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Discuss this interview here.
I wonder if I'm the only one who can say that I got into this because of John Christopher. (Well, first published AH I read, anyway)."I got into this due to Turtledove" seems to come up a lot!
"I got into this due to Turtledove" seems to come up a lot!
With video games like that, it's excessive divergences, which is understandable because that's what makes for a better actual game.
The people who got into AH because of Red Alert are generally people like me who hate it when people associate the series with the terrible third game and the Tim Curry meme. The first game is certainly more grounded in at least 'TV AH' levels of plausibility.People definitely aren't fondly remembering the Red Alerts and Curry going "SPAAAAYYSSS!" because of their grounded plausibility
The first game is certainly more grounded in at least 'TV AH' levels of plausibility.
The original listed faction options for the Allies in skirmish mode were "England", France and Germany. The remake has added Spain and Greece, reflecting the personnel we see in story. The manual notes the Allies operate as a 'modified military junta' perhaps signifying something about regimes like Spain and Greece - it might be a military coup in the Weimar Republic as well. America is conspicuous by its absence, except in the accents of the ordinary soldiers who might well be international volunteers (and Red Alert 2, tonally different as it is in many ways, does clearly say the US doesn't join the Allies till the end or after the end of the war).I am more curious about the world than canon can probably manage that in the cutscene vids of game 1, the Allied supreme commander is a German and his 2IC is Greek, no Brits or Americans (though I understand an American shows up in expansion packs)