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''Command & Conquer: Red Alert'' is a series of real-time strategy video games set within the ''Command & Conquer universe''. The series is well known for having some of the most quirky and outlandish units in the genre. The ''Red Alert'' series takes place in an alternate timeline, created when Albert Einstein travels back to the past and eliminates Adolf Hitler in an attempt to prevent World War II from taking place. This plan indirectly backfires and results in an unchecked Soviet invasion of Europe by Joseph Stalin in the 1950s. The Stalin-led invasion of Europe serves as the backdrop for the first ''Command & Conquer: Red Alert'' game. Two expansion packs for ''Red Alert'' were released: ''Counterstrike'' and ''The Aftermath''. New units, missions, multiplayer maps and music tracks were included in these expansions. The story of the original ''Command & Conquer: Red Alert'' game portrays the early in-universe history of the main ''C&C'' storyline, and leads directly to the Tiberium story arc of the ''Command & Conquer'' franchise.〔 However, with the addition of the title ''Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'' at the hands of a new team of developers in September 2000, this connection was rendered unclear, with fans of the series becoming split as to whether or not the time travel excursions of the ''Red Alert series'' were forming a separate continuity altogether, or just another side adventure on the way to the ''Tiberian era''. At the time of the release of the 10th anniversary compilation pack, known as ''Command & Conquer: The First Decade'', this new and second ''C&C'' development team claimed in interviews on the pack's bonus DVD that the games existed as three separate universes -- ''Tiberium'', ''Red Alert'' and ''Generals''. However, with the release of the title of ''Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars'' in 2007, at the hands of a third new development team from Electronic Arts Los Angeles, EA published a featured document pertaining to ''C&C 3s storyline in which a direct reference to Kane's appearance in the 1950s of ''Command & Conquer: Red Alert'' is made.〔 On July 25 of the same year, a ''Command & Conquer: Renegade''-themed modification for the game ''Crysis'' was officially announced by Electronic Arts, which is stated to directly link the first ''Red Alert'' game to ''Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn''. ''Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'' is a stand-alone sequel to the original ''Red Alert'' game, which unlike its predecessor makes no references to the Tiberium story arc, and which came with its own expansion pack; ''Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge''. In the storyline of ''Red Alert 2'', the Soviet Union invades the United States, using mind control technology to capture US forces and deactivate America's nuclear arsenal. In ''Yuri's Revenge'', Soviet Premier Romanov's advisor Yuri attempts to overtake the world by using his "psychic dominator" technology. A second and last attempt to stop Yuri's plans sends the player back in time to the conflict occurring in ''Red Alert 2'', but instead of fighting the Soviets/Allies, the player fights against Yuri. ''C&C'' creator Westwood Studios also released a music disc with the music from the ''Red Alert'' series. This disc came bundled with some of the later release versions of the games. == Plot == The basis of the ''Red Alert'' series is that in 1946, at the Trinity site in New Mexico, Albert Einstein created a "Chronosphere" time machine. Traveling back to Landsberg, Germany, he met a young Adolf Hitler just after the latter's release from Landsberg Prison in 1924 and shook hands with him to cause a reaction that eliminated Hitler's existence from time by disturbing the "space-time continuum". This prevented Nazi Germany from forming and averted World War II as we know it from taking place. Without Nazi Germany to stand in the way of Joseph Stalin's ambitions of conquest, the USSR tries to form a Soviet Union stretching across the entire Eurasian landmass. The nations of Europe, including Germany, form the Allies as a Soviet invasion precipitates a different World War II (''Red Alert'') and eventually a Soviet invasion of the United States in a circa 1970s/1980s setting (''Red Alert 2'', ''Yuri's Revenge''). The Soviet Union is ultimately on the losing side. In ''Red Alert 3'', the Soviet Union teeters on the brink of collapse. Seeing the Premier's office empty, Cherdenko reveals Dr. Zelinsky's Soviet time machine to General Krukov. To retroactively save their country, Cherdenko travels back to 1927 with Krukov and Zelinsky in tow to assassinate the man behind the Allies' technological superiority. As Albert Einstein comes off stage from giving a speech, Cherdenko shakes his hand with disintegrative results. The trio is then returned to the "present," where the Soviet Army has the Allied forces on the brink of defeat in Europe and Cherdenko is Premier of the USSR. Just as the gloating starts, an ultra-advanced and previously nonexistent Empire of the Rising Sun embarks on world domination. Without Einstein, calls to use the USSR's formidable nuclear weapon arsenal are met with blank stares, as the atom bomb has apparently never been developed in this new timeline. Thus while the Soviets and Allied battle amongst themselves the Empire of the Rising Sun enters the chaos and a three-way world war breaks out for total control of the globe. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Command & Conquer: Red Alert (series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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