Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is a real-time strategy (RTS) game that introduces a fully cooperative campaign and brings back the series' lighthearted style and classic, action-oriented gameplay. In the alternate timeline of Red Alert 3, World War III is being fought between three factions - the Soviets, Allies and Empire of the Rising Sun - with armies utilizing wacky weapons such as Tesla coils, heavily armed War Blimps, teleportation devices, armoured bears and transforming tanks. The Soviet Union has gone back in time to try to restore its glory by changing history but instead creates an alternative timeline where technology has evolved differently; creating new powers like Japan's Empire of the Rising Sun. Through this imaginative vision of an alternate future full of possibilities Electronic Arts asks "What if?" What if all those research projects over 70 years had paid off? What if Soviet Union survived? And what would happen if Japan's empire never fell?