C&C Red Alert 3 REVIEW 2023
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2023
- Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 came out in edgy 2008, backed by a lot of EA money. So how did it do and how has it held up in 2023? let's find out.
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Developer - EA Los Angeles
Publisher - EA
Release date - 28/10/2008 
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What's this nonsense about Tim Curry? He understood the assignment perfectly, and delivered a 110% cheesy acting. Red Alert is not as serious as the Tiberium series, it's all about that cheese.
You didn't understand RA then.
Space!!
@@clemenscohn7371because timetravel is based on reality 🤣 so serious, so based.
Yea but this is too much
I won't let you squander my beautiful Hell March 3. That soundtrack is a masterpiece.
I'm glad you like it, it certainly not a bad track by any stretch of the imagination.
You beat me to it OP. Hell March 3 is the shit.
Red Alert 3 was released 15 years ago and people are still playing it, organizing tournaments, and making videos about it. The game aged like fine wine can't deny that! Say whatever you want but Red Alert 3 has clearly withstood the test of time.
i will agree i personaly bought it yesterday cause i had it in Jack Sparow edition back in 2009...and i wanted a good rts to play i already own the first decade edition and have all the good games. Any news for a new CnC game?
@@stavrosdk6891I'm sure there will be another C&C phone game 😆🤦🏼♂️
Agreed.
Say what you want, RA3 was easily good enough to immediately warrant green light for RA4.
fair
It's also a lot better in various regards than its immediate predecessor, Tiberium Wars. Not *every* regard, but certainly more than not.
I remember my hype for this game 15 years ago more than the game itself. I still have that steel case.
I don't care what anyone says about the game. It's a really nice case.
I played this game through my dad when I was in like 5th grade, I remember making lego versions of the Tsunami tank XD
Here we go Command and Conquer crew! Hope you enjoy it. Tell me which faction is your main and why it's the soviets. Also, I said something about a gold plated, steel tin... it's a tin painted gold. Sometimes I just say things stupid 😅
Man, I really like your C&C reviews. Deep enough yet tight, witty and well paced. Pleasure to watch and listen. I hope you'll do more RTS reviews in the future. There's not enough of them on the youtube
I controlled myself and waited to watch the entire video before writing my comment haha, you pretty much covered all my questions as I listened along
I think being a RedAlert fan myself that pretty much you covered all the questions I had and ultimately I agree with you
Great review and keep it up 👍
EXCUSE ME TIM CURRY WAS THE BEST PART OF RA3 my guy you had rts brunout i tell you
Anyone still remember that pre-launch situation, where Elektronik Asses released art of apocalypse tank, and it had only 2 tracks (like basic tanks have) instead of 4, and after player/fanbase raised its voice it was redesigned?
I got 2 copies of this game on the ps3 for my brother and me to play against each other, good memories 😮
I would give 6.5/10. Being lower detail is a good way to put it. It was a overall a little too ridiculous for me, like not every unit needs some crazy gimmick.
I felt like the game was just trying to cram way too many gimmicks to the point that nothing really stood out.
remember when they teased the mammoth tank in red alert 3 for april fools? it was literally a giant mammoth model with tank turrets mounted to it. I kinda wish it appeared in game tbh
great video dude
your video has actual analysis
Is there a way to make your vehicles and soldiers patrol and not stand still?
Love the dissection of the gameplay and music. I do agree in that I'd rate RA2 higher than RA3. I didn't mind the 3D art style for what it was back in the day. If RA4 were to magically come into existence, I would be happy with a modernized 2D or 2.5D aesthetic. 3D would be fine too I guess. I like the commander abilities, though tying it to a tech tree would make unlocking them feel more consistent. It was like super weapons lite. I disliked the harvesters in RA3 though. Having a hard placed node to mine from removed any need to build multiple harvesters. It also led to the stupid meta of building walls around them to lock them in. Otherwise, as Soviets, you could just rush terror drones to destroy the opponent's economy.
The best thing about RA3 was the birth of the Tim Curry meme.
But yea, my favorite faction is the Soviets. Apocalypse tanks just too good. It was also fun using the commander to snipe enemy MCVs when they were expanding. My favorite commander though was probably Yuriko since she could just juggle multiple tanks as long as you micro her. I found it funny that they followed the trope of a school girl too haha. Of course.
