You're a Soviet, Harry

“I’m escaping to the one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism!....(Holds laughter).....*SPACE!*

It's amazing how a 12-year-old game graphics still holds up to almost today's standard

One thing that this game got right is them music.

In terms of tone, Red Alert 2 struck my perfect tone in terms of silly and serious (damn you, Crazy Ivan...); Red Alert 3 was still fun, but it went so far over-the-top that it's basically in ... SPACE!

How the Red Alert 3 pitch meeting went: EA: So, how are you going to make Red Alert 3 special? EA LA: We'll use the upgraded SAGE 2.0 engine! EA: And? EA LA: More emphasis on naval combat! EA: And? EA LA: Almost every unit will have multi-role or special abilities! EA: And? EA LA: Third faction, The Empire of the Rising Sun! EA: And? EA LA: Uh, tits? EA: And? EA LA: ...can we get George Takei, Tim Curry, and JK Simmons? EA: Perfect.

I quite liked RA3 at the time, its only real downside was it felt like a somewhat rushed game. Combined with the dizzy heights RA2 hit, you could only go downwards with a sequel to that anyway, probably compounded that feeling further with some of those that played it. I still fire up the single player campaign every once in a while, it’s worth it for the Tim Curry cutscenes alone! :D (Along with the mostly boss OST.)

I actually liked Red Alert 3 better because of it's mechanics and QoL features. (please don't kill me lol)

I disagree with you about the music. First of all, you picked a really poor song for preview in the video. Second of all, I love that the music escalates with the alert level considering how much fighting has been going on. This also increases the xp all units earn up to x3 if I remember correctly. This with the escalating music was a fantastic touch. Too bad you didn't even scratch the surface there

That water is so beautiful. I don't really care much for C&C, but that water is just :*

Probably one of the most underrated games from 2008, and its graphics still stands up after 12 years.

1 mod I can think of is Red Alert Corona That adds the Chinese as a 4th faction.

This game's engine is 13 years old now and still has the best water visuals to this day.

Men: Red Alert 3 Legends: Red Alert 2: Yuri revenge

The soundtrack of this game is one of the best I’ve ever heard. Especially my favorite European Intrigue, it’s like a James Bond / French theme and it is awesome.

Couldn't disagree more about the music. C&C3 music was mostly background movie score, Red Alert 3 has some of the most outstanding music in any RTS period. The way it shifts depending on what's happening during the game is nothing short of amazing (the Soviet choir getting more dramatic in late game is my personal favorite). Every time you play skirmish/multiplayer, there's a separate track that plays before any blows are traded at all, which is a minor touch, but helps in pulling you into the game that much more. Red Rock for Mother Russia, Bring it!, Mecha Storm, just look the OST up, it's kickass as all hell. By the way, people who are nostalgic towards Generals haven't replayed that game since it came out. It did *not* age as well as you probably think.

13:14 This is what I loved the most about RA3, having an AI doing the mission with us in the campaigns, and even best they all have their own personalities with up to 9 Commanders. Making us not alone in the fight. Shame this co-commander thing never returned in Uprising.

Great review! I would have added the dynamic music mechanics of the game as a big plus to the ost: the combat tracks play as long as the battle continues. For instance, have your peacekeepers fire at that thicc red boi - *guitar intensifies*

Red Alert 2 alongside age of empires 2 is my childhood pc game

I played every C&C game on release and love all of them. But RA3 is my favorite because of ocean. Naval, air, land everything works great and there are many ways to play

Not long before the release of Red Alert 3, I went back into Red Alert 2 via The First Decade collection, and paid ever so much attention to its pre-release articles and materials. It was probably my most hyped up game that I can think of. I played Red Alert 2 when I was very young, and the first Red Alert when I was even younger. Red Alert 2 blew the first Red Alert out of the water in practically every way (the Allies' ground units are no longer crap, the Soviets' naval units are no longer crap, there's no need to worry about ore silos, building designs were far more distinct, and there were production queues), so it was easily my favorite of the Westwood-made C&C games. When Red Alert 3 came out, it wasn't as mind blowing as its predecessor as my standards had grown by then, it it's definitely the most balanced and user-friendly in the franchise (I was glad the grid-based base-building system came back; building things in C&C 3 was a bitch. And I really did not miss the resource fields and actually thought the ore node/mine concept was for the better). The co-op compatibility with the campaigns was a really nice touch. All in all, Red Alert 3 is easily my nominee for the best EA-LA developed C&C game by a mile.

