general zero hour was modeled after 2000's real world war theaters. they're meant to be serious. and controversial. red alert 1 was a bit serious, but ra2 & 3 is downright wacky. cue yuri with ufo & dinosaur...
That madman was actually right though,hate to say that but he was damn right,in both Soviet and Allied campaigns the Soviets betray the Allies,what do you expect from Cherdenko anyway,that guy betrayed you and Krukov too lol
I hated that always the Allies in this games are portrayed as Heroes, Patriotism, Freedom, honor, and all that crap, when the Soviets are portrayed always as backstabbing jerks. Hell, when the president of the allies dicide to break a pact and you have to kill him, at the end it is shown that he was right and they praise the bastard. I mean, couldn't they create a betrayal arc that shows corruption, or burocracy in the Allies? And that makes you fight with limited resources so then you discover a traitor and have to punish him? Also... Einstein is dead, and cannonically he created the Chronosphere, the Prism Towers, MirageTanks and all that, and the allies still have it in the game. They couldn't try to make a little sense? Yes, its an alternate story with japanese using transformers, but at least give us some explanation.
@@asadaduf The android wasn't there when he went sicko mode, he really despised the commies from the very beginning, and the thing with commies and soviets always being portrayed as the bad guys is always a thing even in movies, kinda annoying because i'd trust a russian any day before an ignorant fanatic who interferes with every country on this entire planet.
@@undeadsynth8727 Ackerman was an android from day 1. He was a bot the Japanese devised especially to win the election and antagonise the Soviets whenever the EotRS declared war on both powers.
Nice play! I have one silly fast strategy for this mission. We only need to focus on getting spy, some ifvs, and one cryocopter. Send a spy to sabotage the enemy's power, then put tanya into an ifv and shrink it with cryocopter. Send her immediately to the central building during the blackout along with empty ifvs for distractions and bomb the building. Shoot the president's limo with vindies
I just freeze the limo at the southern-most turn near the blue base and build a shit-ton anti air defences near my base to kill his 3 air to air planes that follow his limo around (after you kill the initial 3, they will new ones over and over again but be careful, if anything falls on the limo, it'll immediately die because its frozen) and than do whatever the fuck I want lol
Haha I just build quick parachute plane, get my engineer ready to capture on notice. Then I juse the Commander to infiltrade the energy line of the enemy.
The cool thing is.. If he's really empire's android in the allied plotline it all still makes sense since they want to create rift between the alliance
When you freeze his limo, he sends Apollo Fighters to destroy your Cryocopter. After that, your destroyed Cryocopter falls on the frozen limo and destroy it. You need to protect your Cryocopter from Apollo attacks.
And after all, what is the most ironic, President Ackerman in Allies Campaign is an android created by Empire of the Rising Sun. And confirmation of this can be seen in this mission: if you allow Ackerman to transfer from a limousine to his own helicopter, and after that you will shut down the same helicopter with your own hand, then it will light up with a green flame during the explosion. And as we know, only mechanical units and buildings of Empire of the Rising Sun can burn and explodes with green flame.
I remember my 3rd try i just took a freezing heli and froze the pres's plane, then backed it up with some fighter jets, then proceeded to take my sweet time dismantling their base lol
I never thought you could just freeze his limo, I rather just go all-out attack (and win randomly lol), and that's all. Also, isn't it weird no one dies from freezing, expect being armored as much as mosquito?
The US President was an android spy made by the Empire: *th-cam.com/video/m-TIDxZQ_5g/w-d-xo.html* Their idea was to start a war between the Allies and the Soviets to destroy each other.
@@player2-lightwater914 About that.... The reveal happened there. Not the implantation of the Rising sun spy. It is assumed that the US president was a spy all along in all timelines. on a further note, his replacement also seem to speak the same jargon as the previous president. Meaning the new one is most likely another Rising sun spy to keep america off the allies's assets. I mean seriously the other amerian is tanya and 'burgers and fries' aren't in her vocab.
Is it just me or does this remind me of every japanese spy in the real world before the bombing of pearl harbor Hint: ackerman was a japanese robot for the rising sun
I think you can connect a mouse and keyboard or PlayStation 3 and 4 controller to an xbox one to make it easier to control. But you’re right, the PC and PS3 versions are easier to control.
