The sheer, exquisite shenanigans of Red Alert 3
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Also can confirm, LA is the propaganda hub
Oop they have aviators. I'm in.
Thanks for the amazing content. You've covered Apex, Btd6, and CNC which are all the favorite games. My brother and I are always excited to watch you're videos together. Could you do cnc zero hour next?
I AM ACTIVILY LAUGHING MY ASS AND AIR OFF....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
sry for the double post, but they NEED to bring back this C&C series starting with a red alert series because it would bring deem all back with the same sorta cheese (and MAYBE a little more balance...lolz).
"Thank you for the new shoes." - gla worker from zero hour
When you create a line so outrageous, that even Tim Curry can’t get a good take out without holding back laughter… you know you’ve created a masterpiece.
SPAICE!
For real man, i played RA3 for the first time last year (I was a wee 7 year old when it came out) but Damn that SPAYCE line had me in tears
A line so immensely cheesy and ridiculous the man behind the makeup just fucking corpses on so many takes one he just barely holds it together for is somehow the best......fuck I need to play red alert 3 again.
First time seeing it, third time seeing it, forty-seventh time seeing it, oh man, every time that line has me in tears!!! You know Tim Curry had all of the fun filming RA3.
That was funny as hell to see him stifle a laughter XD
The best part of playing Red Alert 3 as a kid is coming back to the cutscenes as an adult and realising they only got better with age.
Playing this vs the original Command and Conquer is really funny because when the first one came out everyone thought FMV was the future but by Red Alert 3 they knew that is was a dying set of cheese. They also knew what sells was over the top acting and super models
It's ages like milk. Into chees
Like fine wine there Goofy shenanigans just got even funnier to watch
Fucking hell, you gotta play RA2.
@@nilus2kand porn stars 😊
"You are made of stopid"
This line never fails me to laugh
i dont remember coming across that line.....is that a fail state line?
@@sandyk9300yes it's Japan fail but don't remember which mission
"Your intellect is as weak as your American Dollar." - George Takei as Emperor Yoshiro.
EA took the concept of "So bad, it's good" and made an entire game around it...
Despite it being EA, you have to give them props for making such a risk, because it paid off!
Soviet march is one of, if not the most iconic pieces of RTS music ever made. It’s broken free from the game, the genera, and even games in general to become one of *the* definitive pieces of “Soviet” music
when i opened the game i was like wait THIS is where it's from
Radio TAPOK's cover is probably the best to have the music and actual lyrics.
I remember attending a small-town wrestling event, and out came a heel wrestler playing up the evil Russian bad guy gimic. Guess what his entrance music was? The Soviet March theme from Red Alert 3😄
heard it played in a matryoshka themed amusement park in China (by the Russian border). I burst out laughing.
The fact that one of the best known pieces of "Soviet" music was made more than fifteen years after the USSR fell will never not be amusing to me.
you can also destroy EA's headquarters in the rising sun campaign. i think they knew what they were doing.
What? How? Where?
@@fapfapfap1892 all i know is that it's a mission in LA for the rising sun. haven't got to playing it because i've been playing generals evolution which requires base red alert 3.
Mid way through the Empire campaign you have a mission invading the Southern California coast where EA Los Angeles HQ is a hostile civilian building. Pretty funny stuff
@@HinokasArabfan1 first time I've heard about generals evolution and now I'm considering redownloading RA3 to try it out
Would you say it's worth?
@@ogAdoptedfatty really depends on you. You want to play generals in HD and don't mind a couple of missing units? Get it. If not, wait until it's complete. Still missing units and specialized units. And the commandos are also missing BTW. Jarman is not here in this mod.
I worked at EA during that time and did a bit of work on this game. One fun fact was that the mission where Japan attacked with a giant robot was originally planned to be Mecha Godzilla but Toei Japan wanted too much for the rights so we couldn't put that easter egg in. The game was always about making it fun over balance and it was a highlight as one of my favorite games during that time there. It felt like the real emphasis was on the single player and multiplayer was there just to mess around with your friends and never to be taken seriously as competitive.
It's a shame a lot of companies and teams these days focus on multiplayer first.
I always thought some of the most fun RTS games weren't the most balanced ones. Thats what killed the genre for a lot of people was that so many games wanted to be a hyperbalanced, competative E-Sport. Not to say those dont have their place but if thats all thats available then it gets kinda stale.
Ahh.. so that EA RTS e-sport tv program was indeed a mistake
@@RenegadeVilebecause money is in multi-player games. Not single player games. As someone who seen the glory days of Generals, Zero Hour Red Alert 2, CoD4 Modern Warfare. Fucking Crysis that became a meme before meme became a thing... damn wasn't that fun
And ironically, it has the most thriving multiplayer scene of any C&C game
The pause Tim Curry takes, trying not to laugh outwardly, before he says "SPACE" is just exquisite
$20 says the whole room erupted with laughter as soon as the director yelled "CUT" 🤣
@@KaneLivesInDeathand the best part was that this was their best take after many other recordings.