I really loved all the Japanese units that could just transform and change to a different role. Such a cool way to make Japan stand out and show off their unique advanced technology.

Although I like RA2, I enjoyed Red Alert 3 more plus the mods as well. Great video Zade.

RA3 with some of the new mods is just amazing to play! Remixxx, Epic War, Upheavel, Shock therapy are some of my most favourite mods!!

I think the change in ore collection was a necessary one. The old system allowed you to just gorge yourself on tiberium/ore and then spam out tanks to try and rush someone down. I remember the early days of C&C3 when it was just spam harvesters into scorpion spam. Or how RA2 is grizzly spam. They had the limited harvest speed with generals (the supply pad could only serve 1 harvester at a time) and that helped a lot. And seeing how many other RTS have some kind of resource income throttling I think they just went back to generals to solve the problem. I personally really loved the expansion's challenge mode. Its not that much like generals, because you slowly unlock the unit pool of each faction. And you can always switch, this means that for each challenge map you can chose who is best suited for the map, and beat the par time. And if you cant beat a map quickly, do some others and then come back when your unit roster is bigger. And the maps are usually built around a theme or unit, this almost makes them feel like puzzles (like starting against 6 enemies all with a superweapon charging up, and you get your commando right at the start, so you can try and use her to destroy as many superweapons as possible before they are ready). Its a shame the main campaign of the expansion was obviously rushed (with only the russians getting a fair amount of content), probably because of the 2008 crisis made EA rush it. I like the coop campaign idea, but i wish there was an option for just solo play without the AI.

Hey Zade, speaking of RTS, There is this game called Act Of War: Direct Action, with its expansion High Treason both from Eugen Systems. Both games came out of the woodwork 2 years after the C&C Generals high. It may be infamous due to its 'B Movie' campiness, but as an RTS, it stands competitively against Generals. It's basically about how Corporate Greed nearly took over the world with their own advanced technologies and a private army, and you play as a Task Force Commander side by side with the US Army to kick their ass back. My brother and I used to play this during the pre-steam years, but its available now on Steam! Please do check it out :D

This is was such an awesome game. I reached Rank #11 in 2010 in online skirmishes. Had it just for few hours then I was blown out of top 100 again LOL It was such a delight to play it!

I cant help but hear ''Riddler'' whenever you say ''Red Alert'' THAT fluently and it cracks me up every time :D

Decided to finally beat red alert 3 after all these years and because of that my youtube recommended has been swamped with C&C videos and found yours. Great stuff dude. Red alert 2 was what got me into RTS games amd C&C Renegade is the inspiration for my gamertag and username for everything.

Hell March 2’s use of guitar harmonics in the background slaps harder than 3’s harmonics. But that’s just me

When it comes to competitive gaming, RA3 imo definitely wins. All the factions are balanced and can be played in various ways. RA2, on the other hand, is just massing tank armies and placing pillboxes/sentries whenever those armies clash into each other (because units focus buildings and players love to abuse it, even if it looks very stupid).

Zade: LOOKS AT THE AMAZING VISUALS Me who has all settings set to low because of my potato laptop: Interesting

Yuri IS in C&C RA3. There is a painting in the Premier’s office hanging on the wall of him. The more you know.

Yeah I still play this in 2021. I love it, and it's got a sense of humor to it too.

I really enjoyed the balance composition in Red Alert 3. Every unit felt special, and the game overall avoided Generals' awful single unit spam meta (which is not a fault of the game, but rather lack of balance updates). And even compared to Red Alert 2, where a lot of units felt too situational to be useful, or only filled niche roles (looking at siege copter). Red Alert 3 felt rewarding, when you were able to utilize units and their abilities to their maximum. Tiberium Wars and Red Alert 3 were released at poor timing, where people weren't looking to play RTS'. And I'm afraid people just generally cater to MOBA and shooter games these days, which is a shame, because I often replay CnC campaigns occasionally, fully enjoying them. Perhaps nostalgia is a strong drug.

Been waiting for this for ages, Thank you for doing this

I've been playing this game since I was 6 and I still love it till this day

The best thing about this game was the female cast. I remember having a couple of computer magazines with pictures from their photo-sessions, and I've had a lot of fun flipping through those pages. Ah... the teenage years.

