Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
SMOKING RUINS
» RETROREVIVAL
» PC » 2000 » WESTWOOD PACIFIC PC gaming wasn’t a big part of my childhood, mostly because with my mum raising two kids on her own, we couldn’t afford a computer. That all changed in the summer of 2002, when I was going into my final year of secondary school and PC prices were coming down. Given the amount of time my sister and I spent online, my mum soon realised that getting broadband would free up the phone line and reduce our bills, so my online-gaming attention was drawn away from the rapidly declining Dreamcast scene. I’d regularly play games with friends from a Sonic forum, from Doom II to Phantasy Star Online. The best of the lot was Red Alert 2 – so good in fact, that I barely actually touched the campaign missions. A large part of the fun was that we could have big games because there were quite a few of us that owned it, though I did annoy the other players because I was the only one without Yuri’s Revenge. Still, I loved using Korea’s awesome aircraft to deliver precision strikes on key enemy buildings.