Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 vs Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is a strategy game from Westwood Studios (2000) while Command & Conquer Remastered Collection is a strategy game from Petroglyph (2020).
Quick answer: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 has the higher Metacritic, 84 to 82.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
What each one is
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is filed under Strategy. In contrast, Command & Conquer Remastered Collection under Strategy.
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.
Command & Conquer and Red Alert are both remastered in 4K by the former Westwood Studios team members. Includes all 3 expansions, rebuilt multiplayer, a modernized UI, Map Editor, bonus footage gallery, and over 7 hours of remastered music.
Story, characters and reception
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)
Plot
See also: Command Conquer (1995 video game) § Plot See also: Command Conquer: Red Alert § Plot Command Conquer: Remastered Collection consists of two games: Command Conquer: Remastered and Command Conquer: Red Alert - Remastered . They contain the same plot as their original counterparts, with visual changes and upscaled full motion video cinematic footage. ^ Macgregor, Jody (March 8, 2020). (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Command Conquer Remastered Collection received "generally favorable reviews", according to review aggregator Metacritic . Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received "mighty" approval, being recommended by 92% of critics. Alex Battaglia of Digital Foundry wrote that " Command and Conquer Remastered plays, looks, and sounds great". (Wikipedia)
At a glance
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 | Command & Conquer Remastered Collection | |
|---|---|---|
| GamingPickz Score | — | 8.0/10 |
| Steam rating | — | Very Positive (91%, 34,961) |
| Critic aggregate | 84/100 | 82/100 |
| Price | Unknown | $19.99 |
| Install size | — | 32 GB |
| Steam Deck | Untested | playable |
| Released | 2000 | 2020 |
| Developer | Westwood Studios | Petroglyph |
Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 vs Command & Conquer Remastered Collection, 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: Red Alert 2Strategy gameCommand & Conquer Remastered CollectionStrategy gameWhat each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.
How it plays
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2No descriptive tagsCommand & Conquer Remastered CollectionStrategy, RTS, Base-BuildingThe tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.
Reception
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 ✓Metacritic 84Command & Conquer Remastered CollectionMetacritic 82Metacritic's critic aggregate, from the game's Wikipedia reception where it was never on Steam.
Content and scale
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2—Command & Conquer Remastered Collection34,961 reviews · 32 GBReach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.
Price
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2UnknownCommand & Conquer Remastered Collection$19.99Read live from Steam and subject to change.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 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 2 (Metacritic 84)
Where they differ
StrategyRTSBase-BuildingMultiplayerClassicGreat Soundtrack
Tags players apply to one game and not the other.
Difficulty and who each is for
By the tags players apply, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. Command & Conquer Remastered Collection is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.
System requirements, side by side
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 | Command & Conquer Remastered Collection | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum GPU | — | NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 |
| Minimum CPU | — | Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 @ 2.4ghz |
| Minimum RAM | — | 4 GB |
| Install size | — | 32 GB |
Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 · Command & Conquer Remastered Collection.
Accessibility features
Steam store pages declare 0 accessibility features for Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and 0 for Command & Conquer Remastered Collection. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
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Common questions
How different are Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Command & Conquer Remastered Collection in scope?
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 lists little scope data. Command & Conquer Remastered Collection has drawn 34,961 Steam reviews and installs in 32 GB.
Is Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 or Command & Conquer Remastered Collection 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: Red Alert 2 or Command & Conquer Remastered Collection?
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: Red Alert 2 or Command & Conquer Remastered Collection?
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 has the higher Metacritic, 84 to 82. 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.