Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge

Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge is an expansion pack to Command & Conquer: Yuri's RevengeCommand & Conquer: Red Alert 2 developed by Westwood Studios. The game is centered around the idea of a shadowy figure named Yuri being able to establish a secret army of his own and pose a threat to the security of the world.


In Command and Conquer: Yuri's Revenge, the story is based around Yuri coming out of hiding to take over the world by using his Psychic Dominators to mind-control the entire populous.


Allies

The Allied story begins with a briefing in the White House. Yuri tells the American President that he will activate a network of his Psychic Dominator devices around the world, allowing him to mind control the entire planet. The United States cannot stop Yuri's network from going online. As the devices activate, the President calls for an airstrike on the Psychic Dominator on Alcatraz Island. The aircraft are shot down but one crashes onto the island and damages the device, making it temporarily non-functional. The Allies find out about a device created by Albert Einstein that allows travel backwards in time. They want to use it to go back to the beginning of the events of Red Alert 2 so that they can destroy the Psychic Dominators before they are completed.


The Allies use the time machine and are successful in going back in time. There, they start fighting Yuri's armies to destroy them and prevent the completion of the Dominators. After fighting with them on every front, Yuri's armies begin to fall back. The arrival of Allied forces from the future drastically alters the events of Red Alert 2 and causes the Soviets to ally with the Allies in order to battle against Yuri.


The Americans proceed to go to Antarctica to finish the last of Yuri's armies. They seize control of an abandoned Soviet base on the tip of South America to assist in the destruction of Yuri. With the use of both Soviet and Allied technology Yuri's armies are finished and he is locked up in a specially designed cell, equipped with a Psychic Isolation Device to prevent him from mind controlling anyone.


At that moment, the timelines of Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge begin to merge. As professor Einstein explains, "One series of events must take precedence over the other" In the new timeline, General Carville is alive and Yuri's attack never takes place.


Soviet

The Soviet story begins with the remnants of the Soviet military caught off guard by Yuri's forces as city after city falls under his control. The Soviet high-command organizes a strike team to slip into San Francisco Bay to enter the city. Once there, they manage to steal the Allied Time machine to reverse history and save the future (and alter it to the Soviets' pleasure).


After the time shift, the Soviet army takes special papers back to Moscow to have the Soviet leadership review them and properly stop Yuri. The first objective of the Soviets is to invade Germany to stop the efforts of Albert Einstein who is constructing a device to teleport Allied troops to Moscow to stop Soviet military aggression [2]. After the Allies surrender to the Soviets, the next target on the list is Yuri.


The Soviets fight Yuri's forces in decisive battles, from London, to Casablanca, and even to the Moon. They eventually corner Yuri in his hideout in Transylvania, where they hope to finish him once and for all. After an assault on the Physic Beacons controlling both a Soviet and an Allied base, the castle is successfully destroyed [3]. However, Yuri was not in the castle at the time. A special transmission shows that Yuri captured the time machine and attempted to escape by travelling back in time.


However, this is thwarted by Soviet intelligence, who quickly use all of the power reserves of the time machine, stranding Yuri in the Cretaceous Period. It is then implied that Yuri is eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex. With Yuri's destruction assured, the Soviets begin to expand Communism into the far reaches of space.via


The intro video of Command and Conquer: Yuri's Revenge


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