I think the most genuinely impressive thing about Joseph Kucan's performance as Kane throughout the entire franchise is that he's not even a full time actor. His main job while working on all the games was actually in being the Casting Director at Westwood. It's just that when they were making Tiberium Dawn, they just had him do some placeholder footage as Kane for reference while they searched for someone else to play the character. At some point down the line though, they just said "Fuck it" and let Kucan play the part full time because no one else could do as good of a job at playing the character. And thus one of the most iconic villain performances in gaming history was born.
I know I’m a year late, but that’s actually really interesting. I’ve been a C&C fan as long as I can remember, and I still learn something new every now and then. Now all we need is the band to get back together for Tiberian Incursion.
He wasn't a full-time actor then, but today he is, for the most part. He founded "A Public Fit" theatre company in Vegas, and now does acting and directing full time. Through his podcasts he seems to be passionate about it too.
If it was “A” grade, it would be taking itself far, far too seriously. It would lose all its charm and fun. Camp makes things classic, graphics and tech change over time, but because of the camp, it’s all in its charm.
2:16 the traitor was converted into a cyborg construction worker with enough strength to lift and catapult junked vehicles at enemies like Scottish contestants who fling tree trunks like footballs. His chariot resembles a Devil’s Tongue flame tank that sports heavy manipulator arms with plasma cutters and a small assembly forge which allows him to salvage wrecked Titans and churn out a squad of flying drones as a makeshift airfield
@@september_chan Well he was responsible so it was kinda summed up, thus it should be surprising that you need to continue your work instead of expressing yourself to Slavik. You live for Kane, and die for him.
@@september_chan look closely at 2:06 . His body language kinda tells you that he's panicking at Slavik's return which implies that he's the one who ratted him out and Slavik knows it.
@@watcherman222 Not to mention the other soldier just keeps working, Fully expecting his commander to have survived and escaped, its the little things that tell a traitor out.
True, but I will give EA 1 credit, Tiberian Wars was post-Westwood and that was an excellent game. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go and shower after giving EA any credit (blech)
If it was not for EA you would not have had the Tiberium universe you so love. I suggest you watch the Rise and Fall of Command & Conquer and not live in ignorance.
"I live for Kane. And I die for Kane. The difference is trivial." And this is why Slavik is so dangerous. Because he believes, and nothing can shake that. Mac is just a glory-hounding action hero by comparison.
karsten69 It makes you do the impossible and the reckless, which is why an atheist society like that of european nations is slowly being conquered by Islam. You cannot reason with zealots, but they can learn your ways and use them against you. Conviction is power, and religions require a lot of conviction and strong willpower.
The immediate response, perhaps one of my favorite lines in C&C: "Kane is using you!" *no hesitation* "Terminate the bitch." What devotion. Speaks volumes of everyone involved.
@@user-yo8ab1ys9e honestly I feel bad for them they are not necessarily bad people they just went with nod cause they seem like good people to them and then in the end they are just tricked and backstabbed by their own ruler
The production quality in the old Westwood games is far far better than what EA is currently making. I mean, look at those awesome Nod Combat Armor props, I would love to have one.
Sad thing about this game? This is the rushed, EA version. EA bought Westwood before they could finish this game and instead of finishing it, they pushed it out. I remember there being a lot of elements that were promised in the game but never happened, like being able to build drop troops, making the forgotten a 3rd faction to play, the hunter/seeker droid not sucking...shame.
Artuurs Z. These were actually Nod Combat Armors not power armor so I was wrong on that, but you’re also wrong because GDI had power armor (Zone Troopers, Zone Raiders) and Nod also had troops with power armor (Black Hand Flame Troopers).
The TW2 Nod Infantry Combat Armor is so iconic it's reused in the 3rd game's expansion, with a plausible lore explanation to boot (the armor is a hand-me-down from veterans since some soldiers are so poor).
I love how the crowd, when Kane is revealed to be alive, are suddenly cut off before they say "in death" in their motto "Kane lives in death". Crowd: KANE LIVES IN- Kane: KANE, LIIIIVES!! ... Crowd: WO-YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!"
Benjin P It reminded me of the time when audiences cheered after seeing the trailer for "Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace." Boy, would everyone but small children be disappointed.
Haha, join the openRA project then :D At the moment I believe they're finishing work on Tiberium Sun and from then RA2 is only a matter of modding cause it's the same engine right?
"Define favorable outcome Kabal." "They all die." I love that bit, and Kabal's voice is freakin' epic. One of the best games in the series and the one I remember the most playing. ^^
Firestorm was alright, but I think it should've just stayed as a fight between Nod and GDI, kinda never liked the 'Oh look now old enemies must work together to defeat a new and a bit more evil enemy' trope that keeps popping up in a lot of the old school RTS games.
I remember my parents freaking out at the scene where Slavic slits Hassan's throat and banning me from playing the game. Yet they had no problem letting me watch the Indiana Jones movies and every Bond film at the same age.
Indeed just like my mom can’t stand watching violent tv shows but at the same time doesn’t mind the violence on crime detective shows now I understand where Trevor is coming from GTA 5 when he says to a random woman You suck cock but don’t eat meat it makes no sense to me
I just noticed again how good the camera work and directing is; Slavik: "the Brotherhood is only interested in peace." He walks into view and your just see his sidearm in its holster!
Kane, Anton Slavik, Oxanna Kristos, CABAL, and Vega are all great characters. FOR THE BROTHERHOOD! Peace through Power! One purpose, one vision! Good fucking times!
Slavicks speech when he slit the throat of hassan was one of the most iconic in the cnc universe and will send chills down the spine of just about anyone that watches it take it from someone that comes from a command and conquer loved family
Tiberian Sun and Firestorm and the Tiberium universe will always be my favorite C&C. I remember watching my grandpa play skirmishes as Nod when I was five. Then one spring break, he let me, a little kid who could barely use a computer, try the game out. My very first game I played as GDI with Sky Blue color and all I did was build and send troops in enemy bases like cannon fodder. Damn those are some awesome memories. Peace through Power.
A similar thing for me with the Red Alert series. Particularly Red Alert 1. I remember I asked my dad what the UN was. Then he explained it to me, as best he could.
