Command & Conquer: Red Alert

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

General Gunter von Esling

General Nikos Stavros

Professor Albert Einstein

Tanya Adams

Interrogator (voice)

Announcer (voice)

Tanya Adams

Allied Soldier Finale

Allied Soldiers Finale

Allied Soldier Finale

Allied Soldier Commander

Allied Soldier Commander

Allied Soldier Commander

Allied Soldier Commander

Allied Soldier Commander / Infantry & Units (voice)

Soviet Soldier / Allied Soldier Commander / Infantry & Units (voice)

Allied Soldier Commander

Allied Soldier Commander (as Bill Randolph)

Allied Soldier Commander

Allied Soldier Commander / Infantry & Units (voice)

General Georgi Kukov

Gradenko

Nadia

Kane

Soviet Soldier

Soviet Soldier / Infantry & Units (voice)

Soviet Soldier

Soviet Soldier / Infantry & Units (voice)

Electronic Video Agent (EVA)

Soviet Soldier / Infantry & Units (voice) (as Erik Yeo)

Infantry & Units (voice)

Infantry & Units (voice) (as Dwight Okahara)

This game was officially meant to be a prequel to the original Command & Conquer (1995). Taking place several decades before the original, Kane (Joseph D. Kucan) started out as Stalin's advisor and as such, secretly used the Soviet Union as a means to get his ancient Brotherhood of Nod into a seat of power again. In reaction to the Soviet Union's aggression, the Allied Forces fought back, and the United Nations set up a military task force, which would later become the Global Defence Initiative. In game canon, the Allied Forces finally won against the Soviet Union, forcing Kane to rebuild his Brotherhood himself over the next decades, without the aid of another world power, leading to the events of the original Command & Conquer. However, with the addition of more and more C&C installments (particularly Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (2000)), the number of inconsistencies rose, and this prequel view has been much debated among gamers, in favor of theories that explain the noted differences as separate parallel universes (created during several time travels made by characters in the games).

Red Alert was originally planned to be an expansion to Command & Conquer (1995) but ended up so good that Westwood made it into a game in its own right.

The name Chronosphere implies a time machine, but the machine is only used for transporting objects across distance.

The familiar United Nations building in New York plays a part in the story. Yet in this history, the Nazis never came to power, and therefore the history of the UN founding never happened. This plot element should instead involve the League of Nations in Switzerland in place of the UN.

An Allied naval force is sent to "Volgograd" when Joseph Stalin is still alive. Stalin called this city Stalingrad, a name which nobody could have dared to change while he was still alive.

General Gunter von Esling: Commander, I wish I could say I had good news. But not all of our battles fare as well as yours. The Greek front is collapsing, and Germany... is all but taken.

Gradenko: Lets see how you handle this. Go at once to Torun, destroy everything and everyone. No prisoners, no survivors. That is all.

Josef Stalin: When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic.