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{{quote|''"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."''|'''[[Albert Einstein]]'''}}
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*** [[All There in the Manual|Supposedly]], the whole conflict is over a dwindling number of global resources and the two hemispheres are vying for whatever's left. One of the expansion packs also adds a third wheel to the war, meaning it truly is a new World War.
* ''[[Command & Conquer|Red Alert 2]]'' would probably count as World War III, in spirit if not in name; due to Einstein's [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|meddling]], "World War II" as we know it was replaced with "The Great War". However, add to that Red Alert 3 and the ''entire'' Tiberium series (which, [[Flip-Flop of God|maybe chronologically takes place]] after [[Timey-Wimey Ball|one or more of the Red Alert games]]), and the idea of a "World War" kinda loses its impact.
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* The [[All in The Manual|manual]] for the ''[[Earth 2150|Earth]]'' games reveals that WW3 was of the "everyone against everyone" variety, with most of the nations obliterated in a matter of hours by massive nuclear strikes. Due to a better anti-missile system, a decent chunk of the U.S. remained unscathed, and the remaining twelve states reformed into the United Civilized States. On the other side of the pond, a Russian army colonel took his surviving men out of the fallout shelter, walked to Mongolia and met up with the nomadic Khan tribe. Realizing the potential, he married the chief's daughter and formed the Eurasian Dynasty that conquered all of Europe and Asia.
** From the same developers came ''World War III: Black Gold'' which has the Middle East deciding to stop oil exports to the west. Naturally, the US decides to step in with military force... but somewhere around the way, the once-again Soviet Russia decides that the Middle East is in ''their'' sphere of influence and steps in. And to drive the point even further, some of the game's cutscenes were included in ''Earth 2160'''s trailer which heavily implies that this game is actually a prequel of sorts to the Earthverse and shows how the world seen in ''Earth 2140'' came to be.
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* Another World War was part of the backstory for [[Youju Senki AD 2048]]. The player is never given the details, just that a lot of nukes were used and most of the world is now completely uninhabitable for normal humans.
* The early 80s Apple II/C64 game ''Raid Over Moscow'' involves the Soviets launching nukes at major American cities, and the U.S. sending orbital space planes to take out their control centres. The very limited scale of the nuclear strikes is [[Handwaved]] by a fictional treaty where both sides were supposed to have completely eliminated their nuclear arsenals, so the Soviets had to hide theirs.
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