Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars vs Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is a strategy game from Danger Close Games (2007) while Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a strategy game from Westwood Studios (1996).
Quick answer: Command & Conquer: Red Alert has the higher Metacritic, 90 to 85.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
What each one is
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is filed under Strategy. In contrast, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 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 is a real-time strategy video game in the Command & Conquer franchise, developed and published by Westwood Studios in 1996. The second game to bear the Command & Conquer title, Red Alert is the prequel to the original Command & Conquer of 1995, and takes place in the alternate early history of Command & Conquer when Allied Forces battle an aggressive Soviet Union for control over the European mainland.
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
Command Conquer: Red Alert takes place in a parallel universe. At the Trinity Site in New Mexico in 1946, Albert Einstein prepares to travel back in time. He activates his experimental time machine and returns to Landsberg , Germany , on December 20, 1924, where he meets Adolf Hitler just after the latter's release from Landsberg Prison . (Wikipedia)
Reception
Sales In the United States, Command Conquer: Red Alert debuted at No. 2 on PC Data 's computer game sales chart for November 1996, behind Microsoft Flight Simulator . Following a third-place finish in December, it became the United States' seventh-best-selling computer game of 1996 as a whole. (Wikipedia)
At a glance
| Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars | Command & Conquer: Red Alert | |
|---|---|---|
| GamingPickz Score | 7.7/10 | — |
| Steam rating | Very Positive (90%, 9,333) | — |
| Critic aggregate | 85/100 | 90/100 |
| Price | Not listed | Unknown |
| Install size | — | — |
| Steam Deck | playable | Untested |
| Released | 2007 | 1996 |
| 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, 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 AlertStrategy 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 AlertNo descriptive tagsThe tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.
Reception
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium WarsMetacritic 85Command & Conquer: Red Alert ✓Metacritic 90Metacritic'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—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 AlertUnknownRead live from Steam and subject to change.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 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: Red Alert (Metacritic 90)
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 is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.
System requirements, side by side
| Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars | Command & Conquer: Red Alert | |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Accessibility features
Steam store pages declare 0 accessibility features for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and 0 for Command & Conquer: Red Alert. 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 in scope?
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars has drawn 9,333 Steam reviews. Command & Conquer: Red Alert lists little scope data.
Is Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars or Command & Conquer: Red Alert 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?
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?
Command & Conquer: Red Alert has the higher Metacritic, 90 to 85. 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.