The Insane Story of 'Red Alert' Terribly Summarized.

Red Alert had a pretty bonkers story. And since it's alternate history, and was a major influence on me as a kid, I'm gonna talk about it. Pretty badly.
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[@AlternateHistoryHub]

The Amazon is burning, and Hong Kong is in protest. Instead I made this atrocity. Videos of actual value up next.

[@julianodobler2782]

Lmfao u maniac

[@viktorasrousis1015]

Faith in God is our only hope now.

[@petrcasar8516]

This is clearly more important Cody

[@leumnewman8772]

are you saying the horrible scourge of kapitalism isnt worthy of discussion?

[@hansolo3154]

Bold of you to assume this isn't top priority

[@Alex_FRD]

The best part of Red Alert 3 was destroying EA LA's office.

[@topgun9686]

wait thats a thing?! 0.0

[@Alex_FRD]

@@topgun9686 Yes, Japanese campaign.

[@faxmachine5306]

@@Alex_FRD damn, would be playing japanese 90% of the time then

[@NumericChaff]

Ah yes, the Santa Monica mission, hearts and fucking minds.

[@hqyang6193]

Yes

[@bootdude7527]

Behind every Romanov is a strange mystic wizard man

[@ArchArturo]

Hellboy knew best.

[@nowhereman8168]

They are big and strong...

[@timothycarney9652]

I would not be surprised if that was the inspiration for Yuri, and then they just decide to go and logically foll what a guy with such powerful mind control would do.

[@bootdude7527]

@@timothycarney9652 no use lying to ourselves about it, Yuri definitely is a reference to Rasputin

[@prinz4279]

@@nowhereman8168 ...and their eyes a flaming glow.

[@danic_c]

If you think about it, this game is actually a kind of existentialist horror. The moment time travel gets invented, the war becomes non-linear in time, meaning it can never truly end because any defeat can be undone, and an attack can be staged at any point in time before or after hostilities have "ended" in any given timeline.

[@pizzaeater8905]

Like 5D Chess.

[@TheNapster153]

As far as the 'people' are concerned, I'm fairly sure they wouldn't feel the change. Some are literally unborn while others are entirely altered by history. What is certain however, is that time will be utterly destroyed once the first jump is made. There will be more time as the future loses its meaning by becoming tangible. So yeah, you're point is made and I'll add that time travel no matter how small will screw us all.

[@nerezza5505]

Theres actually a really crazy and cool game called Achron which integrates time travel into a RTS. You can basically go back in time in the game to move units somewhere if you find yourself getting flanked in the present for example. The game updates temporal changes every few minutes, so you have time to counter any past moves made by your opponent. Its a really fun game thats hampered by poor development of every feature outside of the time travel mechanic, and the difficulty of understanding how it works.

[@Grimnir1666]

​@@pizzaeater8905 checkmate 5 turns ago

[@samueldickson1143]

There's a book called This Is How You Lose The Time War where the two main characters are combatants on either sides of a war like the one you're describing. It's not a war book so to speak, but the descriptions of the workings of the war effort from both sides are fascinating. Highly reccomended.

[@logansimmons3199]

I think it's so crazy that they were able to get actual known actors from the 90s to star in the cutscenes. They could've got anyone but they got Tim Curry and Ray Wise

[@Cymes]

Don't forget *George Takei* as the Emperor of the Rising Sun.

[@ldallas8315]

And JK Simmons!

[@xanmontes8715]

None else were worthy...

[@corrupt1user]

Don't forget C&C (the main games) had James Vader Mufasa Earl Jones

[@Gamingturtle090]

The cast is fucking wild! It’s more star studded then most illumination films

[@Tentaculat]

The biggest achivement of the Red Alert franchise is creating one of the best songs in gaming history

[@RRW359]

Most of the songs in C&C are great.

[@klen7642]

Yeep

[@isaacimes3487]

Absolutely love me some Klepaki tunes

[@davel.5871]

Cue Hell March on repeat

[@boxcarz]

Or the Soviet MArch.

[@Poplock4121]

Red alert is just the history channel at 3am

[@stuflames4769]

I can't Like this hard enough.

[@Attaxalotl]

Red Alert is just the strategy game version of TF2

[@nichsulol4844]

that very old banky of pic around

[@Katehikes5384]

Still to realistic

[@hemidas]

Nah, still more interesting than the Pawn Shops/Ice Roads/Ancient Aliens Channel.

[@AW-sh1ce]

The most insane parts about these games are the sheer number of well-known performers involved in the cutscenes.

[@owenatkinson5744]

And they're just hamming it up as much as possible. :P

[@Revanbzn]

Even command and conquer had famous actors. One even got to voice in mass effect 2

[@LeoInterVir]

​@@RevanbznTiberian Sun has James Earl Jones, aka Vader...

[@imlost19]

that's the benefit of only needing the actors for a few days. can get the more expensive ones

[@CollinMcLean]

@@owenatkinson5744 Is Tim Curry the greatest or what?

[@avpguy11]

1:26 I love how Tim Curry is struggling to keep it together saying that line.

[@tiberiusbrain]

Him and hasselhoff are reasons to actually go through the game

[@lamelama22]

@@Ms.Pronounced_Name For the particular space take... apparently they did do another take or two, but the producers thought it was so hilarious that they put the one where he couldn't keep it together in the game. lol... they knew what kind of game they were making. :D

[@Mediados]

It still baffles me that with such a comedic and absolutely mad script, they still got a top-shelf cast. But I guess if EA pays enough it sure is a blast to shoot these cutscenes.

