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Get Far Cry, Red Alert and Red Alert 2 for free (if you fancy pre-ordering)

10:04 AM on 08.30.2008, Jim Sterling 11 comments

Get Far Cry, Red Alert and Red Alert 2 for free (if you fancy pre-ordering) photo
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Electronic Arts and Ubisoft are offering some neat pre-order bonuses for the respective releases of Red Alert 3 and Far Cry 2. If you pre-order the upcoming RTS or FPS, you will be able to net yourself their prequels as DLC for absolutely nothing.

Of course, if you're interested in the sequel, you'll likely already own or have finished Far Cry or the first two Red Alert titles, but it could certainly help make a pre-order more attractive to newcomers. In the case of the first Command & Conquer: Red Alert, you won't even have to do the pre-order part, as Electronic Arts is going to offer it as free DLC to anybody who wants it. You can pick up the game from the official site tomorrow.

A rare show of philanthropy from EA there. Be wary of sinister traps.


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Riegel88's Avatar
Riegel88 at 08/30/2008 11:00
I love me some Red Alert!
Sharpless's Avatar
Sharpless at 08/30/2008 13:30
I post this only for the good of mankind:



I was a teenager in the '90s. What can I say?
thisissami's Avatar
thisissami at 08/30/2008 15:47
if there's free yuri's revenge in the pre-order, i'm definitely up for it!
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar
s0lesurviv0r at 08/30/2008 15:51
Jenny McCarthy was in a Command & Conquer game??
Sharpless's Avatar
Sharpless at 08/30/2008 16:16
@s0lesurviv0r
She's in the upcoming Red Alert 3.
RJG's Avatar
RJG at 08/31/2008 02:23
Once again, it seems like Australia gets shafted. Not only can I not buy Far Cry 2 online through digital distribution (why would they must money with shipping physical product to this ass-backward country anyway?) but the pre-order apparently isn't available with physical media either. At least not here. Fuck you, Ubisoft.
Lord The Night Knight's Avatar
Lord The Night Knight at 08/31/2008 22:43
"you will be able to net yourself their previous games as DLC for absolutely nothing."

Fixed. Prequel means something made after something else that takes place before. Those were made first, so they cannot be prequels.
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