History VideoGame / CommandAndConquerRedAlert3

** Submerged enemies (i.e. submarines) are no longer completely visible for the player when they are submerged; you can see an armada of Akula/Yari submarines and Sea-Wings coming your way if you happen to be looking in the area that they're swimming in (they're still invisible on radar). Not that you can do much against them if you lack the units that can attack submerged enemies. Dolphins don't count and can be engaged much like any other surface vessel.

** Inverted with the ability to capture units: What's the new method for stealing units on the battlefield after various types of mind control? [[EveryManHasHisPrice Bribery]]. The one character who does have psionic powers just uses it to smash things.

** The Soviet [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Grinder]] that was introduced in the expansion takes this UpToEleven being able to crush any surface units and is even amphibious.

** The Allies excel in the aircraft department by default but also have a Secret Protocol that makes their airforce even more dangerous. ''Uprising'' turned it UpToEleven with the [[MightyGlacier slow but heavily armored and extremely heavily armed]] [[CoolPlane Harbinger Gunship]].

*** Uprising turns this UpToEleven with the Giga Fortress. At about three times the size of the Shogun battleship, bigger than the building that produces it, it has to be deployed from a nanocore like the Empire's buildings. Its base form is a giant floating fortress that reduces entire fleets of ships and aircraft to scrap with {{BFG}}s and {{Macross Missile Massacre}}s, and it can transform into a flying head the size of a construction yard that's helpless against aircraft but fries anything on the ground with a massive WaveMotionGun of ludicrous range.

If you thought ''that'' sounded silly, well...[[{{Camp}} it is]]. This game is to RealTimeStrategy what the 1960s version of ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' was to [[{{Superhero}} superheroes]]. The whole game operates on little more than RuleOfCool and occasionally RuleOfFunny rather than any kind of real sense. This is ''not'' your daddy's RTS, but your jokester uncle's. And it's likely because of it that a large number of TV and movie name actors were convinced to join the cast for the ([[HamAndCheese often hilariously over-the-top]]) {{Cut Scene}}s.

->'''Emperor Yoshiro:''' The Imperial war machine has been unleashed. Do not struggle against what is inevitable. All who stand in the way of our divine destiny will be swept away by the march of history. You will bow before Us, or you will cease to exist.\\

'''General Krukov:''' ...What Empire?\\
'''Dasha:''' ...The Empire of the Rising Sun, of course.\\

''Red Alert 3'' (2008) is the third installment of the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries'', following an AlternateHistory in which UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein invents a TimeMachine and travels back in time to eliminate UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, creating a massive war between the [[TheFederation Allies]] and the [[DirtyCommunists Soviet Union]], which incidentally involves massive amounts of strange technology.

In this installment, the USSR is at death's door, so General Krukov and Colonel Cherdenko travel back using their own time machine and [[RetGone eliminate]] Einstein before he gives the Allies the technological superiority they need to win. They come back and discover that, while they are beating the Allies and are close to conquering all of Europe, they've lost their nuclear arsenal, because Einstein wasn't there to invent it. In addition, the [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Empire of the Rising Sun]] (led by Creator/GeorgeTakei) has been created by their tampering and is determined to TakeOverTheWorld by defeating both the Allies and the Soviets. This is where the single player campaigns pick up.

If you thought ''that'' sounded silly, well...[[{{Camp}} it is]]. This game is to RealTimeStrategy what the 1960s version of ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' was to [[{{Superhero}} superheroes]]. The whole game operates on little more than RuleOfCool and occasionally RuleOfFunny rather than any kind of real sense. This is ''not'' your daddy's RTS. It is your jokester uncle's, and it's likely this factor that convinced a large number of TV and movie name actors to join the cast for the ([[HamAndCheese often hilariously over-the-top]]) {{Cut Scene}}s.

A year after the game's release, a stand-alone ExpansionPack known as ''Uprising'' followed. It features new units for each faction, three new single player mini-campaigns (plus a fourth mini-campaign focusing on the origins of the Empire's HeroUnit, Yuriko Omega), and a new game mode known as Commander's Challenge, where the player faces off against various AI commanders starting with basic units and base defenses, and can unlock more units and defenses with every challenge completed.