If they made an RA4 I'd take it any way it comes. (please god not a mobile game) I agree though in 2008 I never thought of the move to 3D being a negative because everyone was doing it and it was a pretty game they just didn't age well. I think the tech for 3D RTS has come a long way anyways, I mean, I think SC2 did a great job with it. That said, I really like the 2.5D look. It's on the reasons I'm so excited for DORF.
I really liked your red alert reviews. I understand that you may be tired after playing them all so close to each other. But after some well deserved rts rest would you consider covering the mental omega mod for red alert 2 yr? I would be curious to see what you think about that one. Thank you for your cool videos!
Thanks boss! There will 100% be a mental omega review. I also plan to go back and play firestorm and continue down the tiberium line and then we will see from there.
Someone really likes Red Alert
I want a red alert 4
Well, I have to say that I disagree (partially)
I think the soundtracks were awesome. How it switched to battle music when a fight started. How every faction hat a fitting battle music (allied - light rhythmic rock, soviets - heavyweight hard rock and empire - also had music..jk they had a fitting theme, too) also you will gain a special piece when you fire your super weapon.
The Soviet chanting/marching song in the menu was awesome.
Yes HM3 wasn’t as good as HM2 or 1.
My personal biggest issue was the balancing. 2 peacekeepers could absolutely destroy about 10 conscripts and the allied super weapon could destroy your construction yard AND your tank facility while the vacuum bomb (props to the idea, it’s cool) had a much smaller AOE and would just damage the construction yard. The list goes on and on.
I’m not trying to sound like a fanboy for RA3 but it was definitely not as bad, as people remember it. I’ve had good fun with it and will enjoy playing it. Thus said, RA2 is still the best and will always have a special place in my heart
How about Beyond All Reason RTS? It's pretty cool one.
its amazing how Red Alert 3 has good graphics and bad graphics at the same time
it looks good and bad at the same time
The worst part of this game for me was that I was the micro-managing.
My anit-air units are getting attacked on the ground? Okay, now I have to quickly select all of them from in the battle group and switch them.
My anit-air units are getting attacked on the ground but I am busy with a different group somewhere else? Result, my anti-air group has been wiped out.
I was never able to use Yuriko properly. (I'm glad you enjoyed her.) I seem to recall her abilities required me to target with her. That is to say, she didn't use her abilities on her own. But maybe I am just thinking of her anti-tank attack being on and then a random conscript kills her while I am elsewhere.
Honestly, on memory, I would have scored it lower. I played all the way through, but it was difficult in a way that felt like it wanted to punish the players for not choosing a better game.
Westwood's talent started their own studio. I would love to see your review of some of their games.
nah man, not bothering with this negative review. C&C RA3 is great
To use your music analogy. I think they should have embraced their soviet march side not try recreate hell march again. Embrace the goofiness more, they might have gotten more hate back then but would probably be remembered more fondly now.
I can see that.
So this review result in C&C and Red Alert 2 mechanic nostalgia (like wanting ore mine), the only off for me in the game is subs don't attack undersea and needs to resurface to do it 😁.
How about, making a review of Mental Omega - mod for RA2?
it is on the books, likely early next year.
I loved Tim Curry in this when I was younger. He made me laugh so much!
Hah, I remember RA3. I played RA1 as a little kid, Generals when I was 11-12. Then warcraft 3 became my mainstay game. I missed out on RA2 actually. Mainly because I didn't have copy. I do now but haven't installed it and played. I remember being pretty excited about RA3, especially since I'd played Tiberium Wars the previous year. I went into RA3 blind with zero expectations and I really liked it. I thought the way they'd added to Hellmarch was pretty cool, though my favorite version is from RA2. (I'm a guitarist so I love Frank Klepacki, Damage King from Universe at War was one of the first songs I learned to play.) I really liked the expansion for RA3 as well. I agree on the unit special abilities though. I think it kinda makes sense though between the design of the harvesters and refineries and the extra unit abilities. Microing those abilities become very problematic when you have to switch to your base and either expand or move refineries.
I thought there was just too much micro with the units abilities anyways, but I'm a scrub when it comes to RTS titles so *shrug*. Nice to see another video of yours. Ever since the one you did on sexualization and that I've been subscribed.
I played 1,2 and 3 and i can say that i find the 3rd game pretty good . But if must compare them Red Alert 2 Yuri's revenge is holding the first place .