Goku Black Why did you kill Goten and Chichi? Also I remeber my dad would play ra2 Yuri's Revenge when I was little and I would watch him at 4 years old.
My first C&C game was just named Command & Conquer, it was the first conflict. it was so epic when I was a kid, I loved the missions but especially Nod technology ^^
Mum:"Kid what are you watching?" Kid:"Just some executions, mum..." Mum:"Nice, i will join you when i have finished laundry. But dont forget to do your homework" Kid:"Ok mum..." TV Programm for the whole family, brought to you by the Brotherhood of Nod :D
@@Mr.MolluckI like that this sounds like something you would expect from someone living in a Nod-controlled territory or between Brotherhood members who are in the same family.
You can't forget about the 'EVA' from Red Alert. His voice is so iconic (RIP). Westwood did a great job with all of their games actually. I would say all of them are the best, because it is impossible for me to pick my favourite. They all match their respective games perfectly. CABAL is the most intimidating though.
07:28 - oh, the memories. Getting the game on release day, fidgeting when it installed, and then THAT reveal. I can't think of many games managing to send shivers down my spine like this did back in 99...
Yeah I got up very early on my birthday, unwrapped this, installed it and went through the first few Nod missions, to about this point. Blew my young mind
What I love the most in Westwood games. The occasional "I shoot this guy because of reasons you don't understand. I'll just say "Traitor" and leave the rest to your imagination."
Though Red Alert 2 was my favorite C&C game, Tiberian Sun had a very specific atmosphere to it that made is so unique and eerie.... I loved it. Especially Firestorm. Cabal was a short-lived but really disturbing enemy.
I met him in Utrecht at the Free Record Shop a couple of years ago, he was there to promote C&C 4 (not a clue why you would want to come there but hey i didn't mind xD) and talked with him about 10 minutes after giving him a pre-birthday present because it was his bd 2 days later.
Hassan: Slavik has escaped. Solemon: Then cover up and kill him before the truth comes out. Hassan: We tried that already and know... Solemon: I have alter the deal, pray I don't alter any further Hassan.
Dude.. watching Hassan get his throat cut like that at 7 years old was intense as fuck. At 25 it’s still a damn good scene. I wish more games would do live action stuff like this
I love how at 13:49 and 21:58 variations of No Mercy from the original C&C is played. I feel it really ties the feeling together with the original game in a subtle way. I think Frank Klepacki did this brilliantly, just like he did in the Yuri's Revenge track Drok where he after 56 seconds introduces the theme from original Hell March at 4 min 25 sec into that track.
I still love the style here. The uniforms, the props, the atmosphere... it's like watching a really cool sci-fi movie. Then C&C 3 happened, and it made everything more casual and contemporary - no more cool uniforms, no armors, NOD turned into straight up gangstas running around in hoodies and sneakers, what a joke. And then, C&C 4. Which shouldn't exist. I'm kinda glad Slavik died before the shit show started. He lived in the Brotherhood's golden age. If he lived long enough to witness what this once mighty organization turned in, he'd most likely kill himself.
I'll be honest I'd play CNC 4 rather than Red Alert 3 because it is more of a "chick flick", a cheap tactic that EA used to sell it. The best thing about it is when Tim Curry played the Soviet Premier. CNC 3 can be fun although I agree with people when that say it was good but not that great. Don't get me wrong, CNC 4 was EA's attempt to monopolize the E-Sports and the plot line was weak. Joe Kucan stands out in CNC 4 despite the weak plot.
The mammoth cutscene is so sick, actually a lot of Tiberium cutscenes reside in my mind in childhood, and I often play my own cutscenes of battles between GDI and NOD. The depressing mysterious music and atmosphere really immerse myself into the game, same as Max Payne with Rainy, Snowy New York City
I mean if you read up on the NOD climate at the time it makes sense. There were 4 splinter factions of NOD after Kane disappeared. GDI obviously had control of one of them (Marcion) and the only man who truly was loyal to Kane and willing to fight for him against 4 factions of NOD forces claiming their own leaders were the true messiah; let's just say it makes sense somebody got to Slavick somehow.
I was scared of his voice when I was a kid. That's why I only completed the GDI side back then. :D But I am totally a Nod follower these days haha! Kane rules!
@@PaiSAMSEN The woman is a high ranking officer and a media guru. Let's just stay professional and call it a foreign affair. That guy sure received some divination!
Anton Slavik is such a cool Protagonist-Villain. The way he and his crew act seem like he'd be the hero of a cool Star-Trek esque space show but he's also a ruthless and zealous dude.
I used to play the Nod campaign solely because of Monika Schnarre. Also, it's quite impressive how politically relevant and prophetic this campaign's storyline is.
@@ugiustuskeiserus8066 I see no political or military tactic here that haven't been used IRL for millenia. Perhaps this is where _you personally_ first saw them and therefore naively assumed that the game devs invented them.
One of my favorite missions is getting Slavic out of prison and using the forces provided. Using the Cyborg Commando was just amazing at the time, and it gave me one heck of a grin on my face.
GDI Sergeant: Sir, i don't think humans has made this Michael McNeil: PULL BACK, SOLDIER! Slavik: Locate that tacitus, soldier...or i bury your team in that hole! You see the difference here? As McNeil being reasonable and values every soldier, Slavik is ruthless and cold, and have no toleration of the failure. Pure evil or devotion to the cause? I don't know tbh
Someone should create a 4th alternative timeline game that continues after this. It will be interesting to discover the life on earth after the divination. What will the relationship between GDI and NOD be if humans survived and evolved as Kane expected? WIth that super Tiberium bomb, the Scrin is bounded to show up
There's so much more they could do with the series. The Tiberium universe is ripe with potential to be explored and it's a criminally underrated story.
In principle based on the other events of the series, after the divination missile the Scrin should have showed up in a matter of months or a few short years if Kane himself didn't find a way to contact them himself. Assuming Kane somehow wasn't in the picture at that point, I don't think even GDI and NOD together could have stopped them with so little time to prepare. This ending is the "Earth gets farmed" ending.
