HUGE credits to Masterleaf for all the work he has done for the game and the community for keeping it alive!

The fact that they changed the Nod militants skin in Kanes Wrath to be closer to the Tiberian Sun one was so satisfying to my childhood mind. The unit was still useless but watching them die was twice as awesome as the angsty hooded warriors with glowing white eyes from the base game.

Fun fact: the Steel Talons Commander at 09:51 is in fact Daniel Kucan. Joe Kucan's brother!

I am sad that the series ended with this game's cliffhanger instead of a proper conclusion... Damn you, EA!

During the Sarajevo mission, I managed to save my Commando accidentally by running her to the corner of the map. She didn't do much after that though

25:59 you forgot the Steel Talon's "Behemoth" modified Juggernaut. Basically a Jugg with a bunker on it for infantry. Not really much of an upgrade over the Jugg, but if I remember correctly, the lore description states that a couple of Steel Talon engineers got so frustrated with losing Juggs to Nod infantry that they just welded a bunker to one to see what would happen.

I remember playing through with the One Vision mod. Really makes it feel like a brand new game. For one, it makes the Steel Talons in the early missions an actual threat. But also made all then Nod factions more unique, which gave some nice variety down the road.

I wish they had continued the series and gave us the answer to everything. Including Kane's ascension, Scrin's 2nd full scale invasion, GDI's fate after using/not using the liquid T-bomb, ... . C&C Tiberium series is my all time favorite. Fantastic lore, excellent and memorable actings, amazing gameplay, ... . Thank you for the video.

KANE LIVES!

One of my fav ways to use the reckoner was as a nearly cost-free turret placed inside of the repair field of a factory. When those three infantry squads rack up ranks, that turns into a turret with more power than any of the basic base defenses.

I was just playing it with my brother last night ^^ It is still visually impressive in 4k even after 15 years later. The SAGE engine really is ahead of it's time.

kane wraith is timeless. never get bored playing the skirmish especially playing against brutal ai. global conquest is such an awesome addition. I love this expansion. Kane wraith/10

The reason why Brotherhood of Nod is such an awesome faction in gaming is that Kane has maxed out his charisma. KANE LIVES

I wish there were mods to improve the global conquest, I loved that mode. It goes really well imo with the CnC lore

Traveler 59's best unique bit is they lose shield off their capital ships but gain a massive move speed upgrade for them... so their strategy is to MC stuff in the early game and then transition to speedy air

Tiberium Wars and its expansion Kane's Wrath are timeless games with incredible balancing and amazing gameplay. The worst thing about them was the fact that they had set up the Scrin for a massive invasion with, supposedly, incredible weaponry, which was supposed to occur in the Fourth installment. Alas, we never had the chance to experience it... At least until EA decides to remake Tiberian Twilight.

Tib Essence is a very good Tib wars mod that (In my opinion) gives Kane's Wrath a run for it's money.

Generalls has a couple in game cutcenes like the migs destroying the factory , the aircraftcarrier getting laserd, the damm getting destroyed.

C&C is my all-time favorite series. I found your channel because I’m in the midst of a series replay (on TS now) and finding your old C&C videos during it has been wonderful so I’m EXTREMELY excited this video just dropped. Keep up the great content!

Yes!! One of my favorites from the series. My only real complaint is not being able to see the Mammoth MkII in some form that isn't a husk on the battlefields. Think it would have been cool to see the Steel Talons get that instead of the MARV though the MARV is awesome as is.

I never realized C&C 3 had a patch that affected the harvesters. The last time I played the campaign I was really confused why it felt so much harder than the first time. I put it down to me not being as good at it, but the economy thing makes so much sense.

I for one actually liked the Red Alert and C&C "Gotcha" moments where you triggered an objective and got caught off guard by a mission ending counter attack. Sure, they sucked the first time you played. But like in RA3 with a *Spoiler free* Character turning against you in the soviet campaign. You could stall the mission once you knew the "catch", build a metric ton of tesla towers in their base, and then watch the world burn when they predictably turned against you mid mission. I consider it less of a punishment for not being prepared, more of a reward for replaying the campaign more than once.

Great video, really brings back some nostalgia playing the campaign. *Such* a shame they never followed up with a sequel, so many unanswered questions. Ps: You forgot to mention the steel talon’s behemoth, their variant of the juggernaut, and the rocket and heavy harvester for steel talons and zocom respectively.

