I still love how Westwood wrote "proudly presents". You can just sense the enthusiasm behind it all. Those were times, when game development was about making something fun wholeheartedly. Now development has been reduced to projectwork, where studios release half-assed games, and charge you a pretty penny for a shitload of DLCs.
There are still companies that have a lot of heart and soul to them. It's just a bit harder to find them, as they are small little groups standing amoungst Corporate giants drowning us in advertising. And some of the big ones make games with a lot of heart as well.
Who controls the past now, controls the future. Who controls the future now, controls the past. Who controls the past now, controls the future, who controls the presence now... TESTIFY.
Statin was considered a very VERY emotional dictator and paranoid. Barely trusting is own man and officers. He basically saw enemies at every corner. Yet look how he act when Kane talks to him. No yells, no argument, no dismiss. He listened to Kane every word and trusted him fully. That how powerful and charismatic Kane was. I fuckin love Kane.
It also lets Gradenko pass his frustrations down, given that Stalin shut him up with the exact same line just now. The writing in this Soviet campaign has yet to be bettered in any Red Alert game, I feel.
+Alasdair Chi Damn, that was some nice speculation. Never even thought about that. Now im going to have to watch all the cutscenes over again and anaylze all the body language XD
That moment Kane enters at 7:42 and everyone looks down and Stalin just takes his word as gospel. Really wish we could know how Kane got so close and trusted by Stalin.
To be fair, it's better to just drink tasty poison than to be strangled. If you won't dispose of yourself you'll be disposed of in any other possible way.
But if you were one of 'em you wouldn't know that the tea=poison. Unless you witnessed the act of poisoning, like Kukov. Then you wouldn't really think that your plans will be debunked at some point. It's simple, but not as simple as bringing the gun and shooting everyone, considering that in this case you're at least somewhat loyal to the cause and wouldn't do it directly like that.
Gradenko: "The imperialists are at our mercy, we have 14 tank divisions along this border!" Nadia: "And the Allies with only 3 divisions hold you off?" Loved this exchange XD
@Sapody Red Alert 2 is a great game, EA didn't ruin anything at that point in time. They just cared less and less about their customers as time went on, until we got the shitty game that is C&C 4 Tiberian Twilight.
''If you fail, do not return.'' That's probably the nicest.. and safest way, to part ways with Stalin lol, considering what he did to Gradenko and Kukov.
@@homercastillo8834 No, he's not. And even if he was, it would only be because Red Alert 3 is an alternative timeline created by the Soviets killing Einstein, thus preventing the first two games from happening
The actor you are looking was Gene Dynarski who play the actor of Stalin. He also play other roles in Star Trek, Seinfeld, Starsky and Hutch, The A-Team, and Close Encounter. RIP Gene Dynarski
I will say this: the guy who voices Stalin gets his attitude and mannerisms essentially dead on, but like many people, he made the incorrect assumption that Stalin had a Russian accent. He didn't. Josef Stalin, born Iosip Dzugashvili, was born in Tiflis, Georgia. Edit: Also, I highly doubt that, in his old age, Stalin would still be strong enough to snap a man's neck
Let's be real though, does anyone even know what a Georgian accent sounds like in English? And this was 1996 so he couldn't just go on youtube and look up a 'how to do a Georgian accent' tutorial Also, one year earlier the film Goldeneye was released, the character Xenia Onatopp (played by Famke Janssen) was supposed to be Georgian but also played with a Russian accent, with some of her native Dutch accent occasionally slipping through
They took this game far more seriously when it was originally planned to be a prequel to the mainline C&C games, which is why Kaine shows up later in the game. After the game proved to be a huge hit, Westwood wanted to make a sequel, however they needed a way to differentiate it tonally so it could stand out more, otherwise it was just Command and Conquer but with a Soviet paintjob on NOD soldiers.
That is why Kane doesnt exist in Red Alert 2. Yuri was an agent of Kane who got sent back in time and because of his actions he created another timeline / alternative universe ( aka Red Alert 2 and 3 ). Yuri only worked for himself and wanted total world domination.
Kane shoots nadia because she makes the mistake of saying to the now-appointed General that he shall be useful for the... 'foreseeable future'. She mistakenly reveals to Kane that she has some illusion about the future. Kane IS the future.
I always interpreted that scene as Kane doing away with Nadia because she knew too much and that he intends to dispose of the player character next - resulting in a massive reshuffle of the halls of power on which Kane installs puppets that are ignorant of his true agenda.
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz Likely hypothesis. At 21:29 Kane is shown to eliminate the Red Army's senior command structure. At that stage of the war, the Soviet Union had gained a decisive advantage and the old guard's experience was no longer needed to ensure victory. By having Gradenko sign those death warrants, future historians investigating this purge of Stalin's generals would be chasing a decoy, leaving the Brotherhood's influence obscured. Grandenko soon after was assassinated by Nod through Nadia. By the end of the Soviet campaign, all individuals with knowledge of Kane's involvement in the USSR's rise to a global power had been removed, setting the stage for what you just described.
Bjarne Tollevsen I was thinking along the same lines - Kane never gets his own hands dirty until the very last scene in the game, suggesting that he wants to keep his fingerprints off the war as much as possible.
bsphil haha amzing, I am german but I always paid attention to the spots that differed from the others. Wonder if there really was some underlined message to this X)
+bsphil That's probably to avoid any associated controversy. Logically speaking, when the entire Europe unites to fight for their very survival as an entity (rather than keep fighting among themselves as they always did in reality), it's suicidally stupid to stay aside and pretend that doesn't concern you. 'Cuz when they're surrounded by the Empire, it'll be all over for them, too.
+Barney Collington That's easy. When I was young, it was enough challenge and fun to just kill things for the heck of it. After I got older and wiser and completed several similar games, the bare gameplay was no longer something new, exciting and mentally challenging, so I shifted my attention to the plot for entertainment value.