The way I understood it is that the whole world is turned into a tiberium rock and Slavik basically foreshadowed it, when Ummagan told him, that Divination is death and he answered "Only for the weak". NOD believes themselves to be the strong, including Slavik and the strong in their eyes would evolve into Mutants to thrive in a Tiberium World and rebuild humanity in harmony through and with Tiberium as Resource. The weak die, but that solves, in their view, probably some overpopulation issue that future humanity in that universe might have. Imho the only plothole here is that Oksana refers to Ummagan as disgusting in that one scene, she and the mutans are basically, what NOD strive for, the NOD commanders imho know full well, what "Divination" in truth is, they're in on it and not betrayed. Maybe NOD scientists also somehow prepared NOD members beforehand to easily adapt to and survive Divination, hence they're all so calm about it, because then they wouldn't view it as a gamble if they'd die or mutate and survive easily. I would've liked if they went with another game into a post-divination world, Humanity, united after Divination (if ruled by NOD or not) fighting off the Scrin who just try to harvest them and their world. But it is EA, of cause the good guys, GDI, hat to win like in every Hollywood Plot. What imho post-divination could look like is ironically answered best in the game Rimworld. It has a Tiberium War Mod that gives you NOD and GDI as factions and makes Tiberium Wildlife being a thing, tiberium appearing, transforming the land and animals and you can either go with GDI and GDI tech to try to contain it and fight it back or you can go with NOD and NOD tech and adapt to eventually thrive through it. Because I think if somehow GDI would survive divination, maybe like some kind of disunited guerilla groups who are vengeful for Kane destroying the old world and want to destroy NOD by all means and fight back Tiberium, restoring the world to it's former state pre 1995, they wouldn't be too happy about all of this. And NOD would probably view it as sacriligeous of some GDI "Terror Cells" would create little blue zones where with technology they fight Tiberium back and live a pre-Tiberium life.
The Philadelphia blowing up, Kane's speech and than the earth turning green? Along with that soundtrack? This is the apocalypse in it's coolest Version!!! PEACE THROUGH POWER
I tell you. Kane is wonderfully charismatic and Joe only got better with it. The Kane's Wrath expansion for C&C3 really drove home his acting chops and talent. The fact he seems to have barely aged since 1995 just makes it all the more impressive.
7m20 - 8m44 onwards, one of the best cinematics in gaming ,.... ever ! (if you're a NOD fan at least!) Having read no spoilers, this was a great suprise after the end of C&C 1.
Romans said that Rome is eternal. Genghis Khan said that he's eternal. Mafia said that they're eternal. Only boobs stay silent and keep seducing. Always.
Oh the 90's.... look at how elaborate and well made the props is... back when cutscenes is believable in games... nowadays its just special effects.... not just fake props, but also less believable.... with better technology comes lesser amount of quality hard work
@Cantrips They weren't misguided at all. If you look at all that Kane did throughout the games he was truly about world peace. He just had his own way of bringing it about. The history after WW2 (Red Alert) changed drastically from ours because of Kane and his influence. The only negative was how both GDI and NOD didn't see how Tiberium would one day destroy the planet as it is revealed in C&C4. Even so, Kane managed to fix that at the end.
@Cantrips Yeah nod are the good guys. They want humanity to co-exist with tiberium and evolve into superior species that can resist tiberium poisoning and build ships to travel the stars etc.
@@asa6284 Kane knew that tiberium would destroy the world. In every game tiberium grows even more and covers more landmass then the previous game. They even say it in one of the cut scenes that tiberium will cover the earth in three years time.
Yes brother ! let us take this world, and give this world a true purpose, death to the unbelievers !! How can they think that tiberium is not a gift !! it is a gift from heaven it self !
I love the subtle world building and yet right away, you know who NOD are and what they’re about. Oxana and the news anchor are really memorable for me.
15:55 the Nod soldier was a mutant who lost friends in the GDI attack then gave the Defense Initiative pilot a nonverbal expression of regret and vengeance
The time when effort and passion was put to games. Now we have tiberium twilight what is the opposite of that. Poor westwood if i ever become a billionaire i will revive the company.
What is truly amazing of tiberian twilight is that if i choose nod campaign Keane leaves me to die, if i choose GDI Kane thanks me. What the hell is this????? It's completely the other way around!!!
When I was little, I couldn't play the campaign because of the scary as hell dead Nod guy at the start. I literally started freaking out and unplugged my computer. But, it still was one of my favorite C&C games... For skirmish.
want to play it again? 1. search for Tiberian Sun online 2. go to the one with C&CNet 3. download the game. it's a completely trustable site and it's legal. you don't have to have the files of the game to play TS. when you doenloaded it you can play online, singleplayer, and even create your own maps. ( which is hard to learn. but i've been mapping for 4 years now. it's my hobby. ) If i made you happy with this, NP :D have a fun time playing!
I love the 90s flair of it. Anyone has movies like this to recommend? A little over the top and with nice action sequences? Like Mortal Kombat, Blade or Mission Impossible?
Control the media.... Control the mind.
A line of truth here.
+WinnyJ1 "if the truth comes out, you will become useless to us. And useless things have a way of disappearing"
I see what you did there Jeff ;)
And we have another guy deceived by propaganda, nice
WinnyJ1 So basically instead of having a Kane with no hair, we have a Kane with bad hair. Got it. Ill get started on my bomb shelter.
So who here said OMG when they heard the word Bengazi? Maybe we found all those lost emails. The Brotherhood of Nod has them!
I think the most genuinely impressive thing about Joseph Kucan's performance as Kane throughout the entire franchise is that he's not even a full time actor. His main job while working on all the games was actually in being the Casting Director at Westwood. It's just that when they were making Tiberium Dawn, they just had him do some placeholder footage as Kane for reference while they searched for someone else to play the character. At some point down the line though, they just said "Fuck it" and let Kucan play the part full time because no one else could do as good of a job at playing the character. And thus one of the most iconic villain performances in gaming history was born.
I know I’m a year late, but that’s actually really interesting. I’ve been a C&C fan as long as I can remember, and I still learn something new every now and then. Now all we need is the band to get back together for Tiberian Incursion.
He wasn't a full-time actor then, but today he is, for the most part. He founded "A Public Fit" theatre company in Vegas, and now does acting and directing full time. Through his podcasts he seems to be passionate about it too.
@patrickchinka
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Villain? Surely you must be mistaken.
