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| − | Two add on packs were developed called CounterStrike and Aftermath which were later compiled into a single Play Station 1 game called Retaliation. | + | Two add on packs were developed called CounterStrike and Aftermath which were later compiled into a single Play Station 1 game called Retaliation. |
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Red Alert can still be purchased from several online retailers, including Amazon. | Red Alert can still be purchased from several online retailers, including Amazon. | ||
Revision as of 14:50, 18 May 2005
Developed and released by Westwood Studios as a prequel to Tiberian Dawn. Due to it's success, it spawned a sequel on it's own (RA2), which was officially declared "non-canon" by Westwood/EA, i.e. it is not part of the C&C timeline. However, it is still possible this statement will be retracted with the release of Red Alert 3, to link both universes back together (this would, however, lead to some serious continuity problems).
Red Alert was significant as an RTS, especially due to it's highly enjoyable multiplayer mode, and it's tense storyline. The score was another quality work by Frank Klepacki, spawning many classics like Hell March, for example (which itself got a sequel, Hell March 2, on the Red Alert 2 soundtrack).
RA's storyline was a lot more "realistic" than RA2's, and considerably darker and more violent. Germany's Bureau of Censorship (BPjM) found the display of Hitler too hard for kids, and cut out the part of the intro showing Hitler. It cuts from Einstein in the chair disappearing directly to Einstein in the chair reappearing. Other cuts and changes included the recurring "It's not humans, it's cyborgs!" theme, meaning that Tanya was declared the only real human on the battlefield and everybody else was just tin cans (an example of this is the replacement of the death cries by weird metal-crush sounds).
Two add on packs were developed called CounterStrike and Aftermath which were later compiled into a single Play Station 1 game called Retaliation.
The Play Station 1 version included FMV (full motion video) briefings which were not present in the PC variants and the allied briefing officer would become General Carville in RA2.
Red Alert can still be purchased from several online retailers, including Amazon.