You forgot to mention the resource vehicles slightly differ depending on the faction you play as i thought this was a great small thing that helped me tell the factions apart

you popped into my feed out of nowhere but I really enjoyed this video. So much love for KW

What I love about the sub-factions is how, I practically disagree with everything you said about them. I hate the Black Hand due to their limitations and reliance on a few handfuls of core units. Meanwhile, The Marked of Kane I find a lot more fun due to their flexibility, and how their Cyborgs compliment Nod Armor more so that the others. And I find base Nod to be my favorite because of just how many tools you have to adjust to the battle. An other example is Traveler. Traveler isn't a mind control faction, it's an airforce one. The Mind control units let you have cost effective defenses while you build up a unstoppable air force that zoom across the map thanks to the unique techs Traveler has. THIS IS GOOD. That fact that we come to different conclusions and preferences to me mean the sub-factions did what was intended.

Its been 15 years sense a rts of similar gameplay/mechanics ever been made that's not a starcraft clone, which is simply disappointing for the most of us that like basebuilding fortifying locations then only relying on waves of bodies to even defend a single base structure.

On the doctor vanishes, as a kid i always captured the gdi base, built massive fortifications at the harbour and then triggered the evac. If you capture the gdi space command, on some verisions, the abilities are bugged and you get infinite orbital bombarment and shockwave artillery.

Not once did I ever expect to see FriendlyJordies in a C&C video! Classic! Good job mate, keep up the content!

Reckoners is really good as base defence since they count as vehicles even in deployed state. Just set war factory at the edge of your base and deploy 2-3 reckoners with 2 rockets and 1 gunners squads within its repair radius. Free heal and veterancy > turrets

Also a side note on the Steel Talon Titan, only main-battle Tank unit that can shoot over buildings (aka: doesn't have to position itself line-of-sight to attack when in an enemy territory/base, which basically means higher DPS than all the other main tanks in the game)

The Scrin were so cool and fun. It saddens me how many people didn't like them and how forgotten they have been since.

Really appeciate a video like this coming out, I'm a loving fan of RTS, C&C3: Kane's Wrath was seriously unlike any other RTS i've ever played. I'm not even a PC player either lmao, my first RTS was Aliens Vs Predator Extinction when i was like 6yrs old, fantastic little RTS game btw, then Halo wars came out and i was hooked, But once i got my hands on Kane's Wrath?? on the 360?? I was mind blown. all the little things and the quality of this game was mindblowing to me at the time, the grim dark vibe, spawning in a redzone or some Yellowzone maps and hearing the windy desolate air, looking at the loving detail the devs put into the environment. The dried and cracked soil, tiberium cystals sprouting everywhere from the earth, the heavy polluted clouds casting their shadows over the ground. Every little animation of infantry, the cute idle animations of the GDI engineer, bro will put his little suitcase on the ground and take a sip of water if you watch him, select him ready for an order and he'll pick up his suitcase and get ready to run for the olympics. Don't get me started on his death animation. Breaks my heart thinking about it. The qaulity of this game destroys me because nothing like this will be made again likely.

48-minute long C&C video from Zade? I guess I'll be on the treadmill for 48 minutes today 😎

As someone who didn't get around to Kane's Wrath until last year, I found it to be a fun expansion to C&C 3 that added a lot of things the base game needed (like putting the walkers back where they belong). If C&C 4 ever gets made, the global conquest mode would have made a solid basis for a new game that added new mechanics to the franchise. Imagine a story mode where you're given a number of credits to purchase your starting roster before each mission, with the total credits influenced by the difficulty level and your success in the previous mission.

“The devoted” was the only mission in kane’s challenge where (regardless of faction) you could get stuck on since you have to early expand and micro to avoid getting out eco’d and gradually steamrolled to death. I make it look easy but it took several tries my first go around to get past it for all the the factions. The other challenges you can literally rinse and repeat w/o much difficulty since the ai patterns don’t change much (they could’ve done a better job at making each challenge more difficult especially with the 2 v 1 final challenge, I hope the pc community can make a mod pack version of this someday). Great video btw, was looking forward to watching it and it appeared in my recommendations today lol 🤝🏾💯

Finding videos like these are nice after replaying these games so many years later.

15:04 BTW they all come from the port to the west so if you fortify the area with base defences, mainly anti infantry and vehicle turrets, Obelisks of light and SAM sites you can pretty much just sit back and wait for it to leave

Loved the lilmaz jordy reference 😂😂 great video mate, I loved tiberium sun and wars, just wish there was a sequel to kanes wrath 😅

Got it Last night on that summer steam sale thing and now looking at you people making awesome content ... STILL HOLDS UP !!