[@TCFamas]

Curry is amazing in everything he does! Lets not forget the time he was a crazy trans alien scientist that made me sing lines i would never have sung otherwise as a straight male! 😎 Iam a sweet....

[@aredub1847]

@@Mediados we need nick cage and christopher walken

[@pississippian]

"this movie is based on true events." the movie:

[@wizz1548]

LMAO

[@nichsulol4844]

@@wizz1548 alien still seeing human socialism as a stupid empire

[@nicholasleclerc1583]

999th lile

[@user-su6ts9wm1h]

The plot doesn't mattrr mate

[@texandrifter6724]

Midway and Dunkirk made it too hollywoody

[@willburchett4667]

"The ONE place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPACE" Who's gonna tell him?

[@samsowden]

Earth got used up...

[@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer]

well in red alert 3 cause of all the war and time stuff the allies would have had to POUR all these resources into the wars and rebuilding ....meaning they wouldnt have time to see if even the red alert series have tiberium aliens

[@geekygamer3954]

dude that's called *star wars: empire at war*

[@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer]

@@geekygamer3954 i LOVE that game!

[@Noah-zz8uw]

@@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer hang on... Doesn't the Athena Cannon pinpoint the location of a target, then a satellite in orbit fires a laser at that target?

[@ZephWraen]

Red Alert 1 - A goofy premise made into a semi-serious alternate history. Red Alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge - You know, the satire really just writes itself, let's be silly. Red Alert 3 - Ahhh, fuck it. Let's go full meme.

[@Netsuko]

I love that Tim Curry’s “I’m gonna go to space” bit was pretty much a blooper. He could barely hold back the laughter but they decided to leave this as it was.

[@rydemk4168]

A Laser coming out of mount rushmore to destroy the soviets is one of the most American things I’ve ever heard.

[@smellincoffee]

Teddy Roosevelt would most DEFINITELY approve.

[@baconous689]

AMMMERICA

[@Zurgo-fl1kx]

BY THE POWER OF GEORGE WASHINGTON!!!

[@Oshawatt]

Smiles in Roosevelt

[@MrBloxy-wz1zb]

A faint sound of eagles screeching in the distance

[@aRadianceRed]

"I'm escaping to the ONE place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.." *INHALES* -Tries not to laugh- "SPACE!"

[@lookatthepicture4107]

Tim Curry is an absolute legend

[@kishaurlanda571]

The true penywise only!

[@kishaurlanda571]

Well tim curry as Cherdenko and Krukov are only villain in campaign i don't know why? hee

[@Hebdomad7]

He did it one take. Give that man an oscar!

[@AlexeiVoronin]

Well, he did manage not to laugh... not too obviously, at least. I don't know if I could have pulled this off :P

[@sterlinsilver]

You can tell the developers had SO much fun making these games

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

Kudos to the great German actor Udo Kier who played Yuri so brilliantly.

[@codyschwarz5155]

Kane and Yuri had the best actors in the CnC franchise, it is known.

[@berrim26]

That wasn't Doug Walker?!

[@firebladeentertainment5739]

and you know whats best? he did the voicelines for both the english version and the german version of the game

[@a_Lemming]

Real line from the game: “Another presidential head capable of firing lasers has come online”

[@blacksmithpanzer4517]

Thats Not a Knife, This is a Knife also from the allied campaign "another sports arena capable of launching kirovs has come online"

[@jliu524]

"You see, Commander, while you were hiding ... our enemy was thrusting deeply into the Motherland's tender nether regions." -RA3 Soviet Campaign God I love that game.

[@siomaicat8336]

I hated that mission

[@AlexSDU]

"When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin, Red Alert 1

[@animarthur5297]

@@siomaicat8336 That's one of the worse missions i ever saw in RA3.it's hellish.

[@bettercallsaal]

I’m convinced that Red Alert is a satire within a satire within a satire and it’s just too good.

[@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917]

CM HW I have “hated” EA since like forever.

[@artistwithouttalent]

"A satire wrapped in a parody inside a send-up." -Probably Not Winston Churchill.

[@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917]

Oh yea, its probably the best satire I have ever seen in a video game. Everything is just so over the top haha.

[@droddfellow3926]

And it's all buried in a pile of shit from that crazy bat from Furn Gully.

[@bobwalsh3751]

Satireception

[@mstieler8480]

I didn't realize just how much talent was actually in these cutscenes. Sure, i knew about Tim Curry (and the sheer hilarity of the "SPAYCE!" line), but JK Simmons? Peter Stormare? George Takei? Udo Kier?

[@diablorojo3887]

Don't forget Ricky Flair

[@johnsanko4136]

I just love how over the top they went with casting in Red Alert 3. Tim Curry, JK Simmons, George Takei, Hasselhoff, Gina Carano, Jenny McCarthy, it's crazy how much talent they got to be in those silly FMVs.

[@BoostedMonkey05]

Tiberian Sun had Michael Bein, Frank Zagarino, and James Earl Jones. DARTH FUCKING VADER AS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF GDI.

[@ZacharyDietze]

Tim Curry? J.K. Simmons? David Hasselhoff? *What kind of drugs am I on?* Oh, that's right, *SPACE!!!*

[@ratleader90]

It is pronounced SPAYCE!!!

