Command & Conquer: Red Alert invades iPhone in October

by Alexander Sliwinski { Oct 9th 2009 at 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.

Gallery: Command & Conquer: Red Alert (iPhone)

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

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Captain Planet [Planeteer | Power of Captain Planet] @ Oct 9th 2009 4:48PM

Please don't suck...

Kyle @ Oct 10th 2009 2:29AM

Please make starcraft...

nutman @ Oct 9th 2009 4:51PM

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.

dark_inchworm (stronger than never, ever before) @ Oct 9th 2009 5:28PM

Spot-on, nutman.

Adam Zey @ Oct 9th 2009 5:47PM

It looks quite 3D to me:

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

Orchard Pear @ Oct 9th 2009 4:57PM

LOL iPhone

Sylvanus @ Oct 9th 2009 5:04PM

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.

aristokrat @ Oct 9th 2009 5:17PM

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

Sly @ Oct 9th 2009 6:12PM

CivRev works fine for me. Mass Effect? Nope.

Warlock @ Oct 9th 2009 5:51PM

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...

F1shBone @ Oct 9th 2009 5:56PM

OH MY GOD must get iPhone.

Marco le Polo @ Oct 9th 2009 7:39PM

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

Rhamsey @ Oct 9th 2009 6:18PM

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

mahouneko @ Oct 9th 2009 7:42PM

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.

whylekat @ Oct 9th 2009 8:13PM

Looks legite enough.. But I can't imagine a full scale RTS on an iPhone with anything close to managable controls.

psychoticdream @ Oct 9th 2009 8:53PM

blackberry smartphones have had this game for awhile now, its not bad really

Carrie @ Oct 9th 2009 9:09PM

You mean I can take my glorious Soviet armies with me wherever I go? Portable Kirovs? Tesla Coils? Maybe even Dreadnoughts? Yes please.

Faceman @ Oct 9th 2009 9:33PM

HOW SICK IS THAT!?

atx1980 @ Oct 10th 2009 10:22AM

Come to android market!

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