I love how every time Kane is in the picture, you can assume that he may have had a hand in each involved event (destruction of a secured nerve gas facility, the elimination of coup conspirators, Einstein's capture by the Soviets and Stalin's death). Even as Stalin's subordinate, he was the true puppet master.
back in day : bugs? we will try to fix it! just might take sometime as we didnt calculate this problem! but thanks for being so engaged and reporting this! now : bugs? ...........not my problem...oh wait yeah its beta....now alpha...ay full release! ..what bug? that one? nah idc ...i wanted to be born in 1980's now :c
Yes when teleported the infantry die but i found a glitch. When your infantry take little damage and taking cover on the ground they can be teleported! (ps1) but your infantry get low HP. But teleporting tanya is worth. Dunno if it work on pc version.
Red Alert was originally intended to be a prequel to the Tiberian games; with the Allies being a Proto-GDI, even the faction logos both have Eagle Motifs
Unfortunately by the time red alert 2 showed up, the creators thought it would be too much so they separated the two although I wonder what would have happened if the two were tied together. We could have had a different storyline or at least a different interpretation.
I noticed something very interesting about the scene at 28:14. Stalin is rambling angrily about the Chronosphere but then Kane leans over and whispers something in his ear. Stalin then looks at the player with a worried expression on his face. Then as Kane walks away Stalin just sits there sadly and quietly as if he's been 'defeated' by whatever Kane said to him. It's at that point in the story when it becomes apparent who is REALLY running the show in Soviet Russia.
@@specialunit0428 Kane is an extra terrestrial being that had been on Earth for centuries. He knew of Tiberium's arrival on Earth happening sometime in the 1990's and was steadily biding his time, building up his influence to gain support from Humanity over the ages, to prepare for the inevitable events of Command & Conquer 3 so he could finally go back to wherever he came from.
@@specialunit0428 It's possible. With most of his followers being in Africa and the eastern block, he wanted the Soviets to win the war so that Nod would reach the 1990s as the sole superpower. Which didn't happen, naturally, so Nod had to stay in the shadows during Red Alert 2, and until Tiberian Dawn.
I loved everything about this game. The storyline is awesome, the gameplay is classic, and the music is badass. When Hell March starts playing at 2:00, it's the most metal thing ever.
too bad they went the absolutely retarded and non-imaginable way in C&C 4 and ruined the hole franchise,instead giving the hole story a ending it deserves
Yea, but that was not Westwood Studios. When Westwood Studios was bought by EA Games, most ex Westwood employees left, a group of which formed Petroglyph Games. C&C3, RA3, C&C4 were made by EA Games, who totally messed up the most legendary RTS of all time.
So much nostalgia when the hell march theme comes on at the beginning. \m/ They just don't make them like they used to I hope there is a special place in hell for EA.
Gotta love the darker tone of older games. I mean seriously...the first mission for the Soviet campaign you are in charge of committing genocide against "insurgents". No tutorials, just go in slaughter everyone.
Rohan Zener Yeah that's somewhat true, especially towards the end when the allies begin to invade Russia. They are pretty much done with diplomacy and go all out slaughtering Russian villages.
In reality, in the late 40's a great amount of weapon caches were deployed around the country in Finland in case of Soviet invasion. Guerrilla warfare would have been conducted from plethora of dense Finnish forests. So the pic is not too far-fetched.
"And Cain went out from the presence of Lord, and took up residence in the land of Nod." I always smile when I realize I worked for the Brotherhood of Nod.
Easily one of the most chillingly accurate portrayals of even the very idiosyncrasies, of Stalin. The paranoia, the deaths, the maneuvering, this is a taste of what it was like.
Kenneth Yu It is quite funny indeed that even though Red Alert has 3 parts alltogether now, the Soviets could never actually have this technology. There is also a serious bug on that mission where you need to capture the Chronosphere. If you use Iron Curtain on it to avoid self-destruction, and you actually capture it with an engineer afterwards, you still fail the mission, even though you actually captured the Chronosphere. Eeny-weeny-little-bug.
+TheLambdaTeam if you even found and capture the 4 transmiters krukov dies :( and looks like krukov is hated by everyone (even on red alert 3 him is considered a traitor)
Aside from the voice (real Stalin sounded like Nintendo Mario the plumber), this Stalin was perfect. The menacing presence, constant fear and paranoia.
Soviets were badass in this game. As much as the creators tried to mock them they still made them invincible in a skirmish versus Allies, all other things being equal. The only powerful unit for the allies could only be battle cruiser.
Not necessarily - the Allied powers had access to cheaper units like light tanks (which are good in the early to mid-game) which can be used to effectively hunt down Soviet ore miners and cut them off from their funding and in the later game the Allies get the ability to reveal the whole battlefield and thief units (when combined with engineers and APCs can do some serious economic damage to Soviet players). So, the Allied players can win against the Soviets on a level playing field - they just have to get very creative...
Mr マックラ That has to be a joke - chrono shifting infantry (even in APCs) destroys them in “Red Alert” and its expansion packs. This was fixed in the second game in the series though...
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz What I meant was by chronoshifting an MCV to make base and having barracks pre-built, you deploy units from the barracks there instantly and allows for crazy things. That is a weird but legitimate feature
man what a top notch acting, after red alert 1 it all went down the drain with their other games including the acting. Stalin's performance is superb, Oscar quality stuff.
I know right? Stalin's performance is so convincing, the way he talks, holds tension, gets angry and laughs feels so authentic, I rarely see performance like that on the big screen not to mention in games, playing this game in the 90's was a delight and surely left some sweet memories of my childhood in me.
