I used to play Red Alert 1 on my PS1 a lot with my dad when I was a little kid. I didn't own a PC back then. I remember being on holiday by the seaside in Montenegro, Tivat, and walking by the gaming house - the only one in town as I remember, and they had a HUGE Red Alert 2 poster. I just had to rush inside and see if someone was playing the game. Lo and behold, people were actually playing the thing. A few minutes afterwards I rushed outside to my dad and was extatic, talking to him what I saw and fantasising about the potential of the game - just as a little kid would.
Saddly I never got to experience the game until many years later when I bought the collection on Origin/EA platform. Was a pain to get it running but eventually got to experience the entire game.

Now it is my 2nd time going trough all of it and the steam version is as good as it can be. It runs "from the box" and didn't crash for me once.

Well, the game is certainly not as my little self imagined it to be. In my eyes the graphcs were much more realistic than they actually were, but everything else is pretty much great. The soundtrack is as expected - amazing. The gameplay is a lot more balanced and enjoyable than Tiberium Sun. The story is as dumb and as cheesy as it can be but with an extended cast and better quality than the first game by a margin.

This is certainly a gem of a game. One that, like its older brother, pushed the genre further into popularity and also by making buildings occupiable for the first time in the C&C franchise. But unlike the 1st Red Alert game - The Golden child. The Red Alert 2 is just the badass younger brother that doesn't give a f***. That is how even more insane the second game is.

I used to play Red Alert 1 on my PS1 a lot with my dad when I was a little kid. I didn't own a PC back then. I remember being on holiday by the seaside in Montenegro, Tivat, and walking by the gaming house - the only one in town as I remember, and they had a HUGE Red Alert 2 poster. I just had to rush inside and see if someone was playing the game. Lo and behold, people were actually playing the thing. A few minutes afterwards I rushed outside to my dad and was extatic, talking to him what I saw and fantasising about the potential of the game - just as a little kid would. Saddly I never got to experience the game until many years later when I bought the collection on Origin/EA platform. Was a pain to get it running but eventually got to experience the entire game. Now it is my 2nd time going trough all of it and the steam version is as good as it can be. It runs "from the box" and didn't crash for me once. Well, the game is certainly not as my little self imagined it to be. In my eyes the graphcs were much more realistic than they actually were, but everything else is pretty much great. The soundtrack is as expected - amazing. The gameplay is a lot more balanced and enjoyable than Tiberium Sun. The story is as dumb and as cheesy as it can be but with an extended cast and better quality than the first game by a margin. This is certainly a gem of a game. One that, like its older brother, pushed the genre further into popularity and also by making buildings occupiable for the first time in the C&C franchise. But unlike the 1st Red Alert game - The Golden child. The Red Alert 2 is just the badass younger brother that doesn't give a f***. That is how even more insane the second game is.