Placing a new building in your base is as simple as tapping it from the “build” menu, at which point a grid appears on top of the terrain and your building can be placed with familiar green and red highlighting indicating valid placement. Just like the PC version, units can be queued up to train multiples at once. Lining the right side of the screen are all the buttons and menus for building your base as well as training units. The battlefield can be zoomed using standard pinching gestures, and to change your field of view you can either swipe your finger around the screen or touch the mini map in the top right corner. The screen is framed with all kinds of interface elements, and while seeming slightly cluttered, everything works well enough and I never felt like the controls were getting in the way of what I wanted to do in the game. The user interface has remained constant since the preview we did early last month:

I consider myself real time strategy fan, but there are not only few of these games on the App Store, but even fewer that have controls that make for fun gameplay. The controls in Command & Conquer Red Alert work shockingly well.

Unfortunately, the iPhone game doesn’t do much to convey this fascinating game setting, but other games in the series that do a better job of this are worth checking out if you’re an alternate history fiction fan. Westwood was eventually acquired by EA, and through numerous sequels and spin-offs there have been over 30 million copies sold across the franchise.Ĭommand & Conquer Red Alert like the other games in the Red Alert family takes place in an alternate universe where World War II never occurred thanks to some time traveling trickery by Albert Einstein which resulted in the Soviet Union rising to power due to the Allies never developing nuclear weaponry. If you were a PC gamer in the mid 90’s, the very mention of Command & Conquer likely brings back memories of massive battles, elaborate bases, the cumbersome Westwood Online multiplayer, and best of all- The game coming with two discs to give one to a friend to play against without having to buy a second copy of the game.

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