This is the first C&C game I was unable to play beyond a few tries. The effects had a similar effect on my as did Sonic the Hedgehog. Color blind modes don't really work when there is too much detail included with early 3D attempts. Not fun to play when all you see is a swirling blur of content. I like your thoughts on decision making, which seemed to me like less strategic and more tactical level decision, with the latter restricted with the removal of the former. The other piece I didn't care for was similar to the 1987 GIJoe shift from believeable units vs. futuristic sci-fi inventions. For the reasons I didn't like RA3 are the reason I really I enjoyed Generals. Wish there would be more done in that format.
I absolutely hated the co-commander in RA3 campaign missions. So glad they got rid of it in Uprising.
Hey man!
Can you a review of Library of Ruina by Project Moon!
I never played this game, but I like that plot.
It's really a shame that RA3 was the last C&C. It's the only game I've ever pre-ordered but was disappointed by the game at the time. Didn't like the bright, cartoony look of the environment, resource gathering, and that every single unit had an alternative mode. However, replayed the game multiple time with the Science Mod from moddb. Makes the game much harder.
Also this game is the pinnacle of Tim Curry's acting career. His maniacal delivery of "Space!" is pure genius
can someone tell me what to do to make the game running? loll i have it but cant play ..try every service pack..what is the other setting to change to play it? thx
Runs fine on Debian 12 using Lutris. Not sure what you're using.
steam on window..loll@@hitechfl
no no no tesla tanks dident make a return they exist in like 4 missins and that was it they where given the position of included but not grantet the position of buildeble faction unit they are a mention at best.
the biggest problem with red alert 3 is that , it looks more like Starcraft game , less like Command and conquer game.
I remember feeling basically the same way about RA3. It's like it copied RA2's homework and aped it as close as possible without completely understanding it. It's not bad, but it never got past the idea that Red Alert is "over the top" and never quite captured the sincere commitment to what made RA2 over the top.
i wouldnt say this is equal to tib sun. also tib sun, i also would rate it way higher
Forgot Gino Carano among the actors very good women
I think you should lower the background music in your next videos. It was really distracting trying to listen to you at the same time.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, always a struggle to try and balance between headphone and speaker users. Could defs come down a bit though, I agree.
That game had great campaign with fantastic acting but if i had to choose multilayer, I'd choose RA2 no doubt. Those double functional units are a bit meh.
Also i remember playing skirmish against EotRS and he spammed me with his towers, ridiculous.
But you're very wrong with Tim Curry and the soundtrack ! Both brilliant.
Ra2 for me was the best. I prefer the theme, timeline and gameplay. Ra3 wasnt that bad though.
Like Terminator 3 compared to T2... not bad, but inferior in most ways. But hey, at least it gave us Tim Curry memes and Soviet March.
That's a really good parallel
Why did you skip C&C 3 Tiberium Wars?
I'll come back to it, I need to do the firestorm expansion for tiberian sun too
RA3 Uprising / Commanders challenge is a much better game for singleplayer missions.
I remember being very stoked for, and then heavily disappointed by this game. Honestly, for me the forced co-op was the absolute deal breaker. I didn't buy the game for co-op and I was never going to play co-op, and the AI commander feels like a cop-out. It's trying to have your cake and eat it, too. I didn't think the AI was adequate, and instead of playing the campaign on my own terms I'm constantly having to keep this AI in mind while the game is playing itself. There were other weak points, but this is the one that really made the game a chore to play for me.
The skirmish in RA3 sucks. The AI spam with these mini superweapons like crazy and since there's no way to disable this crap, it ruined the skirmish for me. Even the easy AI is way too aggressive with these mini superweapons. And I'm not going to bother with higher AI difficulties after what I experienced in Tiberium Wars (seriously, Medium is at least 4x harder than Easy, way too steep of a difficulty curve).
In Red Alert 2, you only get 3 difficulties but it's fine in terms of difficulty curve. Easy is too easy but good if you just got started playing RA2 and don't want to play the campaign now. Medium is perfectly balanced and Hard is pretty difficult but doable. You can even fine-tune the difficulty by turning super weapons on or off (but it barely affects Medium it seems, they really take their time building a super weapon IDK).