* AcePilot: Giles and Zhana, and in Uprising Vera and Takara (although she's a Rocket Angel rather than a jet pilot).

If you thought ''that'' sounded silly, well...[[{{Camp}} it is]]. This game is to RealTimeStrategy what the 1960s version of ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' was to [[Superhero superheroes]]. The whole game operates on little more than RuleOfCool and occasionally RuleOfFunny rather than any kind of real sense. This is ''not'' your daddy's RTS. It is your jokester uncle's, and it's likely this factor that convinced a large number of TV and movie name actors to join the cast for the ([[HamAndCheese often hilariously over-the-top]]) {{Cut Scene}}s.

* EvilIsEasy: Present in the campaign selection, but nowhere near as blatant as in ''Red Alert 1''. The Soviet campaign is the most straightforward and easiest of the campaigns (and is designed to be the one played first), with no notably difficult levels and a linear difficulty curve. The Allied campaign, on the other hand, ramps up the difficulty steeply starting at the end of the second act, with many instances of a NonStandardGameOver. The Imperial campaign straddles the line with SchizophrenicDifficulty, with a sudden DifficultySpike in the second act, and remaining reasonably, but not suddenly difficult in its third (and having a relatively mild final mission).

* SequelDifficultySpike: ''Uprising'''s campaigns are significantly more difficult than any of the base game's, with even the Easy setting feeling like what was previously Hard. Co-commanders that once drew the enemy's aggro away from you are gone, ore mines provide only a fraction of the resources they did earlier, and the enemy AI tends to be one hell of a lot more aggressive. The prices of Superweapons being cut in half in an update are not applied here, and numerous new and extremely powerful units tend to make your life a living hell, but worst of all are the ''nasty'' surprises the game keeps throwing at you almost every time you complete a primary mission objective. The Soviet campaign in particular can feel downright brutal, and that's canonically the first of the four. The others tone it down a bit, but not by much, and they're also subject to some heavily SchizophrenicDifficulty.

'''Dr. Zelinsky:''' We now have... Two mortal enemies???

''Red Alert 3'' (2008) is the third installment of the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries'', following an AlternateHistory in which UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein invents a TimeMachine and travels back in time to eliminate UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, creating a massive war between the Allies and the Soviet Union, which incidentally involves massive amounts of strange technology.

In this installment, the USSR is at death's door, so General Krukov and Colonel Cherdenko travel back using their own time machine and [[NeverSayDie eliminate]] Einstein before he gives the Allies the technological superiority they need to win. They come back and discover that, while they are beating the Allies, they've lost their nuclear arsenal, because Einstein wasn't there to invent it. In addition, the Japanese Empire of the Rising Sun (led by Creator/GeorgeTakei) has been created by their tampering and is attacking them. This is where the single player campaigns pick up.

If you thought ''that'' sounded silly, well...[[{{Camp}} it is]]. This game is to RealTimeStrategy what the 1960s version of ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' was to superheroes. The whole game operates on little more than RuleOfCool and occasionally RuleOfFunny rather than any kind of real sense. This is ''not'' your daddy's RTS. It is your jokester uncle's, and it's likely this factor that convinced a large number of TV and movie name actors to join the cast for the ([[HamAndCheese often hilariously over-the-top]]) {{Cut Scene}}s.

* MythologyGag: The Challenge mission for the Apocalypse tank mentions Oleg trying to improve the tank, snarkily suggesting that he's going to add missile launchers to it. The original Mammoth and RA2 Apocalypse tanks did indeed have missile launchers that let them defend against air units.

* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: The developers have stated that nuclear weapons were removed from this game because of the addition of a Japanese faction. This decision was apparently made relatively late during production, as the Soviet power plant is still called "Reactor", and the Soviet Super Reactor still has a radiation symbol on it.

