return to the present, the world has indeed changed: the Soviets stand poised to conquer Europe, but without Einstein, nuclear weapons were never invented. Into this altered timeline storms a new power, the Empire of the Rising Sun, which declares war on both the Soviets and the Allies in pursuit of total domination. The meddling with time has ignited a fresh Third World War, now a three-way struggle between the Soviet Union, the Allies, and the Empire.Read more

On the brink of defeat at the hands of the Allied Nations, the leaders of the Soviet Union make a desperate gamble. Using a time machine hidden beneath the Kremlin, Colonel Anatoly Cherdenko and General Nikolai Krukov travel back to 1927 to assassinate Albert Einstein, hoping to erase the technologies that doomed them and rewrite history in their favor. When they return to the present, the world has indeed changed: the Soviets stand poised to conquer Europe, but without Einstein, nuclear weapons were never invented. Into this altered timeline storms a new power, the Empire of the Rising Sun, which declares war on both the Soviets and the Allies in pursuit of total domination. The meddling with time has ignited a fresh Third World War, now a three-way struggle between the Soviet Union, the Allies, and the Empire.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Oct 28, 2008
Xbox 360
Nov 10, 2008
Mac
Mar 2009
All 5 release dates
PlayStation 3
Mar 23, 2009
PlayStation 3
Mar 27, 2009
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main + Extras
23h
Game modes
Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Keywords
modern warfare, mech, time travel, invasion, construction
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Critic Score
75
Main + Extras (IGDB)
23h
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