[@CathrineMacNiel]

the SPAYCE must flow.

[@manictiger]

Normies: Space WH40K: SPESS Red Alert: SPAYYYYSSE Yuri's Revenge: Gravity? Vut's dat?

[@rjsteeves]

Where there's space, there's bound to be SPACE MARINES!

[@lamesurfer1015]

@@rjsteeves Spehss Mahrines!!!!

[@smolyoutubersgroup3205]

I feel like a drunken dad just saw his son playing army, samurai, robots, and dinosaurs toys and imagined a universe about that and just couldn't forget the story so he made a video game about it.

[@smolyoutubersgroup3205]

First so no one can be

[@brok56]

@@grenate2255 its kryptonite, but what you could, you know, build shit with it and fight wars. Yeah thats a great idea.

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

And giant ants

[@zeehero7280]

@@brok56 Its kryptonite to most organic life rather than specific aliens.

[@chuckn4851]

I hope to one day be that drunken dad of my generation

[@im_b_ran]

red alert 3 was the defining game of my childhood. i literally never understood the plot at all but i have many fond memories of the versus gamemodes and doing some wacky strategies (like being able to overrun an entire base from minute 5 with just a bunch of peacekeepers). revisiting it now and refreshing the wacky plot and everything else, ahhh the nostalgia

[@somedud1140]

I seriously don't get all the hatred of RA3, it has good UI, graphics don't hurt eyes and of course movie cutscenes with whacky acting, only much better quality and a lot more content. It's everything that RA franchise ever was! To me it's just like the original RA I played back in late 90's, but not as it really was, it's how I remember it.

[@hiyoritokisada594]

@@somedud1140 made by EA.

[@quangnhat5345]

@@somedud1140 Have you play RA 2 before RA 3? The model in RA 3 is dog shit, RA 2 you have a building explode, debris flying all around it, RA 3? it's collapse like a fucking lego. A battlefield in RA 2 have craters, on the ground, showing the aftermath of a war. RA 3? THERE IS FUCKING NONE, EMPTY. If the effect isn't dogshit enough, the entire balancing is just pure trash.

[@no3ironman11100]

@@somedud1140 Soy RA2 fans spend their time dissing RA3 despite the devs having a lot of fun with it and ensuring the game is more balanced than any RA game before it.

[@TarkasBane]

@@somedud1140 30 FPS cap

[@CoralCopperHead]

*_"Because of course they would right guys?!"_* This aged well.

[@zirconencrustedtweezers]

Yes I noticed that as well haha. Imagine thinking that the Soviet union and their political descendants aren't imperialists themselves.

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

It's worth pointing out that the soviets actually planned to go all across Europe in 1920 but got stopped around warsaw. World revolution and conquering germany was pretty openly their plan towards the conclusion of the russian civil war

[@astralseaslug546]

@@Ukraineaissance2014 based

[@Jofe000]

Not to mention that when they started pushing towards Berlin in WWII they weren't liberating the territories the nazis had, they were taking them for themselves. Imagine thinking you're free and the soviets come "No, no. You're not free, you're just under a new administration"

[@AquaAyaya]

@@Ukraineaissance2014 If i had a nickel for each time Poland saved entire Europe from a large scale invasion i would have two nickels. It ain't much but it's worrying that it happened twice

[@BlackHawk_-wv4ex]

When you turn historical off in hoi4

[@cranjismcbasketball919]

Nice meme

[@BritishEmpireV2.0]

Oh so true

[@randomdude3318]

* Poland invades Germany *

[@sboisbiu_2825]

SBPACE

[@Reragi]

@@randomdude3318 or in my friend's case, Poland invades Japan. *without a navy or any form of vehicles.*

[@theoutspokenscotsman884]

"there's never going to be a Red Alert 4" You're forgetting that this is the EA timeline and Red Alert 4 will be a mobile game developed for the Chinese market.

[@rinlaster2942]

Do you guys not have *phones*

[@kishaurlanda571]

play mental omega

[@kishaurlanda571]

@Daniel von Strangle two hu?

[@lcs.1094]

The Outspoken Scotsman Nah, that mobile “red alert ol” has been boycotted from the moment it came out. We chinese make mods of the old games instead of being fooled.

[@kishaurlanda571]

Well Red Alert OIS is just like Yuri's revenge Allied ending canon Before the Soviets change the timeline...

[@cleeiii357]

The Soviet's winning in the first Red Alert game actually led to the Tiberium universe. So yeah, that's the canon ending for that setting.

[@westnilesnipes]

That whole “Time will tell. Sooner or later, time will tell.” line has stuck with me for decades lol. Love Red Alert! That’s my childhood right there.

[@johannmantal7055]

"Cutscenes that look like they're filmed for a 80s porno" best quote ever.

[@lamdelmundo8492]

They missed the opportunity by getting bought by EA instead of Brazzers

[@azmodanpc]

I'll leave 666 likes

[@darkfool2000]

I love those cutscenes. Definitely a better aesthetic than most modern games.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Why do I feel like that is the last glimpse of glorious Westwood giving the middle finger to EA and doing all the crazy bullshit in RA on purpose.

[@tzvikrasner6073]

I mean, look, the Allied side has Gemma Atkinson, the only comercial model ever with g-cups. What the hell else are they gonna look like?

[@whothehelcares162]

I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by EA... SPACE!

