Free copy of Command & Conquer Red Alert today!

Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:57PM EDT

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Back in 1996, gamers thrilled at the opportunity to engage in wargames in an alternate universe, one where Hitler had had been killed by a time-traveling Einstein, but which prompted the Soviet army to invade Europe instead. So much for the best of intentions.

The original version of Command & Conquer: Red Alert is now available for free download, partly in celebration of C&C's 13th anniversary but mainly to promote the upcoming Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. It's unclear if the download will continue to be available after today, but if you really want to get the game for free, I'd suggest grabbing it before midnight, just in case.

The game runs on Windows versions from 95 to XP. Vista is not officially supported, but the company says that you can find tips on getting to work with Vista on various fan sites.

You will also need a compressed file extractor like WinRAR to decompress the files, which extract as two ISO files. You will then have to burn the files to two CD-R discs, and then you can install the game. (Try CDBurnerXP if you don't have a suitable app on hand.) Both apps are essentially free.

That's it! Have fun, whether you're playing as the Germans or the Russkies.

Get C&C:Red Alert here!

UPDATE: Looks like the promo is continuing after 8/31, so download at your convenience.

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  • 1 Posted by jehad_tareq on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:32PM EDT Report Abuse

    wow, i have been playing Red Alert 2 for ages (and honestly still, at least with my humble laptop) and its sure a nice game, good to have the first part to complete the series, i may even go for Red Alert 3! niceeee

  • 2 Posted by azstickartist on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:00PM EDT Report Abuse

    Well guys, would have loved it, but the link won't fly Russ

  • 3 Posted by garden_railroader on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:06PM EDT Report Abuse

    Hi, great post. This was a favorite game a little while back. I've got a question for you... Is there a means to make older games, not set up for XP, work like normal? I've heard that there is something I can do with my XP to make this adjustment, I just don't know what it is. thanks, Jim

  • 4 Posted by jlmswim on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:36PM EDT Report Abuse

    To garden_railroader yeah you can right click on it go to properties and hit run as windos what ever the reqierment is also on a other note on the web site were you download C&C Red alert it says you can use a virtual CD program to run this so if you have daemon tools you can run it with out haveing to burn it to a cd

  • 5 Posted by gooddayz39 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:11PM EDT Report Abuse

    DUDE!!! if only my crappy computer had enough hard drive space!!! I can't wait to buy a top of the line notebook with more ram than I curently have hard drive. I never heard of that game but it sounds kick A**

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