RED ALERT 2 PART 7 SOVIET CAMPAIGN
0I DEFINITELY REMEMBER RED ALERT BEING SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER THAN COMMAND AND CONQUER (WHICH DOESNT SAY MUCH BC C&C WAS A 5.0/10) BUT STILL WASN'T NECESSARILY A GREAT GAME
I WAS PLEASED TO SEE THE GRAPHICS/FIDELITY UPGRADE IN THE REMASTERED VERSION!!
IT'S AN UNPROVOKED SENTIMENTAL TAKE I HAVE BUT TRUST ME IT WILL MAKE SENSE AT THE END AND ITS GUNNA BE KINDOF UGLY AND THE UGLIER IT SOUNDS THE MORE DIRECT AND LESS WORDY IT'LL BE SO, DO YOU WANT THE FLUFFLY OVERLY-WORDY VERSION? DIDN'T THINK SO:
THE US military IS ONE OF THE MOST OVERLY-HYPED ENTITIES OF MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE: GOT OUR ASSES BEATEN THE SHT OUT OF IN
EVERY. SINGLE. WAR. PAST INDEPENDENCE DAY FROM THE BRITS:
VIETNAM: EPIC DEFEAT
IRAQ: EPIC DEFEAT
AFGHANISTAN: EPIC DEFEAT
WW2 I HAVE SEPARATED BC CONTRARY TO HOW PPL ARE TOLD TO INTERPRET IT: IT WAS FUNDAMENTALLY A WAR IN EUROPE AND THE US ONLY GOT INVOLVED AFTER PEARL HARBOR BY USING NUKES (A GENIUS INVENTION, NOT SOME KIND OF VIKINGS/SPARTAN/SAMURAI EPIC RAID LIKE IN THE NOVELS) AND GOT INVOLVED BOOTS-ON-THE-GROUND WHEN IT WAS AT THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE WAR
TO RECAP: US military HAS A HUMILIATING DEFEAT RECORD WITH NO WINS TO SHOW FOR ITSELF; AN ENTITY GIVEN $800,000,000+ A YR BUT GETS BEATEN THE SHT OUT OF TO GOAT HERDERS
BUT LEMME GO BACK TO WW2 FOR A MOMENT BC THERE'S SOMETHING ALMOST HIDDEN AND FASCINATING ABOUT THAT WAR. DO YOU KNOW THE COUNTRY THAT ARGUABLY DEFEATED NAZI GERMANY AND hitler? THE COUNTRY WHERE, IF YOU DELETED THEM OFF, COULD TRULY HAVE ENDED IN hitler's WORLD DOMINANCE? RUSSIA!
RUSSIA.
RUSSIA ARGUABLY DEFEATED NAZI GERMANY. THIS, UNLIKE THE OVERLY HYPED 'FULL-LOSS RECORD' OF THE USA HAVE MAJOR (LIKE THE ONCE JUST REFERENCED) WINS THAT NOBODY APPRECIATES, AND THESE ARE PPL WHO TRULY IN-THEIR-DNA (FIGURATIVELY) KNOW WAR AND DO BATTLE, AND DONT HAVE WEEPING HIPPIES BEGGING FOR AN END TO A WAR (TBF, WITH THE USA WE'RE TALKING BOTTOM TIER OVERLYHYPED ONES)
THE REASON IVE SAID ALL THIS IS BC (ITS ABOUT TO MAKE SENSE) WHEN I FIRST PLAYED THE WHOLE C&C/RA SERIES AND ALONG WITH THE hollywood MOVIES ALWAYS PAINTING RUSSIAN-BAD-GUY-VILLAIN, IT SEEPED INTO MY SUBCONSCIOUS THAT "RUSSIANS ARE THE EVIL BAD GUYS AND SUCK AT WAR-STUFF" COMPLETELY COMPLETELY INCORRECT, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS fakenews IS THIS WHOLE ukraine[L]'s PROVOKED WAR AGAINST RUSSIA[W]: GIVEN $200,000,000,000+ AND STILL GOT THEIR ASSES KICKED BY RUSSIA; ALSO HAVE MORBID PICS OF k.i.a delta mercs WHO DIED ON THE BATTLEFIELD-
SO, I JUST MENTIONED THE #1 POINT: (BAD PAINTING OF RUSSIA IN media), #2 POINT IS: IT IS LITERALLY DANGEROUS TO PLAY-DOWN OTHER COUNTRIES WHO HISTORICALLY HAVE WON WARS AND AT THE SAMETIME HYPE UP AND PROP UP A SHITTY MILITARY IN THE USA
I THINK IVE SOMEWHAT CONVEYED THIS WELL BUT LETS MOVE ON THE THE ACTUAL GAME ITSELF:
THE BEST PART OF THE GAME (NOT IN THIS ONE I THINK RED ALERT 2) ARE SOME SUUUUPER SEXY GIRLS (I THINK GEMMA WAS ONE; I REMEMBER I THINK I WAS BARELY IN PUBERTY WHEN I FIRST PLAYED THE GAME AND I WAS LIKE BROOOOOOOOOO [DROOL] AND WHAT MADE IT 100x MORE UMM HORNY? IS THAT ALL I KNEW UP UNTIL THEN WERE UNATTRACTIVE UGLY new york women; ITS A LOT LESS RARE BEING IN- YKNOW- ANYWAYS-) BUT THE ACTUAL GAME I REMEMBER WAS SUBPAR TO WARCRAFT AND I CAN ALREADY REMEMBER WHY: ATTACKING MAKES INFANTRY MOVE SUPER-CLOSE TO ENEMIES AND NOT SHOOT; MISSIONS HAVE A LITTLE HIDDEN BOX (WTF!?!?) THAT IS ANNOYING AS HELL TO LOCATE ESP WITH MAP DISCOVERY BEING SO LIMITED - NOTICE AT THE END OF THIS CLIP I LUCKILY(?) MANAGED TO FIND IT AND THE LAST ONE BARELY || REACHED IT (TRIAL-AND-ERROR IS HUGE IN THIS GAME AND THAT IS EXTREMELY 'UNFUN' AND ANNOYING)!