4:56......"They're enemies of the People! Destroy the town, and kill everyone in it!" *Slams pipe emphatically down into its marble holder to finish the point.* Absolutely brutal. I don't know why, but it always amuses me. It shouldn't, but it does. Maybe because i know its not real, but just the casual way he orders the slaughtering of an entire village and then carries on about his business. It doesn't trouble him at all. Of course....such was the real Stalin!
@@PowersOfDarkness Well, the facts tend to speak for themselves. In the last century, Communism HAS killed a good 100 million people, when you look at the crap with the Soviet Union, purges and such, and then the shit in Mao's China - a good sixty million of deaths happened in China under Mao's leadership. He was worse than Stalin & Hitler combined. And still in China today they're shoving their Muslim minorities into concentration camps - ironic nothing is said so as not to upset the Chinese. Its BS. But this isn't the time or the place for such discussion I guess :)
@@bobpage6597 lol, black book of communism was literally denounced by two of its authors as fanatically trying to reach the 100 million number do some research and bring a real number
I still wonder why Kane killed Nadia in the end. She was a high-ranking member in both the brotherhood and the USSR, and loyal to Nod (from what we can tell at least). Perhaps she knew too much. Ah well, never question Kane.
@@Seriona1 Pretty sure she was a Nod-member first, masqerading as a Soviet-officer on Kane's orders. Nothing hints to her being a soviet officer first.
Sorry for the comment necromancy, I think it's two fold, Kane needed someone to take the fall for Stalin' assassination and Nadia was the perfect patsy. Second, I get the feeling she had become too much of a risk/rival to Kane, especially coming out so openly about the Brotherhood decades before Kane was ready to move openly.
At the end, when the guy you've ignored the whole game is the only one left alive... Stares at you with ice in his eyes, and you realize you've been a servant of Kane this entire time. He levels his gun in your direction and smiles slightly. He tells you "I am the future," and then everything goes blank. The game didn't end; you did.
Nah, why would Kane kill you? It would be more beneficial to him to use you as a puppet ruler, while he stays in the shadows. More likely he keeps you around until Soviet Union is no longer needed.
I always remember how the Soviets' story line was all full of problems. 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Everytime you advanced somewhere, something bad happened
because Kane set you up for a you won the battle and you lost the war scenario? Remember he wanted temporary Chaos not an empire that stands long but collapses quickly! Heck he propably saved via Nod's information network the Allies including the high command!
0:00 to 2:00 goosebumps, then the hell march theme part starts and the goosebumps become even bigger... I loved this game. Still remember it like yesterday.
The expression of the guy on the left when Stalin promotes the player character to general cracks me up! He goes from calm and collected to raised eyebrows and it's hilarious!
+PersonaX 5 month old reply, but holy shit this is so true. Ive been buying nothing but indies on Steam lately and they truly do keep my attention compared to AAA which are concerned with appealing to casual gamers. Good majority of them lack so much depth and complexity. Not that Red Alert really had much complexity, but it certainly had strategies and depth. I blame the rise of multiplayer. AAA developers dont care about singleplayer anymore, because multiplayer is an easy and lazy way to assure that a game will continue to get sales, especially when they throw in pay to win strategies. Its sad really.
I liked this because it was an alternate history with weird technology, but not popcorny and cartoony. Although Ra2 was a good game, they really killed the great atmosphere this game has.
I don't know. The alternate history and weird technology makes no sense. In Ra2 this isn't an issue as that game doesn't take itself too seriously but here it really just doesn't add up.
Such fantastic actors whom we didn't see enough in more projects. Not to mention Andrea C. Robinson giving us one of the best femme fatales in the series without even being a playable character.
I played the PS1 version of this game to death, playing the complete version on PC years later was a coming of age experience. Needs to bust it out again sometime these cutscenes were so well made
It says allot about Stalin that a game that starts with Einstein going back in time to kill Hitler, that game like this portrays Stalin so accurately is both hilarious and terrifying
13:04 This bit really gets on how Stalin's murderous tenancies can crop up at anytime as his later strangling of Kurkov showed. Even after all these years its frightening just how spot on the game captured Stalin and his rl self.
Stalin suffered from what is known as "Malignant Narcissism", which is a collection of 4 personality disorders: 1) Narcissism, 2) Sadistic Personality Disorder, 3) Anti-Social Personality Disorder, 4) Paranoia Personality Disorder. Hitler also was one, though on a somewhat lesser level than Stalin.
The hours spent on this amazing game. That intro/music is epic. I sometimes still play it on my old PS2, just the Skirmish, i like building those big bases.
5:50 - 6:04 always sends shivers down my spine. It's hard to see due to the heavy compression, but you can make out a kid and perhaps a parent(?) getting mowed down from a distance.
Bad Ass Game I can't believe it. I remember it when I started in Christmas 1996 and I was soaked in for the next year just to play this Masterpiece. You guys from Westwood just rock.
Wow.. I didn't know until now how much they censored the game in Germany... I was already totally shocked about the scene with the teddy. That wasn't in the German version for example. lol
Развлечения
When my gf made me tea yesterday and said she prepared it herself, I jumped out the window
You were supposed to lie down on the nearest table.
:D
Ah, the noob's mistake: She should say she prepared it herself *after* you actually taste it.
I freaking lost it at this! :D
Damn bitch she is. you did the right thing. You could have ended up on the floor with Kukov!
I still love how Westwood wrote "proudly presents". You can just sense the enthusiasm behind it all. Those were times, when game development was about making something fun wholeheartedly.
Now development has been reduced to projectwork, where studios release half-assed games, and charge you a pretty penny for a shitload of DLCs.
^
C&C 1 and 2 have so much heart and soul. Today it is industry
There are still companies that have a lot of heart and soul to them. It's just a bit harder to find them, as they are small little groups standing amoungst Corporate giants drowning us in advertising. And some of the big ones make games with a lot of heart as well.
EA: Feels like I'm on the edge right now
I wish that I could say I'm proud
I'm sorry that I let you down
Let you down
@@kaledivh CD Projekt Red being one of those companies.