What actually happened to Kane at the end?
I miss this style
Super serious
Yet B grade
Brilliant
yeah EA used to make cool games like this and now they can't make shit which is why this kind of game is a dead rotting corpse
Yeah, they didn't make it @@raven4k998.
B grade for those who know it's too easy to get an A
If it was “A” grade, it would be taking itself far, far too seriously. It would lose all its charm and fun. Camp makes things classic, graphics and tech change over time, but because of the camp, it’s all in its charm.
@@Val.Kyrie. it also has more wisdom and gimmick than most a grades of today
“Sir, it’s an honor to have you back”
*Gunshot*
“Traitor”
Savagery of Nod in full effect
2:16 the traitor was converted into a cyborg construction worker with enough strength to lift and catapult junked vehicles at enemies like Scottish contestants who fling tree trunks like footballs. His chariot resembles a Devil’s Tongue flame tank that sports heavy manipulator arms with plasma cutters and a small assembly forge which allows him to salvage wrecked Titans and churn out a squad of flying drones as a makeshift airfield
2:17
Wait, how did he knew he was a traitor?
@@september_chan Well he was responsible so it was kinda summed up, thus it should be surprising that you need to continue your work instead of expressing yourself to Slavik.
You live for Kane, and die for him.
@@september_chan look closely at 2:06 . His body language kinda tells you that he's panicking at Slavik's return which implies that he's the one who ratted him out and Slavik knows it.
@@watcherman222 Not to mention the other soldier just keeps working, Fully expecting his commander to have survived and escaped, its the little things that tell a traitor out.
It is suck that EA kills Creativity of this series. RIP Westwood.
True, but I will give EA 1 credit, Tiberian Wars was post-Westwood and that was an excellent game.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to go and shower after giving EA any credit (blech)
EA is so stupid that General Vega after binging a cargo freighter of Eye Candy is more competent
If it was not for EA you would not have had the Tiberium universe you so love.
I suggest you watch the Rise and Fall of Command & Conquer and not live in ignorance.
They redeemed themselves with Tiberium Wars and Kanes Wrath. Tiberian Sun was also decent but then they made Tiberian Twilight.....
@@True38 no no no, that last thing you mentioned doesnt exist, everytime i see those words together i will try to erase it from my memory
The actress of Oxana seemed to have a lot of fun playing evil.
Playing the bad guy is as fun as playing the good.
And sometimes having less tape to record is a perk with a good director and there's no better director than Cain
@@matthewmartinez3907 nod aren't the bad guys
Vlad P.@ they aren’t good guys either.
One vision, one purpose....
"I live for Kane. And I die for Kane. The difference is trivial."
And this is why Slavik is so dangerous. Because he believes, and nothing can shake that. Mac is just a glory-hounding action hero by comparison.
That is the power of religion, both for good and for bad.
I fail to see any good part in that kind of zeal.
karsten69 It makes you do the impossible and the reckless, which is why an atheist society like that of european nations is slowly being conquered by Islam. You cannot reason with zealots, but they can learn your ways and use them against you.
Conviction is power, and religions require a lot of conviction and strong willpower.
Jon De Oliveira I fail to see how this is a good thing
karsten69 it is, conviction can also achieve good things.
The immediate response, perhaps one of my favorite lines in C&C:
"Kane is using you!"
*no hesitation* "Terminate the bitch."
What devotion. Speaks volumes of everyone involved.
We saw the lieutenant's devotion when she shot Maychek in the back of the head and then said _in other news_
@@user-yo8ab1ys9e honestly I feel bad for them they are not necessarily bad people they just went with nod cause they seem like good people to them and then in the end they are just tricked and backstabbed by their own ruler
It's never really explained but it's pretty obvious that Oxanna really, really hates mutants
The production quality in the old Westwood games is far far better than what EA is currently making. I mean, look at those awesome Nod Combat Armor props, I would love to have one.
Sad thing about this game? This is the rushed, EA version. EA bought Westwood before they could finish this game and instead of finishing it, they pushed it out. I remember there being a lot of elements that were promised in the game but never happened, like being able to build drop troops, making the forgotten a 3rd faction to play, the hunter/seeker droid not sucking...shame.
@@jeebus022 I hopes all these things will be fixed on OpenRA TS version.
Artuurs Z. These were actually Nod Combat Armors not power armor so I was wrong on that, but you’re also wrong because GDI had power armor (Zone Troopers, Zone Raiders) and Nod also had troops with power armor (Black Hand Flame Troopers).
@@jeebus022 and it was still one of the most glorious games to exist
The TW2 Nod Infantry Combat Armor is so iconic it's reused in the 3rd game's expansion, with a plausible lore explanation to boot (the armor is a hand-me-down from veterans since some soldiers are so poor).
"Define 'Favourable outcome" cabal..."
"They all die."
"That'll do"
freaking awesome.. lol
That's why I came here
2:37
I love how the crowd, when Kane is revealed to be alive, are suddenly cut off before they say "in death" in their motto "Kane lives in death".
Crowd: KANE LIVES IN-
Kane: KANE, LIIIIVES!! ...
Crowd: WO-YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!"
Jin Zor It's like when The Rock's music hits in wrestling, everyone is already chanting Rocky half the time, and then he comes out for real.
Benjin P It reminded me of the time when audiences cheered after seeing the trailer for "Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace." Boy, would everyone but small children be disappointed.
Benjin P I love that too! So awesome.
So understated. If Nod actually had theatrics they'd know to cue Kane in to the opening riff of I Want It All.
Honestly the greatest villain reveal of all time.
Slavik: "Define favourable outcome, Cabal."
Cabal: "They all die"
That's some shakespearean level shit right there.
mrna, the current geopolitical situation and ai, this game predicted that all
My favorite Command & Conquer: gritty, realistic, depressing, engaging, atmospheric, and immersive. Just like real life.
...realistic? Is that supposed to be a joke?
+first comment: not mention the graphics... but if you think the reality is less mad, absurd or cruel... it's sure an ignorance.
Ow the edge.
crawl
Nothing beats massacring a village, after they suffered a nerve gas attack.
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Thanks Red Alert.
the time has come .........TO CLAIM C&C AS OUR OWN
the time has come .........TO DESTROY EA
ONE VISION ONE PURPOSE!