@@mercenarydelta7351 I'm quite sure all the cutscenes only had one take.
@@KaneLivesInDeath nah, from what I read they had many takes, and in many he didn't crack
But why would you pick a "boring" standard delivery over SPAICE! 🤣
The "You are made of stooped" always gets me
I really like the Uprising expansion too. They went completely insane with the units in that. Empire of the Rising Sun gets a huge warship that turns into a flying robot head. The units are so unbalanced, it doesn't even have a multiplayer.
I think it has multiplayer, but nobody is playing it
@@Honzik207 it does not you are mistaken
There are mods fore ra3 that bring in the new uprising units which can be played in multiplayer via CNC online. But yeah, uprising doesn't have a multiplayer, although it has a pretty neat challenge mode, kinda similar to the one from CNC Generals.
@@Utubesuperstar The multiplayer for xbox360 still works I did a hard campaign run with my friend a little while ago. Like Jan said, no one plays it.
I know its not pc but still it is up in some places
@@mr_h831 the red alert 3 campaign? it is not hard at all
Red Alert is such an interesting series:
Red Alert 1was entirely serious, with a genuinely great portrayal of just WHY Stalin was so dangerous, with his mixture of personal charm and cold-blooded murder.
Red Alert 2 mixed that seriousness together with camp, where terrible things (like nuking Chicago) are mixed together with parodies of Hollywood actors (which EA took out and replaced because they're cowards,) gunning down psychic soldiers in the streets.
Red Alert 3 managed to break Tim Curry, and it will always be one of my favorite games for that, even if I'm not quite fast enough to appreciate the gameplay.
Ah yes the Serious Stalin that was a womanizer and was lead along by Kane all the way :x
It was the most serious RA (though tib dawn played it even more serious imho) but i wouldnt call it entitely serious.
RA 1 was a decent testbed and starting point for the series, RA 2 was that perfect balance between serious and camp while rocking what I consider to be the most kickass soundtrack of all C&C games, and RA 3 was so bad and cheesy that if they had not gone all-in on it, it would have been a bad thing.
RA 3 is not my favorite of the series (I think you can guess which one my favorite is), but I cannot help but like just how enjoyably bad it is (or is it badly enjoyable?). Frankly, if you can enjoy a bad movie that leans into the bad like D.E.B.S. (which I do - and I recommend watching it at least once), you are probably going to enjoy RA 3.
Actually, RA2 is more campy than RA3 ever was.
tbh all the red alert games wasnt serious at all
@@Bogson_Mcgorne RA1 is mostly serious. The Soviet campaign begins with them casually discussing the effects of nerve gas used on civilians :O
4:55 "So anyways, the russians... invent time travel." That is a hard cut that I was NOT expecting, actually made me spit out my tea haha
I second the part about voice lines being important to RTS. Without a shred of a doubt. In fact, I think most rts has an iconic unit line that once mentioned would immediately tell you what game it came from:
"You want a piece of me boy"
"GLA postal service"
"My fate is my shield"
" Kirov reporting"
" Zug zug"
Nothing stop the mail
Isn’t it ‘my faith is my shield’? And also IS THAT AN F-IN WARLORDS BATTLECRY III REFERENCE?!?
PROSTAGMA
"Space Marines! ATTAAAAACK!!!"
"I love to Camp"
“Empire of the rising sun” is one of the most badass faction names in any series rivalling even “The brotherhood of NOD”
I think it was a real name for a while
*Empire of The Hand*
**observe**
My 2 favorite factions tbh.
That's what Japanese called themselves
Even the Brotherhood would NOD in agreement.
Its absolutely criminal you never mentioned the Shogun Executioner, the 3 headed 2 massive katana wielding campaign unit as big as a skyscraper that gets healed by electricity.
Nothing exemplifies the weaponized awesome of the game better
thought this said shotgun executioner and went "where shotgun"
@@Nixahma the shotgun executioner executes shotguns
Half my time playing RA3 as a kid was in the shogun levels of the Empire campaign
14:21 This is 100% true. I played all the C&C games with my dad all the time as a kid, not played one in probably 15 years, but I’ll never forget:
“(Russian accent) Rubber shoes in motion.” from the shock troopers
“Ah’ll git mah wrench.” and “Haaaawt DAWG!” from the engineers
“Shake it, baby!” from Tanya
Bricky: "What else is on the moon? No atmosphere!"
Me, an intellectual: "Yuri. Yuri is on the moon."
The sheer amount of nostalgia from this game is enough to give me a heart attack
What? How? Where?!
