The only catch is youll need an Electronic Arts account and a copy of Origin to download it, but that doesnt involve much more than providing your email address, and everything else is handled more or less automatically.

Although it might still take a while, as the download is a chunky 1.6GB.).

If you AltTab away to some other application, the game screen may not be displayed correctly when you switch back.

The single player campaign is structured in an alternate-ending mode as opposed to a progressive story mode.

The Allies determine that a regime change would cause mass unrest in the Soviet Union, and in order to gain both support and stability in the region, the victorious Allies name Alexander Romanov, a distant relative of Czar Nicholas II, as the puppet Soviet Premier.

Romanov acquiesces to the Allies demands at first, though he builds up the Soviet military for defense purposes a cover for an intended invasion of the United States of America.

The games story line starts off with the United States Armed Forces being caught completely off guard by the sudden massive Soviet invasion of the United States, with Soviet aircraft, naval vessels, amphibious forces, and paratroopers coming in on both the East Coast and West Coast and with the majority of Soviet ground forces coming in through Mexico, which had recently voted in a communist government.

The USA attempts to retaliate with the use of nuclear missiles, but Yuri, leader of the Soviet Psychic Corps and Premier Romanovs top advisor, uses his mind control to manipulate the personnel charged with launching the warheads and leaves them to explode in their silos.

In response, the US President Michael Dugan establishes an emergency response team headed by General Carville and the Commander known as The Ghost (the player) to the Soviet army later in the game.

The Allied story line begins with a special forces team led by Special Agent Tanya sent to New York City to repel the Soviet invasion there.

The player, with help from Tanya, successfully repels the Soviet invasion of New York City.

Tanya and the Commander then go to Colorado Springs to liberate the Air Force Academy and the air base there.

When returning home victorious from the battle, it is discovered that a Soviet mind control device known as the Psychic Beacon, a device that can mind-control the people of entire cities, has been deployed in Washington, D.C.

The Psychic Beacon has controlled the minds of the President and General Carville and several other key officials in the city, who surrender to the Soviets.

However, a strike team is promptly sent in to the city and destroys the Psychic Beacon while encountering attacks by mind-controlled civilians, freeing the key officials from Soviet mind control and allowing them to be rescued.

Despite this, Washington, D.C.

Soviet hands, forcing the American government and military to relocate themselves to Canada to escape the threat of Soviet mind control.

CPU Type: Pentium III RAM: 128MB Sound Card: Direct Sound compliant CD Drive Speed: 4X Video RAM: 64MB.

Red Alert 2 Pc Game