Electronic Arts announced today that Command & Conquer Red Alert: Ultimate Edition, the first game in the storied Command & Conquer franchise to appear on the PlayStation3, is shipping to retailers worldwide. With improved graphics and an extensive array of exclusive bonus content, the Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Ultimate Edition takes full advantage of the PlayStation 3’s Blu-ray disc capacity.
“It was really important to us to make sure Red Alert 3 on the PS3 took full advantage of everything the system has to offer,” said David Seeholzer, Development Director at EA Los Angeles. “The additional time we’ve had allowed us to improve the PS3 version, with big performance increases and better visual fidelity. The Blu-ray disc’s storage capacity also gave us an opportunity to add a tremendous amount of bonus content, some of which is entirely exclusive for PS3 owners, making the Ultimate Edition the ultimate value.”
The Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Ultimate Edition features EA Los Angeles’ console RTS control system, the CommandStick 2.0 interface, bringing the ease and efficiency of RTS controls on the PC to the PlayStation 3. The Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Ultimate Edition is also packed full of bonus content, including exciting new multiplayer maps, behind the scenes videos and trailers, Bloopers & Outtakes, the official Red Alert 3 soundtrack, in-depth unit profiles, PlayStation 3 exclusive episodes of Command School and BattleCast PrimeTime and more!
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 shipped last fall and was recently named Best Strategy Game of the Year by the Academy of Arts and Interactive Sciences. The game introduces cooperative campaigns and an unprecedented emphasis on naval warfare to the RTS genre, while also featuring the Red Alert series’ trademark humor and the Command & Conquer franchise’s trademark live-action movie sequences, starring one of the largest and most talented ensemble casts in the history of video games, including (in alphabetical order) Gemma Atkinson, Gina Carano, Randy Couture, Tim Curry, Kelly Hu, Jenny McCarthy, Jonathan Pryce, Autumn Reeser, J.K. Simmons, Peter Stormare and George Takei.
The Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Ultimate Edition for the PlayStation 3 has been rated -˜T’ for Teen by the ESRB and -˜16+’ by PEGI.
Also today, TransGaming, Inc. announced that the MAC version of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 is shipping to retailers worldwide today and is available for digital download at www.gametreeonline.com/ea/red-alert-3/.
