', released on October 28, 2008, followed up on the story of "Red Alert 2" and continued the series' more "light-hearted" take on "Command & Conquer". It introduced many new comical units and the Empire of the Rising Sun faction, an anime inspired version of the Empire of Japan. Executive producer Chris Corry stated in a pre-release interview that "Red Alert 3" will further differentiate the playable factions from each other and " up the silliness in their faction design whenever possible". This approach was seen as popular with "Red Alert 3" obtaining an aggregate score of 82% from Metacritic. A stand-alone expansion to "Red Alert 3", ' was released on March 12, 2009 to fairly poor reviews for the series with an average score of 64% from Metacritic. Another downloadable standalone game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 was released known as "" which contained the Commander's Challenge mode of Uprising for consoles.