Sameee. Played it all the time as a kid
@@fapfapfap1892 it was a simpler time back then
rip
You make me feel old. Cause for me RA3 is still the new shit, since I've played a lot of RA1 and 2. Not Yuri's Revenge though, I don't know how that happened
I love how Bricky laughs so much about the changing of history through the elimination of Albert Einstein, but in the RA universe, it makes sense. In RA 1, Einstein himself travels back through time to kill Hitler before his rise to power. There was no WW 2 in the RA universe. Instead, the Soviets became too strong and ambitious, and the Allies had to fight them. Einstein realized his role and (IIRC) designed some weapons for the Allies. Allies victory is cannon in game one, Stalin died, and premier Romanov (yes, of the Tzar dynasty) was put in his place. By the time of RA 2, the Soviets are once again power hungry, and invade Europe once again. The US wants to nuke them, but that plan is thwarted through the help of a mind controlling person (Yuri). Then, once again, Einstein designs many weapons for the allies. Namely, the Prism tower, the Chronosphere and the Weater control device. Anything high tech the Allies have, Einstein made it. So, in RA universe, it makes sense that the death of Einstein before he could design such weapons would swing the balance of power in the Soviet favor, considering it was the prism towers that helped save the Pentagon, and that Chronosphere was used to teleport units into the Kremlin for the final victory.
What a rollercoaster.
In red alert 2 they invade the United States not Europe. The majority of missions on both campaigns take place in America and they both visit locations like New York DC and Moscow.
ah yes, the RA2 story arc was something. RA3 really goofed up things, but it's not like it wasn't goofy before, and I love it. Also, Einstein for the win, the Chronosphere is powerful, but *boy,* remember the weather control machine? Also, RA2 had the best special "powers" IMO, like the Soviet nuclear silo and the aforementioned Chronosphere. Also Tanya
But that advantage is short lived for two reasons
Aside from the obvious Empire of the Rising Sun, the scientist who made the Russian time machine defected to the Allies and helped FutureTech make the Prism Towers and Chronosphere anyway
I just read this in absolute awe. What even did I just read.
Personally, it's a great choice they ended up making Red Alert and Tiberium Wars so different, making it so they cater to two different kinds of RTS players so they don't directly compete for a playerbase.
Oddly enough, it used to be the other way around, Tiberian games used to be all about the micro and Red Alert used to be all about the macro :P
“You are made of stupid.” I don’t know why but that sent me into such a giggle fit
You can see the light re-enter Bricky's eyes when he says he hasn't spoken about the music. And for good reason those tracks SLAP!
I still boot up that damn Soviet theme......god damn it that stuff slaps
@@jerryjezzaberry5009 Hell March is a godly track, but my favorite C&C track still has to be No Mercy.
@@VallornDeathblade The best part is there's so many variations of Hell March now that it's hard to get bored of them. I honestly can't decide which I prefer out of Hell March 2, 3 or the Retaliation remix version. Classics, all of them.
You could honestly put any track from that game in the montage, and it wouldn't surprise me. Every single Red Alert game has just been full of absolute bangers. I highly recommend you check out "Brain Freeze - Remastered" by the Tiberian Sons. That fucking drum solo, holy shit.
After 10 years i still can't get "DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES TOO ? " out of my head
SANITY IS FOR THE WEAK
SHATTER THEIR SKIES
I FEEL THE WARP OVERTAKING ME! IT IS A GOOD PAIN!
Oh, that's from Dawn of War :)
My favourite is "From the eye of terror, we come to kill"
I love how Tim can't finish the line without laughing lol
Remember, that's also the best take.
Or they thought it was so funny and fit the cheese of the series that they used that take @gildedphoenix
The Guardian tank voice acting was so good that I immediately recognized it when Vander made his first utterance in Arcane.
Oh SHIT! I knew I knew his voice from somewhere!
Tim Curry's acting is just 10/10. Masterpiece, especially when he couldn't even hold his laughter 😂
I love this game, played the Uprising and completed all challenge. Can say this game is fun, even though it's not balanced... I mean RA2 Yuri is not balanced but still a lot of fun
What's more Chaotic is that Red Alert 3 has some mods that Destroys the Balance for more fun.
some Modifications has Tier 4 Units and so on.
Yeah it's that. 🤣
Red Alert 3 actually changed a lot from Red Alert 2 in terms of mechanics, especially when it comes to harvesting resources. I'd say Red Alert 2's harvesting mechanics better than Kane's Wrath, but they have the same basic philosophy.
Why do you think it's better than kane's wrath? Felt very similar to me
@@ogAdoptedfatty red alert 2 is goated
@@ogAdoptedfatty there is no need for annoying silos.
The games before RA2 all had silos and if they were full then the money you would get from the disappears into thin air, in C&C 3 and KW they've changed it into the harvester waiting until you have capacity.