@@michaelhawkins7389 yeah, if you properly micro the Cryo and the Apollos protecting it you can Definitely makes it much more easier. Personally I can only complete it on hard without this trick by sending spies on their power plants and then spamming Athenas
Well only two of them are american commanders. Bingham was British himself, along with like 90% of the Allies. The two american commanders we know are more loyal to the Allied armed forces than the US armed forces, seperate branches I presume. On top of that, fairly certain Lisette is dismantling a floating island fortress somewhere while Warren was ordered to support you, thus, betrayal was unlikely
@@Killerbee4712 warren seems the type to fight for the usa. his betraying of ackerman would eat him from within for the rest of his life. as for lisette, she is french i believe.
@@jvbutalid8316 But did Ackerman represent the USA? Ackerman may have had a loyalist army, but perhaps the US military and the Pentagon assigned Warren, who probably is more loyal to the US army than the newly elected president.
@@Killerbee4712 no matter what, any national military is obliged to follow their national supreme leader, or whoever their commander-in-chief is, to the letter
Absolutely disagree. I completed this mission many times using that well-proven strategy: 1. Freeze the President using a Cryocopter. 2. Protect the Cryocopters using Apollo Fighters. 3. Complete the bonus objectives. 4. Destroy the Rushmore Firebase. This mission is too simple and doesn't need a "special strategy".
@@hdw I love your tactic here, I think it's actually what you're supposed to do in the first place. I built a large force of pretty much everything and wiped their base but only after 2nd attempt. Your tactic is a winner tho.
I don’t know how you define a “good” strategy, but cryo beam works just as good and does not attract anything. You have plenty of time in this mission no matter what, including destroying every single building that is not a turret.
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The story mode was quite fun and funny. While General Zero Hour was often scary, this was lighthearted and cool to see!
general zero hour was modeled after 2000's real world war theaters. they're meant to be serious. and controversial.
red alert 1 was a bit serious, but ra2 & 3 is downright wacky. cue yuri with ufo & dinosaur...
I mean dont write or rather laugh off any satire no matter its unrealisticness at face value
@@kukuhimanputraraharja8084 I personally think RA2 was way more over the top than 3. Despite people thinking 2 was more serious.
That madman was actually right though,hate to say that but he was damn right,in both Soviet and Allied campaigns the Soviets betray the Allies,what do you expect from Cherdenko anyway,that guy betrayed you and Krukov too lol
I hated that always the Allies in this games are portrayed as Heroes, Patriotism, Freedom, honor, and all that crap, when the Soviets are portrayed always as backstabbing jerks. Hell, when the president of the allies dicide to break a pact and you have to kill him, at the end it is shown that he was right and they praise the bastard.
I mean, couldn't they create a betrayal arc that shows corruption, or burocracy in the Allies? And that makes you fight with limited resources so then you discover a traitor and have to punish him?
Also... Einstein is dead, and cannonically he created the Chronosphere, the Prism Towers, MirageTanks and all that, and the allies still have it in the game. They couldn't try to make a little sense? Yes, its an alternate story with japanese using transformers, but at least give us some explanation.
That madman was revealed to be an android controlled by the empire of the rising sun in the rising sun chapters
@@asadaduf The android wasn't there when he went sicko mode, he really despised the commies from the very beginning, and the thing with commies and soviets always being portrayed as the bad guys is always a thing even in movies, kinda annoying because i'd trust a russian any day before an ignorant fanatic who interferes with every country on this entire planet.
@@undeadsynth8727 Ackerman was an android from day 1. He was a bot the Japanese devised especially to win the election and antagonise the Soviets whenever the EotRS declared war on both powers.
@@asadaduf i think it was in uprising
i thought the Allied General was a spy and i forgot this is RA3 not G.I. Joe XD
It is in the rising suns play through but idk how the different play through work
@@forwarduntodawn1000 Only the allies campaign is cannon. So the president is not a robot
The General could have been a NOD agent. It's unfortunate that the Brotherhood never appeared again in the RA timeline.
He coulda got elected and then replaced by a robot after
@@axol7417 All campaigns are canon except for the last missions of the Soviets and the Empire.
Super Amazing game
This part ass
I have summoned my dad to do this now.
This is so funny. I see you in almost every comment section on every video I watch. It’s like we watch the same stuff.
Seems it's a new way to lure subscribers hm.
I really hope that lazer will be used as a unlockable superweapon XD.
It is called Proton Collider
Nice play! I have one silly fast strategy for this mission. We only need to focus on getting spy, some ifvs, and one cryocopter. Send a spy to sabotage the enemy's power, then put tanya into an ifv and shrink it with cryocopter. Send her immediately to the central building during the blackout along with empty ifvs for distractions and bomb the building. Shoot the president's limo with vindies
I just freeze the limo at the southern-most turn near the blue base and build a shit-ton anti air defences near my base to kill his 3 air to air planes that follow his limo around (after you kill the initial 3, they will new ones over and over again but be careful, if anything falls on the limo, it'll immediately die because its frozen) and than do whatever the fuck I want lol
As you can see I did exactly the same.