RA3 overstepped in the multy purpose units big time, while strangely, it took out Apo tanks from the multy purpose units and gave japaneese a hyper strong multy purpose unit (no air attack for apo), jetpack unit given to japan and being strongly buffed to the point, that you can simply spam it and even if the enemy composition is built to counter them, they might still lose due to their sheer mobility and damage output... Unit movement is another huge downgrade, some large units can be stacked super close, some graphically smaller units, like stingray, can barely be used in groups, since for some reason, they keep so large distance from each other, that it makes them less usefull as a unit in all situations. The resource gathering is a piece of crap obviously.

Great review you have gained a new subscriber, good job

Im a long time fan of C&C franchise (played it since TibDawn) and despite it Red Alert 3 is probbably my favourite. Static Ore mines are definitly adding more skill to it, all units are unique, and naval combat is definitly awesome. But it is really worth to mention that despite vanilla campaign is insane and really reminds RA2 (espiecally soviet campaign, just put Krukov as Vladimir and Cherdenko as Yuri) Uprising got an awesome story potential. And hey! Yuriko is Yuri's daughter so our master somehow reappears in RA3!

His accent makes it sound like he is saying “Riddler 3”

I both love RA2 and RA3 and its expansions. But I love the story of Red Alert 2, while I love the characters in Red Alert 3 :) The only problem I have in Uprising is that like you said, the other cast did not return. But of course I still love the third installment

So you're not gonna mention how the game's soundtrack dynamically changes based on how much combat heat you're packing/putting up with? There's music for your first contact with the enemy at early game. There's music for after the fight & conflict calms down. There's music for when you build up an massive army and stomp your foes or when get stomped by your enemy. - To anyone who hasn't played this yet, the guitar scores that play in high heat combat is amazing. As you can see. Red Alert 3's soundtrack is VERY dynamic.

Thank for your good video from thailand zade❤

Sea wings aren't uprising only though. (It says they are in the corner when showing footage of them) Besides this random minor issue, this is a pretty good take on the game. (Also oof you built a power plant where the ore refinery goes)

I love this game, played the hell out of it. I love the OST, the carachters, everything

The Red Alert series is great, and I still play them all to this day. Today tho, another RTS is on the table. Empire Earth 1

I was 3 (2007) when I was introuduced to RA2, and it was so quite great. Another year later, Yuri's Revenge was introduced to me, it was like I jumped two generations. Fast forward another 3 years, I learned of the existence of RA3, man I was high at that time.

Did you know, you can put other factions units into the Allies multi-gunner turrets? Yeah sounds cool right! (Try putting Natasha into one and watch her bullets travel THROUGH enemies)

The purpose of the Node-based resource collection system is to make managing economy easier and more straightforward for competitive play, which it actually does a good job at. The problem is that, at least at the time, most of the player base is not into competitive (cough Starcraft cough) RTS games, so it turned off much of the fan base. As far as competitive play goes, the unit counter system and balance is pretty good for the most part, minus Allies being a bit strong lol. Personally, I don't like it as much as the others in the C&C franchise because I find the economy too restrictive in practice. As an easy example of my point: not even 3 refineries ($250 * 3 per 10 second cycle) will let an Empire player produce Tengus ($800 per 10 second build time) from a single Mecha Bay continuously. In my opinion, game is still solid and fantastic in its own right, but it's just not for me personally. I can understand the appeal of it for people who do really enjoy it.

at 17:36 does the tool tip always look like that or did your recording/editing go wrong somewhere?

thank you been waiting long enough for you to make this lol

Red Alert 2 Yuri's revenge was the best.

its actually pretty fun too play in 2020 ngl

One thing I really loved the most in RA3 is that campaign in Japan where there is a OP flying shogun head that deals so much damage.

Best mod i've used for red alert 3 was shock therapy, new units, balance and features yet no drastic changes to the core gameplay.

This game was me and my friends go to game for a long time. We played the hell out of multiplayer. I also played the three campaigns thousands of times. So to me, this is a great game. Also my favorite tracks are from the allies. From shock and awesome to how the west was won. Bangers for Allied might!

Game speed is tied to 30 fps, with 60 fps the game speed would have been faster. Ore mining is rather good in my eyes, 1 you don't have to constantly micro the collectors for optimal speed, 2 getting another refinery is a 50% increase income (if it's your third one ) (your second one is a 100% increase of income) 3 Due to the lack of cash the units you have and make are way more important than just the classic unit spam. Uprising units are nice and all but a way to broken for the gameplay, I am glad it's not in the online mode. 30 fps btw does not botter me I DO not care about graphics or fps at all :) Red alert 3 veteran Edvin (12 years and still playing ;) )

I remember this game being one of the biggest let downs of my childhood, RA2 being the game I played for years prior. It just completely failed to grasp the red alert feeling.

