You have to gather resources and manage your units. I would say that Command and Conquer Red Alert 2: Yuri’s Revenge is overall a better game than the base game. The gameplay has had a few changes over the standard Red Alert 2.
You can control Yuri in the multiplayer mode and it is pretty awesome, but I think being able to play the story from his point of view would have been pretty cool. My only real criticism here is that I feel there should have been a third campaign where you could play as Yuri and control his forces. The stories were very different, but the units and the way the game unfolds, in general, is very unique. I really enjoyed how different the Allies and the Soviet stories were. You have two campaigns to play through and they both have a ton of missions for you to get through. This game is pretty stacked when it comes to single-player content. Two Campaigns Are Great, But Three Would Have Been Sweet! The story unfolds very well and the cut scenes as is the case with the other games in the series are all very well done. Even now, all these years later I think that this is a game that is easy on the eyes. The presentation in the game at the time was very impressive.