"He who controls the past commands the future, He who commands the future, conquers the past."
- Kane
he who has The T.A.R.D.I.S rules time and space
+Nod helghast boo
+Nod Scorpion He who controls the spice, controls the universe!
he who controls the remote controls the TV
Who controls the past now, controls the future. Who controls the future now, controls the past. Who controls the past now, controls the future, who controls the presence now... TESTIFY.
It's been 22 years and Gradenko still hasn't read that report.
Statin was considered a very VERY emotional dictator and paranoid. Barely trusting is own man and officers. He basically saw enemies at every corner.
Yet look how he act when Kane talks to him. No yells, no argument, no dismiss. He listened to Kane every word and trusted him fully.
That how powerful and charismatic Kane was.
I fuckin love Kane.
Psychic powers probably helped
History is different than a video game.
@@Amp661 History is different than reality too apparently
Nah, not really. I mean, unless you've been brainwashed by western propaganda, you'd know Stalin was a chill guy with a good sense of humour.
😂😂😂
I love how the VERY FIRST SOVIET MISSION has your character execute a war crime.
It also lets Gradenko pass his frustrations down, given that Stalin shut him up with the exact same line just now. The writing in this Soviet campaign has yet to be bettered in any Red Alert game, I feel.
+Alasdair Chi Damn, that was some nice speculation. Never even thought about that. Now im going to have to watch all the cutscenes over again and anaylze all the body language XD
steven smith "spare women and children" You want to say life of men doesnt matter?
What if you had to choose between innocent men, innocent women _or_ innocent children? Must kill 2, Only spare one.
steven smith how about you kill those who are ordering the slaughter of innocents
I don't care what the critics say; I miss the straight-faced RA.
+Metamusik Some critic were poisoned.
RIP Gene Dynarski. He played Stalin so well in this game. Can’t wait for the remaster.
Re what?
There's a remake
This was actually how I imagined Stalin sounded like for years until I heard his actual voice which is a lot less impressive to be honest.
@@danielroberts7893 remaster. Not a remake
@@archieames1968 Me too. I was surprised to hear how weak his voice was compared how powerful he was.
That moment Kane enters at 7:42 and everyone looks down and Stalin just takes his word as gospel. Really wish we could know how Kane got so close and trusted by Stalin.
When Nadia brings you tea, your screwed.
+steven smith That makes too much sense.
To be fair, it's better to just drink tasty poison than to be strangled. If you won't dispose of yourself you'll be disposed of in any other possible way.
But if you were one of 'em you wouldn't know that the tea=poison. Unless you witnessed the act of poisoning, like Kukov. Then you wouldn't really think that your plans will be debunked at some point. It's simple, but not as simple as bringing the gun and shooting everyone, considering that in this case you're at least somewhat loyal to the cause and wouldn't do it directly like that.
20 years have passed. The legend still lives on.
Indeed, you can download it for free online.
Fuck, im old
Westwood lives in death!
27 years
62 people disappointed Stalin and found themselves on the floor with Kukov.
+go0fy11137 62 people wasted Stalin's time with magic shows :D
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Or drank Nadjas "self-prepared" tea
Lmao! 😂
Gradenko: "The imperialists are at our mercy, we have 14 tank divisions along this border!"
Nadia: "And the Allies with only 3 divisions hold you off?"
Loved this exchange XD
It happens in the universe created by the imperialists. IRL once faced off with something a bit serious like in the Ardennes, they cannot do much. :)
Stalin - "Losing the Cronus Sphere is not an option"
Commander - "Obviously you have never heard of restarting the mission Comrade Stalin"
WESTWOOD STUDIOS PROUDLY PRESENTS (goosebumps)
+AdamDemeter 40:50 "Special thanks to all our friends and supporters within the Virgin empire."
WESTWOOD STUDIOS PROUDLY PRESENTS......A time when RTS and the C&C era was good! Before EA came! Before EA ruined it all! *cries*
@Sapody Red Alert 2 is a great game, EA didn't ruin anything at that point in time. They just cared less and less about their customers as time went on, until we got the shitty game that is C&C 4 Tiberian Twilight.
"The foreseeable future? Comrade Chairman, I AM THE FUTURE!"
Ace B Not yet.
One vision, one purpose.
I am the senate!
Ace B Peace through power!
Fact, you were a general and Kane promotes you to chairman (premier).
''If you fail, do not return.'' That's probably the nicest.. and safest way, to part ways with Stalin lol, considering what he did to Gradenko and Kukov.
"If I fail I don't return? Neat, I'll just defect to the West then"
Gradenko was murdered by the Blonde Bitch!
Shows how much Stalin respected the captain. He would set him loose instead of dying at his hand for failure. Rather cool really.
@@homercastillo8834 No, he's not. And even if he was, it would only be because Red Alert 3 is an alternative timeline created by the Soviets killing Einstein, thus preventing the first two games from happening
He didn't kill Gradenko - Nadia did.
The guy acting Stalin does a really good job. Especially the scene where he's drinking with Gradenko.
The actor you are looking was Gene Dynarski who play the actor of Stalin. He also play other roles in Star Trek, Seinfeld, Starsky and Hutch, The A-Team, and Close Encounter.
RIP
Gene Dynarski
I will say this: the guy who voices Stalin gets his attitude and mannerisms essentially dead on, but like many people, he made the incorrect assumption that Stalin had a Russian accent. He didn't. Josef Stalin, born Iosip Dzugashvili, was born in Tiflis, Georgia.
