Editing Command & Conquer (section)

===''Red Alert'' series===
''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert]]'', released on November 22, 1996,<ref name="rareleasedate">{{cite web|url=http://www.westwood.com/infodir/news/prraretail.html |title=Software Retailers on full alert as Westwood Studios' Red Alert Ships (Archive.org) |access-date=November 1, 2016 |publisher=Westwood Studios |date=November 22, 1996 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970605014303/http://www.westwood.com/infodir/news/prraretail.html |archive-date=June 5, 1997 }}</ref> is set in an alternate universe 1950s and was originally made to be the [[prequel]] to ''Command & Conquer''<ref name="RATibconnection">{{cite web|url=ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/redalert/info/RAFAQ19.TXT|title=Westwood Studios Official Command & Conquer: Red Alert FAQ List|access-date=April 23, 2007|publisher=Westwood Studios|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314152541/ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/redalert/info/RAFAQ19.TXT|archive-date=2017-03-14|url-status=dead|date=October 24, 1997}}</ref> establishing ''Red Alert'' as the [[prologue]] of the entire ''Tiberium'' series of games. [[Louis Castle]] has said that connecting ''Red Alert'' with the ''Tiberium'' series was a "failed experiment".{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} ''Red Alert'' introduces the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] and the [[Soviets]] as rival factions roughly analogous to [[NATO]] and the [[Warsaw Pact]] of the [[Cold War]]. The game was received well by critics and has the highest average score of any ''Command & Conquer'' game with an average of over 90% from [[GameRankings]] and [[Metacritic]], unlike the title's two expansion packs, ''Red Alert: Counterstrike'' and ''Red Alert: The Aftermath'' of which both received below average reviews for the series with 63% and 70% average scores respectively. Both expansions gave the game more missions and more units. For PlayStation only, there was also a separate release to the original called ''Red Alert: Retaliation'' which included all the maps, missions and units of ''Red Alert: Counterstrike'' and ''Red Alert: The Aftermath'', as well as some newly filmed cut-scenes only available with ''Red Alert: Retaliation''. Before being re-released as [[freeware]] on August 31, 2008, by [[Electronic Arts]] ''Command & Conquer: Red Alert'' had sold over three million copies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://planetcnc.gamespy.com/redalert2/|title=GameSpy Red Alert 2|publisher=[[GameSpy]]|access-date=August 8, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221144352/http://planetcnc.gamespy.com/redalert2/|archive-date=December 21, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2]]'' was released on October 23, 2000. It featured a Soviet invasion of North America with tanks, conscripts, large [[airship]]s, and psychically dominated anti-ship [[giant squid]]. Since that game lacked reference to the ''Tiberian'' series, the connection established in the first ''Red Alert'' game became unclear. However, it has been implied by the original creators of the series, now working at [[Petroglyph Games]], that ''Red Alert 2'' takes place in a parallel universe that came about as a result of time travel experiments taking place some time into the ''Tiberian'' series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.petroglyphgames.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1455&st=0&p=20748&#entry20748|title=C&C Timeline (ii)|date=December 18, 2006|access-date=August 23, 2007|last=Isgreen|first=Adam|publisher=[[Petroglyph Games]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927220639/http://www.petroglyphgames.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1455&st=0&p=20748&#entry20748|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Red Alert 2'' was received fairly positively with an aggregate score of 86% from GameRankings.

An expansion pack to ''Red Alert 2'', ''[[Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge]]'' was released on October 10, 2001. In ''Yuri's Revenge'', an ex-Soviet figure named Yuri, tries to conquer the world using psychic technology and his own private army. The expansion pack received mostly positive reviews. [[GameRankings]] reports an average score of 85% based on 31 reviews,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/476890.asp|title=Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge for PC<!-- Bot generated title -->|publisher=[[GameRankings]]}}</ref> making ''Yuri's Revenge'' the best received expansion pack in the ''Command & Conquer'' series.

''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3]]'', released on October 28, 2008, followed up on the story of ''Red Alert 2'' and continued the series' more "light-hearted" take on ''Command & Conquer''. It introduced many new comical units and the Empire of the Rising Sun faction, an [[anime]] inspired version of the [[Empire of Japan]]. Executive producer Chris Corry stated in a pre-release interview that ''Red Alert 3'' will further differentiate the playable factions from each other and "[play] up the silliness in their faction design whenever possible".<ref>Fordham, A: "[[PC PowerPlay]] #150", page 31. Next Publishing, 2008.</ref> This approach was seen as popular with ''Red Alert 3'' obtaining an aggregate score of 82% from Metacritic. A stand-alone expansion to ''Red Alert 3'', ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising]]'' was released on March 12, 2009, to fairly poor reviews for the series with an average score of 64% from Metacritic. Another downloadable standalone game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 was released known as ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Commander's Challenge]]'' which contained the Commander's Challenge mode of Uprising for consoles.

''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert (iOS)|Command & Conquer: Red Alert]]'' was released on October 16, 2009, for [[iOS]] which was a continuation of the story of ''Red Alert 2'' and takes place before ''Red Alert 3''. It contained two factions, the Allies and Soviet Union with a third faction, the Empire of the Rising Sun, to be added in its expansion pack. This version of the game is not available in some regions (e.g. the UK).

The Chinese developer [[Tencent]] made a new [[iOS]] version of ''Red Alert'', with a highly mixed reception from fans online.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/red-alert-online-announced-for-mobile/|title='Red Alert Online' is coming to mobile devices, and people are not happy|date=April 23, 2018|work=Digital Trends|access-date=April 28, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>