Haha, join the openRA project then :D
At the moment I believe they're finishing work on Tiberium Sun and from then RA2 is only a matter of modding cause it's the same engine right?
THE TECHNOLOGY OF PEACE!
PEACE THROUGH POWER!
PEACE THROUGH POWER!
PEACE THROUGH POWER!
PEACE THROUGH POWER!
The minds of EA have been corrupted by the Scrin Traveller sect invasion force, and are now mindless servants to the Scrin
"Define favorable outcome Kabal."
"They all die."
I love that bit, and Kabal's voice is freakin' epic. One of the best games in the series and the one I remember the most playing. ^^
Firestorm was alright, but I think it should've just stayed as a fight between Nod and GDI, kinda never liked the 'Oh look now old enemies must work together to defeat a new and a bit more evil enemy' trope that keeps popping up in a lot of the old school RTS games.
The problem is that the CABAL story was suppose to have a more long term effect in the story but EA being EA changed the lore for CnC 3.
"Define 'favorable outcome' CABAL."
"THEY ALL DIE."
"That'll do."
lets go no man or structure stays standing
CABAL perfectly expressed the proper way to reorganize the executive committee of E.A.
I remember my parents freaking out at the scene where Slavic slits Hassan's throat and banning me from playing the game. Yet they had no problem letting me watch the Indiana Jones movies and every Bond film at the same age.
Clowns
Indeed just like my mom can’t stand watching violent tv shows but at the same time doesn’t mind the violence on crime detective shows now I understand where Trevor is coming from GTA 5 when he says to a random woman You suck cock but don’t eat meat it makes no sense to me
Rule of thumb, Hassan: you can't kill the messiah.
(*Hassan's throat is slit*)
Pure badassery right there.
hail hydra!
I just noticed again how good the camera work and directing is;
Slavik: "the Brotherhood is only interested in peace."
He walks into view and your just see his sidearm in its holster!
Obviously NOD is a charlatan campaign. They speak of peace when on the other hand Nod is classified as a terrorist association
Kane, Anton Slavik, Oxanna Kristos, CABAL, and Vega are all great characters. FOR THE BROTHERHOOD! Peace through Power! One purpose, one vision! Good fucking times!
Slavicks speech when he slit the throat of hassan was one of the most iconic in the cnc universe and will send chills down the spine of just about anyone that watches it take it from someone that comes from a command and conquer loved family
This is probably the best cutscenes in the series
I honestly felt the hype when Kane popped on screen
Kane Lives
"Define favourable outcome, Kabal."
"THEY ALL DIE."
"That'll do."
PFFFFFFFFFT
Awwww, you cutie ^w^
Anton Slavik was an awesome character. Wish there had been more of him.
Yes, it's a shame he disappointed Kane one time.
Ben Best But remember: Kane didn't kill him. EA did.
SteinerArts
Blast, I forgot about that. Thanks.
RIP Slavik...
SteinerArts Lord did I hate EA for making Slavic go out like a fucking puss, such bullshit -___-
Tiberian Sun and Firestorm and the Tiberium universe will always be my favorite C&C. I remember watching my grandpa play skirmishes as Nod when I was five. Then one spring break, he let me, a little kid who could barely use a computer, try the game out. My very first game I played as GDI with Sky Blue color and all I did was build and send troops in enemy bases like cannon fodder. Damn those are some awesome memories. Peace through Power.
A similar thing for me with the Red Alert series. Particularly Red Alert 1. I remember I asked my dad what the UN was. Then he explained it to me, as best he could.
+Sam Reynolds Hey, hey! Same! Except... it was Red Alert lol
Goku Black Why did you kill Goten and Chichi? Also I remeber my dad would play ra2 Yuri's Revenge when I was little and I would watch him at 4 years old.
My first C&C game was just named Command & Conquer, it was the first conflict. it was so epic when I was a kid, I loved the missions but especially Nod technology ^^
Almost same memories here but with Starcraft. Tiberian Sun came a bit later.
Kane's comeback was fucking amazing.
Mum:"Kid what are you watching?"
Kid:"Just some executions, mum..."
Mum:"Nice, i will join you when i have finished laundry. But dont forget to do your homework"
Kid:"Ok mum..."
TV Programm for the whole family, brought to you by the Brotherhood of Nod :D
Julia Gabel I am that mom 😬
The fact that is EXACTLY what would be on nod telly as well
First time seeing a public execution? IIRC anyone interested was free to watch those.
One vision,one purpose sweetheart.. ❤️
One vision,one purpose mom.. ❤️
@@Mr.MolluckI like that this sounds like something you would expect from someone living in a Nod-controlled territory or between Brotherhood members who are in the same family.
CABAL and EVE voice are the best throughout westwood.
You never find game quite like this where the madman did it for once destroy the earth
The earth wasn’t destroyed, it was terraformed and humanity evolved.
You can't forget about the 'EVA' from Red Alert. His voice is so iconic (RIP). Westwood did a great job with all of their games actually. I would say all of them are the best, because it is impossible for me to pick my favourite. They all match their respective games perfectly.
CABAL is the most intimidating though.
Cabal's voice, when it comes to AI be it games or movies, was always to me one of the most unique/menacing sounding. Very memorable.
Sovereign in the first Mass Effect is another good one.
Icaris dadelus from dues ex was really good
Slavik was an excellent antagonist. Props to the actor too.
IMO I think he's only good as Anton slavik, outside C&C his movies are bad..
Protaganist
07:28 - oh, the memories. Getting the game on release day, fidgeting when it installed, and then THAT reveal.
I can't think of many games managing to send shivers down my spine like this did back in 99...
Yeah I got up very early on my birthday, unwrapped this, installed it and went through the first few Nod missions, to about this point. Blew my young mind
One of the best games ever created. And those cinematic are among the best, if not best ever in any game. It's almost like from some series or movie.
On a par with Red Alert 2, both my favorites.
What I love the most in Westwood games. The occasional "I shoot this guy because of reasons you don't understand. I'll just say "Traitor" and leave the rest to your imagination."
Not quite... It was heavily implied that the guy who got shot, framed Slavik in cooperation with Hasan and allowed Slavik to be captured.
