Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising is a real-time strategy
video game developed by EA Los Angeles
and published by Electronic Arts
. It is a stand-alone expansion to Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
released only for Microsoft Windows
and offered via digital distribution
. It does not require Red Alert 3 to play. It features about 30 new maps for traditional skirmish with many of these taking place in new environments. It does not contain any multiplayer elements such as cooperative play, online play or network play.
A part of Uprising called Commander's Challenge was also released as Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Commander's Challenge on PlayStation Store
and Xbox Live
for the PlayStation 3
and Xbox 360
respectively on September 24, 2009. It functions as a stand-alone game and does not require Red Alert 3 to play. Commander's Challenge contains only the Commander's Challenge mode of Uprising and the new units and weapons, but not the campaign or skirmish modes. It currently costs 800 Microsoft Points on the Xbox Live Arcade.
The Soviet campaign focuses on the remaining Soviet resistance trying to stop FutureTech, an Allied defense contractor, which plans to create a super weapon called the "Sigma Harmonizer", a device to selectively stop time. FutureTech is revealed to have been helped by European Union President Rupert Thornley, who planned to "create Heaven on Earth" using the device.
The Allied campaign concentrates on defeating several renegade Imperial warlords who still resist Allied occupational forces. Emperor Tatsu has seemingly begun to cooperate with the Allies, but reveals his true intentions after his military authority is restored by the fall of Takara, the last enemy commander in the Allied campaign.
The Empire's campaign covers the fight against two Soviet generals who attempt to conquer parts of Japan. The Allies are also partially involved, attempting (rather ineffectively) to stop the fighting and restore peace. Crown Prince Tatsu greets the commander at first mission. On the second he orders the commander to protect the tomb of his father, Yoshiro, the Emperor of the Rising Sun in Red Alert 3. In the final mission, he orders a counter-attack against the Soviet generals.
The Yuriko campaign recounts the story of Yuriko Omega, her origins and discovery by the Imperial military, her captivity by the Allies and her fight to rescue her sister. The Yuriko campaign uses different controls and camera than the rest of the game, only allowing vision of the screen in which Yuriko is located, and replacing the sidebar, minimap and threat meter with a compact command bar dedicated to Yuriko and her psychic abilities.
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Allied Nations
Empire of the Rising Sun
Soviet Union
Empire of the Rising Sun
Soviet Union
and Xbox 360
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Commander's Challenge contains 50 different, successively tougher scenarios. This is loosely based on Generals' Challenge from Zero Hour. It features some returning commanders from Red Alert 3 as well as some new ones. It contains some Campaign-Only Units that appeared in the original Red Alert 3 such as the Tesla Tank and the Shogun Executioner. Certain Maps in the Commander's Challenge also have special effects such as garbage raining from the sky or units produced on the map are shrunk. Before completing any missions, the player has access to only the basic units of each side, however upon completing each mission, more units are unlocked from the tech tree of that challenge's opponents.
There are 13 main challenges and a further 37 side challenges which are unlocked as you work your way through the game.
Real-time strategy
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video game developed by EA Los Angeles
EA Los Angeles
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and published by Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
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. It is a stand-alone expansion to Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is a 2008 real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts. Announced on February 14, 2008, it was released on October 28, 2008 in the United States for Microsoft Windows-based PCs and three days later in Europe. A version for...
released only for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
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and offered via digital distribution
Digital distribution
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. It does not require Red Alert 3 to play. It features about 30 new maps for traditional skirmish with many of these taking place in new environments. It does not contain any multiplayer elements such as cooperative play, online play or network play.
A part of Uprising called Commander's Challenge was also released as Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Commander's Challenge on PlayStation Store
PlayStation Store
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and Xbox Live
Xbox Live
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for the PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
and Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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respectively on September 24, 2009. It functions as a stand-alone game and does not require Red Alert 3 to play. Commander's Challenge contains only the Commander's Challenge mode of Uprising and the new units and weapons, but not the campaign or skirmish modes. It currently costs 800 Microsoft Points on the Xbox Live Arcade.
Campaigns
Uprising picks up on where the Allied Campaign of the original game left off. Four "mini-campaigns" are available, one for each faction in Red Alert 3 and a bonus one centered around the origins of the Empire's commando Yuriko Omega. Each of the campaigns is three missions long, with the exception of the Soviet one, which consists of four. Initially only the Soviet and Yuriko campaigns are available, the campaigns for the Allies and the Empire of the Rising Sun becoming available after finishing the first mission in the Soviet campaign.Plot
All three campaigns assume that the Allied faction was victorious at the end of Red Alert 3: Soviet Russia is undergoing de-militarization, and, following Emperor Yoshiro's death, Crown Prince Tatsu has surrendered to the Allies, while secretly plotting to return his Empire to its full power.The Soviet campaign focuses on the remaining Soviet resistance trying to stop FutureTech, an Allied defense contractor, which plans to create a super weapon called the "Sigma Harmonizer", a device to selectively stop time. FutureTech is revealed to have been helped by European Union President Rupert Thornley, who planned to "create Heaven on Earth" using the device.
The Allied campaign concentrates on defeating several renegade Imperial warlords who still resist Allied occupational forces. Emperor Tatsu has seemingly begun to cooperate with the Allies, but reveals his true intentions after his military authority is restored by the fall of Takara, the last enemy commander in the Allied campaign.
The Empire's campaign covers the fight against two Soviet generals who attempt to conquer parts of Japan. The Allies are also partially involved, attempting (rather ineffectively) to stop the fighting and restore peace. Crown Prince Tatsu greets the commander at first mission. On the second he orders the commander to protect the tomb of his father, Yoshiro, the Emperor of the Rising Sun in Red Alert 3. In the final mission, he orders a counter-attack against the Soviet generals.