I think this game is very good today, it shows that it has been done with great care in detail, something that has not been done due to the continuity of the Generals saga

Soviet soundtrack(s) is amazing. The game itself is fairly good. I mean it's not RA2, but it's better than the Tiberium genre. Still, C&C: Generals remains my favourite C&C game.

The outlining selected units or buildings are bit turn off for me. Rectangular-ish appearance like how it was in previous games would have been less distracting.

I was never into C&C until I randomly got this on console when I was super young, I loved this game as a dumb kid, so this game is super nostalgic to me. It will always that goofy game that I love with all my heart

There's this RA3 mod (dunno if its available yet) called Corona where they upped the details and added a bunch more impressive units like the flying missile / torpedo for the Empire and a new faction as well. It felt like what Rise of the Reds is for Generals Zero Hour for me.

Please do a review on Act of war: Direct action And it's stand alone expansion: High Treason

Think it's my favourite in the CnC franchise. I for one liked how it embraced it's goofy side, gave it it's own identity, in a sea of gloomy more gritty entries in the franchise. RA1 was generic looking like a reskinned tiberium dawn and RA2 was unsure if it wanted to be serious or goofy, but RA3 just went "Fuck it" and knew what it wanted to be. Also still pretty active to this day on the multiplayer side and the game visually still looks fantastic today

I'll need to play this soon. Looks fun! :D Been collecting dust in my Steam library for too long lol. Also, the graphics style for Red Alert 3 with it being so stylized and unique, reminds me of Universe at War Earth Assault. An underappreciated RTS. Might fire that up again too.

My main problem is that the game encourages short battles. The longer a battle drags on the less credits you can pull in. Combined with the facts that oil wells seem underpowered and ore mines don't regenerate, you have to strike fast if you don't want to get bogged down.

I love Red Alert 3 but I will admit its really messy and unbalanced at times.

I loved every RA game but... Mental Omega > All

Good review 👍

The reason why RA2 was so beloved is how much better it was than other games at the time. That's the only way RA3 is inferior - it doesn't leap forward in the same way relative to other games of its era. In every other respect, RA3 is far superior.

I respect the decision made in the video that Ra2 is “a better game” but i have to say the only reason im seeing for why it’s better is because it was a revolutionary game, not because it was more fun or had obviously more effort put into it. I grew up with both and i have to say that they are both great and whether one is better than the other cant be said because the time gap is too big and definitely the budget as well Had to edit after reading comments: i honestly just sense a lot of bias towards Ra2 and i personally don’t see how one is any more fun than the other, if you like things simpler than that’s fair but cmon games have changed and require some thought, RA3 captures that in ways

Red Alert 3 was the attempt to bring some fresh change into CnC formula - the asymmetral balance, the unit abilities, a huge focus on microcontrol. And unlike... next attempts of EA to, uugh, experiment with the franchise, RA3 was damn good attempt.

8:12 wow I didn't know that , I always loved the Warhammer 2 music but never knew it was made by the same people who made red alert 3's .

....That zoom in on tanya's actress bio made me realize the joke cody made about killing the president by having a child sneezing on him. A YEAR LATER.

My favourite mission is the Russian attack on the Japanese capital, the Twist at the start had me rolling over in stitches the first time I played it

The biggest flaw in this game is that the game is locked at 30 fps

Personally I think the SHEER strategical, tactical and positional DEPTH, of this game is IMMENSE. This is a strategy game based on rushing and sheer pressure. Exactly like Chess. This game plays and feels like chess to those who know how chess is played. You want to win all those little battles, this is the key and the game works perfectly by having every unit be able to do multiple things via special abilities that they all have (each their own) and when you combine all those special abilities - THAT is where the game really shines. I have been playing RTS games for decades. This is one of the greatest and MOST underrated strategy game of all time. People that hate it haven't really invested the time that this game needs. When you watch elite players play this game in championships - you will understand how this game should be considered one of the best. You NEVER know who is going to win untill the very last moments. This is what makes games good.