Ah sweet RTS goodness for my eyes and ears, great video mate!

When I was 6th form at school, me and the boys would finish the day, would get some "herbs" to smoke, go back to my place and play a ridiculous 4 hour skirmish against the Scrin. Good times

When you've played many RTS campaigns you know you have to save after your base is settled, before launching a big assault and especially before completing an objective, that's the 1st strategy you learn :D A shame this game had no campaigns for the other factions and the global mode is very limited

Thank you Zade !

man this used to be in my top 3 of strategy games that I owned. Loved Kane's Wrath campaign so much

Here I was scrolling through innocently only to see the title remind me how old I am & hit me like a bomb. Thanks

I always loved the FMVs in these games, it always felt like Joe Kucan and the other actors had an absolute blast blatantly chewing the scenery.

it is SO sad that we cant have such games anymore.

Excellent review / revisit. C&C 3 was great, yet Kane's Wrath made it even more interesting. I agree with the critique on some of the missions, but for skirmish and online the new factions and units were great additions.

I've still got my disc copies from of C&C3 and KW from when they were new. Played them on Windows XP back then, still playing them today!

This expansion really is very awesome. I love the mission design and storyline. I do agree about the surprise 'extra' objectives.. but once you know its fun to prep for them :)

15/16 years later & C&C 3 & kane's Wrath is still one of the best rts games. It is way past time for a new game like this one.

15 years, jesus christ This game was excellent, thanks for the great video doing it justice

IN THE NAME OF KANE! PEACE THROUGH POWER!

i wondered why cnc 3 felt much harder after not playing for years , hell i even had trouble on a few missions on easy (IM LOOKING AT YOU CROATIA)

Still looks good and reminds me of my endless backlog :D . I've owned C&C 3 for ages but never played it, in part due to the fact that I was always hoping for a second remaster bundle from EA with RA2 and Tiberian Sun so I could play the whole saga back to back but it's been a looong wait and I guess it ain't happening anymore. Oh well, if and when I get around to that C&C replay, I guess I will have to resort to mods for RA2 and Tiberian Sun. It's definitely one of my fav gaming series of all time.

Kanes challenge would test you and take you by surprise if you treat it like a campaign / skirmish. Different ones would turtle, rush and steamroll. But overall it'd keep you adapting especially more to the final challenges. It was a curve for sure

My all time favorite rts , was playing the campaign this week 🤣

Between you and tightrope gaming I think NZ might just be a lowkey RTS youtuber hotspot. Great video, as always.

Wake up! The Messia- I mean a new Zade video is up. Joe Kucan will and always be Kane, he nailed the role so hard. Not sure if he still holds the Guiness Record for Longest running actor in a video-game series. I was hoping you would bring up the One Vision Mod.

C&C 3 and KW are my favorite RTS games ever and theyre what got me into the genre, Quality all around.

Hey so I didn’t see this mentioned but if you want a mod that sort of fixes issues you have (like visual design variation and some gameplay niches), then I heavily recommend the one vision mod! It’s an astounding mod that fixes most of those small tid bits while giving new stuff! Also thanks for making this video, I really enjoyed it!

LOL, The voice of Kakashi (Naruto dub version) is '' Kane's assistant'' and the voices on the battlefield (such as the 2023 comment! ) .The not so big world of voice acting. Cool video Zade (A)

Kanes lives!

thank you zade for this epic talk shoutouts to my favourite caster sybert

Kane's Wrath skirmish matches is peak RTS.

I'm glad you included a reference to that wolverine 2023 voice line. 😂

We STILL play this (and Jedi Outcast) on a local network. Timeless.

6:00 "Hey man, check out how hard I can crush this strawberry!"

went back to c&Q 3 and kanes warth a few months ago still as amazing as the relese date

This game is 15yrs old? God it feels like yesterday I was at my grandmas house playing TibSun and RA2 on a Windows 98

Keep up the good work m8

One of my all time favourite C&C games!

It has been a while since I've played last, I might want to play it again sometime

i just finished the campaign in Kane's Wrath again recently, its still a good game.

Good fucking god, its been 15 years? Seems like I was playing this only yesterday.

I didn't grew up with C&C, so this is going to be a very interesting watch for me !

The "then" nonexistent C&C4, 2023 and we're still waiting for that 4th game to arrive

good video! some of this stuff i never knew.