The Yuriko campaign recounts the story of Yuriko Omega, her origins and discovery by the Imperial military, her captivity by the Allies and her fight to rescue her sister. The Yuriko campaign uses different controls and camera than the rest of the game, only allowing vision of the screen in which Yuriko is located, and replacing the sidebar, minimap and threat meter with a compact command bar dedicated to Yuriko and her psychic abilities.
Cast
This section lists new characters only. For the former characters, see Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is a 2008 real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts. Announced on February 14, 2008, it was released on October 28, 2008 in the United States for Microsoft Windows-based PCs and three days later in Europe. A version for...
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Allied Nations
- Holly ValanceHolly ValanceHolly Valance is an Australian actress, singer, and model, who has dual United Kingdom citizenship. Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours...
as Brenda Snow - Ric FlairRic FlairRichard Morgan Fliehr is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ric Flair. Also known as "The Nature Boy", Flair is one of the most well-known professional wrestlers in the world....
as Commander Douglas Hill - Malcolm McDowellMalcolm McDowellMalcolm McDowell is an English actor with a career spanning over forty years.McDowell is principally known for his roles in the controversial films If...., O Lucky Man!, A Clockwork Orange and Caligula...
as European Union President Rupert Thornley - Jodi Lyn O'KeefeJodi Lyn O'KeefeJodi Lyn O'Keefe is an American actress and model, who at age 17 portrayed Cassidy Bridges on Nash Bridges. She is also known for her role on Prison Break as Gretchen Morgan, a.k.a. "Susan B. Anthony".-Early life:...
as FutureTech CPO Kelly Weaver - Louise GriffithsLouise GriffithsLouise Griffiths is an English pop singer-songwriter, fashion model and actress.-Early life:Griffiths is the daughter of a London taxicab driver...
as Commander Lydia Winters
Empire of the Rising Sun
- Jamie ChungJamie ChungJamie Jilynn Chung is an American actress known to reality television audiences as a cast member on the MTV reality television series, The Real World: San Diego and its spin-off show, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II, and for her appearances in TV and films, such as I Now...
as Commander Takara Sato - Julia LingJulia LingJulia Ling, born Xiao Wei Lin , is an American actress most widely known for her television work, including her recurring roles on NBC series such as ER, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and most recently, as a series regular on Chuck.-Biography:Ling was born in Temple City, California.At age 6,...
as Izumi - Vic Chao as Dr. Shinji Shimada
Soviet Union
- Moran AtiasMoran Atias-Early life and family:Atias was born in Haifa, Israel, to parents of Moroccan Jewish descent. Atias appeared on the youth TV show "Out of Focus" at age 15, although plans of serving in the Israeli Defense Forces were cut short with a diagnosis of meningitis at age 17...
as Commander Vera Belova
New units
Allied Nations- Harbinger Gunship: A heavy anti-surface gunshipGunshipThe term "gunship" is used in several contexts, all sharing the general idea of a light craft armed with heavy guns.-In Navy:In the Navy, the term originally appeared in the mid-19th century as a less-common synonym for gunboat.-In military aviation:...
that can both absorb and inflict heavy damage, but mounts its main weapons are only on one side. - Pacifier FAV: An amphibious transforming field artilleryField artilleryField artillery is a category of mobile artillery used to support armies in the field. These weapons are specialized for mobility, tactical proficiency, long range, short range and extremely long range target engagement....
vehicle, that can use dual chainguns when undeployed. - Cryo Legionnaire: An amphibious infantry that can freeze a group of ground units rather than kill them.
- Future Tank X-1: An anti-surface tank that can both absorb and inflict heavy damage to match its considerable cost.
Empire of the Rising Sun
- Steel Ronin: A bipedal robot armed with a naginataNaginataThe naginata is one of several varieties of traditionally made Japanese blades in the form of a pole weapon. Naginata were originally used by the samurai class in feudal Japan, and naginata were also used by ashigaru and sōhei .-Description:A naginata consists of a wooden shaft with a curved...
suited for melee and speed, with a ranged special attack. - Archer Maiden: A ranged infantry that can attack both air and land units with a tech-longbow, but is quite costly.
- Giga-Fortress: A powerful unit that can transform between a mobile naval fortress and an aircraft with a long range cannon.
Soviet Union
- Reaper: A versatile walker that attack both land and air units and can permanently transform into a stationary gun emplacement.
- Grinder: An armored amphibious vehicle capable of disabling and grinding enemy units and buildings.
- Desolator: An infantry armed with chemical weapons and surprisingly resilient but costly.
- Mortar Cycle: A cheap and fast attack bike armed with Molotov cocktails and mortars.
Commander's Challenge
Uprising also features a mode called Commander's Challenge in which players can play against AI commanders with various skill levels. This mode was also released as a stand-alone downloadable game for PlayStation 3PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
and Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
.
Commander's Challenge contains 50 different, successively tougher scenarios. This is loosely based on Generals' Challenge from Zero Hour. It features some returning commanders from Red Alert 3 as well as some new ones. It contains some Campaign-Only Units that appeared in the original Red Alert 3 such as the Tesla Tank and the Shogun Executioner. Certain Maps in the Commander's Challenge also have special effects such as garbage raining from the sky or units produced on the map are shrunk. Before completing any missions, the player has access to only the basic units of each side, however upon completing each mission, more units are unlocked from the tech tree of that challenge's opponents.
There are 13 main challenges and a further 37 side challenges which are unlocked as you work your way through the game.