@@hdw you didn't, you must freeze it just below your allied based so you will not trigger the Laser Head, skipping the 3 optional quest.
I didn't think of that! What did I do is use bombers to send my engineers, and then hide Tanya near the airport at the end to demo the limo
Haha I just build quick parachute plane, get my engineer ready to capture on notice. Then I juse the Commander to infiltrade the energy line of the enemy.
You can send an allied comander spy to disable the power plant and power off the turret in the side mission
It won't let me even after getting rid of the dogs
when you freez him during the first laser activation custscene he will stay there frozen for the rest of the game
In the Japanese campaign it's revealed that Ackerman is a Japanese Robot
The cool thing is.. If he's really empire's android in the allied plotline it all still makes sense since they want to create rift between the alliance
Plus, his base doesn't have any guard dogs, because they can sniff out imposters and would have blown his cover if he got close
STFU Spoiler
Which unfortunately doesn't work if You play as the Soviets. For if he was, how was he still operational after the Fall of the Empire?
I just confirmed in the C&C Wiki. That's the most stupid writing.
This mission is surprisingly easy if you know what to do. I used a spy to temp disable the defenses, then use about 10 mirage to steamroll their base
weird, I remember freezing his limo and after a few cryo shots it would bug out and be destroyed and then the mission would fail.
When you freeze his limo, he sends Apollo Fighters to destroy your Cryocopter. After that, your destroyed Cryocopter falls on the frozen limo and destroy it. You need to protect your Cryocopter from Apollo attacks.
@@hdw ah i was using the cryo shot ability rather than the copters. This caused the limo to be destroyed after a few shots
Its like they forgot we had cryos lol
@@warmonkey96 Weird,I ran it on ver 1.12 and limo endured like 15 shots(I destroyed everything in that base ) and it is fine.
Possibly a glich
@@hdw it can still bug and think that the car is still going, it's stupid but happens
I liked how the president was still giving you orders from his "frozen limousine "
I think I did the cryocoptor and apollo jet thing but
I made as much bombers as I can and send them on a suicide mission to blow the area
I've realised only now, that Bingham has Soviet/Russian medal ribbons on his jacket LOL
Why haven't they impeached the president?
Do I even know what does impeached mean XD
And XD tooo
Because he is not Donald Trump
Maybe it's because it's a time of war so they might get unstable of he gets impeached
They haveexecuted him instead way better way to get rid off corrupt and unstable politicans
If you want to rush this mission.. 2 airbases with century bombers towards the Firebase
And after all, what is the most ironic, President Ackerman in Allies Campaign is an android created by Empire of the Rising Sun. And confirmation of this can be seen in this mission: if you allow Ackerman to transfer from a limousine to his own helicopter, and after that you will shut down the same helicopter with your own hand, then it will light up with a green flame during the explosion. And as we know, only mechanical units and buildings of Empire of the Rising Sun can burn and explodes with green flame.
This mission cutscene gives me ptsd after all the times I had to watch it while completing this game on the hardest difficulty
Awesome I been stuck on this for ages 🤣🤣
I remember my 3rd try i just took a freezing heli and froze the pres's plane, then backed it up with some fighter jets, then proceeded to take my sweet time dismantling their base lol
I support Ackerman. The perfect president.
What I did was I make a squadron of Century Bombers and strike directly at Rushmore Firebase. And it was a Mission Accomplished.
I never thought you could just freeze his limo, I rather just go all-out attack (and win randomly lol), and that's all.
Also, isn't it weird no one dies from freezing, expect being armored as much as mosquito?
They should have let the president level the Soviets.
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@@hdw The US President being an android is non canon since this is only seen in Rising Sun campaign. The campaign itself is non canon
@@player2-lightwater914 About that.... The reveal happened there. Not the implantation of the Rising sun spy. It is assumed that the US president was a spy all along in all timelines. on a further note, his replacement also seem to speak the same jargon as the previous president. Meaning the new one is most likely another Rising sun spy to keep america off the allies's assets. I mean seriously the other amerian is tanya and 'burgers and fries' aren't in her vocab.
@@commmander64 The reveal happened in Rising Sun Campaign which is non canon. The only canon campaign is Allied Campaign.
The president was right about soviet treachery due to they want to bomb the allies cities with their huge kirovs.