Me and my friend had a ton of fun playing this game :')

Great vid. I was a fan for C&C for years. Iove the original, RA and Tiberian Sun. As each game in the series continued the game speed got faster and it relied on explosion effects for excitement. I loved the slow pace of the 3 I mentioned. Having to decide on how to use your resources best, do you build a couple of tanks or a helipad and orca. Can you hold a chokepoint long enough for your reinforcements to get there or do you pull back? Tanks were slow but felt weighty and each one felt important, individual troops felt precious enough to save. Later games always looked like mobbing the enemies with sheer force of numbers. Smashing two piles of units together and hope you had something left by the end of it.

red alert 3 in the corner like "so do i just not exist?"

I preordered this game when I was a teenager. I had to take the bus to the gamestop and fork over what little money I had. I tell you this was one of the most satisfying purchases ever. This expansion is pretty fucking great.

Awesome video! Only things I highly miss in this video are mod support(Which famous mods do we have? what about WrathEd?) and Sage Meta Tool! Allows 60fps without all the downsides previous 60fps fixes had and allows lua scripting and much more!!

Just beat a Kane's Challenge for Base GDI. The game mode is playing one of the 9 factions and playing 10 rounds for each - 1v1 against each faction and a final 1v2. The AI is simplistic, the main goal for all opponents is to spread throughout the map and gather all the Tiberium and they send a cheap force. I know they have the resources but they don't build their super power weapon and send just one heavy armor unit after every 7th or so attack squad. Once you get rid of their main building needed for construction, then you just clean up the map - then it is hide and seek. I needed to hunt down powered down turrets and expansion buildings to win the challenge. The only real threat I faced were 1 Scrin faction who built a 5-7 devastor ship squad. And Base Nod faction who actually built their nukes and sent all forms of units including the epic one the Redeemer. Base Nod is competent, they built their war factories in the next tiberium field by my base and they succeeded in destroying me with endless avatars, stealth tanks and a commando. I had to unpack my MCV and run. I won but just barely with a MARV.

No 4k mod active 😢

I cant believe it's been 15 years. wtf.. that makes me really sad. I have a deep passion for this game LOVE/HATE.

Lol wasn’t expecting a Yilmaz cameo in a CnC review.

Had never the problem with the campaign but its more because i love to clear the map :D

CnC 3 Kane's Wrath 15 years already? Just like 20 years anniversary of Warcraft III - Frozen Throne, both addons are a freaking masterpieces from the golden era of RTS.

Zade's videos are absolutely great and very worth watching entirely, but in case you for some reason don't have 47 minutes of your life to spare, I will give you a quick summary. Is it worth playing CnC3: KW in 2023? ❤YES❤

Ah yes, the peak of the series

You can gauge how popular logistic RTSes are, by looking at the Anno series popularity.

The Friendly Jordies cut had me cracking up... Gday from Australia 🦘

Preach brother. C&C 3 lives rent free in my heart forever. I wish EA would make a real sequel/remake of Tib war.

good vid also whats that rts game at 47 mins? it looks kinda nice

The best part of the Black Hand is that if you have them attack move they become a ball of fire wrecking everything in their path. Super fun faction.

I had a fun time with it, I still have the original physical DVD of it ... although, I don't have a drive to run it 😅 My copy came with a beta-key for Red Alert 3, so it was almost a 2-in-1 deal for me.

Mine fav faction are Marked of Kane. True their infaltry is not cheap but it will do the job. I love their EMP abillity. With a little micro 5 enlightment squads can perm stunlock MARV and destroy it. Their upgrated venoms are also very powerfull. But the best thing is their cyberupgeated legs that makes enlightenen, tiberium troopers and sabatures very and I mean very fast so you can do when you got lot of money you can quickly push your front while tiberium troopers destroy all heavier-infaltry and garissons while enlightment can take almost any enemy tank and their venoms gives nice anti-air support while sabatures can capture specific buildings or capture enemy base to steal their tech or make a foothold.

CnC KW is a great expansion and adds a lot of changes that are beyond feeling essential as I never consider, for better or worse, the additional "factions" are pretty nice however I will say that Mark of Kane is a faction that feels half baked in some way, and I mean that I think its meant to be an infantry focus faction but I feel like it fails considerably, like sure the cyborg units can disable vehicle and structures but that isn't enough. Though everything else is amazing, its great the battle bases and guardian turrets get the railgun upgrade.