If anyone got past the tutorial in Red Alert 3 and still thought that this was going to be a serious game, they probably should not be allowed to operate heavy machinery.

Honestly, if Japanese Empire didn't have mechs and school girls, I would have been disappointed ;p

well i don't play RA3 for well-balanced gameplay I got SC2 for that I play Any C&C game is for the campaign I can play while intoxicated and not have a hard time and enjoy the silly stories. not every RTS has to be fine-tuned to the Nth degree i think there is very much a place for RTSs like RA3. Like you said something Colourful a bit silly and does not require the APM skills of a Korean pro. Having RTSs with a lower barrier to entry like RA3 make an excellent game for Newcomers to the Genre. Anyhow maybe it just the nostalgia talking im in my late 30s and played all these old RTS when they first came out and when the Internat was not as ubiquitous as it is now, it was not until I played SC2 online ladder as an older Gamer i miss the days when Multiplayer was the not the only thing ppl cared about. I want another Red Alert C&C PC Game and i want it to be just as silly as it has always been with those FMV cutscenes that is a dying art these days and should be brought back. anyway ramble over and nice video

Here's the biggest problem with the plot: They kill Einstein before 1946. I don't have a problem with the technology, or the chronosphere existing, or any of that. HE is the reason this ENTIRE alternate timeline happened. The entire idea behind the Red Alert series is that he went back in time and stopped WW2. If he was killed before then, how did ANY of this happen? Overall, though, I'm actually one of the few people who generally likes the game.

Thanks for making these videos man, I'm a C&C fan and it's nice to see some in depth reviews and opinions.

So glad they kept the B movie stuff and i did not mind the game i love red alert i only play for the story anyway.

This game is actully pretty balanced tho.

I don't understand the gripes about the artstyle - the previous Red Alert games were freakin' 2D. They used sprites. RA3 was the first RA game to use 3D graphics. There is nothing to compare it to.

I can understand some people not liking the hokey theme but I like how all the units had character. The Allies had policeman, football players, phone call operators, Spanish dudes, French dudes, and country dudes. The Soviets had morons, morons from prison, commissars, whatever sociopaths pilot the Apoc tanks, and generally had a theme of units either jaded by their work or very enthusiastic

Is sad that there is no Boris anymore

To be honest the graphics of Red Alert 3 is still holding up to 2019... If you don't know this game and first time to see it, you would probably be amazed by the graphics and you will don't expect it that it was way back 2008.... Also, the story is good.

RA2 jumped the shark, but it was always grounded in realism. It had SOME crazy units contrasted by more serious realistic ones, and everything felt like it made sense within its own universe. RA3 was ALL crazy units, and combined with the super cartoony graphics, it just went way too overboard and didn't feel like Red Alert anymore. For all its camp, even RA2 had some grit to back it up. That, combined with the economy change, which made maps super bland, made it feel like a totally different game. In order to fix RA3, you need to ditch the art style, and dial it back more to how RA2 was, but in 3D. Ditch the over-the-top Japan faction, in favor of something more synergic with the Allies and Soviets if you MUST add a 3rd faction. For example, YR had Soviets split, so, why not possibly have the Allies split this time around? 3) make the economy and playstyle like it used to be, ditch the limited resource pools. Basically, just make RA2, but in 3D, with some new stuff and updates. Don't change the art style, and don't change the gameplay. That's all people wanted. Idk why they went and fucked it up. It's a pity too cause RA3 and Uprising had some cool units added that got lost an overall pretty terrible Red Alert game.

I revisiting the Command and Conquer games, specially this Red Alert 3 and Command and Conquer 3, funny most people that I talk to say that those two games are the best of the series, I never hear nothing negative about them, I playing this game mostly because nostalgia, I try to play Generals for some issues the game didn't launch, but I am happy with what I already got, hell, the last time that I played a Command and Conquer game was when I was twelve and they were still using sprites at the time.

this was the first game i played ever

I’ve been a fan of the series right from the start and this is the one I loved the most. Played it extensively online. 😁

Ive loved this game and CaQ all together but after completing most of the game all you can do is challenges and fight Ai in skirmish. shame no one plays multiplayer.

