Red Alert Red Alert in PC Gamer's Top 100

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PC Gamer have included the classic Red Alert in their list of The Top 100 PC games that you can play today. Red Alert ended up being listed in the number 40 spot and it's the only Command & Conquer game to make an appearance. Check out what PC Gamer had to say about the game.

Tyler: This feels like it was pulled from my childhood imagination—or maybe it just influenced my imagination. It’s clean and readable, like the maps I’d draw on grid paper with forested blobs, rivers, and just enough of a sense of perspective to notate terraced cliff edges. Its weapons are the cool, riveted metal machines in my illustrated military history books, with some Tesla coils bolted on. It’s a lattice of simple strengths and weaknesses—infantry against armour, ground against air against sea—more concerned with nailing the right feeling than being meticulously balanced. On top of that, it’s easily moddable—rules.ini is still my favourite file in existence.

Samuel: It has a kind of magic to me, particularly its more chaotic skirmish mode and laughable lack of balance. Getting this and the expansions was a highlight of my young life.

You can see the entire top 100 right here.