The player controls his or her units from a top-down view in the real time. The story campaign includes a civil war in Korea, a Chinese invasion of the Russian Far East, a conflict over British-occupied Hong Kong, a Kuril islands border conflict, and a Soviet invasion of Korea. The player controls various factions, both from Eastern and Western bloc. In the campaign mode, its timeline covers the 1970s, 1980s, and up until 1996. Wargame: Red Dragon follows a series of fictional yet plausible conflicts between the various countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Its campaigns are based on alternate history concepts.
Wargame: Red Dragon is the second part in Wargame series and a sequel to Wargame: AirLand Battle.