This was a good game for me but not great it entertained me and thats it really

I don't think C&C ever looked 'realistic', but with older graphics maybe people thought it was? Err.. Well I love the art style of this game.

I don't care how bad the game is *"You are made of stupid"* will forever be my favorite insult

Since Red Alert 3's release, I've wanted to see a new Dune RTS which utilizes the perks RA3's engine and colors. I'd want to see the game have better writing and acting than RA, but use the best aspects of RA3 to expand upon the best aspects of Dune 2 and Dune 2000.

most of the allies technology come from the "Futuretech" so the future tech kind of made their own chronosphere

4:37 that's one of the reasons I ultimately did not like this one as much as RA2. Granted, I thought Ackerman was good as an over the top cheesy satire of Ronald Reagan, but at the end of the day he is still not a likable character for reasons I will not spoil. What I will say is that RA2, while it does not seem to work well on modern hardware, is ultimately more gutsy than this game was. Why? Carville. For those of you who do not know Carville was the commander that you were working under, and then suddenly out of nowhere you see him get blown up by a certain unit of the USSR. Moreover, this is an effective death scene because it is not long and drawn out like certain TV shows I have watched and even certain books I have read. Even Yuri's Revenge while also being more unstable was still more effective than this game because it used the idea of time travel and brought Carville back. So, after seeing Carville die horribly, the player gets to see him again and say, "yay. I get to be under the command of someone I am actually familiar with." Moreover, even Carville is sarcastic about it and says, "From what people tell me, things ain't what they used to be." So, why I think Westwood's RA2 was ultimately better than EA's RA3 is that Westwood took what they had an used it in an effective manner, and while EA did some things okay, they ultimately did not do it well enough to have much staying power.

can you still play with other people (co-op or versus) with this game if i buy this on steam? i am planning to buy this nostalgic game but dont know it it is worth it (cause ill buy it for the purpose of playing with other people)

it must be brown and grey and realistic !!!!!!!

Really cool that you're going through the series in such a short period. It gives us a good overview. I suppose you must be pretty tired of them by now though. And the worst is yet to come. I noticed that some rather important rts titles are still missing on your review list, for example World in Confict and Supreme Commander (2). Did you ever play those?

I don't believe any RA fan expected this to be serious. 2 surely wasn't. Generals on the other hand does have that expectation, if any of the C&Cs do. This made me want to reinstall again, thanks! Jenny did Tanya justice, but Kari Wuhrer IS Tanya for any old school player. Shake it Baby!

2:17 it's funny how you have used the same phrase probably a thousand times now, yet it still gets me to chuckle.

Its not the Red Alert hasn't always been the over the top obvious humorous game that made it great. RA/RA2 did this perfectly when Westwood was still around. It's that EA completely over killed the amount of forced and tiring humor into a game they thought would be their flagship title of the year for PC gaming, which it wasn't. Not only did the story suck complete garbage, the main issues were that EA tried to be as politically correct as to not offend anyone that deterred any true hard core RA fan away from the franchise entirely. Not only that but FORCED Co-Op game-play? Are you for fucking real? RA was NEVER about Co-Op, it was about the Single player game, for the single player person. Not having to share resources with a retarded ass a.i. You also have to take into consideration that with this feature they tried to make it an E-Sports title, hence why they thought it would be their flagship title game of the year for pc, which btw spoilers alert, it wasn't. EA ruined an otherwise graphically stunning game for it's time for many many reasons. Also the music choices besides Hell March which was completely sub-par at best and the Opening Russian menu theme were the only good songs put together in this game. Having repetitive music replay over and over without the option to change it to a different sound track like it's previous titles, was absurdly retarded. This game suffered from MANY horrendous decisions; and personally I would love to aquire the rights to this franchise and rebuild it's lost glory and legacy thanks to the passion we all experienced as children, growing up and playing a game, developed by Westwood Studios.