Well harvesting in red alert 2 is fundamentally different between the 3 factions, allies can only harvest half as much ore and can't defend themselves but they can teleport back to any refinery making travel time non existent, the soviets get to defend their harvesters and carry more and can become actually effective units when vet and then yuri just has an entire mobile refinery with not one large miner but 5 mini miners that needs to deploy and can defend itself making him the best to steal resources with but also destroying the miner gets the player some peons to use
@@Litterbugtaylor You forgot to mention the broken meta of yuri mutating lowly initiates and slaves into brute then sending them to the grinder, effectively granting them stable income.
Red Alert 3 is the video game equivalent of a schlocky B movie.
The…Toxic Avenger of video games, if you will
The Century Bomber voice is 100% a reference to Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove, just as the Century itself is an homage to the B-52.
the voice line section you talked about is so true, it immediately reminded me of all of the iconic voice lines that I can still remember from C&C Generals. "GLA postal service" is something I'm never gonna forget.
There's no beating General's voice lines.
Kirov reporting
"Boomer systems operational"
Okay okay I will worker.
KING FLOCH
The voice lines and story are what keeps this game alive. My nostalgia keeps me hostage, by selectively deleting the cryocopters from my memories. All in all thank you Bricky for covering this uncut and wacky gem of a game!
Judging by the aspects that you like about both Kane's wrath and RA3 I would love to see your take on their direct predecessors (Tiberian Sun & RA2) and compare them to each other.
I initially thought the Empire was overpowered purely due to the fact that rocket angels deal an INSANE amount of damage, and Yuriko (or something like that) just crushes everything... But the fourth mission for the Empire's campaign has permanently solidified that the cryo copters are outright broken. Even worse is that the enemy AI will spam these little shits in every single water based mission.
Seriously, the allies just straight up wreck me every time (also, Athena cannons are scary).
12:01 this is also why I called the Starcraft Protoss, the Japanese of the three race. Highly advanced, declining population, sheer badassery and having a hard time to let go of outdated tradition.
_the whole "honor" and banzai charges thing_
@@The-jy3yq Tassadar in the first game literally banzai'd the Overmind. "Executor I will steer the Ganthritor into a collision course with the Overmind"
pretty sure they were inspired by Paladin archetypes too... at least the Khalai. most of their stuff is super tanky, in your face, but no cheap or dirty tricks, no dishonorable combat. and when you think of the fact that the average zealot is like 7 8 ft tall, almost purely muscle despite their skinny frames, and with their armor they can weight almost as much as a space marine. oh, and they're all pretty much space wizards too. and that is not counting their super advanced tech which is also almost like magic.
like, protoss in lore are REALLY intimidating. they RESTRICT themselves too, out of honor or being afraid of their own war machines and such. tal darim dont build or innovate much, just steal, otherwise theyd take over in a heartbeat, as power hungry as they are
build more pylons
*_cough_* 40k Aeldari *_cough_*
So I was quite literally a child when I first played Red Alert 2, and I still boot it up every few months. It's the only RTS I've consistently played and I play it extremely casually, exclusively in singleplayer, so I don't know how good it is from the perspective of someone that seriously plays RTS's, BUT, if your favorite part of Red Alert 3 is the over-the-top b-movie cheesiness, then I BEG you to try RA2:
- The main overarching villain is a Russian mad scientist that specializes in mind control
- His faction in the DLC is basically "The Horror B-Movie Army"
- The acting and story is just as, if not more, cheesy
- The soundtrack is an absolute banger, in fact I personally prefer most of the music in RA2 than in 3(At the very least, I recommend looking up the songs Power, Fortification, or Industrofunk)
Also the tech upgrades and a lot of the special abilities were introduced in 3, 2 is a lot simpler. Usually if a troop has a secondary ability it's them switching to some areal denial mode, like GI's hunkering down or Desolaters nuking a small radius, or if they carry troops it's them offloading whoever their carrying(again, I'm super casual so sorry if there's other terms for that).
oh and you get to fight DINOSAURS!! RA2 is trully a masterpiece. The only thing i hate there - there is no A-move option
@@nemesisnidhoggr1468 attack move option? i think its the CTRL button like in Generals.
@@odyseehasdislikesyoutubesu1892 ctrl is force fire the targeted point. So you will have your units just shooting the ground. There is some tricky ways with ctrl+shift+lmb and spamming S to stop units for attack. But it's a workaround, rather than a Attack-move option.
Just most of the units can attack while moving. But they dont move, stop to attack and continue to move
and then there's mental omega mod, best mod ever!
thoo like in the video said it needs better voice lines in units. the reason I don't play the new faction.
Disagree with your 3rd point, acting in RA2 is much more serious than RA3, some on par with the mainline C&C series. Well, at least the Soviets are funnier than Allies, but just because Romanov and Vladimir are fun guys.
"Battle Ground of the Bear", "Soviet March", "Hell March" and "Mecha Storm" is some of the most Favourite and Epic OST that I've heard in this game, sadly I don't know much OST from the Allies since I mainly play those factions but damn.
