We know that the Pentagon was built in 1943 and has survived 57 years since the release of Red Alert in 2000. In Red Alert 2 mission mode, the first level of the Soviet campaign is to destroy the Pentagon.
Then, in 2001, the year after the game's release, the United States suffered the worst terrorist attack in history, the 911 incident, in which the Pentagon was attacked and part of the structure collapsed.
In the Red Alert 2 mission mode, the third level of the Soviet Army Big Apple, the task of this level is to occupy the combat laboratory located in the World Trade Center in the United States, a simple science, the World Trade Center building is composed of seven buildings. The twin towers in the World Trade Center, the two that were destroyed by planes in the 911 incident, can be clearly seen here.
Then, in the Red Alert story expansion, there is a cutscene of the Soviet army, in which there is a scene where part of the World Trade Center building is suspected to be destroyed, if you compare it with the twin towers destroyed by the 911 incident at that time: ,
The picture below is a live-action cutscene shot before the release of Red Alert 2 in 2000, suspected of the destruction of part of the World Trade Center building, and the above is the historical picture of the terrorist attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center Building in the 911 incident in 2001. If what was just mentioned is only once, and it is not obvious enough, then let's take a look at the early cover version of Red Alert 2 that has just been released, and pay attention to the lower left corner of the left picture and the upper right corner of the right picture, especially this upper right corner of the right picture, a plane flying towards the twin towers of the World Trade Center Tower.
Here you can also make a simple comparison with the real picture. Game cover image from 2000 on the left, historical events from 2001 on the right