[@Shagon89]

Battlefront 1-2... U can run, but u cannot hide :D

[@dzalva1434]

Dead Space?

[@Jsten419]

*SPAYCE

[@Mm-vr9mt]

@Lord Of Onions They already bought it

[@dudeman4514]

@Lord Of Onions then imma go to an another Galaxy

[@ideologybot4592]

I can't believe I'm just now seeing this. C&C had the most wonderfully shrooms-inspired stories and fuck-it performances by great actors you could possibly stick into a video game franchise. It was so, so great, precisely because of its Escape from LA ludicrousness. What would happen in The Asylum made video games? We don't need to know: it's already happened.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

Come on, Tim Curry came back from Red October to become the Soviet Premiere! What more could you ask for?!!!

[@commanderwookiecopc806]

CnC3 having Kane trick GDI into glassing Eastern Europe which invites an alien invasion

[@stoogemoedude]

Let's all be honest with ourselves. Red alert 1 split into two timelines based on who won. Allies winning leads to the Red Alert series and the Soviets winning leads to the Tiberium series, with Kane making a cameo at the end of the Soviet Campaign. We can assume he brought Tiberium here and he dies or leaves the planet somehow in the Allies campaign.

[@LeoInterVir]

There was a cancelled game that was going to bridge RA2 and C&C1. They released some assets of the game. Was going to have a faction called the Scavengers, if my memory is correct.

[@fadillah6014]

@@LeoInterVir if that fps then your memory is correct, is Renegade 2 btw

[@minhtrungle9117]

“If Lenin could see us now.” Gosh that game brings glorious vodka tears to my eyes.

[@emperorcaesar4311]

Dreadnought really did have the best voicelines. "Enemies of the Union shall burn"

[@johncarter4956]

My personal favorite is twinblade. What a glorious killing machine. "Pathetic Scum!" "Where are those vermin?" "THERE!"

[@remag-yx4ed]

Lenin doesn't deserve to see this.

[@minhtrungle9117]

Emperor Caesar My personal selections of Dreadnought badassery “The sea shall run Red” “We shall arrive as heroes” “Are you prepared to fight Comrades?” “The sea trembles beneath us” “Patriotism begets victory” “A majestic sight we must be”

[@nichsa8984]

@@johncarter4956 not died cause that android AI japan change not real person immortal

[@spartan1503]

Tim Curry can't contain his laughter when he says that he is going to spess

[@happyjohn354]

i still love the fact that all the female characters were played by actual porn stars...

[@CreeTheChroma]

@@happyjohn354 wait what?

[@happyjohn354]

@@CreeTheChroma ya several of the female cast were pornstars... Jenny McCarthy plays Tanya (playboy) Autumn Reeser plays Lissette Hanley (celebrity skin) and a few others had sex tapes if those count...

[@firebatray7946]

@@happyjohn354 welp that makes Cody's statement that the cutscenes are like from a 90s porno take on a whole new meaning

[@Death_Korps_Officer]

@@happyjohn354 So that's why they all were so hot and bad at acting. Hilariously bad 😂

[@lunaticberserker5869]

"COMMANDER!" Command & Conquer : Red Alert 3 should've been called Command & Conquer : Tim Curry.

[@camerongooch9606]

You can't convince me red alert 3 isn't a masterpiece of story telling and acting.

[@aredub1847]

/dat ass

[@nblhrt92]

"Vote for me, if you want to live!" Welp, he has my vote.

[@woitekbenzpl3668]

biden 2020 colourise- wait... we have coloured tvs? FUCK we are advanced

[@jerrytc2978]

not mine, life in 2021 USA aint worth livin

[@stuflames4769]

More like Putin's Russia, if we are dragging politics into this fine joke.

[@yugitrump435]

*holds gun to head* not putting a gun to your head or nothing

[@RexWort]

So we voting for the Terminator again?

[@yeenmachine206]

The real ending is we all get nuked by Gandhi. Wait, wrong game.

[@ccvcharger]

But it's a good game. As long as you discover nukes before Gandhi.

[@Rifky809]

but in alpha centauri we have chairman yang instead

[@BoroMirraCz]

Red Alert 4 - We do time travel again, mess up the timelines again and create a 4th faction - Empire of the Rising Cow...

[@lucusvanbeek3309]

Do we also have a cowmutator as a superweapon? Every soldier gets mutated in loyal cowbrutes?

[@robertdicke7249]

Yeah, the reason that japan would bounce back in ww2 if they weren't nuked is because they get +5 combat strength when adjacent to coast line. This is why they parked the yamato on a beach irl.

[@Zoshnell]

I love coming back to this video periodically, and leave comments to boost it in the algorithm.

[@DMMDestroyer]

Thank you for that. I finally saw it. Wonder if they realize how many Command and Conquer fans are out there that appreciated this being made?

[@Zoshnell]

@@DMMDestroyer Needs more fans/Kirovs to report.

[@Leobox3point14159]

I'm quite a few years late, but a friend of mine had worked at EA. They did draft plans for RA4 but they put it on hold indefinitely. Not much different, but knowing that somewhere in a file cabinet, exists early draft of RA4 still gives me some form of hope.

[@MechDragon108]

i'm guessing they put it on hold after seeing how C&C4 performed?

[@ConnorLockhartYGO]

"Instead of making something of value, I made this." But Cody, this IS something of value.

