Command & Conquer Red Alert (RA) is a real time strategy game released in 1996 for DOS, Windows and Playstation. RA is about a experiment to alter time gone a little wrong.

If C&C was one of the games that made RTS popular, it was Red Alert which made RTS popular online. While C&C and WarCraft 2 had multiplayer they didn't have the ability to let people play online. With Red Alert came Westwood Chat a program that allowed you to play against other players online. Westwood Chat would eventually be bundled with the Windows version of C&C1 and WarCraft 2 would eventually get online play with the release of WarCraft 2 Battlenet Edition.

Trinity, New Mexico 1946; World War 2 ended a year ago, the biggest war in history started by only one man; Adolf Hitler. World War 2 contributed to the death of entire families, it also splitt and shocked many. The war left entire cities in ruins and economies at the brink of collapse and millions dead.

Fueled by the thought of stopping World War 2 before it even began, Albert Einstein and his fellow scientists created a time machine. They plotted a plan to erase Hitler from history before he could do any harm. Einstein and his assistant powered up the time machine and in a flash of light the professor was sent to Landberg, Germany in 1924 where he meet Hitler and with a shake of hands Hitler was erased and Einstein was sent back to the present where his assistant was waiting; "Did you find him?", "Hitler is out of the way...", "Congratulations professor! With Hitler removed...", "Time will tell, sooner or later.....time will tell...."

Despite the professors good intentions, World War 2 was not prevented, however it was not Nazi-Germany which would start World War 2 this time. The Soviet Union lacking the war with Germany they had in real life, and the thought of a Soviet Union covering all of Europe going though Joseph Stalins mind. The Soviet Union launches an all out attack on Europe sending waves of heavy tanks, infantry and jet fighters the Soviet Premier thought Europe was in his hands. As the European nations faced this invasion they all formed an alliance to stop the Soviet agression and thous The 2nd Great War began.

The Allies are an alliance comprised of European nations such as England, Germany, France and Greece. The Allies' objective is to defend Europe from Soviet aggresson and eventually the total defeat and capitulation of the Soviet Union

The Allies use lightly armored vechiles, specailized infantry,helicopters and supperior inteligence to defeat their enemies, mostly relying on ambushes and hit and run tactics the Allies poke large holes in Soviet lines and cut their supply lines.

At sea the allies are using gun boats and destroyers to take care of Soviet submarines while massive Cruisers pounds Soviet forces affar.

The Soviet Union is a country in eastern Europe and Western Asia it is the worlds largest country and bent on conquring Europe!

The Soviets are using massed amounts of tanks, infantry and aircraft to defeat their enemies.

In a contrast to the Soviet land tactics the Soviets use submarines to harass Allied ships.

The CounterStrike is the first expansion pack for Red Alert it contains

• Over 100 new multiplayer maps
• 7 new sound tracks
• 16 new singleplayer missions
• The ant missions

The Aftermath is the secund expansion pack it contains

• Over 100 new multiplayer maps
• 18 new singleplayer missions
• 6 new units (and 1 hidden)
• 8 new sound tracks

Retaliation is the release of CounterStrike and Aftermath for the playstation it contains most of the AM and CS features and new added cut scenes for the missions.