God, and we thought the entire Soviet Union-invades-America bit belonged to EA's Red Alert 2. Welcome to the subject of today's history lesson, courtesy of GameTrailers, which will show you how you get a Hind chopper, a BTR assault vehicle, a ZSU anti-aircraft gun, and an unmarked boatload of Red Army into Seattle Harbor circa 1989.

Yes, 1989. Since we didn't say much about the game's premise except during the game's announcement and the gameplay vid we featured, we figured we'd visit a few sites to brush up on fictional World History 101. Seems like the USSR, in its end-of-Cold War death throes, decides to invade Europe and the USA to head off their impending downfall. Movie buffs will remember this as the premise for the movie Red Dawn - gamers will remember RA2. But no Tanya to ogle here, though.

The graphics here are most likely pre-renders (maybe even live-action), unlike the gameplay vid we featured last time (unless Sierra">Sierra tells us otherwise), but it's still as eye-popping as an invasion of the homeland is mind-blowing. But like we said, it's familiar territory to Red Alert fans. This real-time tactics title from Sierra and Massive Entertainment touches down 2nd quarter next year, along with half the Soviet Army. We'll see you on the battlefield, tovarishch.