[@asphalteater615]

Yes

[@coldfusionstormgaming1808]

yes

[@sicarius6501]

Yes

[@bodavidson2804]

No I mean yes

[@joshnicholson2934]

This is the most valuable video yet

[@MyBoomStick1]

He said “poor Teddy” but I think he would have wanted his head to be the one with the giant laser weapon in it XD

[@thomastakesatollforthedark2231]

Ohhhh definitely. Hell, he probably would've loved it if his head became the top of a giant laser shooting mech too

[@thathistoryiscoolguy]

Yes

[@nichsa8984]

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 soviet no longer torturing but still torture jobless futuristic tech AI and even automation nightmared

[@williamcortelyou4524]

Hell yeah he would love it. That Lazer would obviously be code named The Big Stick.

[@brunnooaraujo]

WHAT'S UP BITCHES?? *aims the Kremlin*

[@Kilthan2050]

I love how Tim Curry couldn’t keep a straight face for that scene, and this is a guy who had the Muppets say that he was a living muppet.

[@andyb1653]

That outtro was the most delightful thing I've seen all week. It's been a rough week

[@Kronosfobi]

Heart bpms: Walking - 85 bpm. Exercising - 120 bpm. *Kirov reporting - 597 bpm and rising*

[@Todimani]

+100bpm if hes Elite Rank,i saw a place getting buried by Tesla bombs...

[@T3hderk87]

Tanya saying "LETS ROCK" - OVER 9000 BPM!

[@rogankane6901]

Warning: Nuclear missile detected- 999999999999999999999999999999999 bmp and rising rapidly

[@nichsulol4844]

@@Todimani if albert in modern present our today and he busy built real time machine

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

> Hell March revs up All rise for the Strategy Game national anthem...

[@Valkbg]

You mean world anthem

[@kabob0077]

*Plays all three Hell Marches at once*

[@zarlei6048]

You mean the Wehrmacht marching in a column anthem.

[@necromorph1109]

Fucking so true.

[@Tasonir]

I had hell march.mp3 back in the day when people still had mp3's. I've listened to it at least a few thousand times. "Meatball sub, with sprite!"

[@sebaseba6710]

That dancing at around 10:15 is just amazing *chef kiss

[@stanislavnepochatov8381]

Critic as Yuri killed me. Very nice summary!

[@boxylemons7961]

"EA Kills every franchise they touch" if there's anything true about the gaming industry it's that

[@jeffreyepstien9205]

and then it was “like it was gonna talk” and there was a fucking picture of jeffrey epstein. I dies

[@ooohheldenring9770]

Someone's gonna put this on r/gamingcirclejerk with the title "Ea BaD" I just know it.

[@aturkishgamer9790]

That and that ValvE can’t count to 3.

[@spiritupgrades]

BoxyLemons they will be fortnight skins in borderlands three I hope to God I am wrong

[@DaveMiller6042]

Except fifa They just don't let it die

[@rainmanslim4611]

J.K Simmons = America Tim Curry = the Soviets. George Takei = The Japanese. My God the casting is... PERFECT!

[@williamdaasian]

Surprisingly star studded cast for a strategy game.

[@dannybailey6443]

The Tiberium games were the first C&C games I played and I remember picking up the case and looking at the back and seeing the list of actors they had. Then I went home and saw the actors they had in the previous games like Red Alert and remember thinking “they really are shelling out money for big time actors to do the cheesiest cutscenes for a game?” They ruined celebrities in games for me like Kevin Spacey in COD because C&C will always be the most memorable for how cheesy they were but also how much charm they added to the game.

[@aileenurlanda9952]

Good!

[@WilliamAndrews0]

Command and Conquer just got the best actors in the world and then like 1 intern to write the story. it's fantastic.

[@canadian__ninja]

3 years later and this is still unironically his best work.

[@TacticalAnt420]

Me: So kill stalin The Universe: So Mussolini will become smart and reform the roman empire

[@Melvinshermen]

Cretaceous Monster i alway Wonder well if you go back time to kill hitler what ever Benito Mussolini That should red alert 4 dlc Benito Mussolini

[@Ulzorn]

actually happened in a hoi4 game where germany joined the allies,and ww2 was allies vs commies,then (sorta) ww3 between the allies (and russia) vs the roman empire of italy & hungary vs poland that somehow decided declaring war on everyone was a brilliant plan

[@Quignin]

@@Ulzorn That's the most HOI4 thing that I have ever heard

[@DPoddy]

I thought It would be more interesting if the Pope reforms the papal states and launches a crusade against the heretics (the allies), godless atheists (Soviets) and infidels (the Japanese Empire).

[@Ulzorn]

@@DPoddy wouldnt be surprised if that sort of thing happened in a paradox game (prolly EU4,dont think holy wars are a thing in later era games)

[@steelin666]

Not only Tim Curry, but also J.K. Simmons, Jonathan Pryce and David Hasselhoff. Goddamn, RA3 had a strong cast!

[@mrp4242]

Stelcio, and Gemma Atkinson.

[@henryborges1775]

The expansion even had Rick Flair for better or worse

[@koilamaoh4238]

wtf david in there lol, I somehow missed this, or not play much.

[@andyblargextra]

That game was so ridiculous.

[@jahrazkal]

Not to forget, that it was also the first "acting" role of Gina Carano, which you might now know from Deadpool 1 or The Mandalorian.

