Revealed not too long ago via an ESRB listing, EA are indeed readying an XBLA rendition of the Red Alert series called Red Alert 3: Commander's Challenge.
The Command and Conquer games have always been some of the best real time strategy games for the Xbox 360 console. The new Commanders Challenge on XBLA is like a walk with a familiar friend if you played any of the Command and Conquer games. It is a new way to play an old favorite it doesn't have any new gameplay systems to figure out and that means it is easy to learn for a beginner and more importantly it is still challenging for a veteran of the game.
A little over 15 years ago, Westwood Studios introduced the PC world to Command & Conquer. Skip ahead to today, six years after EA got their hands on C&C, and a year after the release of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3. Commander's Challenge, a pseudo-expansion to Red Alert 3, has finally come along on Xbox Live, but it has a few features that are bizarrely missing in action that may keep players who enjoyed Halo Wars and Red Alert 3 from picking it up.
NZGamer writes: "Red Alert 3 as an XBLA game? Surely this will be a very simplified version of the game, or maybe even a completely different style of game using the Red Alert franchise? Red Alert mini-games perhaps?
To my surprise, Commander's Challenge is a full, stand alone expansion to the Red Alert 3 universe. Basically this is a very large extra mission pack, and you don't need to have Red Alert 3 to play it."