Edit: Also, I highly doubt that, in his old age, Stalin would still be strong enough to snap a man's neck
Let's be real though, does anyone even know what a Georgian accent sounds like in English? And this was 1996 so he couldn't just go on youtube and look up a 'how to do a Georgian accent' tutorial
Also, one year earlier the film Goldeneye was released, the character Xenia Onatopp (played by Famke Janssen) was supposed to be Georgian but also played with a Russian accent, with some of her native Dutch accent occasionally slipping through
Whoever played Stalin. Was right on with the acting! :D
They took this game far more seriously when it was originally planned to be a prequel to the mainline C&C games, which is why Kaine shows up later in the game.
After the game proved to be a huge hit, Westwood wanted to make a sequel, however they needed a way to differentiate it tonally so it could stand out more, otherwise it was just Command and Conquer but with a Soviet paintjob on NOD soldiers.
shut up m8 romanov was fucking dope
That is why Kane doesnt exist in Red Alert 2. Yuri was an agent of Kane who got sent back in time and because of his actions he created another timeline / alternative universe ( aka Red Alert 2 and 3 ). Yuri only worked for himself and wanted total world domination.
Medivhmen then where is kane? if i recall correctly Kane existed way before Stalin was a leader of USSR
kinto kinto kane doesnt exist on red alert 2 . This is alternate universe.
Kane shoots nadia because she makes the mistake of saying to the now-appointed General that he shall be useful for the... 'foreseeable future'. She mistakenly reveals to Kane that she has some illusion about the future. Kane IS the future.
Yeah, he likely killed her because of 'foreseeable'. He was sure he was going to be the future, and did not want any major underling doubting.
I always interpreted that scene as Kane doing away with Nadia because she knew too much and that he intends to dispose of the player character next - resulting in a massive reshuffle of the halls of power on which Kane installs puppets that are ignorant of his true agenda.
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz Likely hypothesis. At 21:29 Kane is shown to eliminate the Red Army's senior command structure. At that stage of the war, the Soviet Union had gained a decisive advantage and the old guard's experience was no longer needed to ensure victory. By having Gradenko sign those death warrants, future historians investigating this purge of Stalin's generals would be chasing a decoy, leaving the Brotherhood's influence obscured. Grandenko soon after was assassinated by Nod through Nadia. By the end of the Soviet campaign, all individuals with knowledge of Kane's involvement in the USSR's rise to a global power had been removed, setting the stage for what you just described.
Bjarne Tollevsen I was thinking along the same lines - Kane never gets his own hands dirty until the very last scene in the game, suggesting that he wants to keep his fingerprints off the war as much as possible.
That's not Kane! That's comrade nostalgia critic!
It's funny how the writing went right over my head back when I first played this and only now do I see how awesome it was.
+Barney Collington I was 8 at the time and the story still fascinated me =)
Other than for Tanja, the soviet faction always was my favorite
+Barney Collington Never realized that grey country on the Europe map was Switzerland. Even in an alternate reality, the Swiss remain neutral.
bsphil haha amzing, I am german but I always paid attention to the spots that differed from the others. Wonder if there really was some underlined message to this X)
+bsphil That's probably to avoid any associated controversy. Logically speaking, when the entire Europe unites to fight for their very survival as an entity (rather than keep fighting among themselves as they always did in reality), it's suicidally stupid to stay aside and pretend that doesn't concern you. 'Cuz when they're surrounded by the Empire, it'll be all over for them, too.
+Barney Collington That's easy. When I was young, it was enough challenge and fun to just kill things for the heck of it. After I got older and wiser and completed several similar games, the bare gameplay was no longer something new, exciting and mentally challenging, so I shifted my attention to the plot for entertainment value.
Kane is so fucking boss.
Kane's a killer, and still respected 😄
I love how every time Kane is in the picture, you can assume that he may have had a hand in each involved event (destruction of a secured nerve gas facility, the elimination of coup conspirators, Einstein's capture by the Soviets and Stalin's death). Even as Stalin's subordinate, he was the true puppet master.
Kane is a great character.
Kane killed Jeffrey Epstein confirmed?
@@sobitasadullah4517 Oooooh Fuuuuck
Wait who is Kane in this? I didn’t realize the stories were connected?
@@10cody73 Kane is the guy behind Stalin
Back when game studios were actually proud of the games they created, instead of just making excuses for why they suck so fucking much.
+Chris Maillet Amen
back in day : bugs? we will try to fix it! just might take sometime as we didnt calculate this problem! but thanks for being so engaged and reporting this!
now : bugs? ...........not my problem...oh wait yeah its beta....now alpha...ay full release! ..what bug? that one? nah idc
...i wanted to be born in 1980's now :c
This is when games where art - not so much now.
Damn, that was well said.
Today's games mostly are just sad excuses for games...
How the hell did they make Einstein chrono shift by himself? Everytime I try moving infantry it fucking kills them. Bastards
Yes when teleported the infantry die but i found a glitch. When your infantry take little damage and taking cover on the ground they can be teleported! (ps1) but your infantry get low HP. But teleporting tanya is worth.
Dunno if it work on pc version.
Renard Bleu for me it worked when infantry was inside transporter
"When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million? It is a statistic" Iconic gaming phrase
Also one of Stalin's actual quotes in real life.
No, Stalin never said that.
@@madmax1717 Right, no one knows for sure if or when Stalin actually said it. The point is, the quote, misattributed or not, existed before the game.
@@madmax1717 Yes, he actually said that.
SoulKiller7Eternal Source? No he didn’t.
So basically the USSR in the Red Alert games are a Brotherhood of Nod proxy? Wow. What a great way to tie in both series together!
Red Alert was originally intended to be a prequel to the Tiberian games; with the Allies being a Proto-GDI, even the faction logos both have Eagle Motifs
Unfortunately by the time red alert 2 showed up, the creators thought it would be too much so they separated the two although I wonder what would have happened if the two were tied together. We could have had a different storyline or at least a different interpretation.
This holds up pretty fucking well. Good job, Westwood Studios circa '96.
this isnt a game, this is piece of art.