[@leifleoden5464]

12:30 Dude, I know where your coming from but let's be honest. C&C 3 went for camp and they owned that niche. It was a really fun game but the story writers had the same goal as the folks who wrote Sharknado. They were not even in the Universe of trying to take themselves seriously, and they pulled it off, really well. That storyline was fun, and they had some decent gags.

[@doomslayerobama]

Tim Currey had so much fun in Red Alert 3. Very sad he got nearly completely paralyzed.

[@Ar1AnX1x]

"Vote for me, if you wanna live" campaign logo: Screw Them All

[@valterfara5027]

Considering how things are today, I would be surprised if that doesn't become a real political ad.

[@nichsa8984]

@@valterfara5027 human peace❌❌❌❌❌❌ wrong human on technological advanced like nanotechnology based on greedy and destructive power superior✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ the true right

[@thesymbiotenation.4552]

That's such a J.J.J thing to do

[@seanhartnett79]

Honestly someone would do it.

[@QualityPen]

@@valterfara5027 “Vote for me if you want to live.” “Vote for Biden like your life depends on it, because it does.” (Actual quote) Yup, we’ve done it everyone. Real life is now a just a meme. We’ve reached Red Alert meme level. GG, I won’t even be mad if a giant robot army nukes everything, it’ll be just another day in 2020.

[@Jimbo55151]

“I don’t give a Woden nickel” is legit one of my favorite phrases to say thanks these games

[@107newt5]

Jimbo55151 nipple*

[@proudtitanicdenier4300]

Ah yes, a "Woden nipple"

[@silasg3650]

@@proudtitanicdenier4300 But I would TOTALLY give a wooden nipple... that's my fetish.

[@gunnaryoung]

"The silo doors are closed, this is suicide!"

[@johnecoapollo7]

Going from the Red Alert Timeline to the Tiberium Wars games was a serious whiplash when I was young and didn't realize they were different series.

[@irishspartanstudios]

Cody is forgetting how in this alternate timeline that "crushing defeat" never happens because the Axis doesn't exist.

[@murgmaggleramaxis8535]

They won't make a Red Alert 4, because it would involve an Einstein, pissed off at what the world has become, traveling back in time to prevent Hitler's death and mentoring him.

[@murgmaggleramaxis8535]

@Egg T That's the plan.

[@InfernosReaper]

Maybe this time he'll go back in time and just kill Taft so that Teddy can stomp Wilson from winning the election, thus altering the outcome of WW1 enough to prevent Hitler's rise to power.

[@ahmadtarek7763]

You know I actually would like a red alert that has allies soviets and Germans.

[@sjakierulez]

@@ahmadtarek7763 Red alert 2 you mean?

[@buddermonger2000]

Now THAT is a setup

[@edgycommunist4213]

"The plot doesn't really matter" _shows David Benioff and D.B Weiss_

[@Razzy1312]

The Soviets kinda forgot about the U.S. fleet.

[@wgalmand08]

So I’ve been a fan since the beginning. Like seven episodes of alt rome schnit ya know. And I love all of the work done by yous guys. But this……this is art. I find my self coming back to this video over and over through the years. And still I’m like damn, fucking this shit is the bees knees. Hats off to y’all! Seriously chefs kiss to this and all you do.

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

I honestly love RA3. Especially because of the campaigns, because it is the script of a c movie in the best possible way. It wants to be ridiculous, and manages it really well while still being somewhat engaging if you give it the chance

[@csbr75]

Red Alert 3 endings in a nutshell: Allies: you gotta date 2 blonde chicks Soviets: you gotta lead the ussr Japan: you gotta keep that honor AND date a hot chick

[@asmer3302]

Uprising: Allies: Oh no, he betrayed me Soviets: KICKASS AND SAVE THE WORLD... BUT ITS STILL NOT FUCKING CANON Empire: Lol nice we got our land back

[@taterc229]

soviet is objectively the worst ending. you end up with no gf ;_;

[@csbr75]

@@taterc229 you could have ANY gf

[@filipzdarilek6274]

@@asmer3302 there is also anime girl campaign

[@bufu254]

Well comrade That's all you need in this life

[@Inignot12]

"With measles" I nearly died but then I remember I've had my vaccinations

[@Katokhann]

U deserve more likes

[@LilyoftheLake14]

@@Katokhann Agreed. It definitely is best comment. Best comment. I wonder if alternate history hub just has a TON of anti-vaxxers in his audience.

[@tgdm]

I have but one regret, and that is being able to like this comment only once.

[@LilyoftheLake14]

@@olibearws do you?

[@Taoscuro3003]

The thing is, unlike the missconception of movies like Back to the Future, a theory about time travel is that, if you change something in the past, you create a complete new paralel universe with the consecuences of those changes. Also that implies that it will be another you on that new paralel universe.

[@katherineardelean6556]

As someone who grew up with Red Alert, loved this

[@TheZoobZoobs]

The funny thing with the Empire's campaign is that despite them being THE bad guys in RE3, there is no internal betrayal while both Allies and Soviets have that left and right.

[@TrusteeNail]

HONOUR

[@Villicus]

The betrayal in the allied campaign is due to the president though, which is revealed to be a robot being controlled by the Japanese in their campaign.

[@nichsulol4844]

@@TrusteeNail unrealistic how human can become type 1 civillzation in 1990

[@TrusteeNail]

@@nichsulol4844 With the power of EMPEROR and KISHI on your side. Your Empire will be ERADICATED with POLITICAL INTRIGUE in just 44 orders!

