As part of a promotion for the upcomming Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, EA has made the original Red Alert available as a free download. You can get both the Soviet and Allied disks from their site here. be sure to read the instructions provided on the site as there is a patch included in the downloadable archive to make the game playable in WinXP or Vista. What's more, Red alert 2 is also being made free for those that pre-order Red Alert 3 from participating retailers such as the EA Store, Gamestop, and EB Games. -- Original update published on October 1, 2008
