http://na.llnet.cnc3tv.ea.com/u/f/eagames/cnc3/cnc3tv/RedAlert3_FMVtrailer_HD.mov
(warning, huge video)
"Command and Conquer: Red Alert" is a classic RTS videogame from 10 years ago; the alternate-history time-travel plotline centers around "What if we could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler before he rose to power?"
Well, Eintstein *does* build a time machine (Chronosphere) and uses it to go back and kill Hitler (he reaches out to shake his hand, right after he got out of prison, but this removes Hitler from the timeline)
The Weimar Republic never falls, and Germany eventually recovers from the post-World War I problems it faced.
However, Soviet Russia was expansionist at the time...without Nazi Germany, what was to stop Russia from expanding?
So a few years after when WWII happened in our timeline (early 1950's) there is an alternate World War II between the Soviet Union and allies (no mention is made of Japan)
Russia hammers Europe, but after the United States joins the war, the tide is eventually turned, and Stalin dies in the final assault on Moscow.
In Red Alert 2 (released in 2001) the story picks up a generation later, in the 1970's. Thanks to the vast amount of research put into wartime technologies, their 1970's are at the technological level of our 1990's, with the internet, advanced computers and aircraft, etc. etc. Soviet Russia has been rebuilding in secret under a new premier, pretending to be just a puppet state of the West when in fact secretly re-arming. Then they strike; this time, however, the Ruskies realize that the USA was responsible for their last defeat, so now they invade America (spilling in from socialist Mexico, as well as amphibious landings in the northeast). Thus an "alternate World War III" is fought between the Allies and the Soviet Union. However, Europe eventually joins the war too, and Einstein develops more advanced technologies for the Allies to take the fight back to the Russians, including teleporting Chrono-troops, invisiable Mirage-tanks, and the devastating laser-blasts of the Prism-cannon. The Russians, for their part, had upgraded their weaponized Tesla coil into more mobile forms that could be used on tanks and even wielded by infantry. Again, the Russians are defeated using a Chrono-teleport invasion of Moscow. Humiliating surrender terms are imposed on Russia.
Now, in Red Alert 3, the Soviet Union is of course left devastated and humiliated, they are in dire shape. In desperation, the Russians develop *their own* time-travel project, in imitation of the Allies' Einstein-built time-machine. Their version is a knock-off and not quite as good, but they're facing civil revolt and they're running out of options. Thus, the Soviet leadership activates the device and goes back in time to kill Einstein (removing him from the timeline as he did Hitler).
...unfortunately, it only kind of half works. On the one hand, the Soviet Union was saved from total destruction and is now powerful again, though they have *not* conquered the Allies in this new timeline; for their part, the Allies are actually still there, just different (they still have Mirage technology, but Einstein's Prism-cannon and Chrono-based technologies have been lost).
However, somehow (involving a "butterfly flaps its wings" ripple effect) changing the timeline with the not-ready Soviet time machine resulted in the formation of a new, third global superpower in the East: formally, "The Empire of the Rising Sun" , an expanded Japanese Empire.
Thus, an "alternate World War IV" has begun, with global dominance at stake, between three rival world superpowers.
Tim Curry plays the blustery Soviet Premier
and George Takei plays the Emperor of Japan
-->one thing the Command and Conquer games are infamous for (which I think gives them a leg up on Starcraft) is that they put in these really funny full-live-video cut-scenes, made with a funny B-movie level comedy acting (on purpose) even though it deals with a serious war. And they actually hire B or even occasionally A-list actors to do so (for Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (a different storyline from Red Alert-universe) they actually got Tricia Helfer and Grace park)
But they've got a couple of notable actors in there too, like the US president guy and also the bad guy from Tomorrow Never Dies.
(warning, huge video)
"Command and Conquer: Red Alert" is a classic RTS videogame from 10 years ago; the alternate-history time-travel plotline centers around "What if we could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler before he rose to power?"
Well, Eintstein *does* build a time machine (Chronosphere) and uses it to go back and kill Hitler (he reaches out to shake his hand, right after he got out of prison, but this removes Hitler from the timeline)
The Weimar Republic never falls, and Germany eventually recovers from the post-World War I problems it faced.
However, Soviet Russia was expansionist at the time...without Nazi Germany, what was to stop Russia from expanding?
So a few years after when WWII happened in our timeline (early 1950's) there is an alternate World War II between the Soviet Union and allies (no mention is made of Japan)
Russia hammers Europe, but after the United States joins the war, the tide is eventually turned, and Stalin dies in the final assault on Moscow.
In Red Alert 2 (released in 2001) the story picks up a generation later, in the 1970's. Thanks to the vast amount of research put into wartime technologies, their 1970's are at the technological level of our 1990's, with the internet, advanced computers and aircraft, etc. etc. Soviet Russia has been rebuilding in secret under a new premier, pretending to be just a puppet state of the West when in fact secretly re-arming. Then they strike; this time, however, the Ruskies realize that the USA was responsible for their last defeat, so now they invade America (spilling in from socialist Mexico, as well as amphibious landings in the northeast). Thus an "alternate World War III" is fought between the Allies and the Soviet Union. However, Europe eventually joins the war too, and Einstein develops more advanced technologies for the Allies to take the fight back to the Russians, including teleporting Chrono-troops, invisiable Mirage-tanks, and the devastating laser-blasts of the Prism-cannon. The Russians, for their part, had upgraded their weaponized Tesla coil into more mobile forms that could be used on tanks and even wielded by infantry. Again, the Russians are defeated using a Chrono-teleport invasion of Moscow. Humiliating surrender terms are imposed on Russia.
Now, in Red Alert 3, the Soviet Union is of course left devastated and humiliated, they are in dire shape. In desperation, the Russians develop *their own* time-travel project, in imitation of the Allies' Einstein-built time-machine. Their version is a knock-off and not quite as good, but they're facing civil revolt and they're running out of options. Thus, the Soviet leadership activates the device and goes back in time to kill Einstein (removing him from the timeline as he did Hitler).
...unfortunately, it only kind of half works. On the one hand, the Soviet Union was saved from total destruction and is now powerful again, though they have *not* conquered the Allies in this new timeline; for their part, the Allies are actually still there, just different (they still have Mirage technology, but Einstein's Prism-cannon and Chrono-based technologies have been lost).
However, somehow (involving a "butterfly flaps its wings" ripple effect) changing the timeline with the not-ready Soviet time machine resulted in the formation of a new, third global superpower in the East: formally, "The Empire of the Rising Sun" , an expanded Japanese Empire.
Thus, an "alternate World War IV" has begun, with global dominance at stake, between three rival world superpowers.
Tim Curry plays the blustery Soviet Premier
and George Takei plays the Emperor of Japan
-->one thing the Command and Conquer games are infamous for (which I think gives them a leg up on Starcraft) is that they put in these really funny full-live-video cut-scenes, made with a funny B-movie level comedy acting (on purpose) even though it deals with a serious war. And they actually hire B or even occasionally A-list actors to do so (for Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (a different storyline from Red Alert-universe) they actually got Tricia Helfer and Grace park)
But they've got a couple of notable actors in there too, like the US president guy and also the bad guy from Tomorrow Never Dies.
