Original Red Alert game available for free download

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Original Red Alert game available for free download

Posted Aug 31st 2008 4:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, RTS, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

As promised Electronic Arts has provided the original Command and Conquer: Red Alert RTS game as a free download. The web site with the downloads has requested that mirror sites not provide the download at their locations so Big Download won't be able to offer up our mirrors as planned.

EA has provided the full Soviet and Allied portions of the the game as separated ISO downloads of 500 MB each. The ISO file must be burned into a CD in order for the game to run. The software will work on Windows XP and older Windows programs down to Windows 95. While Vista is not officially supported, EA suggests going to various fan sites for tips to run the game on that OS.

Tags: command-and-conquer, command-and-conquer-red-alert, command-and-conquer-red-alert-3, ea, electronic-arts

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Would it work on an EeePC????Posted at 8:06PM on Aug 31st 2008 by Qasim Ahmed A. Rasool

"The ISO file MUST be burned into a CD in order for the game to run." - so it doesn't work with virtual drives, Daemon tools etc? that's a pretty neat little trick they have.Posted at 4:20AM on Sep 1st 2008 by Stefan

The full quote from the website:
"You will need to burn the ISO to a CD for the software to function or use a Virtual CD program to run the installation on your computer"

So, daemon tools will work fine, and it does say only for the installation. I haven't tried it, but I hope it doesn't need the "CD" to play.Posted at 5:09AM on Sep 1st 2008 by paralipsis

Okay, bad news. The install is only 32MB on the hard drive, which means that it will definitely require the ISO to be mounted (or burned and inserted into a drive) to play as well as to install. I prefer my games to be click-to-play rather than fiddling with disks or images. Oh well...Posted at 5:26AM on Sep 1st 2008 by paralipsis

i like the red alert,Posted at 6:21AM on Oct 10th 2008 by allan nanez

tumkaasht@yahoo.comPosted at 7:57AM on Nov 7th 2008 by tsog