[@jonathanwells223]

nich sulol if it weren’t for the filthy soviets it probably would have happened by that time

[@dajjal3049]

Imagine being in a Japanese dominated Russia being forced to watch anime for the rest of your life

[@musclesglasses5790]

You've just described my wet dream.

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

Can I pick?

[@ekulgar]

That sounds like heaven to me

[@AlcoLoco251]

I see this as an absolute win.

[@src175]

Imperial Japan wouldn't like anime at all though.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I just love how absolutely hilarious, over the top and unserious the RA3 story is. It goes all the way and never stops even for a moment to be realistic. The RA games in general go more and more crazy with each part, just like how Saints Rows gives less and less f*s about being a serious open world crime sim.

[@BlackdragonTheShadow]

I love how it ends with your representation of the three armies vibing to the Soviet March for Red Alert 3

[@geekofallthingsprehistory2975]

"She probably had a child sneeze on him" hits differently now

[@warmachine5835]

@@angievlogs3407 arguably the one who popularized the movement. But yeah, COVID kinda... ooofs plague jokes.

[@imadrifter]

Derp

[@manuelnunes1502]

@@angievlogs3407 yeah I just read about her son and I think she sadly hasn’t come to accept terms and has been fooled

[@unitedstatesofamerica5876]

1,000th like

[@bobbyferg9173]

The fact that this channel is slowly becoming a dank, meme infested hole (just like what was long ago Geography Hub) is a strange, but very welcome at the same time.

[@admechskitarii6967]

Bobby Ferg a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

[@Solaxe]

@commiesarentpeople cringe

[@Dman6779]

@commiesarentpeople cringe

[@fatfuck2384]

@commiesarentpeople your name is extremely based

[@starcoloneldunadansonoft501]

@commiesarentpeople It reflects reality.

[@Manawolfman]

Fun fact, the bald guy in the RA1 cutscenes is supposedly Kane of the regular C&C continuity. So Allies win and the RA timeline keeps going, Soviets win and the C&C Tiberium timeline goes forward (The Tiberium meteor misses Earth in the Allies version I guess)

[@llSuperSnivyll]

According to what was going to be the original C&3 (that is, before EA bought Westwood), the Soviet ending is completely non-canon. Both Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Dawn come from an Allied victory in Red Alert (Red Alert 2 is just an alternate timeline, caused by Yuri being flung into the past, not to mention that they are set in the 70s so Tiberium has yet to arrive). And it does make sense, because in the Soviet ending you have Nod controlling all of Europe through the Soviet Union and thus were the #1 world superpower, whereas in Tiberian Dawn they had to purchase most of their equipment.

[@Darkrye324]

These are honestly my favourite types of videos where the creator goes AWOL and talks about something obscure they care deeply about

[@meatballsnacker-sitregald6919]

time machine **exist** Red Alert: "I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move."

[@meatballsnacker-sitregald6919]

@Irongutz You're talking about things that make sense We don't do that here in C&C.

[@Gabi2gabi3]

@Irongutz If Einstein kills Hitler, then time changes so Einstein doesn't need to go back and killer Hitler, so Hitler remains alive. Which might prompt Einstein to go back in time and kill him, which means Hitler never lived so Einstein doesn't go back in time, which means Hitler lives [....] But regarding your question, what if they killed Einstein after he killed Hitler?

[@KucheKlizma]

The main question is why doesn't Einstein kill Blizzard & EA games back in time, so that C&C never dies.

[@feartheghus]

Meatball Snacker - Sit Regald at least the Tiberian franchise made sense with its lore. Red alert is just hilarious though, and it’s awesome.

[@petkofuchalski9809]

@@feartheghus if you ignore C&C4, yes, it does make sense

[@yagzkerimcnar7356]

I know I am nearly 2 years late but Soviets, Allieds and Weebs all dancing together to RA3 soviet march remix was clearly best thing I have ever saw in my life

[@pedropedrohan102]

2 year's?

[@Hans140]

Ok so search up “red alert 3 Soviet March electro” then once you find the video have the speed be at 1.25x speed and then you have the exact same tune as what Cody used in this video

[@boamedia9496]

The lore and storyline on this franchise makes as much sense of why Putin invaded Ukraine

[@fredbaumann3360]

You had me at "Lou Albano!" (In a related development, I've heard that George Takei pretty much ALWAYS "goes down without a fight!!!")

[@NoobPTFO]

“I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by anime... [holds laughter] *Space!* “

[@WelcomeToLaMatanza]

makes sense. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKfOkHWJZruHja8&ab_channel=TheMechanicSharkChannel

[@chitoisbestgirl6789]

There's Gundam buddy, so you ain't Safe!

[@fullforce1gaming338]

anime is everywere

[@math3000]

_laughs in Legend of Galactic Heroes_

[@chitoisbestgirl6789]

@@math3000 OH yeah, forgot about that one and also Macross!

[@metanoia6335]

Ahh Red Alert 2 the last game where you have the option to blow up the twin towers.

[@waleedkhalid7486]

I clearly remember that mission, it’s the Soviet campaign. You don’t have to destroy them, I just garrisoned them to use for defense. And yes, I played the game after 9/11 though I didn’t connect the dots until years later. Still a cool mission though and really made the pre-9/11 world real for me.

[@louisduarte8763]

@@waleedkhalid7486 How old were you when you first played it?

[@bg3622]

@@louisduarte8763 I was 4. Seems closer than it is.

