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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising

Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique campaign centered on the origins…

60 12 March 2009

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising is a real time strategy (rts) developed by EA Los Angeles, released 12 March 2009 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising is

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by EA Los Angeles and released in 2009. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on SAGE.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising is a 2009 real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts. It is a stand-alone expansion to Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 released for Microsoft Windows and offered via digital distribution. It features about 30 new maps for traditional skirmish with many of these taking place in new environments. It does not contain any multiplayer elements such as cooperative play, online play or network play.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Command & Conquer series

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising is the 20th of 30 entries we hold in the Command & Conquer series. The next entry was Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Commander's Challenge in 2009. Its critic score of 60 is 5 points below the series average of 65. The highest-rated entry is Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 at 90.

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How it was received

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Any Intel Core Duo machine; XP: Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or better, AMD Athlon XP 2100+ or better; Vista: Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz or better, AMD Athlon XP 2800+ or better, 1 GB RAM and DirectX® 9.0c compatible video card, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better, ATI Radeon X800 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB.

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What it launched against

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising launched on 12 March 2009, within three weeks of Resident Evil 5, Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Empire: Total War. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 5, Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Empire: Total War.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Quick answers

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising — frequently asked questions

When did Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising come out?
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising was released on 12 March 2009 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising?
At minimum, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising needs Any Intel Core Duo machine; XP: Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or better, AMD Athlon XP 2100+ or better; Vista: Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz or better, AMD Athlon XP 2800+ or better, 1 GB RAM, DirectX® 9.0c compatible video card, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better, ATI Radeon X800 or better graphics, At lease 10 GB of free space of storage.
How many GB is Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising?
The PC version needs about 10 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("At lease 10 GB of free space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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