As fundamentally good as C&C but now with good campaigns! Base building missions often have clear objectives instead of "wipe them all out" and the puzzle missions have more focus on experimentation over save scumming. Red Alert delivers all that was promised in the original C&C

The FMVs are obviously a pleasure and this game contains all the individual pieces of a good RTS, but the campaigns are a nightmare. Missions come in three flavours: infuriating, tedious, and 30 seconds long. An important game, sure, but more a rough draft for Red Alert.

A little too edgy, a little too comfortable, a little too simple, a little too involved, a little too bleak, and a little too much of a power fantasy--truly I have never played a more mixed bag than this. The only thing clear-cut about it is that the beastman stuff is mad racist