It's funny how red alert became sillier and campier with each game while tiberium 3 was more serious than 2 (still B-movie-like, but less so). I heard rumours on a supposed 4th entry, but I'll never know if the series kept that trend. JK Simmons and Tim Curry are the best thing to happen to the C&C campaigns, save for Joe Kucan of course.

for me has a special place in my heart as i contribute in the development and the debugging of RA3 and credited...amd even though i find RA3 very enjoyable especially with the diversity of the 3 races... i don't like the silliness the RA franchise has gone after Red Alert 1 and the mesh with its expansion that didn't include all the latest patches from ra3 but a previous build! 🥴

Short answer. Yes Long answer. :Yeeeeeeeeeesssss: Its a great game, and has active community to this day. Its not as great as RA2 because... no game does. J.K. Simmons is great in this, totally worth to play the campaign just for the cutscenes. Also, no Lt. Eva Gemma Atkinson in the video... smh Zade.

I cannot stand how the enemy A.I. In RA3 goes back and forth poking at my base and never committing to an attack until it is 90% sure if can wipe the floor with my base

I think that one of the things Red Alert 3 did EXCEPTIONALLY at that most people sleep on is Naval Combat. Naval Combat in most RTS games is usually considered either a Meme or a forbidden term, and generally considered one of the things that is next to impossible to do well, but also can't leave out of the game. RA3 actually managed a really good Naval Combat system, that was in some ways BETTER than the land combat. Something that most RTS gamers would in all other instances claim as a impossibility.

"Riddler 3"

Maybe checkout the Corona mod (it's several years old, before you say it), the visual changes to the old units is amazing and adds a new faction (though it's still in development)

Love this game. Only thing I wish for if they remaster it is 60fps and higher textures

I recently found my DVD of Red Alert 3 but hadn't bothered to try it again since I haven't had an optical drive in years. I decided to see if I could download it, and sure enough I logged in to the Origin Store, clicked Add Game, and entered the serial number, and it let me download it. 90 seconds to download at over 900Mbps, another 90 seconds to install. I know EA and Origin cop a lot of flack, but support like this 12 years later is simply outstanding.

Hell, it's about time.

The soundtrack is orgasmic

If Red Alert 3 was half as good as your fantastic videos, it would have broken all time sales records. The main factor in this game not doing as well as it could have on release, was the constant online requirement feature (later release of game on game services did not have this requirement). My comment: RA3 was a good game but I like RA2 better. There are a lot of mods for BOTH RA2 and RA3. Have you ever checked the top selling PC games of all times list. Great video Zade. Thanks for sharing. I hit the like button, and give this TWO THUMBS UP!

ayyyy zade back at it again edit: btw for any people passing by *zade is always watching*

Nice to hear the game being reviewed in a positive constructive manner instead of the usual circlejerk echo chamber hate this game gets on r/Commandandconquer

RA3 feels very cosy and warm to play. I never played any older RA games before so for me RA3 is very special also story is amazing imo.

5th grade buddy and mine were shocked by how awesome red alert 2 was. We loved it when it came out. Skirmish mode was legitthebestpc gaming at the time.

+Zade I really do not know what you are thinking however the fixed resourcing nodes are there to enable and allow reliable resource gathering from controlled areas of the map: so rather then having clumsy area based resourcing operations where in unless the player is willing to dedicate a significant portion of there army to defend them resource collectors can be easily picked off; it gives the player the opportunity to properly defend them and not constantly worry about them (even when the player is trying to defend them...) and thus frees the player to focus on other things and along with encouraging the player to actually use the map in taking and holding territory is quite liberating in what it then allows the player to focus on and do. I detect a bit of nostalgic bias here so I will just say: is red alert 3 better ought?..well because both games have a good variety of units and unique factions; no. However because of the fact that red alert 3 is 3D and thus has an actual terrain element, and because certain game mechanics are more fleshed out e.g. special weapons having their own place in the U.I. rather then on the taskbar: is red alert 3 better in certain ways?..yes.

RA2 & YR had great campaigns, but RA3 was by far the better competitive RTS. I think it's really underrated and it's too bad that it's kind of lost and forgotten. Pending some patching, it deserved to make it alongside SC2.

The units where to weird and fiddly, definitely was not as good as what came before.

I've been waiting for this for a long time. Great video! Personally, I think RA3 is where C&C started to fall apart. Even the developers said it wasn't what they wanted it to be, and particularly criticised the engine that they were forced to use. I felt that they went a bit too over the top with the cheesiness, and overcomplicated things with unit abilities and such, straying a bit too far from what C&C was and laying the foundations for C&C 4. EA were pretty much working this dev team on permanent crunch mode from Red Alert 2 (which had a Westwood logo on it but didn't have much of the old team involved) through to C&C 4, and it started to show here. EA wanted them to make a competitor to Starcraft 2 in less than a year. C&C 3 (also my favourite) was developed in 9 months, which is incredible.