A MYTH, NO!!! A bit disappointing
The war was in the 50's of the last century but we see that the sides of conflict have modern weapons like laser cannons and space things and they don't give the game the sensation of reallity it should have to be a great game.
It starts as the soviets went back in time during the first war against the allied and a new enemy has arrisen JAPAN well were was Japan in the first place, because in red alert 1 a scientist invented the time machine and went back in time and killed HITLER so there never was a war and Japan still exists, that is one of the mistakes in the red alert 3 plot and story.