Will the poison work if there is no table around to climb on?
and break things too :)
Random User No
Climbing on tables is a key ingredient. Nadia always makes sure there's a table for her prospective victim to climb on.
And always reminds her victims that she made the tea herself...
hahah was thinking about the same thing
I noticed something very interesting about the scene at 28:14.
Stalin is rambling angrily about the Chronosphere but then Kane leans over and whispers something in his ear. Stalin then looks at the player with a worried expression on his face. Then as Kane walks away Stalin just sits there sadly and quietly as if he's been 'defeated' by whatever Kane said to him.
It's at that point in the story when it becomes apparent who is REALLY running the show in Soviet Russia.
so...Kane was planning the tiberium wars from the 1940's?
@Rj Simas I don't know if that's true, but I'm willing to believe so because that sounds exactly what EA does to IPs - sucking them dry of any value.
In Soviet Russia Kane rules you!
@@specialunit0428 Kane is an extra terrestrial being that had been on Earth for centuries. He knew of Tiberium's arrival on Earth happening sometime in the 1990's and was steadily biding his time, building up his influence to gain support from Humanity over the ages, to prepare for the inevitable events of Command & Conquer 3 so he could finally go back to wherever he came from.
@@specialunit0428 It's possible. With most of his followers being in Africa and the eastern block, he wanted the Soviets to win the war so that Nod would reach the 1990s as the sole superpower. Which didn't happen, naturally, so Nod had to stay in the shadows during Red Alert 2, and until Tiberian Dawn.
"When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic". What an iconic scene, Red Alert is one of the greatest games ever.
I loved everything about this game. The storyline is awesome, the gameplay is classic, and the music is badass. When Hell March starts playing at 2:00, it's the most metal thing ever.
Comrade chairman I AM the future
hell yea!!
Too bad they went the "silly" route with RA3.... they could've licensed the Achron engine and played the time travel angle more.
too bad they went the absolutely retarded and non-imaginable way in C&C 4 and ruined the hole franchise,instead giving the hole story a ending it deserves
Yea, but that was not Westwood Studios. When Westwood Studios was bought by EA Games, most ex Westwood employees left, a group of which formed Petroglyph Games. C&C3, RA3, C&C4 were made by EA Games, who totally messed up the most legendary RTS of all time.
So much nostalgia when the hell march theme comes on at the beginning. \m/ They just don't make them like they used to I hope there is a special place in hell for EA.
You shall not pass!!
@@firesky9114 you shall kill EA
rule of thumb EA! you cant kill the messiah!
Implying that they deserve a special place in hell.
Kane has always been the biggest pimp.
when I was young, I was so scared when I lose an allied campaign and saw the Soviet dagger stab on central Europe
I believe that was the intended effect...
it gave me a boner
That give more will to crush Soviet. Let's restart and try to kick their ass again
Gotta love the darker tone of older games. I mean seriously...the first mission for the Soviet campaign you are in charge of committing genocide against "insurgents".
No tutorials, just go in slaughter everyone.
Yeah, hearing Stalin calmly reviewing the numbers on those killed in the gas chambers, of course children not excluded. Wow. Stomach punch!
OneillSG7 I love the part where he threatens Gradenko.
"good...GOOD!...I do not wish to kill such a committed officer as you....Gradenko..."
Rohan Zener Yeah that's somewhat true, especially towards the end when the allies begin to invade Russia. They are pretty much done with diplomacy and go all out slaughtering Russian villages.
Rohan Zener Here here comrade!
then EA ruined the fucking thing with samurai robots and giant squids
When Hell March starts to play at Westwood logo :^)
Just an epic intro!! Reminds me so much of days locked in my room on a pc with Windows 95!
28:08 Finland still stands up and fight!!
France also.
Oh just noone gives a damn...
And Spain too!
In reality, in the late 40's a great amount of weapon caches were deployed around the country in Finland in case of Soviet invasion. Guerrilla warfare would have been conducted from plethora of dense Finnish forests. So the pic is not too far-fetched.
"And Cain went out from the presence of Lord, and took up residence in the land of Nod." I always smile when I realize I worked for the Brotherhood of Nod.
Easily one of the most chillingly accurate portrayals of even the very idiosyncrasies, of Stalin. The paranoia, the deaths, the maneuvering, this is a taste of what it was like.
"Thank you. I pdrepadred it mysedlf." - Nadia's one-liner for killing someone
"You waste my time with magic shows!" :DDDD
+TheLambdaTeam General Gradenko: This is no magic show comrade Stalin. This is real.
Kenneth Yu
I wonder what was Nadia thinkin' about when she saw the "Magic show"
She will like it though. But this is no magic show. That chronosphere was property by the allies.
Kenneth Yu
It is quite funny indeed that even though Red Alert has 3 parts alltogether now, the Soviets could never actually have this technology.
There is also a serious bug on that mission where you need to capture the Chronosphere. If you use Iron Curtain on it to avoid self-destruction, and you actually capture it with an engineer afterwards, you still fail the mission, even though you actually captured the Chronosphere. Eeny-weeny-little-bug.
+TheLambdaTeam if you even found and capture the 4 transmiters krukov dies :(
and looks like krukov is hated by everyone (even on red alert 3 him is considered a traitor)
You know what the most frightening thing about this campaign is? This is one of the most accurate portrayals of Stalin ever seen in fiction.
Aside from the voice (real Stalin sounded like Nintendo Mario the plumber), this Stalin was perfect. The menacing presence, constant fear and paranoia.
@@masterexploder9668 And he could be friendly to certain people. However, those that knew him knew to watch their back even then.
Stalin is a god
@@ss-th9pf Hahah! No, he is a long dead man who was a murderous tyrant. He is in Hell, with his minions.
