Red Alert 3 demo on Xbox Live

By Tom Bramwell Published 28 November, 2008

2GB sampler available to Gold subs.

EA has released an Xbox 360 demo of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, although the 2GB sampler is currently only available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers.

Red Alert 3 ratchets up the silly in EA's long-running real-time strategy series but, as Quintin observed in our Red Alert 3 PC review, all the war dolphins and Tim Curries in the world can't disguise the fact it's a chaotic and entertaining update with excellent, campaign-length co-operative play.

The Xbox 360 version is currently unreviewed on Eurogamer, but we'll get to that in due course with any luck, and find out whether EA's had any more luck getting the fiddly PC genre to work on the everyman 360 pad.

Oh, and since New Xbox Experience now allows you to download stuff remotely, those of you with your 360 on at home might want to pop over to the Xbox Live Marketplace website and set it going.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • mmmmmm #1 3 years ago

    FFS, why are they still limiting it to Gold subscribers for a while? It's advertising! I WANT TO TRY YOUR GAME AND THEN MAYBE BUY IT YOU IDIOTS

  • Petulant_Radish #2 3 years ago

    It’s also another reason to have the gold subscription, in which case it’s not stupid as far as Microsoft are concerned. If you don’t want to pay it, wait a week or two and then you can download it, big deal!

  • Bealsy #3 3 years ago

    I thought it was 1.5gb?

    Also - its only to gold subscribers cos we pay. It's 75p a week for gods sake

  • mmmmmm #4 3 years ago

    It's free for me right now.

    *signs into new windows live account*

  • Thunderbolt #5 3 years ago

    Suddenly my gigabytes have become precious to me now that I'm installing games on my 20gb hard-drive.

    So a 1.5gb demo means that I will have to do some house cleaning

  • cyacomini #6 3 years ago

    well heads up Thunderbolt..

    Comet were doing the 120gb HDD for £59.99 last week - limited offer though so all gone now.

    But, I'm told that Gamestation will be doing something similar next week!

  • dazrichards #7 3 years ago

    My Live membership expired last weekend and I vowed not to reactivate it because I rarely play online. Having this demo exclusive for Live is not on frankly. btw: who leaves their Xbox on at home to download items remotely?

  • Eraysor #8 3 years ago

    I enjoyed the opening FMV and turned it off after that.

  • dazrichards #9 3 years ago

    @NickJC

    Reasoned response there. I don't play online so why should I pay £40 for a few adverts/demos? I can understand why Live isn't free, they are offering a service but stuff like demos shouldn't be exclusive to Gold members. And the perk for being a Gold member is playing online is it not?

  • Rirekon #10 3 years ago

    "I can understand why Live isn't free, they are offering a service but stuff like demos shouldn't be exclusive to Gold members. And the perk for being a Gold member is playing online is it not?"

    The perk is what ever MS decide it is, and at the moment they've decided it's playing online and (timed) exclusive demos. You're welcome to try and dictate their policies for them though, let me know how that goes for you.

  • bioreit #11 3 years ago

    @ dazrichards

    I don't leave my 360s on at home in order to pick up downloads, but I'm using he remote download feature to load the download list full of stuff I want, then just getting home and turning a 360 on and letting it do its thing while I make dinner, sort washing out, hop on the rowing machine, or whatever.

    Seeing as I normally get home about 7 or 8pm (and have to be in work by 7am so tend to be in bed by 12!), spending 10-15 minutes just queuing stuff up was a right PITA and resulted in me either a) sacrificing what actually constituted a percentage of my evening or b) not downloading stuff because I didn't have the time/inclination.

  • neil_likes_bums #12 3 years ago

    thrilling, thanks

  • actionfitz #13 3 years ago

    good job.
    now the question is: will playing this on a joypad make me want to harm myself and others - like fucking Tiberium wars (which i still havent finished on the 360 due to frustration).
    getting the PC version is a non starter for me as I refuse to pay for games with Securom / limited installs etc etc... insert verbal fist shaking at the evil EA empire blah blah balh...

    shame the aren't likely to let us use keyboard and mouse on the 360 version... its not like the machine has usb ports or anything.. oh wait...