Not saying it's a bad game, it has it's flaws but it's still pretty good. It looks much more vivid than Tiberium Wars (since the most of Earth got Tiberium'd in TW). It also has it's charme, the cutscenes are pretty hilarious and even spawned some memes, with the one with fleeing to space being the most infamous! Also I love how the game's tutorial is told by the 3 faction's main tanks with some hilarious moments here and there.
do you have any games with 10/10? ))))))
I've only done 12 reviews in total so no. 9 is the highest and it was for Armored Core 6. I realise that you might be asking on a more casual level but every time I start a review for youtube I take a far more analytic approach than I would for my personal self. I can give an example, I had a lot of fun playing Wanted Dead and I certainly got value out of it, combat was solid etc.. but ain't no way it would get a good rating if I started writing a review on it.
Will I ever give a 10? ummm I think the game review industry has conditioned people to expect high numbers, or more the other way round, viewers reward reviewers that affirm their positive bias. This is a whole video topic I'll be doing soon.
he he cool, yeah I saw and loved the AC6 review ))) but it sucks the fact that your review score is incoherent with the amount of fun you received from the game. You need to learn how to remain isolated in the experience and not pollute it by pragmatic post-gameplay approach )))))
Can't wait for that viewer-reviewer analysis!@@livaveragegamer
Had the same feeling back in the day, red alert 3 just wasn't great like the previous games.
Cool beans
Cool. Beans.
Red Alert 2 was one of my favorite games and I was super hyped for RA3. I had no money at the time so I didn't get the game until some time after the release and the game was unplayable for me as it is the ugliest game I have ever played. I wanted to like the game but honestly the graphics ruined it for me, the units looks very bad and all the lasers and lights made it just very disorganization as to much was happening at once on screen.
I can't think of to many games I have stopped playing because they were painful to look at but RA3 was it, I hoped this video would change my mind but looking at the gameplay just no. So I will keep to RA2 and Tiberian Sun.
In my own opinion:
The Story plot was less mediocre and repeated,the gameplay was unique and great but the units and mechanics of the game was not diverse and not enough compare to two Tiberium Wars franchises,and the graphics and resolution and too simple and cartoonic.
I give it "alright rating 5/10.
I prefer Hell March 3.
They went all-in on naval warfare, and I didn't like it.
Honestly, rts games are better in 2d
I dnt like that you can doi think too much. Units do mult things. Structs buolt mult areas. Too luch focus on sea. I dnno. Id rather play red alert 2
You better skip reviewing Command and Conquer 4 : Tiberian Twilight, you will feel better. Just straight away review Command and Conquer Generals and Zero Hour.
If a game comes out that I'm not sure that I want or not and I see it's a EA game I don't buy it
i really dont get it....i see a lot of people to find EA a shit storm company (i agree too) but they earn more than others and they keep get games and destroy them with greedenes and money suck packs,batlle pases and premium curency.....
@@stavrosdk6891 people have short memories...
Look, I will be honest, RA3 is kind of an L. C&C3 was pretty good, even if it didn't quite nail the bleak atmosphere of Tib Sun, but the game played good, and felt fun to play. I can't say the same about this game. I think they failed on both gameplay and setting. They pumped up the cheese on an already cheese setting making it just a damn clown show that doesn't take itself seriously at all, Which makes me ask why should we then? And gameplay is just misses all around. Focus on naval combat and naval building, makes it annoying, Co-op campaign that doesn't need to be one, units all have activateable effects which makes them annoying to micro. And lastly the style of game makes my eyes bleed. The thick outlines and oversaturated colors looks so bad. Everything looks cartoony, just overall a colossal disappointment.
RA3 is a perfect example when the budget is wasted on high end cut scene actors and not used properly on actual game development lol
I dont understand how red alert 3 can look so bad; you mention the lack of details and cartoony, plastic toy look. One would think it is because of the time and the limits of the tech back then. But then Generals looks amazing, which is older than RA3.
But for me the biggest 2 gripes were the shared land and sea units, making it impossible to select e.g. all flack trucks to protect one side and all flack ships to protect the coast. Because now they are all the same and all get selected...
And the second and worst offender: the fucking shared economy. In theory, this is a good idea for cooperation. But in practice it just hinders you from playing efficiently. And playing with bots is just a nightmare as they keep spamming units and buildings, so your economy is always 0.
I have not loathed a game as much, I think, as I have RA3. In my world, there are only 3 RA-games: RA, RA2 and RA2:YR
I only disliked the cartoonish theme in the game, unlike C&C tiberium universe it was way better.
No such game exists.
RA3 sucks so bad
Transformer units, that's what killed it for me. 🪦
This whole game is a disjointed mess compared to Tiberium Wars. Like every developer was pulling in a different direction.