@@ss-th9pf dialectics and historical materialism, git good capitalist cucklords
33:43 Assemble a strike team! A continental Soviet Union is our destiny!! ...I love this part
"Comrade chairman, *I* am the future"
Llamanator me:not if i can help it!
26:18 I'm just gonna lie here and blink.
ahaahahahahahhaahahahahahahah Nice spotting man
"Please don't notice, please don't notice, please don't notice..."
What am I not seeing?
Oh, I see it now. Gradenko blinks while on the table.
Sigh. I wish these cutscenes were HD. :)
Oh fuck, I blinked. Well, I won't say anything if the director doesn't.
I love the way it starts with "Proudly presents". Makes me feel creator were so much belonged to the game. Love it!
37:50 Winner: Kane. Flawless Victory.
DTthe4th Down with GDI!
DTthe4th Kane always wins. No exceptions.
Soviets were badass in this game. As much as the creators tried to mock them they still made them invincible in a skirmish versus Allies, all other things being equal. The only powerful unit for the allies could only be battle cruiser.
Not necessarily - the Allied powers had access to cheaper units like light tanks (which are good in the early to mid-game) which can be used to effectively hunt down Soviet ore miners and cut them off from their funding and in the later game the Allies get the ability to reveal the whole battlefield and thief units (when combined with engineers and APCs can do some serious economic damage to Soviet players).
So, the Allied players can win against the Soviets on a level playing field - they just have to get very creative...
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz Ikr, I love using the Chronoshift to send thieves and tanya's to ransack the enemy base
Mr マックラ That has to be a joke - chrono shifting infantry (even in APCs) destroys them in “Red Alert” and its expansion packs. This was fixed in the second game in the series though...
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz What I meant was by chronoshifting an MCV to make base and having barracks pre-built, you deploy units from the barracks there instantly and allows for crazy things. That is a weird but legitimate feature
Mr マックラ Ok - that makes sense now: an unorthodox strategy, but I can see how it works.
"if you fail do not return" a small promotion later "comrade chairman" -now that is campaign progress
man what a top notch acting, after red alert 1 it all went down the drain with their other games including the acting. Stalin's performance is superb, Oscar quality stuff.
I second your comment! Red Alert is a classic, everything else just can't compare.
I know right? Stalin's performance is so convincing, the way he talks, holds tension, gets angry and laughs feels so authentic, I rarely see performance like that on the big screen not to mention in games, playing this game in the 90's was a delight and surely left some sweet memories of my childhood in me.
Danny Kundzinsh Authentic? Lol wut?
***** its because EA Games bought out Westwood
deekzdeekzdeekz I don't get it; what actually happened because of that?
4:56......"They're enemies of the People! Destroy the town, and kill everyone in it!" *Slams pipe emphatically down into its marble holder to finish the point.* Absolutely brutal. I don't know why, but it always amuses me. It shouldn't, but it does. Maybe because i know its not real, but just the casual way he orders the slaughtering of an entire village and then carries on about his business. It doesn't trouble him at all.
Of course....such was the real Stalin!
its such anti communist propaganda, and it clearly works to sway people opinions
@@PowersOfDarkness Well, the facts tend to speak for themselves. In the last century, Communism HAS killed a good 100 million people, when you look at the crap with the Soviet Union, purges and such, and then the shit in Mao's China - a good sixty million of deaths happened in China under Mao's leadership. He was worse than Stalin & Hitler combined. And still in China today they're shoving their Muslim minorities into concentration camps - ironic nothing is said so as not to upset the Chinese. Its BS. But this isn't the time or the place for such discussion I guess :)
@@bobpage6597 lol, black book of communism was literally denounced by two of its authors as fanatically trying to reach the 100 million number
do some research and bring a real number
@@PowersOfDarkness Tell yourself that.
@@PowersOfDarknessnah he really was a mass murderer
The tank crashing through the wall as the main theme starts. Goosebumps every time.
I still wonder why Kane killed Nadia in the end. She was a high-ranking member in both the brotherhood and the USSR, and loyal to Nod (from what we can tell at least).
Perhaps she knew too much. Ah well, never question Kane.
Kane killed her because she was a Soviet officer first, not Nod. So there is no trust.
@@Seriona1 Pretty sure she was a Nod-member first, masqerading as a Soviet-officer on Kane's orders. Nothing hints to her being a soviet officer first.
Sorry for the comment necromancy, I think it's two fold, Kane needed someone to take the fall for Stalin' assassination and Nadia was the perfect patsy. Second, I get the feeling she had become too much of a risk/rival to Kane, especially coming out so openly about the Brotherhood decades before Kane was ready to move openly.
I remember rushing home from school during lunch hour just to play it for a bit before I had to go back. Good memories of good times. :)
This game was soooo beautiful… So amazing for its time… Revolutionary.
At the end, when the guy you've ignored the whole game is the only one left alive... Stares at you with ice in his eyes, and you realize you've been a servant of Kane this entire time. He levels his gun in your direction and smiles slightly. He tells you "I am the future," and then everything goes blank. The game didn't end; you did.
Nah, why would Kane kill you? It would be more beneficial to him to use you as a puppet ruler, while he stays in the shadows. More likely he keeps you around until Soviet Union is no longer needed.
Well, not really..Kane wants you alive....for as long as the Soviet Union is alive anyways.
That has always been my interpretation of the final cut scene - but I suppose some people will argue this...
Kane just made you Chairman. You're too valuable to lose. Stalin and Nadia, on the other hand, were expendable.
What a shitty franchise! They dare to mock me?! I shall see to it that everyone in this game is burnt alive!
Not convinced. Learn to act from the FMV character.
did you actually put Stalin's avatar on your account and commented in here to get likes?
Danny Kundzinsh Mayyybe
***** ikr
Danny Kundzinsh liven up you miserable fucker!
