So, wait the RA3 folks in charge of music were so lazy they could not bother to make a improved RA3 track...they just essentially copied the RA2 track and effectively added some beats and autotune?! It is no wonder RA3 was a commercial failure.
Simple, EA who is notorious for cutting corners and rushing out under-developed product could have told Frank Klepacki to not copy the sound of the previous hell marches and thus, done something relatively new.
@@LostInTheFarmersMarket Red alert 3 and the previous one (Kane's Warth) have a 7 month development cycle.For game designers,map builders, it's hell.For Soundtrack producer however,they are given more than enough time to make good tracks.Secondly,EA only knows about human resource management.They know nothing about music and its Frank's decision to make a track like this as he liked and also fitting the high-tech USSR army in the game.
Hell March 1 - Metal Hell March 2 - Metal Tech Fusion (Industrial) Hell March 3 - Metal Tech Orchestra Mix (Symphonic) Hell March Overall = Progressive Industrial Metal
Frank actually said in an interview " I knew right away that I wanted a military voice sample to put in as well, as if he were commanding the troops while marching. After going through some sound effect libraries, I found a sample that also had a similar rhythm to the song that stood out to me. I always thought he said “We Want War, Wake Up,” but it turned out it’s actually a German phrase for “Ready Weapons!”" So yes it IS "Die Waffen, legt an!"
@@kqsq Same man. Red Alert was one of the first games I've played as a kid (therefore the first soundtrack I've heard as well) and, only now, I found out about this and can actually hear it out
the "Die Waffen, Legt an"" thing is just false, it is an english drill exercise. german drill exercise has different rythm and intonations, also the phrase is gibberish in german. especially in military context, where the proper command string would be like this: Das Gewehr ab! or Präsentiert das Gewehr!. so rifle at order! or present your rifle! so the command object and action. a proper string would be more like: Abteilung Habt Acht!/Achtung! Abteilung: Legt an! Feuer! in english: Section/Squad attention! Section/Squad take aim!, Fire!. wich is a very clear command of ordered firing line. there are only 2 options where a commando like this would come into play: ceremonial duty with salut fire or a firing squad. the latter is illegal under german law. and the ceremonial salut has different commands and is today performed by 105mm fieldguns and no longer by rifleshots.
They didn't ruin the Red Alert part of C&C at least. I actually liked RA3 and Uprising Why they didn't ruin it? *They ran out of time. For time was on our side.*
Everyone was freaking out to see the Russian tanks rolling down the street on TV, all I could hear was this song and a woman saying: "Welcome back Commander" ROFL
God I love Hell March 2. So many good memories of flooding the map with as many Conscripts as I could possibly get out, Kirov Airships dropping their payloads into the bodies of my own men in their impatient fury, with the crescendo Nuke obliterating both the remains of my opponent and whatever was left of the poor men (and clones) that made up the waves that broke the back of my enemies. Red Alert 2 was a fucking A++ game.
You are so right, really wish they would give Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Sun the same treatment as Red Alert 1 and Tiberium Dawn, would absolutely love for those to get remastered, best games in the series.
Hell march 3 sounds epic and fitting for a total war game, but hell march 2 is simply iconic for those born in the millennium, it's the theme that transports you back in time with your windows XP computer.
I'm 13. It's been a rough day at middle school. After dinner and homework I finally get computer time, fire this game up, and *cannot* fight the grin that this song inspires. And it's still true 20 years later.
I heard hell march 1 and thought, "Hey that's not that bad." I heard hell march 2 (the first one I had ever heard) and thought, "Hey that's and improvement from the first one. Heard the beginning of the third one and just didn't expect much.Once I heard the orchestra it hit a spoft spot in me mainly because i'm in a band and play the trombone. After the end of hell march three I was like, "Holly hell that's the best hell march over all."
That game cover jogged my memory, I remember working my ass off and saving just to buy the game with expansion packs! My Dad saw us playing and we had to constantly fight for who wanted to play on the Red Alert on the computer. Miss those times.
Command and Conquer Red Alert series brings me such good childhood memories along with Command and Conquer Generals(Zero Hour) but the only exemption that Red Alert has the best ost of any strategy game lol
I remember listening to this song on the cd over and over when I was a kid. it's the type of song that would make me think I could finally beat up my older brother. But we all knew that would never happen.
It's actually brilliant. The juvenile nature of the work at hand finds a perfect analog in the farcical nature of a younger sibling's pointless dreams of conquest. Not only are they folly to begin with, but failure. Even so, anyone and everyone with an older brother can relate. Contrast that with the commentator's pitch-perfect use of self-deprecation and you have, voila, the funniest comment I've ever read on this miserable site, which is actually quite understandable since it consists mostly of twits like you shitting on people for no apparent reason.
I think each song really suits the game. The first one is the original badass. The second one sounds really daunting, with the harsh sounds, and makes me think of desperation, which suits the story, where the Soviets owned a large amount of countries, had almost conquered America, and intimidated Europe into neutrality with Nuclear weapons. The third one sounds a lot more bombastic, and grand, demonstrating the sheer scale of the war that was now between three huge factions, instead of just two. It also feels more tense, showing that there was a lot more to lose. The Soviets wanted to enforce Communism. The Japanese? "They will bow to us, or they will cease to exist."
I can only imagine if they actually made a command and conquer red alert 4 what kind of hellmarch we would get. The roster expanding, the war expanding, and the March of this war into hell growing ever more insane and hellish. My suggestion for an addition... the one faction that has been largely ignored in this world War 3/4... Italy, with a melding of Roman asthetics with the elements of mussolini's fascism(because Hitler did not invent fascism, he only adopted it.) Probably focusing more in the romanesque angle of asthetics because it's more enjoyable.
@@jonathanphillips3052 Well a rather intersting suggestion I will have,how about we add White Army to the formula? I mean a group that will sabotage the Soviets and can even be spreadable to İtaly as well.
USMCBloodz Mehh If Russians will try to take over Estonia or other baltic countries if they unite even without NATO well they will probably loose but will do MASSIVE damage to russians!!! And partisans will take over and Russians will have to retreat because they forces will allready be in a weak condition!
I'm downloading the remastered now and listening this to get pumped. Brings back so many memories; I remember my father used to play this too and I needed to wait for him to finish so that I can play lol
To find out which is the toughest, most hardcore of the three: I) Find high quality audio versions II) Play through the songs and try headbanging to each and every one of them Me: Hell March I. You?
God I miss this series :'( If Westwood came back, they'd rebuild C&C4 to pick back up on the story left off in C&C Tiberian Sun. And it will be awesome.
ikr where ea put the seares it went from awseum to nearly crap and they were just trying to finish the tiberum seares to work on their babes red alert and generals
walkerfranklinable I've been wondering about that though. What parts of the series have been crap to you? If anything, the games have gotten better with age. Better graphics, easier to control units...
It's easter today. I'm 20 years old with a 15 year old sister and still my parents do this small easter egg hunt in a few rooms of the house, in my new found old age wisdom I figured out the way to get ahead in the hunt is to cheat. I managed to sneak into one of the rooms (The living room) I put on Hell March and turned up the volume. My sister knew that this easter would be different. I dominated the hunt and she is scared of Hell March. Great success noted 05/04/2015. Looking forward to next year. I'm thinking turn the lights off and have red glowsticks hidden in place to set the mood, speakers hidden and Hell March louder than before, the next year goal isn't the egg hunt, it's to show the meaning of fear.