Well, actually i suppose in Uprising they explain Futuretech made the chronosphere.

When i first saw RA 3 i thought someone made a mod for Warcraft 3/Starcraft with RA 2 models,even the minimap looks like it was made in paint. Well then RA 2 Yuri's game was more an asspull than RA 3 . I'm sorry to say just because a genius dies that doesn't mean that they aren't replaceble,same as electricity someone eventually would've invented it

I think things like realistic and catoonish are things of degrees, not switch with true false value. And RA3 kinda went way pass the degree people were expecting from the Red Alert series.

I do have to agree that this version of C&C is oversexualized. While I personally don't mind that in general, in a war game, it doens't really fit. The art style is welcome in my book. The story is OK. I don't really have a problem with it. I do like the co-op between the player and a computer controlled ally. Yes, this game did do a lot of things right. The Japanese becoming this all powerful empire after the Soviets kill Einstein in the past seems so absurd and ridiculous, but personally, I think it's cool, especially after seeing all their units. Overall, I think this game is to be entertaining, rather than serious, like C&C 3.

I am a R.T.S. fan I have not played any other command and conquer game ( I was busy with rise of nations and age of empires :P ) I don't care about the co op should I buy this ? ( it is priced 10$ right now ) please reply quickly (is it worth 10$ without co op)

What would take to have game maker make another Red Alert with a real story and keep the format the same?

Red Alert has always been corny

It really doesn't help that if you're fast enough and your enemy doesn't rush you in RA3, you can get end-tier units in roughly two minutes, other than that glaring problem, the combat with mid-tier units is one of the best parts of the game since spamming one of these kinds of units is a bad move unless your opponent is a bag of bricks...

Hi, the campaign co op is horrible and let me explain : in allied mission 1 i never needed Giles i can do without him. He was begging to take 2 guns on the beach but there was no significant threat to me that doesnt allow me time to get those guns. Oleg? What did he do to help in soviet mission 1 ? Got me a single baraks in case Natasha dies and flack troopers and conscripts. Evan on hard, i wanted to capture the allied base before destroying the port. Oleg went and destroyed the allies and i could do nothing. I want to capture enemy base and use their troops but General Krukof arrived and gave me V4

I didn't like the clumsy look of the tanks etc. And the micro.. oh g. The micro

The red alert 1 and 2 to me is like looking a stick figure fighting and square box fighting.

On the contrary, I thought this game was unfairly difficult with the AI or enemy player having the ability to destroy your base in a minute whereas in RA1 and RA2 you have fairly resistant building to damage. I felt that with RA3 they wanted to go with a more Starcraftesque mechanique but it didn't worked out.

This is the C&C game I’m looking forward to the most. Uprising has more units, but doesn’t it not include the original campaigns? If Uprising had the only and new campaigns, I’d be looking forward to it more than the base game, but as it stands RA3 is the CC game I want to play the most.

Superweapons are too powerful? Sounds like you haven't played enough of this game

Should I get this game if the only rts game I played is age of empires 2?? it does look good...but like you said , the maps are small :/

The water in this game is still the best i have ever seen in any RTS game....

9:30 there's a word for this: Schlock.

Red Alert 3 game is bad? Well i'm just worried

good review. but to be fair, the AI in skirmish mod is actually very brutal on "brutal difficulty" not like red alert 2, i don't know they are cheating or not, but their micros are just perfect. and the game did re-invent a lot of things: each fraction has its own building and upgrading style; the sea battle is very interesting and thinking challenge. yes just like they said: if you don't re-invent things, they say you are lazy; if you do, they say you ruin the old formula, you can not win them. I mean, the secondary skill for every unit does open-up a lot of possibilities but it is just too much for me, even by StarCraft standard.

