Some new features :

• Has better looking Sidebar than C&C.
• Has better graphics and better cinemas than C&C.
• Can play up to 6 people in a Network.
• The AI players are much smarter, not like before.
• When playing a modem game, you can type longer messages.
• Crates are now also found underwater.
• Bridges can be blown up and rebuilt.
• The map sizes are much bigger (96x96)
• Instead downloading another hard and complicated map maker or editor, Red Alert comes with it's own just like Warcraft 2.
• You can see any video you want, anytime.
• You can build things like turrets and other attack building 4 squares apart, instead next to another building.
• Red Alert has a thing called radar jamming, in others words, the Fog of War which was in Warcraft2.
• Some missions will be timed.
• It has 3 cd's instead of 2.
• You can pick the allies(goodguys) which the countries Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, France, and England or the Soviets(badguys). Each country will have different advantages than other countries like having more money or building faster.
• Guest appearances by Einstien, Rommel and Stalin.
• Skirmish Mode: You go against 5 other computer players in multiplayer mode.
• You can make your units patrol around an area.
• One of the new Ultimate weapons:The Chronosphere?

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The New Units And Structures

Soviet and Allied Units and Structures:

Soviet Units:

Transports: Apc's both on water.
Subs: Underwater attack vehicle.
MIG's: Airborne Units that drop missiles on unsuspected units.
Spy Planes: Scouting Planes.
Cargo Planes: Airborne unit that drop paratroopers or bombs.
YAK's: Airborne unit with 2 machine guns.

Allied Units:

Cruisers: Huge ships that can fire 2 screens away.
Destroyers: Ships that can fire near the shore to protect to cruisers.
PT Boats: Ships that can attack subs.
Transports: Apc's on water.

Structures:

Flame Turrets: Turrets that shot out flames.
Tesla Coils: Fires lightning at enemy units.
Kennels: Where they keep the attack dogs.
Sub Pens: Where they keep the subs.
Land Mines: Bombs on the ground.
Tech Centers: Needed to make more advanced structures and units.
Shipyards: This is where the Allies make and keep ships.
Pill Box: A type of guard tower that blends with its surrounding.
Anti-Aircraft Guns: In other words, samsites.

Units That Both Sides Have

Hijackers: They steal the enemies vehicles.
Attack Dogs: Barks if an enemy is on the same screen, then attacks when it is close.
Spies: Dresses up as the color of the enemy and can go into the enemies base unnoticed.
Renovators: Repairs bridges and your structure.
Thiefs: Steals money from an enemy unit.
Sabotuers: Like commandoes but is a woman. let her die, she will gone from the forever.
Engineers: Like the old ones but can only take over buildings that are red.
Medics: They heal your troops.
Paratroopers: They parachute down from a cargo plane and drop to a certain place.
Jeeps: Like the humvee's, only good for scouting and moving fast.
Dump Trucks: Harvesters, except they mine either nickel, iron ore, or copper.
Mobile Gap Generators: Make al black spot on the map and screen to hide something from the enemy.
Mine Layers: They are the ones that lay mines in the area.

Units From The First C&C
Orca's: Helicopters that shoot missiles.
Attack Helicopter: Helicopter that have machine guns.
Mammoths: Huge tanks that have missiles and armed with dual 120mm cannons.
Medium Tanks: Tanks that fire armour-peircing shells.
APC's: Unit that carries men.

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