Trivia / Command & Conquer: Red Alert

• Completely Different Title: The expansion packs Counterstrike, Aftermath and their Playstation version Retaliation were released respectively as "Missions Taïga", "Missions M.A.D." and "Missions Tesla" in France.
• Dummied Out:
  • An interesting variation. Some units were originally intended for the other side and later switched. The manual identifies the Radar Jammer as a Soviet unit, while in the final game it's an Allied one. The launch animation of the GPS Satellite shows a graphic of a Soviet Soyuz rocket, suggesting it was meant to be a Soviet ability and later switched to an Allied one.
  • A particularly weird one is that the Tesla Tank in the Counterstrike expansion pack is based on the sprite for the Radar Jammer, and still works as a radar jammer, the original code having apparently been left in.
  • Despite being unarmed in the actual game, the spy still has a few animation frames which show him shooting a gun. The funny thing is, those frames are actually tied into the game, which gives you an opportunity to modify the "rules.ini" file so your spies can shoot and experience no graphical goofs with that. Playing the Allied missions where the player infiltrates a Soviet nuclear missile silo makes it pretty clear why the Spy was disarmed, as an armed Spy turns the mission into a complete joke.
  • One of the weapons that isn't implemented in the game is marked as "Sniper". Modding it back into the game with the "rules.ini" file reveals it to be similar to the Commando's weapon from Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn.
• Recycled Set: Actually, a recycled green screen background reused within the same game. The Refinery and Command Center background used for Kukov's briefing in the 2nd Soviet Campaign mission is later reused in Topolov's briefing for the Austria missions of the Playstation port Red Alert Retaliation.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A leaked cutscene script from a scrapped version of the game shows a much different story. For starters, Stalin's victory culminates in Washington, D.C. being obliterated by a nuclear bomb dropped from an indestructible (thanks to the Iron Curtain) bomber teleported over the city with the captured Chronosphere.
  • The original plans for Red Alert was to make it an expansion to Tiberian Dawn, but it was decided to make it into its own game instead.

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