Command and Conquer Red Alert 3: sex appeal Me: i aint even mad as long as you dont remove dasha i kinda have a kink for her lol

go online multiplayer@ revora !

Time for irrelevant questions about other games than this one, lol. Thanks for the review!

is it weird that I actually find it fun 2 play?

Red Alert 3 has the best cast of Actors and Actress and best girls in that game lol

I donno how people played RA2 and didn't think it was cartoony and ridiculous and not that serious obviously it was darker, had darker music and was a bit more serious and RA3 is a bit too cartoony and too colorful but RA2 was the same to a lesser degree

13:47 tbh, I think the naval part of the game, particularly the one with the Empire of the Rising Sun, felt like the weakest and most underpowered part of this game.

I found the tutorial hilarious.

No Michael Ironside???

I think the game was probably not bad. But everything all products have a lify cycle. I think the whole idea of this game and its mechanics were too repetetive. There is not enough innovation in this game. Especially in these niche games, innovation is hard to handle (static fanbase etc.). All in all I think it was too much of the same thing. Good music thou.

I would rather get 35 missions per each faction than porno actors in cutscenes

Red Alert 3 is a game that I feel I should like but for the life of me, I just can't get into it. To me, it reeks of a game that is trying its best to be original by shoehorning in all of these features but in doing so, it just shows how far past its prime the series is at this point. To put it in a passive-critical way, Allies = C&C, Soviets = KKnD and Japan = Earth 2140. I suppose you can call this game a guilty displeasure of mine.

the cartoonishness is more of a Nitpick for me.

the plot is absurd, unlike RA2 which was grounded in reality

Tiberium Wars was the last good Command & Conquer game, I couldn't take red alert 3 seriously.

I actually have this weird idea about a red alert game that has nazi's and space travel, its a weird idea but maybe it could work.

This and Generals are my least favorite C&C. Both were pretty fun at first, but I got more bored as time went on and on repeat replays. The art for RA3 is too cartoony, I don't like micro managing the unit side powers, air units can either attack ground units only or other air units only, the plot is too goofy, i really hate how slow it is to gather resources, and the AI coop is useless. oh yeah and the balancing issues with the gameplay makes it so much worse.

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Honestly, this is my favorite Command & Conquer game ever.

This was the last c&c game I ever tried. Got to the Mount Rushmore part and felt so tired of it all that I uninstalled it. Never looked back. Still, thanks for reviewing them all+expansions.

If someone gave you Fallout 4, would you give it a 0.5 just because Bethesda made it ?

Lol i think you fail to recognize what people hated about this game, Red Alert is whacky and doesn't take itself seriously but the art style was grounded, all those whacky aspects and units were made to look like they could exist in reality no matter their absurdity, that was the charm, this was a terrible sequel but otherwise an ok game if it didn't carry the Red Alert title

CNC4 Ruined the series for most people. I had completely checked out after RA3, I hated every bit of it. Tiny maps, slow gameplay that favored small armies, cartoonish artstyle, stupid AI, boring campaign, focus on naval gameplay that nobody asked for, and almost every unit in the game had some kind of gimmick to it that just made everything tedious. Fuck this game.

I got this game when I was In grade 5 or 6.......and I thought - "what the hell is this crap? Generals was way better then this" truly in comparison though id rate red alert 3 a (2 out of 5) and for CnC generals a (4.5 out of 5. if im not allowed to use fractions then a full 5) the only great thing about this game was the dreamworks like cast where they hire a bunch of big name actors/actresses like George Takei for instance

I wouldn't mind a more cartoony look, but the problem was... when I played the game I didn't know what I was looking at! I never completed it, because I couldn't care for what was happening. And I went back to RA2, YR many many many many installs after that one. Oh and that wouldn't be possible with RA3, which was ridiculous too. So all in all, a full 3 out of 10. Where RA2 gets a solid 9 out of 10. Oh wait, they pretty much completely ditched the money aspect of the game. 2 out of 10. Barely.