The fucking "Miyo, Mikado, Yo Shi no!" in Mecha Storm that roughly translate to "Behold, The Emperor of Death!" is just fucking epic Af 👌.
Honestly, you make a very good point. I have never seen Red Alert 3 for what it is, a parody, actors just having a blast with their ridiculous voice lines, and I never gave it the credit it deserved.
Red Alert 3 is one of those games with a spooky af skill curve. With kanes wrath once you learn how to properly harvest, you can pretty much handle most before being thrusted into rush strats.
Ra3.... good luck. It took me a while to be able to 1v1 Brutal Oleg as Allies and not loose. (Without double racks rush.)
Yeah. Cryo Copters are something that once you master, the game is broken. Fuck you Oleg. (but rip my dude)...
Ah. The elusive Possum Man makes his appearance. You'll look great alongside my Squats gallery.
@@trazyntheinfinitearchivist7866
Orikan says booooo BOOO Trazyn for what you did to Serenade. BOOOO
@@OzMediaOfficial I left the tomb intact! What else do you want from me?
@@trazyntheinfinitearchivist7866
An entire planet and culture died for the giggles of releasing a genestealer. BOOOOO!!!!
(No but seriously, its was extremely odd grieving for a planet once it was lost.)
@@OzMediaOfficial Let's be honest. It WAS really funny...
I highly suggest trying out Generals Zero Hour, definitely on par with Kanes Wrath with the refinement of a great game with the specialized factions and mechanics.
And the voicelines are so funny!
Oh, yeah. They had the balls to go over-the-top 90's action movie level with the stereotypes there too.
Self-aware offensive humor is the shit. Graphics didn't age well but it was ton of fun, especially with the Zero Hour expansion.
So many of those GLA voice lines still live rent free in my head.
Still think of
“AK47s FOR EVERYONE!”
constantly
"THANK YOU FOR THE NEW SHOES"
@@ohwhatawaytogo8802 don't forget the shoes hahaha
I've watched this video like 20 times so far. And each time I say "maybe this time he'll mention the Bullfrog"
Athena Canon voice lines and delivery is what made me just fall in love with RA3. I still remember when I heard that call center and I couldn't believe my ears... IT'S A F*ING CALL CENTER.
I was pained when you said you haven't had the pleasure of playing red alert 2. Absolute masterpiece.
Yeah... Red Alert was already time manipulating goofy ass shit. And it was the best.
I heavily recommend C&C Remastered. It's a bunch of the original devs and the OG band who did all the music coming together to update the sound, the graphics, but leave the gameplay almost unchanged. It's a fantastic view of where these series both started and one of the most faithful remasters out there. It's also an official release from EA of all people.
man EA even said CnC remastered was such a success they asked petroglyth if they would do more, unfortunatly they're busy with their own projects at the moment.
@@keaganhainsworth1245 a shame, but theres always hope theyll come back to it someday
@@keaganhainsworth1245 They'll probably be back to remaster either RA1 or C&C2 when they're 90% done with whatever they're currently working on. At least if their last self developed titles are anything to go by.
Really hope they get them to remaster tiberian sun and red alert 2
Man, can't wait to you get to Generals, that is the fusion between Red Alert and Tiberium.
The silly stereotyping of Red alert and the seriousness of Tiberium.
My favorite line is when GLA Angry mob unit gets the AK-47 tech.
"AK-47 FOR EVERYONE!"
*Screams of joy!*
Roads? How boring!
**AAAYYEEEEEEE**
Shower Anyone?
There's enough for everybody!
(GLA Toxin Tractor)
Yo guys don't forget the "GLA postal service" 😂🤣
*MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA* (Scud Launcher)
Can I have some shoes? (Worker)
13:28 somebody in the studio was having fun recording voice lines
The incredible voices aren't at all limited by language, personally i play in spanish and a lot of the C&C Kane's Wrath and Red Alert 3 voices are amazing and iconic, it made me look up the voice actors and i recognize them on anything i play.
14:05 "Imagine being put on hold mid-game"... THAT IS PRACTICALLY WHAT IT'S ABILITY DOES.
Bricky hits like a nostalgic nuclear bomb chronoshifted from America to Eastern Europe
Slowly but surely, we're turning him more Slavic by the day
To describe how great RA2 and YR as a game, I probably just need to quote TVTropes:
"Red Alert grows beyond being an expy of the Tiberium Saga with this installment and many interesting gameplay additions are introduced. The Lighter and Softer camp elements add charm without completely derailing the game. The invasion of mainland USA scenario is as good as it gets. Stalin is hard to replace as a villain, however, though at least Yuri is a close second."
RA3, on the other hand, went complete camp and it's just hard to take it seriously.
7:49 The ancient modem connection sound had me LMAO.. PERFECTLY placed. Omg that is glorious. Thank you sir.
