![]() And to make things more over-the-top, Tim Curry is the Premier of the USSR. By the 1980's all three powers struggle once more for dominance, using some of the most insane arsenals ever imagined. This has the unintended side-effect of allowing a third faction to emerge, the Japan-based Empire of the Rising Sun. In Red Alert 3 (Electronic Arts, 2008) Soviet scientists conclude that the Allies keep winning due to possessing Albert Einstein's technology, and so they build their own time machine to remove the physicist from history. He's thwarted, but the time travel shenanigans aren't finished. Though once more the Allies rally to win the war, Yuri has his own plans and steals a time machine in an attempt to conquer the past. Red Alert 2 (Westwood Studios, 2000) is set during the 70's, when the supposed puppet-Premier of the USSR leads a world communist alliance in a surprise invasion of the United States, with the help of the mindbending psychic Yuri. But thanks to Einstein’s chronosphere and one nameless European commander, the Soviets are defeated. This sparks an even worse version of World War II during the 1950's as the Allies try to withstand the endless hordes of the Red Army, backed by deadly Tesla-based technology. ![]() While this prevents the Nazis from rising to power and keeps Germany docile, unfortunately it leaves Josef Stalin with no obstacle to the Soviet Union's expansion. The premise of Red Alert ( Westwood Studios, 1996) is simple: in 1946, operating out of a laboratory in Trinity, New Mexico, Albert Einstein uses a time machine to travel to Landsberg, Germany in 1924 and removes Adolf Hitler from history. ![]()
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