Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars vs Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is a strategy game from Danger Close Games (2007) while Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is a strategy game from Westwood Studios (2000).
Quick answer: Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars has the higher Metacritic, 85 to 84.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
What each one is
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is filed under Strategy. In contrast, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 under Strategy.
The year is 2047. A massive nuclear fireball explodes high in the night sky, marking the dramatic beginning of the Third Tiberium War and the long-awaited return of the most groundbreaking Real-Time Strategy franchise of all time
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is a real-time strategy video game released for Microsoft Windows on October 25, 2000, as the follow-up to Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Red Alert 2 picks up after the Allied campaign of the first game. Its expansion pack is Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge, released a year later in 2001. Red Alert 2 was principally developed by Westwood Pacific in collaboration with Westwood Studios.
Story, characters and reception
Plot
Setting Command Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars takes place within an alternate timeline, in which an alien substance called Tiberium lands on Earth in the 1990s and begins terra-forming the planet's ecology and landscape. Although the substance creates crystals containing precious metals leached from the surrounding soils, the process also transforms all plant life into alien flora that produces fatally toxic gas. By the 2040s, the planet's ecological state… (Wikipedia)
Characters
Joseph D. Kucan reprises his role as Kane , the leader of the Brotherhood of Nod. Tiberium Wars also features Tricia Helfer as Nod General Kilian Qatar, Josh Holloway as Nod Intelligence Officer Ajay, Michael Ironside as GDI General Jack Granger, Jennifer Morrison as GDI Intelligence Officer Kirce James, Grace Park as Lt. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reviews Reception PC Gamer U. S. gave the game its "Editor's Choice" rating at 90%, stating that "one of the greatest RTS franchises of all time returns to glory", while PC Gamer Sweden and UK gave it a more reserved rating of 81% and 82% respectively, stating that it was "a welcome, but limited, return". (Wikipedia)
Plot
Setting Like previous Command Conquer real-time strategy games, Command Conquer: Red Alert 2 contains two separate campaigns with distinct story lines, one for each playable faction. Red Alert 2 is set in the same alternative history universe as Red Alert in which Adolf Hitler was erased from history by Albert Einstein who travelled to the past through a Time Machine. However, although Hitler is gone, the Soviet Union has taken place of Nazi Germany to… (Wikipedia)
Characters
Ray Wise as President Michael Dugan Barry Corbin as Gen. Ben Carville Kari Wuhrer as Special Agent Tanya Adams Athena Massey as Lt. Eva Lee Larry Gelman as Albert Einstein Nicholas Worth as Premier Alexander Romanov Udo Kier as Yuri Adam Gregor as Gen. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Sales In the United States, Red Alert 2 debuted at No. 1 on PC Data 's computer game sales chart for the October 22–28 period. Holding the position in its second week, the title became October's ninth-biggest computer game seller, according to PC Data. (Wikipedia)
At a glance
| Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars | Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| GamingPickz Score | 7.7/10 | — |
| Steam rating | Very Positive (90%, 9,333) | — |
| Critic aggregate | 85/100 | 84/100 |
| Price | Not listed | Unknown |
| Install size | — | — |
| Steam Deck | playable | Untested |
| Released | 2007 | 2000 |
| Developer | Danger Close Games | Westwood Studios |
Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars vs Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, point by point
Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.
Genre and premise
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium WarsStrategy gameCommand & Conquer: Red Alert 2Strategy gameWhat each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.
How it plays
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium WarsFamily Friendly, Level Editor, StrategyCommand & Conquer: Red Alert 2No descriptive tagsThe tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.
Reception
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars ✓Metacritic 85Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2Metacritic 84Metacritic's critic aggregate, from the game's Wikipedia reception where it was never on Steam.
Content and scale
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars9,333 reviewsCommand & Conquer: Red Alert 2—Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.
Price
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium WarsNot listedCommand & Conquer: Red Alert 2UnknownRead live from Steam and subject to change.
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars takes 1 of the marked rounds to 0. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.
Which to pick, by what you want
- The better reviewed of the two: Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (Metacritic 85)
Where they differ
Family FriendlyLevel EditorStrategyRTSActionMultiplayer
Tags players apply to one game and not the other.
Difficulty and who each is for
By the tags players apply, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is family-friendly and approachable. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.
System requirements, side by side
| Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars | Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum GPU | ATI Radeon 8500 | — |
| Minimum CPU | 2GHz AMD Athlon™ processor | — |
| Minimum RAM | 0.5 GB | — |
| Install size | — | — |
Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars · Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2.
Accessibility features
Steam store pages declare 0 accessibility features for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and 0 for Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
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Common questions
How different are Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 in scope?
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars has drawn 9,333 Steam reviews. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 lists little scope data.
Is Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars or Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 better?
Neither carries enough reviews for us to score it reliably, so we do not call a winner. The table above shows what each does have.
Which is cheaper, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars or Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2?
One or both do not have a current listed price, so a straight comparison is not possible. See the table above.
Should I get Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars or Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2?
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars has the higher Metacritic, 85 to 84. It also depends on what you want: the "which to pick" section above calls out which is cheaper, lighter on storage, better on a Steam Deck and the safer bet by weight of reviews.
Do you rank one above the other for a fee?
No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.
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The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.