Also, "Instead of allowing you to detonate this C4 device when you're good and ready, YOU HAVE FIVE SECONDS TO GTFO THE WAY!"
@@NiksAanDeWashand As a stupid 11yo kid playing this game the nod campaign was very confusing.
@@feddyvonwigglestein3481 Douchebag AI gave Slavik a scorching wedgie as a sitcom prank
@@NiksAanDeWashand heavily implied? No, just the word “traitor”, like he said
2:10 is one of the funniest scenes I have ever seen! I laugh every single time.
"Sir!, It's an honor to have you back..."
BANG!
UGHHH!
"Traitor."
A friend and I still use that one regularly, after 20-odd years
Though Red Alert 2 was my favorite C&C game, Tiberian Sun had a very specific atmosphere to it that made is so unique and eerie.... I loved it. Especially Firestorm. Cabal was a short-lived but really disturbing enemy.
I happened to have met Joseph Kucan (Kane) in real life :D The man is incredible!
Where did you met him?
I met him in Utrecht at the Free Record Shop a couple of years ago, he was there to promote C&C 4 (not a clue why you would want to come there but hey i didn't mind xD) and talked with him about 10 minutes after giving him a pre-birthday present because it was his bd 2 days later.
Yes I did! Back to back pose, it was a legendary moment :D
Reading it now, it's awesome, thanks mate!
Jejking i would have screamed KANE LIVES IN DEATH!!!
Hassan: Slavik has escaped.
Solemon: Then cover up and kill him before the truth comes out.
Hassan: We tried that already and know...
Solemon: I have alter the deal, pray I don't alter any further Hassan.
XD
Hassan: This deal is getting worse all the time!
This deal is very fair and I am happy to be a part of it!
Here is a unicycle, you must ride it everywhere you go
@@Charlie94781 man fuck you i ain't riding no u unicycle
"The name is McNeill when they ask who beat you"
Great line.
I always thought he said something like Ass coo. Made me think he was talking about the Alaskan eskimos for some reason.
6:50 Best C&C cut scene ever. My opinion.
+Scott Wylie
Best cut scene in any video game! It sends chills down my spine every time i watch it.
Agreed, best C&C cutscene by far! I love how "over the top" Anton Slavik is acted too :)
Dude.. watching Hassan get his throat cut like that at 7 years old was intense as fuck. At 25 it’s still a damn good scene. I wish more games would do live action stuff like this
Like a new hitler.
there's also 23:00 :D
I love how at 13:49 and 21:58 variations of No Mercy from the original C&C is played. I feel it really ties the feeling together with the original game in a subtle way.
I think Frank Klepacki did this brilliantly, just like he did in the Yuri's Revenge track Drok where he after 56 seconds introduces the theme from original Hell March at 4 min 25 sec into that track.
Yeah, Frank did that a lot with the C&C soundtracks
Interesting. Been listening to these music tracks for over 20 years by this point but I've never noticed that before o_o
Cabal has some of the most savage lines in any game I’ve ever played. The Nod soldiers’ helmets are so goddamn awesome.
their technology is unreal!
I still love the style here. The uniforms, the props, the atmosphere... it's like watching a really cool sci-fi movie. Then C&C 3 happened, and it made everything more casual and contemporary - no more cool uniforms, no armors, NOD turned into straight up gangstas running around in hoodies and sneakers, what a joke. And then, C&C 4. Which shouldn't exist.
I'm kinda glad Slavik died before the shit show started. He lived in the Brotherhood's golden age. If he lived long enough to witness what this once mighty organization turned in, he'd most likely kill himself.
Andrii Svystun
Well, he was killed by a traitor in Kane’s Wrath DLC.
i hate ea for that
ea should go bankrupt FOR RUINING THE BEST GAME EVER
i also like to think of nod as an cult because they use sneaky attacks and guerrila style combat
Andrii Svystun EA is like Amazon. They both suck.
I'll be honest I'd play CNC 4 rather than Red Alert 3 because it is more of a "chick flick", a cheap tactic that EA used to sell it. The best thing about it is when Tim Curry played the Soviet Premier. CNC 3 can be fun although I agree with people when that say it was good but not that great. Don't get me wrong, CNC 4 was EA's attempt to monopolize the E-Sports and the plot line was weak. Joe Kucan stands out in CNC 4 despite the weak plot.
The mammoth cutscene is so sick, actually a lot of Tiberium cutscenes reside in my mind in childhood, and I often play my own cutscenes of battles between GDI and NOD. The depressing mysterious music and atmosphere really immerse myself into the game, same as Max Payne with Rainy, Snowy New York City
Slavik is so hilariously intense in some scenes, and the thumbnail.
@FuckYouAllToPieces was a fucken badass. It is revealed in "The Wrath of Kane" expansion that he was killed. Which was extremely sad to find out.
@Artuurs Z. very true. I actually hated that explanation. I would have been happier if they just said he retired to some island.
I mean if you read up on the NOD climate at the time it makes sense. There were 4 splinter factions of NOD after Kane disappeared. GDI obviously had control of one of them (Marcion) and the only man who truly was loyal to Kane and willing to fight for him against 4 factions of NOD forces claiming their own leaders were the true messiah; let's just say it makes sense somebody got to Slavick somehow.
@Artuurs Z.
How?
Slavik is awesome and it'd be amazing if he was indeed brought back, but it kinda makes sense. Remember, not everyone's immortal like Kane.
got LOve KABALS voice so dark and cyber awosme
I was scared of his voice when I was a kid. That's why I only completed the GDI side back then. :D But I am totally a Nod follower these days haha! Kane rules!
+recover 2:18 why u little lier :D
+123ocelot
I know right! He's the reason I like playing Nod when I was a kid.
ONE VISION, ONE PURPOSE!!!
ONE VISION, ONE PURPOSE!!!
TO PISS IN MY OWN A$$!!
Technology of peace!
Peace through Power!
In the name of Kane!
Kane Lives in D34th
I've always been a NOD soldier, but if I wasn't, 21:00 would immediately change my fate.
FATEd Pondera railguns,enormous ion cannon
weapons of harmonic resonance millitary tactics not a bunch of babbons always battle thenselves xD
Slavik's tone when he said "Nice work" at 21:56 made me wonder....