Meanwhile, Field Marshal Bingham is in his office typing the next headline for the press... After all... "No news like bad news."
Irony: after this mission, if I'm not mistaken, you never ally with the Soviets again
Is that the man from the pirates of the Caribbean....governor swann?
Yes jonathan pryce is the Actors name, he was also in the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never dies"
Yes.
Is it just me or does this remind me of every japanese spy in the real world before the bombing of pearl harbor
Hint: ackerman was a japanese robot for the rising sun
I hate this mission! I use the Century Bombers to end this mission fast. 3 Airbases full of 'em and blowing up the target. xD
i cant end this level shit level
If only the Soviets offered Ackerman pictures of Spider-man
I got one question:is it suppose that the president's car bug out of the road and get stuck in the mountain?
Timecode?
I hate Playing this game on the Xbox shit is too Difficult to Control. This mission is really hard.
I think you can connect a mouse and keyboard or PlayStation 3 and 4 controller to an xbox one to make it easier to control. But you’re right, the PC and PS3 versions are easier to control.
1:59 hmm i wonder which president that reminds me of
You can bribe the limo and take your time.
I used to gather all possible plains and just fire them at once together to destroy the mountain
these united states
the screenwright is genius
I hate this mission, the President is the commander in chief of the war!
It’s a cool mission but it can be annoying wean you are trying to not kill the president I accidentally killed him with ice so many times
Does this count as a military coup?
The allied superweapon is targeted at Moscow, city of many millions.
Allies: bUt WhAt If ThEy ReTaLiAtE
same energy
usa: ukraine please stop attacking russian oil industry, they'll retaliate!!!!
ukraine, literally being invaded by russia: wat
so if you freeze the limo too long, the mission fails?
The AI will send Apollos to deal with your Cryo and if the Cryo dies it'll hit the Limo and kill Ackerman.
@@HostileJabberwocky32 so could you freeze the Limo for the whole mission? it would make it more easy lol
@@michaelhawkins7389 yeah, if you properly micro the Cryo and the Apollos protecting it you can
Definitely makes it much more easier. Personally I can only complete it on hard without this trick by sending spies on their power plants and then spamming Athenas
@@HostileJabberwocky32 why only on hard? I have been playing on easy (only for this mission)
@@michaelhawkins7389 only with mods that unlock cryo legionaries for you.
Texas right now
how the heck allied got pass us military
uuu I've tried to use some spies here and they make life a lot easier when assaulting the base :D
I am getting my ass kicked in this mission!!
i can’t get the engineer up the mountain and capture the buildings, someone help
Use century bombers
bruh man
Its pretty much waste of time
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Almost killed Tanya at the very start... There is a path that is less bloody....
"Altmost" is not "killed".
i cant this level airdops no engineer
you'd think the american generals partnered with the player would defect to protect the usa, but it's unfair for the player.
Well only two of them are american commanders. Bingham was British himself, along with like 90% of the Allies. The two american commanders we know are more loyal to the Allied armed forces than the US armed forces, seperate branches I presume. On top of that, fairly certain Lisette is dismantling a floating island fortress somewhere while Warren was ordered to support you, thus, betrayal was unlikely
@@Killerbee4712 warren seems the type to fight for the usa. his betraying of ackerman would eat him from within for the rest of his life. as for lisette, she is french i believe.
@@jvbutalid8316 But did Ackerman represent the USA? Ackerman may have had a loyalist army, but perhaps the US military and the Pentagon assigned Warren, who probably is more loyal to the US army than the newly elected president.
@@Killerbee4712 no matter what, any national military is obliged to follow their national supreme leader, or whoever their commander-in-chief is, to the letter
@@jvbutalid8316 Not how it works, especially with a United Nations force, but alright...
So basically Donald Trump?
Ackerman isn't *THAT* insane.
You are not playing with a good strategy
Absolutely disagree. I completed this mission many times using that well-proven strategy:
1. Freeze the President using a Cryocopter.
2. Protect the Cryocopters using Apollo Fighters.
3. Complete the bonus objectives.
4. Destroy the Rushmore Firebase.
This mission is too simple and doesn't need a "special strategy".
@@hdw every mission needs special strategy but u are wasting too much time ..it's too simple that's why I am saying not a good strategy u used
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@@hdw I love your tactic here, I think it's actually what you're supposed to do in the first place. I built a large force of pretty much everything and wiped their base but only after 2nd attempt. Your tactic is a winner tho.
I don’t know how you define a “good” strategy, but cryo beam works just as good and does not attract anything. You have plenty of time in this mission no matter what, including destroying every single building that is not a turret.