[@Walter_Stroud]

And the pentagon don’t forget.

[@tobediv]

@Lewis von Feline haha holy fuck

[@kaleblam5084]

The way the soviets Americans and Japanese were dancing at the end was the hysterical

[@FSEThompson]

7:17 was impeccably synced

[@Aradim90]

Dude the Red Alert 3 cast was amazing

[@MistaTofMaine]

yeah crazy cast, even has Gina Carano in it.

[@petterwiggen5833]

Not going lie I always preferred Red Alert 2 to Red Alert 3. Even though it was still insane it was still more possible and fun in my opinion.

[@TsukuyomiFX]

Yet the gameplay and plot sucks

[@cabellones]

@@petterwiggen5833 RA2 is better, but RA3 had a better cast..

[@petterwiggen5833]

@@cabellones im not quite, sure i liked the soap feel of RA2. I think my biggest probelm with RA3 it trys so hard to be a Starcraft game but it failed sooo badly

[@ryanhatesgirls]

This made my day. I've never played a game as much as Red Alert

[@meathead6155]

It's your chance to play the game.

[@castlehill6717]

I dont think I have either.... Ra2 and Yuris revenge might have been my most fav games of all time.

[@BrumBrumBryn]

@@castlehill6717 Yuri was the best bad guy

[@CJagd]

Hope you know about "Mental Omega"... It Red Alert 2 "on steroids "

[@da_pawz]

Still playin it once for a while... Maybe just to feed my addiction to RA2 lol

[@alsenar2]

Man, i swear, the "Japan is a world power because no nukes duhh" is the funniest plotline ever.

[@nikkovalidor4890]

to be fair, japan is basically a world power even after the nukes. the only thing holding them back militarily is because they got traumatized so hard by ww2 that they adopted an almost pacifist military policy

[@FuryousD]

god i love that Hell march theme of the Red Alert games

[@Crimson_Valor]

8:48- “pull an endgame of course” Me: it sounds more like Endgame pulled a Red Alert

[@AaronCMounts]

Red Alert did it, first.

[@kaiserwilhelm9217]

Aaron Mounts yeah

[@nichsa8984]

cause they're has no anthem

[@ship0197]

@@nichsa8984you dont make sense

[@NamelessMoreOne]

Things get weird when you mess with time travel.

[@finntadie191]

Some how Red Alert 3's campaign is still better than C&C 4: Doesn't deserve a subtitle

[@zdeadfalloutxx8084]

we don't mention THAT thing..

[@RRW359]

@@zdeadfalloutxx8084 But the video mentioned Rivals. I didn't even know it was POSSIBLE to make a worse game than TT, but apparently EA proved me wrong last year.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

@@RRW359 Shhhhh. we shouldn't mention that one either, Cody made a mistake in talking about *_that_* game.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

They may have killed his character, but EA cannot ruin the great prophet! KANE LIVES IN DEATH!

[@daltonloges99]

Finn Tadie don't mention that insult to the series, FOR KANE ! DOWN WITH EA !

[@attilathenun]

I don't know what I love more - the content of the video or the fact that you are mad enough to actually make it.

[@SwarfCrawler]

10:18 that 2 second dance scene is the funniest thing ever

[@TheRealBrit]

I forgot how much I really miss red alert until I heard Tim Curry say "SPACE!"

[@koilamaoh4238]

HIs acting face looks like it was about to crumble under pressure of laughter once he was about to say "SPACE!"..

[@ghazghkullthraka9714]

How about the hidden gem ‘I don’t give a hooting nickel what you think’

[@janosd4nuke]

Well, lucky as EA decided to play nice. (Wouldn't last long knowing them, but hey last decade this PR boost stunt let the remnants of Westwood pull a Tiberium wars) We got Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert remaster this month and C&C stuff is on Steam not just origin

[@Woffenhorst]

@@janosd4nuke And as money seems to be the only language they speak, I bought something from EA for the first time in over a decade. Here's to hoping they remaster Tiberian Sun and RA2 as well.

[@jonathanwells223]

Woffenhorst money is not their language, it’s their drug. They take as much as they can and only give out what they are forced to by their finance department. You are enabling them! You are part of the problem!

[@alexross1816]

Can you upload a video of Tim Curry just saying "SPACE" over and over?

[@ascetic3312]

Oh it's already out there. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWK2omSEp5prnq8

[@nineel7395]

It's the way he can't even stop himself from laughing as he says it. The cast of nearly every CnC all look like they had a blast making the games. Fuck I love the FMVs for command and conquer. The team really knew their audience.

[@nichsa8984]

darpa on their behind logo

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

[@slashplane]

One of the first video games I saw was red alert 3. I love the C&C franchise. I love this goofy telling of the red alert story. It certainly is kooky but fun. Also that theme mix on the end card is awesome.

[@JCLegendary]

We're just gonna completely ignore that Kane was responsible for WWII.

[@da_pawz]

The split of C&C timeline. I dug a lot back then to find the story

[@SamuraiHonor]

I am, the future....commander.

[@aidan6390]

Or that the Japanese figure out the timeline split and have a complete mental crisis

[@ExeErdna]

That was the best part and also the part that needed to be forgotten

[@TheLumberjack1987]

"The Soviets used their strangely advanced technology to stop Brexit." lmao

[@TheAceLewis]

Very happy a much bigger channel could bring attention to this series ❤️ and said everything better than I could.