...did they have sex?
@@PaiSAMSEN The woman is a high ranking officer and a media guru. Let's just stay professional and call it a foreign affair. That guy sure received some divination!
Anton Slavik is such a cool Protagonist-Villain. The way he and his crew act seem like he'd be the hero of a cool Star-Trek esque space show but he's also a ruthless and zealous dude.
This game was way ahead of its time
Nods armor was so cool in this one
I used to play the Nod campaign solely because of Monika Schnarre.
Also, it's quite impressive how politically relevant and prophetic this campaign's storyline is.
The C&C games really predicted a lot of modern day warfare and political happenings quite well.
@@ugiustuskeiserus8066 I see no political or military tactic here that haven't been used IRL for millenia. Perhaps this is where _you personally_ first saw them and therefore naively assumed that the game devs invented them.
Tiberium is the answer, Tiberium is the way, Tiberium is the future. I would fight in the name of Kane all the way.
***** Indeed brother, IN THE NAME OF KANE!
combinecommando001 Pahh, we all know Commander Anton Slavik was cooler then Kane. After all, he does all the work in 2nd war lol
One vision, one purpouse, brother.
ahuzel Sorry to be the grammar nazi here but it's purpose*
once again sorry, but it really bothers me.
hahaha ok,
One vision, one purpose.
One of my favorite missions is getting Slavic out of prison and using the forces provided. Using the Cyborg Commando was just amazing at the time, and it gave me one heck of a grin on my face.
"The time has come to claim this world has our own!
The time has come... TO DESTROY GDI!!!!!!"
Kane to his people
ONE VISION ONE PURPOSE!
PEACE THROUGH POWER!
@@dontblameme9468 HAIL HYDRA!
Holy fuck is that James Earl Jones?
Yes....yes it is.
Michael Biehn is also in the game as a G.D.I. commander.
Westwood had conections lol
Yep!
theyodaho yes it sucks EA killed Westwood games
GDI Sergeant: Sir, i don't think humans has made this
Michael McNeil: PULL BACK, SOLDIER!
Slavik: Locate that tacitus, soldier...or i bury your team in that hole!
You see the difference here? As McNeil being reasonable and values every soldier, Slavik is ruthless and cold, and have no toleration of the failure.
Pure evil or devotion to the cause?
I don't know tbh
Someone should create a 4th alternative timeline game that continues after this. It will be interesting to discover the life on earth after the divination. What will the relationship between GDI and NOD be if humans survived and evolved as Kane expected? WIth that super Tiberium bomb, the Scrin is bounded to show up
I am still mad to this day that Westwood didn't give us a Mutant campaign.
There's so much more they could do with the series. The Tiberium universe is ripe with potential to be explored and it's a criminally underrated story.
In principle based on the other events of the series, after the divination missile the Scrin should have showed up in a matter of months or a few short years if Kane himself didn't find a way to contact them himself. Assuming Kane somehow wasn't in the picture at that point, I don't think even GDI and NOD together could have stopped them with so little time to prepare. This ending is the "Earth gets farmed" ending.
@Rat in the toilet it's already completely ruined. 3 is hot garbage, and 4 is just embarrassing.
The way I understood it is that the whole world is turned into a tiberium rock and Slavik basically foreshadowed it, when Ummagan told him, that Divination is death and he answered "Only for the weak".
NOD believes themselves to be the strong, including Slavik and the strong in their eyes would evolve into Mutants to thrive in a Tiberium World and rebuild humanity in harmony through and with Tiberium as Resource. The weak die, but that solves, in their view, probably some overpopulation issue that future humanity in that universe might have.
Imho the only plothole here is that Oksana refers to Ummagan as disgusting in that one scene, she and the mutans are basically, what NOD strive for, the NOD commanders imho know full well, what "Divination" in truth is, they're in on it and not betrayed.
Maybe NOD scientists also somehow prepared NOD members beforehand to easily adapt to and survive Divination, hence they're all so calm about it, because then they wouldn't view it as a gamble if they'd die or mutate and survive easily.
I would've liked if they went with another game into a post-divination world, Humanity, united after Divination (if ruled by NOD or not) fighting off the Scrin who just try to harvest them and their world.
But it is EA, of cause the good guys, GDI, hat to win like in every Hollywood Plot.
What imho post-divination could look like is ironically answered best in the game Rimworld. It has a Tiberium War Mod that gives you NOD and GDI as factions and makes Tiberium Wildlife being a thing, tiberium appearing, transforming the land and animals and you can either go with GDI and GDI tech to try to contain it and fight it back or you can go with NOD and NOD tech and adapt to eventually thrive through it.
Because I think if somehow GDI would survive divination, maybe like some kind of disunited guerilla groups who are vengeful for Kane destroying the old world and want to destroy NOD by all means and fight back Tiberium, restoring the world to it's former state pre 1995, they wouldn't be too happy about all of this.
And NOD would probably view it as sacriligeous of some GDI "Terror Cells" would create little blue zones where with technology they fight Tiberium back and live a pre-Tiberium life.
The Philadelphia blowing up, Kane's speech and than the earth turning green? Along with that soundtrack? This is the apocalypse in it's coolest Version!!! PEACE THROUGH POWER
I tell you. Kane is wonderfully charismatic and Joe only got better with it. The Kane's Wrath expansion for C&C3 really drove home his acting chops and talent. The fact he seems to have barely aged since 1995 just makes it all the more impressive.
Would be funny, if he really would be some kind of immortal demi-god, then it isn't acting on his part, just being natural lol.
7m20 - 8m44 onwards, one of the best cinematics in gaming ,.... ever ! (if you're a NOD fan at least!)
Having read no spoilers, this was a great suprise after the end of C&C 1.
BROTHERHOOD..
WE. ARE. WHOLE. AGAIN!!
reminder that GDI's most important and well defended base fell because of one thirsty boi
That guy is such a simp
@@preadatordetector he sure is
Romans said that Rome is eternal.
Genghis Khan said that he's eternal.
Mafia said that they're eternal.
Only boobs stay silent and keep seducing. Always.
