Command & Conquer: Red Alert invades iPhone in October

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 9th 2009 4:39PM

Comrades, EA Mobile will attempt to bring full-scale RTS action to the iPhone this October with Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Control the Allies or the Soviets in 12 levels as you "drag and scroll to gauge the battlefield. Pinch-zoom in and out of the action. Select and move units with a tap." A touch-screen RTS sounds like a dream come true, but we'll reserve judgment until we see how the iPhone's tiny screen handles our mighty, meaty manpaws. Delicate, they are not.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert (iPhone)

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Reader Comments (19)

Please don't suck...

Please make starcraft...

Judging by the screenshot it's a weird 2D version of Red Alert 3 with Red Alert 2 graphics, but it will deceive people into thinking it's a port of the original Red Alert because of the name.

Good job EA.

Spot-on, nutman.

It looks quite 3D to me:

http://www.joystiq.com/photos/command-and-conquer-red-alert-iphone/2354240/

LOL iPhone

I would definitely enjoy playing this, however, I'm worried about EA's handling of SimCity and how the game was having a lot of trouble handling cities as they got larger. I have yet to see that fixed. My large city will crash the game every time. But it was fun as I played it.

Same kind of thing happened with CivRev too. Loss of textures and eventual freeze or crash. Hopefully it can be worked out.

CivRev works fine for me. Mass Effect? Nope.

Ugg, as much as I like Red Alert I can already tell from that screenshot this is gonna suck. Look at how busy that is. There is no way that is going to control well with a touch screen interface...

OH MY GOD must get iPhone.

Surprisingly that was my first reaction, but it has subsided now.

A lot less interested in this now that i see its not a port.

I'd probably be much more interested in a touch screen version of this game if it were applicable to a tablet or something with more physical screen real estate.