C&C: Red Alert Becomes Free Download This Sunday

Sarge

This Sunday, August 31, marks the 13th anniversary of the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert, the classic PC real-time strategy game from Westwood Studios.

To mark the occasion, long-time publisher Electronic Arts is giving away the game for free. EA did not indicate for how long the download will be available, but it will be available all day on the 31st.

The free download, badly-acted FMV sequences and all, will be posted at the Red Alert 3 website, in a promotion for EA LA's upcoming sequel. Red Alert 3 will hit PC and Xbox 360 in October, and those who pre-order the game will also get a free download of Red Alert 2.

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Getting this. Hopefully it'll work on my machine.

NickSCFC

Worth downloading just for the music

Woop EA in a "nice" move OMG!

They did the same for the original C&C, didn't they? Have to find some links and download them. I've only got the PS1 versions.

Bloody hell, 13 years old is it?!

Will DL onto the lappy for old times sake - god knows where my boxed copy ended up.

wont work on vista will it

Might have to load this up on virtual PC instead

Neph wrote:wont work on vista will it Might have to load this up on virtual PC instead

Is that a defiinite? I was just getting excited as well

Definitely getting this one, got some fond memories of this game.

Sarge

Red Alert 1 download is live...

http://www.ea.com/redalert/news-detail.jsp?id=62

Also, pre-order RA3 and get RA2 free? Very generous.

Am I right in thinking RA2 had Ray Wise from Reaper?

Yeah, he was the president. Meant that I couldn't take him seriously in Reaper.

Surely it wouldn't cost EA much to make the download of RA1 vista compatible? instead they just mention that help for vista users can be found on fan sites, they don't even link u or tell u what the help is.

I bought command and conquer the first decade and RA works on vista.

Memento Mori wrote:I bought command and conquer the first decade and RA works on vista.

Strange one, have u had any problems with any of the games in the first decade pack?

I couldn't get generals to work after i downloaded the official patches for it.

I just watched the promo video for RA3 on that site :shock:

There's a lot of famous actors in there, EA must pay big bucks, also I love the way that every single female scientist/mercenary/secretary/soldier in the RA universe is smoking hot

Herb wrote:I just watched the promo video for RA3 on that site
There's a lot of famous actors in there, EA must pay big bucks, also I love the way that every single female scientist/mercenary/secretary/soldier in the RA universe is smoking hot

Snap, i too just watched the video. How do EA manage to make such good videos that get u hooked?

n.b. obviously the women.

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:
Memento Mori wrote:I bought command and conquer the first decade and RA works on vista.

Strange one, have u had any problems with any of the games in the first decade pack?

I couldn't get generals to work after i downloaded the official patches for it.

Nope it all works fine. The exception is C&C3 but that's because my laptop is really bad.

It wont even install on Vista.

Nice one EA...

*applause*

C&C: Red Alert Becomes Free Download This Sunday

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