I do love the fact the actors had a lot do fun in this, and that they keep it. It made it unique, instead of just another generic war sad thing
8:01
"You are made of Stupid" -George Takei
voice lines in rts is one of the key aspects of it being a memorable game, it's been 10 years since i last played CnC Generals, and i still remember the technical, the gatling tank, the overlord tank, and of course, the *GLA POSTAL SERVICE*
C&C has generally had amazingly cheesy voice lines since Red Alert 2 and the soundtracks have always been amazing. You really should check out the Frank Klepacki soundtracks from the older games. Generals also has a great soundtrack even though that was the first time they used another composer than Frank. Honestly I find that C&C3's soundtrack is by far the weakest, something kind of fixed with KW.
Red Alert 1 , 2, 3 had a solid soundtrack AND voice lines, totally unforgetable. Generals as well. A news channel in my country even used the Generals soundrack for the "serious moment" segments!
F.Y.I. There's a Generals mod for red alert 3 that came out, like, last year? That's how beloved it is by fans.
ra3 soviet march is a master piece.
Great vid! I've played both RA3 and RA2 and the thing about RA2 is that it wasn't as micro-heavy as RA3.
RA2's gameplay is actually closer to Kane's Wrath (fewer single unit ability and the use of fields of resources instead of single depots) which made it simple and holds up today to some C&C fans like me.
The music in the Red Alert series was always exceptional. Theres a reason Hell March was remade twice after the original
Red Alert 3 was phenomenal lol. The dialogue being carried out by some of the greatest actors in the business at the time is one of the best choices they could have made lol.
George's "You are made of stupid" might just be the greatest burn of all time.
This man has to review generals and red alert 2, basically the best games out of the series for so many people for so many different reasons
The funny thing about voicelines in RTS games is that the ones in Red Alert 2 actually helped me with learning English back then, as I would just keep repeating them
I just got recommended your video about left for dead versus out of no where and then checked the rest and you are just the type of channel I really like.
Easy sub man.
My fave voice line was the Soviet Engineer's "I once was professor." No idea why but it sticks with me to this day.
Surprised you didn't talk about the Red Alert 3: Uprising.
They added a crazy challenge mode that to this day I haven't completed along with a bunch of new units and cast of characters for each faction.
I think with RedAlert3 the campaign is also worth mentioning (not just the videos), simply because you can play the story together with a buddy. I'm not a good player myself when it comes to online multiplayer, so I like to play games against the AI, but such games quickly lack variety. But a campaign with its own peculiarities, sometimes limited technology, sometimes no base, or special conditions and events apart from destroying all enemy units and buildings and then doing it all with two people, yes, more of that, please. Even though I like the Tiberium universe more than the RedAlert universe (apart from the fourth part, fuck you Tiberian Twilight *cough* sorry), RedAlert3 has a little special place in my heart precisely because of the 2-player campaign.
C&C Generals is my favorite of the series and I still play it regularly to this day.
I remember playing this game with friends years ago. I always got taken out first cause I mained the Rising Sun and my friends knew how horrifying I could be with Imperial Navy, that and Yukiko Omega can be horrifying.
Its hard being the best player in a more than 2 person game, cause then they team up on you. Its the wizard duel paradox.
It's Yuriko, which is interesting because apparently it means daughter of Yuri or something along those lines in Japanese.
@@jjkrayenhagen OOOh yeah Yuri was great in Red alert 2
@@jjkrayenhagen Be one with Yuri
Level 2 Allied can deal with Yuriko as spies in multigunners are able to snipe her if you have two available.
MAN I LOVED RA3. The micro heavy nature of the game made 1v1 games always feel fast paced and awesome. never a dull moment never a time when you weren't fighting over oil derricks, killing harvesters or grabbing key building garisons. it was so fun and fast.
I've never played this game. Yet I return to this video every like 3 months or so when I want to have a laugh. And every single time I discover a new joke I missed before. Bricky is just built different
Tiberium is Sci-Fi Thriller. Red Alert is Political Comedy with a side of Science Fantasy.
18:27 It wasn't that way at all in the beginning. RA had 0 micro, RA2 they started playing around with it but it was limited to certain infantry. Yuri's revenge had a few more things in it and I feel really hit the balance in that regard well. You could still do your traditional "doom stacks" with 20 some prism tanks one shotting everything in existence, but you could just as easily do the same with 3 different unit combinations depending on the situation. It's biggest downfall was that without super weapons the games never end and with them games degrade into lobbing them at each other until one side fails to protect or rebuild from them fast enough.... or they got engineer rushed out of the gate. Ahh the good ole days.
It really does struck me that RA2 has the most superweapon dependency compare to any other CnC games. Wonder if its because the game has become essentially balanced between the army dominating as easily as they are dying, the fact that base building recovery after an attack is an ease, or because they're simply lacking in the one click options
My names Dominic too. Got spooked because he had the same icon lol.