Never played Command & Conquer honestly, but this game looks really nice.

If you don't want to be bord to death, speed it up to 1.5

Can somewane give me a good reason ra3 is the worst game ever without comparing it to other red alert games

This is one of the first rts games ive ever played.

Trust me if never play Red Alert 2 to play! You can get free for on windows 10 if love RGP game and Starcraft 2 there were all made by same gaming programmers.

This is where the C&C series as a whole took a nosedive. I've also always thought of the huge glaring plot hole where by the Soviets going back in time and removing Einstein, it would have left Hitler to rise to power like in real life and they never even bothered to address this.

I just donated some extra money to you. Can you review the new Metal Gear Solid Game when it comes out?

I absolutely adore RA3, my fav in the series

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This game reminds me of today's FPS genre, just look at "Overwatch".

Very unprofessional review

"a cartoony artstyle fits this kinda game because frankly it is absurt and silly" No, just no Be bonest now, if you compare the new york maps of red alert 3 and red alert 2, which one gets the best resemblance with the real deal? The NY map of red alert 3 looks like garbage, when I play that mission I am not getting the feeling that the battle actually takes place in new york. In red alert 2 i actually get the feeling I am commanding troops in NY. Other than the ugly maps and structures, it are the units who ruin the graphics even more. The ammount of units which does not look overexaggerated fake I can count on my hands. The overall sillyness of all units is rediculous not to mention the fact that every fckn unit has to have some dumbass secondairy function. 100% of all units of the empire is one big joke. The apocalyps tank looks like a joke. And the crycopter?? A freeze beam and a shrink beam? What dafuq? Even more stupid than the leech beam and the tractor beam. Sickle, bulldog, stringray, hammertank, twinblade, mig, assault destroyer, guardian tank, every unit of the empire... all look plain stupid. The aircraft look shit, take a look on the badger bomber. Total bullshit design. There are only 3 things which actually look nice in the entire game, the water, the kirov airship and the explosions. All the rest? devloped and coloured by 10 year old childeren. If you compare generals to red alert 3 what is the difference? generals looks exactly like our world looks in real life, with both units and maps. And red alert 3 looks like a joke, made my childeren. How is it that an old game like generals look 100x more realistic than red alert 3? Even today I play red alert ONE occasionally. as Red alert 3 starts to bore me after 10 minutes. The only good thing of red alert 3 was that it is a very fast and mobile game which gave a very interactive gameplay, this ofcourse is countered by the the fact that it not only looks like shit, it also has tremendous mincromanaging. Every time you use a support power on the enemy you see all the units scatter. If the AI use it on you, you have no clue it is happening to you. You notice what happened after you realized your units are just gone. The fact that every unit has a secondairy weapon also makes the game very hard to manage. To clear out buildings with infantry, to let your cryocopters shrink enemies takes a lot of micro managing. And this makes it incredibly annoying to fight against AI somtimes. If you bombard an allied base with battleships, the AI will continously send cryocopters on a kamikaze flight to shrink and incapacitate your battleships all the time. If you shoot tankbusters or peacekeepers, the targeted infantry will always use burrow/shield ability. And if you select an other infantry that infantry will burrow/use shield while the first starts shooting again. It is just like that machine with which you have to hit retracting moles with a bat all the time. Things like this you cannot micromanage, and the AI can and does that. The resource gathering system is also shit. You are litterly forced to set up a secondairy base in order to harvest ore, instead of having a few units guarding an ore field to protect your ore collectors. If EA dumbasses would only change the capacity of ore to 1250 instead of 250, you could atleast do long range ore mining instead of this current crap system. You can claim what you want but the graphics of red alert 3 are total fucking bullshit.

This game is too casual and trying to be stupidly funny. Red alert 2 had more serious athmosphere. Creators misunderstood red alert 2.