I always remember how the Soviets' story line was all full of problems. 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Everytime you advanced somewhere, something bad happened
because Kane set you up for a you won the battle and you lost the war scenario? Remember he wanted temporary Chaos not an empire that stands long but collapses quickly! Heck he propably saved via Nod's information network the Allies including the high command!
Sooner or later. Time will tell. I use this line all the time since this game
this and the first starcraft defined my pc gaming life as a child. such memories.
Love Kane's subtle message to the player by killing Nadia, just like with Seth do anything he doesn't like and thats it for you.
watch out for women with tea :D
Especially when the tea is *excellent*....ohh wait....
Especially, when she makes it *herself*
Nod seems to have something of a history of sexy, treacherous and deadly blondes
@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook They all went to the Red Alert universe
Watch out for baldies
"I am the future". You must love cain
0:00 to 2:00 goosebumps, then the hell march theme part starts and the goosebumps become even bigger...
I loved this game. Still remember it like yesterday.
Don't forget OpenRA, which does Dune2000, Tiberium Dawn, AND Red Alert...and soon, Tiberium sun!
The intro was epic for it's time.
+Jerkasss tore I remember running the game in msdos 6.0
Yes it was epic indeed.
I was totally blown away xD even though it was all pixels.
Just for it's time 🤔
The expression of the guy on the left when Stalin promotes the player character to general cracks me up! He goes from calm and collected to raised eyebrows and it's hilarious!
Time will tell.........sooner or later...time will tell. This game was gold. Nothing like what EA turned it into.
+PersonaX 5 month old reply, but holy shit this is so true. Ive been buying nothing but indies on Steam lately and they truly do keep my attention compared to AAA which are concerned with appealing to casual gamers. Good majority of them lack so much depth and complexity. Not that Red Alert really had much complexity, but it certainly had strategies and depth. I blame the rise of multiplayer. AAA developers dont care about singleplayer anymore, because multiplayer is an easy and lazy way to assure that a game will continue to get sales, especially when they throw in pay to win strategies. Its sad really.
I liked this because it was an alternate history with weird technology, but not popcorny and cartoony. Although Ra2 was a good game, they really killed the great atmosphere this game has.
I don't know. The alternate history and weird technology makes no sense. In Ra2 this isn't an issue as that game doesn't take itself too seriously but here it really just doesn't add up.
"Good..hahahaha..good..I do not wish to kill so committed an officer as you Gradenko"
I cracked up around this part
Such fantastic actors whom we didn't see enough in more projects. Not to mention Andrea C. Robinson giving us one of the best femme fatales in the series without even being a playable character.
"Sooner or later time vill tell.... sooner or later time vill tell...."
And then the bass guitar kicks in. Epic opening, even 20 years later.
I remember like it was yesterday that I was playing this game with my older brother. Ah, memories.
Good old memories
I played the PS1 version of this game to death, playing the complete version on PC years later was a coming of age experience. Needs to bust it out again sometime these cutscenes were so well made
I used to love playing against 7 hard AI and have them ally against me with Hell March on repeat for hours and hours. Great times.
spasjt Still do this in RA2(RA1 is too unstable and old, I have nostalgic feeling with RA2)
P. S.: I know it's 3 years old comment but still...
The golden age for sure. They actually meant "proudly presents" and earned it.
brings back so many memories i had this on ps1 shame this series is not going anymore
It says allot about Stalin that a game that starts with Einstein going back in time to kill Hitler, that game like this portrays Stalin so accurately is both hilarious and terrifying
NenshouYuuki yup
Dealing with traitors is my special tea.
i really miss this series. was freakin awesome. would love to see c&c make a real come back
13:04 This bit really gets on how Stalin's murderous tenancies can crop up at anytime as his later strangling of Kurkov showed. Even after all these years its frightening just how spot on the game captured Stalin and his rl self.
Stalin suffered from what is known as "Malignant Narcissism", which is a collection of 4 personality disorders: 1) Narcissism, 2) Sadistic Personality Disorder, 3) Anti-Social Personality Disorder, 4) Paranoia Personality Disorder. Hitler also was one, though on a somewhat lesser level than Stalin.
Kudos to the guy who portraits Stalin
Eugene Dynarski, has been in numerous films and a few Star Trek episodes too.
He passed away recently. Fantastic acting.
Yeah sadly recently he passed away
@@brandonvortex995 May he rest in peace.
This brings back so many fond memories of my childhood. Loved every second of these videos.
I love how Kane is just in the background
Frank Klepacki and Westwood Studios. Historic combination!
The hours spent on this amazing game. That intro/music is epic.
I sometimes still play it on my old PS2, just the Skirmish, i like building those big bases.
5:50 - 6:04 always sends shivers down my spine. It's hard to see due to the heavy compression, but you can make out a kid and perhaps a parent(?) getting mowed down from a distance.
wtf my version just skips over that part!
Bad Ass Game I can't believe it. I remember it when I started in Christmas 1996 and I was soaked in for the next year just to play this Masterpiece. You guys from Westwood just rock.
Wow.. I didn't know until now how much they censored the game in Germany...
I was already totally shocked about the scene with the teddy. That wasn't in the German version for example. lol
The voice at 30:11 was sampled in the Red Alert 2 Menu Theme
Kuckoff is kukoo for Kokoo Puffs
Recent events in the news made me think of this game
Best strategy game ever made. Miss the bright minds at Westwood studios..
Lol I use to play this shit on an old ass Packard bell (the ones where the CRT sat on the actual computer case) that had Windows 95. LMAO
mmmm not shit, old strategic game, one of the best for that time.
xxxJustGIOxxx Yeah, woops... you're absolutely right man.
One of my fave war game rts from my childhood!
Subscribed. I can't wait to watch all of these and relive some memories.
C&C had really good writing and some decent acting before it went wacky in RA2.
Yea I liked Tiberian Dawn and RA1 but the games after those two were too futuristic and Sci Fi for me.