Soviets against Omg a good microed battle fortresses is a night mare I once saw a game 3 v 3 one side was all Soviets and let's just say with only two elite battle forts against a massive spam of tanks siege choppers terror drones and infantry the two battle fortress managed to stop everything lol (the Soviets won that game btw thanks to the siege choppers picking off buildings while the battle forts are distracted) it was a fun game anyway but the fact that battle fortresses for as tough and powerful as they are are actually faster than apocalypse tanks always gave me a laugh
22:45 I think that's Bricky's weekend sorted right there...
Research. Its for research purposes.
My favorite line from the dreadnaught:
"If only Lenin could see us now..."
the one line every command and conquer player shas to know is from red alert 2 though: "kirov reporting"
"IF LENIN COULD SEE US NOW"
Red Alert 3 was meant to be a competitive RTS, it was EA effort to challenge and defeat Starcraft 2. Thats why its so hard (because you need to do actual strategy to win), thats why collecting resources is this hard.
It was an effort to streamline the gameplay make it faster paced. just look at ra2 by comparison where you often need to micromanage your harvesters to maximize early income so you can get to the part of the game where you play with your tanks. Ra3 cuts out that middleman and lets you set up tanks in the first 3 minutes without having to stop to build harvesters. Of course income is also much lower. I think you need at least 4 refineries to run a non-barracks production queue nonstop.
@patrickchinka they lost one on one to a tank. They are tough but their DMG is terrible.
Bricky single handedly bringing RTS back
someone has to
Now we just need him to tackle Supreme Commander and our return to glory will truly begin
I'm going to be honest with you bricky. I only recently started watching your content (starting with your amazing l4d versus video) and it's been really revitalizing. Last year I lost all my "friends" due to some unfortunate circumstances but, watching your content sort gives off the vibe I used to feel when I was hanging out with them and it's been really uplifting for my mood. Thank you Bricky for coming back out of nowhere.
I get that vibe
7:20 i love this moment and the further absurdity of what is happening!
"Vote for me, if you want to live." One of my favorite lines of the game. Sigh, I miss it.........
The OG Red Alert was the first game I’ve ever played and C&C always will have a special place in my heart and seeing Bricky talk about these great games brings back so many awesome feelings!
ACKNOWLEDGED
I think the simplicity of the harvesting and the generation of ressources is ment to shift the foxus of some gameplay elements. Harvester harass is strong in all kind of gasmes that have active ressources generation, however in RA3 the simplicity of gathering shifts your focus and purpose in the context of harvesting to defense. two or three anti air turrets in the right locations can defend very well against vindicators or twinblades, where a singe anti infatnry turret kills the soviet bots good enough.
I always loved how the red alert story is extremely goofy, the gameplay is also pretty damn enjoyable.
Playing "Soviet March" from Bluetooth speakers in the boys locker room for PE is something I will really miss about school...
Having had Red Alert 3 and the expansion be the only classic-esque RTS that I have played through my childhood, I can attest that the shenaniganery in the game is of 2022's level of ridiculous humor and plot.
It's surprising to see a C&C reviewer who has never played RA1 & RA2 yet. It's definitely a must play and shouldn't be missed out! I hope you can do a review on those games soon, especially C&C Generals and it's expansion.
"YOU ARE MADE OF STUPID."
I love it.
8:49
Okay Big Brick... but I think this was best summed up by a comment I saw on another C&C RA3 video:
Russia: you get the world
America: you get the girl
Japan: you get the world, *AND* the girl!
I remember being around 9 or 10 playing this game on my Uncle's laptop when he came to stay with us. I had no idea what I was doing..... but I loved it. But since then I hadn't been on it, but I always knew it was Called Red alert 3..... that was until a few months ago and I saw on the Xbox Store (Yes I'm a console player), bought it and fell in love with it all over again, realising some of the missions can be quite difficult.
I probably owe a lot to this game for the games that I'm into today, Halo 3 got me into FPS, Simpsons: Hit and Run got me into Third person games and Red Alert 3, got me into Stratagy games, leading me to Halo Wars, which I really like and kind of reminds me of Red Alert just in the Halo Universe.
I saw your video on Kane's Wrath and had no idea about it, until you mentioned Red Alert 3, but I never expected to see a video on this game too. Just a shame we don't get games like this anymore, seeing actors just have fun with their roles and just watch the stupidity unravel, could definitely use more of that style of game these days.
11:14 this tank lines are my favorite in the series. I played red alert 2 often and still have the units voice lines in my head. I say they them from time to time. Favorite lines are “I love to camp” “ Deceilator ready” “Cruise and Fire” “nothing hear but us trees” “Let’s get it on”
14:34 exactly, that is why I remember Warcraft 3's Grunt voice lines to this day, they're too good: "Poke poke poke, is that all you do?!"
Red Alert 3 was amazing and cheesy in all the right ways for me. The music, the aesthetics, the voice lines, Tim Curry being best boi, all of it.
