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Red Alert 3 was one of the most expected titles of last year’s holiday season, as fans were eager to see where one of the most beloved series in the Command & Conquer series would take the story. The hype campaign surrounding it was unprecedented, with the team at EA Los Angeles pulling out all the stops to promote its games, bringing in big celebrities to star in its trademark cut scenes and story clips. Now, as the dust has settled on the original game, the team has released via digital download the PC-exclusive standalone expansion, Red Alert 3: Uprising, which picks up where the first title left off.

One could argue that there are two significantly different periods in the history of the Total War series, as created by Creative Assembly: there are the first two games, Shogun and Medieval, where the strategic map is more of an excuse for players to get into the innovative (at that time) and beautiful tactical battles, and then there are the last three, Rome, Medieval 2 and the recently released Empire, where the tactical battles and strategic map are equally important, leading some players to even ignore the previous releases altogether, playing the entire game as some sort of period-themed empire builder. Empire is a fine balancing act between the overall strategy and the tactical battles, with a better Artificial Intelligence than its predecessors and with a diplomatic system that works just a little better

There’s a bitter war between the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, as, although the Japanese console has the advantage of hardware power, it hasn’t been backed up by many game designers like its North American counterpart.