

Red Alert’s lore is completely wack, too. It also follows that pretty much the only C&C game I paid attention to after that was Red Alert 3. It doesn’t make the player character actor mistake, either. It’s the other side of GI Joe, firmly in campy territory. On the other hand, Red Alert 2! That one is the complete realization of full FMV potential. In fact I posit that Tiberian Sun’s greatest crime is attributing an actor to the player character. That, grounded setting and all, stopped with Tiberian Sun so I pretty much dropped the whole thing. I also loved that the DOS install program was presented as installing the actual EVA uplink that’d allow you, the field general, to communicate with your superiors and units. I loved that the manual illustrations were actual photographs with the buildings and units photoshopped in. The thing I really like in the first C&C is despite the setting it was a sort of pastiche of gulf war era war coverage and the game was somewhat grounded despite its GI Joe side.
