In the Allied story, the player controls a soldier-known only as the Commander-who must defend America from the attack. Even though there are two separate storylines, the Allied story is considered canon because of the continuity in future games. Premier Romanov is the peaceful new leader. After Stalin is defeated in the original game, Red Alert, a new Russian ruler is put in power by the Allies. Unfortunately, in his good intentions, a new power arises: the Soviets.
SoundtrackĬommand & Conquer: Red Alert 2's soundtrack is composed by Frank Klepacki. After the Septemattacks, the box art was promptly reprinted to something more suitable. Originally, the box art for Red Alert 2 depicted the World Trade Center burning. Einstein constantly buzzes in shouting at the player where the enemies are located as Lieutenant Eva calmly asks Einstein to not touch those buttons). Even during missions the Lieutenant Eva or Zofia will buzz in with something humorous to say from time to time (seen especially in a mission where the player is protecting Einstein's laboratory. The cutscenes are humorous in their cheesiness-which Westwood says was done on purpose in an interview on Command & Conquer: The First Decade. The style of the game is a comical take on war. The storyline is an alternate history in which Albert Einstein goes back in time and erases Adolf Hitler from existence, causing a new uprising in power the Soviets. Red Alert 2 is also included in Command & Conquer: The First Decade. The game had an expansion pack, Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge, along with a sequel, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. The game features fully-acted cutscenes that are purposely in a B-movie cheesy style. It was published by EA Games and developed by Westwood Studios on October 20, 2000. These'll keep you busy for a little while, but maybe not all the way up to those official Command & Conquer remake releases.Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the follow-up to Command & Conquer: Red Alert. While it will never look as good as rendering natively at a high resolution, there can still be marked improvement in visual fidelity." "These days, we can use AI to upscale these cinematics by filling in missing detail. But in each case, the resolutions they were rendered at limit their quality," ClassiCinematics opines.
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Blizzard used high quality models and textures, Westwood used full motion video, Bioware. "Old game cinematics were ambitious, with pre-rendered videos being able to provide a much higher visual quality than real-time rendering. The beauty of these ones specifically is that they're still quite incredible, and of course include iconic character actors like Tim Curry, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Wise and JK Simmons, so it seems like an excellent choice. YouTube channel ClassiCinematics is upscaling a whole bunch of old game cutscenes every month and now it's Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2's turn. Wait, you weren't thinking about this? It wasn't keeping you up at night? This wasn't even what you ordered.? Oh, well, it's happened now, sorry. You've pre-ordered that expensive game remaster you always dreamed of, you have the 4K UHD box set of your favourite film franchise, but what of the cutscenes from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2? What of them? Must they be lost to the sands of time while all this other media ascends to its futuristic new form?