* {{Corpsing}}: Creator/TimCurry noticeably struggles to contain his laughter as he delivers [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZpcdp2v34&feature=youtu.be a particular line in the final allied mission]]:
-->'''Premier Cherdenko''': I'm escaping to the '''ONE PLACE''' that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... ''(Pause, as he visibly struggles to contain his laughter)'' '''''SPAAAAAACE!!'''''

* {{Meganekko}}: Lydia in Uprising, Vera even called her [[HotLibrarian 'Librarian']].

* PantyShot: Yuriko Omega, when she is killed while moving. Her body is thrown forward and her legs go flying up, showing her underpants. Her corpse then lies on the ground with her legs spread open.

* CivilWarcraft :
** [[spoiler:The Allies Campaign have one in the sixth mission, against Ackerman's forces, who wants to destroy Moscow despite the supposed alliance with the Soviets.

** J.K. Simmons claims in an interview that President Ackerman has "facets of Creator/GeorgeCScott in ''Film/DrStrangelove''"; a "little bit of BarryGoldwater" and "at least a tiny bit of [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Dubya]] creeping in there."

If you thought ''that'' sounded silly, well...[[{{Camp}} it is]]. This game is to RealTimeStrategy what the 1960s version of ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' was to television. The whole game operates on little more than RuleOfCool and occasionally RuleOfFunny rather than any kind of real sense. This is ''not'' your daddy's RTS. It is your jokester uncle's, and it's likely this factor that convinced a large number of TV and movie name actors to join the cast for the ([[HamAndCheese often hilariously over-the-top]]) {{Cut Scene}}s.

* RefugeInAudacity: ''Red Alert 3'' is made of this trope, especially the Empire of the Rising Sun. Psychic schoolgirls, ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''-style flyer/walker robots, giant robots - and then even bigger robots. With swords. The Soviets have armored bears, a magnetic satellite that whisks armored vehicles in orbit, and a ColonyDrop where you can toss a satellite (later a space station!) on the enemy. [[CherryTapping Including any of their vehicles you've whisked with the Magnetic Satellite.]] Ouch.
** The game actually lampshades this at one point, mentioning that the magnetic satellite whisks units away "Never to be seen again. Or so they think."
*** "Oh no, my battleships!" "'''Oh no, my battleships!!!!'''"

* {{Roboteching}}: As seen in ''Red Alert 3'' with the Rocket Angels used by the Japanese. Who'd have guessed it?
** For added MacrossMissileMassacre, one of the Empire passive powers that can be unlocked even allows your rocket-spewing units to spew even ''more'' rockets!

** Also downplayed on Easter Islands in the Soviets, which is a regular mission but with one timed objective. After clearing the first half of the mission, the player will have 20-10 minutes (depending on the difficulty) to destroy [[spoiler: a Vacuum Imploder]] built by [[spoiler: a rogue Soviet faction, controlled by Cherdenko, who intends to get rid of you with it]]. If the player doesn’t destroy it before in times, the weapon fires and the mission is lost.

** Downplayed with Yokohama in the Empire campaign, which isn’t a proper TimedMission but has a timed primary objective (the last one). In the final part of the mission, the Allies will activate four Relay Towers to disrupt the imperial communication system. From this point, the player has 15 minutes to destroy all the towers before the battle control terminates, which result in a mission failure. The countdown can be stopped (but only temporarily) by using the Nanoswarm Hive on the Relay Towers.
** Also downplayed on Easter Islands in the Soviets, which is a regular mission but with one timed objective. In this mission, the player must has 20-10 minutes (depending on the difficulty) to destroy [[spoiler: a Vacuum Imploder]] built by [[spoiler: a rogue Soviet faction, controlled by Cherdenko, who intends to get rid of you with it]]. If the player doesn’t destroy it before it fires, then the mission is lost.

** Also downplayed at Easter Islands in the Soviets, which is a regular mission but with one timed objective. In this mission, the player must has 20-10 minutes (depending on the difficulty) to destroy [[spoiler: a Vacuum Imploder]] built by [[spoiler: a rogue Soviet faction, controlled by Cherdenko, who intends to get rid of you with it]]. If the player doesn’t destroy it before it fires, then the mission is lost.