Leave it to EA to abandon a great franchise.
Edit: also those pro RA3 games are fuckin *chef’s kiss*.
Well, sadly, EA killed the franchise when they released "C&C 4." There is some hope for revival, though, considering the HD remake of the classic C&C and RA1.
Red Alert 2 (and its expansion) is hands down the best RTS ever made. The sheer camp, art style and gameplay is the best.
Quote: "Your thoughts are mine." -Yuri Prime
I dropped so many hours into RA2 as a teenager, many many days and nights and school assignments failed because I just wanted to build the biggest dreadnaught fleet and steamroll the AI on a naval focussed map. Very good times indeed
the Mental Omega mod for the yuris revenge expansion also got finished this year, it has 4 factions ( yes a completly new faction ) and exhilarating gameplay and storybuilding aswell as over 100 campaign missions and theres even a complete yuri campgain to play, it is very exiting aswell as complex and hard to learn( Recomend going into free play to test every faction and unit before starting campaign so you know what unit/building does what). But after those 20 years they finaly finished it, recomend it if ya loved RA2.
No rts comes close to sc, not even sc2.
@@rayzhang7591 Only being able to select 12 units at a time because of software limitations is not fun. Also WC3 is objectively the best Blizz RTS. Get bent.
Some great voice lines from StarCraft 2: “In the rear, with the gear” and “AGH you scared me”
Yeah, Red Alert 3 built on earlier aspects of Red Alert, if you didn't play the earlier games, it will feel quite different from other Command and Conquer games
Red Alert 3's lines are amazing, but so were earlier games in the series like Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour. Thanks so much for reviewing this game! It's truly iconic too
Thanks for once again giving coverage to this series. I remember this game ruffling a few feathers when it came out.
There had always been a group of fans who were unhappy with any of the titles that came out after westwood shut down.
I think it was a bit of a kneejerk reaction though, this game is fun, and the soundtrack, dear lord. I'd give anything for another game like this.
You didn't even mention the Uprising expansion to the game, which added units so incredibly op to each faction that the game didn't even have multiplayer because it was way too op
I think that was mainly because it's horrendously unbalanced. Yes, Harbinger Gunships are réally OP, and Giga-Fortresses are as well to some point (though their insane price makes up for it somewhat), but in return the most 'OP' unit the Soviets get is the arguably quite nicely balanced Grinder. Mortar Cycles definitely make the Soviets in Uprising almost unbeatable when they rush, but they would lose out every time the game drags on a bit, with the Allies coming out as by far the best faction. Yes, Cryo Legionaires are a bit of a niche unit that's difficult to find a good use for, but Pacifier FAVs are arguably OP, FutureTanks X-1 are very OP if you use them right, and Harbinger Gunships are just the most OP unit in the game.
@@rjfaber1991 I think the issue with Uprising balance isn't just what units were given to each faction, but what tiers they are at. Assuming nothing was tweaked with the existing units from the base game, adding something like the Reaper to tier 2 while almost everything else is tier 3, means that a tier 2 timing push from soviets might now be 10 times harder to stop than with the base game. Overall, the product design was at extremes. All changes from RA2 to RA3 were specifically to make an e-sport (more micro, more factions, etc), then after failing to meet their e-sport goals, they went 180 and made a single player game.
I used to play this in multiplayer and Terror Drone rush to disable Ore Collectors was my jam.
Yes, I'm a monster.
god i loved red alert 3 as a kid, seeing all the cutscenes again makes me realize how much of a fever dream it really is. XD i loved getting a massive army of hammer tanks, apocalypse tanks, and kirov airships and just decimating my enemies. god the soviets were so much fun
I would love for Bricky to try and explain the absolute insanity that is the plot of the campaign
I am from Germany and recently I was switching through TV channels when suddenly my heart skipped a beat and my jaw dropped: There it was, the famous and stellar Soviet March from Red Alert 3, one of the defining games of my childhood! And the funniest thing was: the song was played on a freaking carneval festival during a dance of a girl, where she performed her choreography to this song!
I couldn't believe that I was hearing this masterpiece of a song on TV and then in this completely weird context. Apparently, EA sold the license to the CnC soundtracks to all kind of companies and societies around the world. This is apperently not too uncommon for old RTS soundtracks, because I still regularly hear some pieces of the classic soundtrack of Empire Earth and also Tiberium Wars 3 in some documentaries.
Anyway, awesome video Bricky! Thx for giving some attention to these videogame gems and thx for mentioning the absolutely IMPECCABLE soundtrack of Red Alert 3. I still listen to the OST regularly.
@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook Lol, I feel ya! ^^
From 20 years ago... c&c red alert aftermath: Soviet faction, shock troopers
"Need a jump?"
"Got some juice?"
"Extra crispy!"
My friends and I still say quotes from those games