There’s no timing on this exclusive, but you need to go download it to make it yours. Once you’ve done that though, it will remain part of your Origin collection forever — though considering this is a game released in 2000 (no matter how classic it is) this isn’t a big, costly release for EA.
Red Alert 2 was one of the last games produced by Westwood Pacific, with just a couple of more titles launched through the early 2000s, before EA, its parent company, shut it down for good in 2003. It’s good then that Red Alert 2 was so well received. It chronicles a fictional struggle between “Allied” Western nations and the Soviet Union in a war filled with lasers, attack dogs, mutants, and more outlandish weaponry.
It also features live-action cut scenes with some wonderfully hammy acting, if you like that sort of thing.
Although EA’s Origin is said to have a large install base in the many tens of millions — mostly thanks to large franchises like Battlefield — it certainly falls behind in public support and user-base compared to the likes of Steam. Although a somewhat comparable platform in terms of the service it offers, many people have found its usage a pain, as it further fragments their game collection.
How do you find EA’s Origin service, and if you haven’t used it, will a free copy of Red Alert 2 tempt you over?
