1:43 "Hmm; what sound does a Pipe Bomb make?" >picks random peice of paper out of the raffle spinner of random sound effects< "An A/C unit or Server Room humming." "Make it so."
The strategy center scary sound captures perfectly the idea of a high-tech armed force that uses the most cutting edge computarized technology for its military intelligence, like a Skynet, at the point of semi-onipresence. Love it!
I still remember when my older brother got Zero Hour back on Christmas of 2003. He figured out how to plug his computer into our TV and showed it off to me and my younger sibling. Going from Red Alert 2 to this blew our minds away and I remember loving the design of all the buildings from the get go. C&C is just an awesome franchise.
Does someone know about the chinese command center melody? Is it a traditional meldoy or just made up for the game? I grew kind of fond of it and would really like to kow..
0:31 It's a classic Chinese folk song called Shi Wu De Yue Liang. We still can't trace the original source of this sample yet. The same soundbyte was used in Beavis and Butthead episode "Foreign Exchange".
