Command & Conquer Red Alert 3

A failing Soviet Union sends its leadership back in time to rescue the motherland, but the trip rewrites history in ways nobody planned. Technology evolves down a stranger road, and a third superpower, the Empire of the Rising Sun, appears in the East. World War III becomes a three-cornered fight between the Soviets, the Allies and the Empire, each fielding hardware that ranges from Tesla coils and armored bears to teleportation, intelligent dolphins and floating island fortresses.

This entry pushes naval warfare to the front. For the first time in the series, holding the sea matters as much as holding land or air, since ocean resources and coastal control let you press attacks from three directions at once. The Empire leans hardest into the water and into transformation, with many of its anime-influenced units shifting between alternate forms mid-battle.

The series' live-action storytelling returns, now in HD, with more than an hour of footage and the largest cast the franchise had assembled to that point. Familiar Red Alert faces like Tanya, Tesla Troopers and Sonic Dolphins fight alongside new additions, including armored War Bears and psychic schoolgirls drawn straight from the Empire's playbook.