A smoking hot blonde gave him attention
Control the media.... Control the mind
Kane really did predict 2020
I still like how Kane is watching through the screen as if there's no camera and he can litterly see through the screen
Slavik was so badass so sad he's dead killed outscreen in a single sentence in Kane's Wrath...
What I also love about the Nod cutscenes is the black humour in them. :D
I love that such a big actor is actually in this, I like him a lot. In the movies he has played he has made the movie great...
PEACE THROUGH POWER
5:12 "Controll the Media controll the mind."
So true :(
Is it me, or the Brotherhood of Nod is like the epitome of cult of personality in the universe of C&C?
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That's the point
Oh the 90's.... look at how elaborate and well made the props is... back when cutscenes is believable in games... nowadays its just special effects.... not just fake props, but also less believable.... with better technology comes lesser amount of quality hard work
Lol. That is absolute bullshit xD
@@Khazandar You replied to a 4 year old post..what's bullshit again'?
Damn I wish Siri sounded like Cabal...
BigBossIvan someone should make a cabal personal assistant
the ARE the good guys, they wanth to elevate mankind to the level of the gods
@Cantrips They weren't misguided at all. If you look at all that Kane did throughout the games he was truly about world peace. He just had his own way of bringing it about. The history after WW2 (Red Alert) changed drastically from ours because of Kane and his influence. The only negative was how both GDI and NOD didn't see how Tiberium would one day destroy the planet as it is revealed in C&C4. Even so, Kane managed to fix that at the end.
@Cantrips Yeah nod are the good guys. They want humanity to co-exist with tiberium and evolve into superior species that can resist tiberium poisoning and build ships to travel the stars etc.
@@asa6284 Kane knew that tiberium would destroy the world. In every game tiberium grows even more and covers more landmass then the previous game. They even say it in one of the cut scenes that tiberium will cover the earth in three years time.
Lmfao. Jake was so easily convinced.
"I will not talk" my ass!
All power to NOD !!! Oww how I loved NOD
One vision, one purpose!
The technology of peace!
Yes brother ! let us take this world, and give this world a true purpose, death to the unbelievers !! How can they think that tiberium is not a gift !! it is a gift from heaven it self !
I love the subtle world building and yet right away, you know who NOD are and what they’re about. Oxana and the news anchor are really memorable for me.
15:55 the Nod soldier was a mutant who lost friends in the GDI attack then gave the Defense Initiative pilot a nonverbal expression of regret and vengeance
Just realized something funny... Jake Mc'Neill is wearing desert camo yet is disabling the defenses of the Hammerfest base in Norway
Slavik: "Locate that tacitus soldier or I will bury your team in that hole" brutal.
5:15 - "control the media, control the mind"
Way ahead of its time.
Mainstream media did not want you to know that!!!
It has to been like this for a long time.
@@solidbeard8324 a very long time
Wait, wait, wait... Did that dead Nod Infantry on the start dropped a phablet? Samsung Note?
+hereLiesThisTroper Westwood foresaw the future!
Toivo Kesseli Wait, did Westwood also foresaw that it would close?
Maybe they did. What if KANE actually represents Westwood, the world represents us players & Tiberium represents EA?
+Toivo Kesseli I don't ever see Westwood preaching about EA as the technology of peace.
+hereLiesThisTroper Please silence your phone during the war.
Slavic is the best of Nod why did he have to die
I felt the same way, brother.
Cause EA?
Nata1014 If he hadn't died, EA would have definitely ruined his character in C&C3
@@radicallarrythemailman8269
Why's that? They didn't ruin the existing characters and I thought they handled the story quite well.
because ea work for gdi !!!
Dont think I truly appreciated how good this all was until later in life.
Kain Lives!!! one of the best rally cry's i have heared in any game.
Slavik is by all rights, Kane's best man.
Nothing surpass C&C Tiberian Sun, man, this game is the forever master piece, the best, bar no one.
The faithful are rewarded.
Peace through power.
Joe, your awesome 😎
With the remaster of Tiberian Dawn I really hope they remaster this game. Its fantastic
they mentioned hammerfest, norway! how rare!
I think they shold make a movie of this
Lol, it basically already is seeing as how all the cutscenes are live-action.
The time when effort and passion was put to games. Now we have tiberium twilight what is the opposite of that. Poor westwood if i ever become a billionaire i will revive the company.
In the name of Kane
What is truly amazing of tiberian twilight is that if i choose nod campaign Keane leaves me to die, if i choose GDI Kane thanks me. What the hell is this????? It's completely the other way around!!!
Why don't they make RTS games as epic as these anymore..
God-dammit this game was FUCKING AMAZING!
2:15 - I always was like "And now? Are you going to leave his corpse just there? Man! Must start smelling at the end of the campaign!"
When i close my eyes and hear James Earl Jones voice, i imagine that it is Lord Vader leads GDI
When I was little, I couldn't play the campaign because of the scary as hell dead Nod guy at the start. I literally started freaking out and unplugged my computer. But, it still was one of my favorite C&C games... For skirmish.
+Lewis Veasey freakin out n unplugged ur pc? lol...
+mrStraker888 Yup, sure did! I freaked out like a little girl... It didn't stop me from playing it though.
wow Imagine that...
Lol
Omg I miss this so much. I rmb when I played this I loved the Banshees!
want to play it again?
1. search for Tiberian Sun online
2. go to the one with C&CNet
3. download the game.
it's a completely trustable site and it's legal.
you don't have to have the files of the game to play TS.
when you doenloaded it you can play online, singleplayer, and even create your own maps.
( which is hard to learn. but i've been mapping for 4 years now. it's my hobby. )
If i made you happy with this, NP :D have a fun time playing!
btw if you want to play the missions again, you can also download them from C&CNet
3:17 RIP James Earl Jones!!
Cabal's voice is too sexy for a machine.
Agreed
Tiberian Sun is my favorite in the series. CABAL’s voice is just awesome!
Nostalgia overload!!!!
The real reason why Oxanna shot Maycheck was because he dared calling Darth Vader mentally unstable.
I love the 90s flair of it. Anyone has movies like this to recommend? A little over the top and with nice action sequences? Like Mortal Kombat, Blade or Mission Impossible?
Technicaly speaking Resident Evil and Underworld movies fit tje description. If anyone is till wandering after all these years...