Red Alert 1: Giant Ants ending

[dinocha0s]

random stuff is bestest :D

[ThePitviper12]

wtf

[JakFan13]

Allright...

Who had the giant magnifying glass?

[iraqijew]

Lol, I remember the movie Them and I always thought of it when I found this little easter egg. I think you needed one of the RA1 expansions to unlock it.

[CrazyKraut20]

wtf did i just watch and how is it connected to the c&c univer... ah nevermind it wouldnt make sense anyway

[nyerguds]

@CrazyKraut20 You don't know there are dinosaur missions in C&C1 either, then?

Two words, man... easter egg. If you don't know what that means in terms of games, look it up.

[upsetMISFIT]

i REMEMBER BEING LIKE 6! AND FINDING THIS HIDDEN GAME!

[Bidmartinlo]

WHAT OUT FOR ANT!

Heh heh... we ain't afraid of no a... AARRRRGGHH!!

[YuriVickers]

Poor thing :P

[GeneralsAlert]

queen ant got owned

[TheXenomorph1]

Man, only if they featured the Giant Ants in another Tiberian Dawn expansion...

[nyerguds]

@TheXenomorph1: How is Red Alert a Tiberian Dawn expansion?

Also, the TD expansion did have dinosaur missions.

[TheXenomorph1]

@nyerguds My goodness, did you even understand to what I'm talking about? I KNEW THAT Red Alert IS NOT the expansion of TD. Yes, the TD version has the Funpark. Oh well, at least the Giant Ants re-appeared in a CNC Renegade mod.

[mrpoop105]

@nyerguds red alert was a planned tiberian dawn 'prequel', but it became its own series

[nyerguds]

@mrpoop105 No, it was MADE as C&C1 prequel. It's just the rest of the RA series that messed it up.

[mrpoop105]

@nyerguds thats what i mean

[draconite420]

@nyerguds I think it is RA2 and RA3 that became messed up, how so? Soviet ending to RA1 shows Kane and the begining of the brotherhood. EA fucked that up for the rest.

[nyerguds]

@draconite420 Actually, the ex-WW people at Petro said that puting Kane in the RA videos was in itself a bit of a dumb idea that never worked out quite like they wanted it.

[draconite420]

@nyerguds they could have made it work since C&C gold would of been during the fall of the USSR so not much Russia would of done in that game. EA ruiend any chance of them combined in the later games.

A remake of C&C gold would be pretty bad ass tho.

[Undead0Assassin]

@draconite420 yer they tried to merge the series a little at the end of RA, but it was a "failed experiment", and westwood made RA2 :/

[SpAMCAN]

@Undead0Assassin Not so much. Basically, its a branch. Tiberium and Nod happens if the soviets win, and Red Alert 2 happens if the Allies win.

[TomQuoVadis]

@SpAMCAN I'd actually prefer if the two storylines stayed separate. I'd hate to think units like the Sonic Dolphins, Cryo Copters, Mind Controlled Squid, Giant Robotic Samurais, and Attack Bears exist in the same universe as the Tiberium Wars.

[ThePhoenix1351]

lol



[stormdumb]

Flame Tank driver says: "Burn...BUUUUUURN!!"

[nyerguds]

@stormdumb Wrong universe, dude...

[stormdumb]

@nyerguds I know, but it fits anyway, dont u think?

[samusmex]

the end? i hope it doesnt D:

[kelpokelp]

I pity the ant...

[1hit3wins]

BURN SUCKAAASSS BUUURRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNN

[kantastisk]

daaaa dadadaaaaaa!

[super3slug]

ants? where the hell were they?

[fabioitanhaem]

The music makes it look funny

[SpudAlmighty]

I remember trying my hardest to finish the game so i can fight these beasts! :D old times!

[nyerguds]

@SpudAlmighty Huh... on the PC version there's no need for that at all.

[SpudAlmighty]

@nyerguds I originally had red alert on the playstation. When this game was big my pc couldn't play it!

[SpudAlmighty]

@nyerguds I had it on the playstation at the time - my pc couldnt run it.

[MsAchmedtheterrorist]

@SpudAlmighty you can do tgis mission if yyou finshs the campaign for alieds and sovirts well i havr to do ma best

[BoyofmanyNames]

Them! THEM!

[TheXenomorph1]

@BoyofmanyNames Terror, Horror, Excitement, Mystery

[TIB3RIUM1]

to short ending, but still cool :)

[csnation]

Die ants die !

[TheFredfan45]

wtf

[TheXenomorph1]

Actually the ants are a result of a nuclear radiation poisoing, not Tiberium. Also, this game was CNC Red Alert, not CNC Tiberian Dawn. The Tiberian Dawn bonus mission was Funpark where you will be killing dinosaurs that apparently survived extinction (or maybe time-displaced). But this is the "It Came from Red Alert" bonus mission!

[kingvideo1o1]

what does tiberuim have to do with ants tiberuim didnt landed yet on earth when that happened weird maybe because ants are like scorpions and kanes making a scorpion army for NOD!!!!

[nyerguds]

what on earth are you talking about? Tiberium has nothing to do with the giant ants, at all.

[orlyyarlynowai]

Everyone knows that Tiberium creates dinosaurs, not ants.

[nyerguds]

lol. That was actually more a case of "programmers that really liked the Jurassic Park movie created Dinosaurs".

[Mashermat]

No, "C&C: Red Alert" is not the same name as "C&C".

[kingvideo1o1]

this was a reply to orylyarlynowai cause he mentioned something about tiberuim

[Mashermat]

This isn't C&C dumbass

[nyerguds]

yes it is, actually... "C&C": Red Alert :P

[Borin81]

if you click on the speaker at the main menu you unlock this hidden mission, "It Came from Red Alert".

[Ega060295ab]

@Borin81 You had to hold down ctrl too

[pivotedsticks1]

@Mashermat yes it is, it's the secret ant missions

[Ega060295ab]

@Mashermat Yes it is, its the secret Ant campain in ra 1, DUmbass

[Mashermat]

@Ega060295ab

Shut the fuck up, Yes, i know, I own every single C&C game. But for some reason youtube took out the @[name] of the guy i was resposing to, who said that tiberium didn't create giant ants.

[Ega060295ab]

@Mashermat It is still Cnc, Cnc stands for Command and conquer, wich is the entire game series, Command and conquer Red alert!!! So its still cnc

You said it wasnt cnc

[Mashermat]

@Ega060295ab

Again, you didn't read my fucking Comment.

C&C: Red Alert is the name of this Sub-Series, but C&C is the name of the Tiberium series. And that's what I meant.

Anyway, You're making a point which doesn't even matter, because I just explained why I typed "C&C".

[nyerguds]

@Mashermat: Keep it civil, please, or you can consider all of your comments deleted. "Command & Conquer" is the name of the ENTIRE series, including the Tiberium saga, Red alert, and *cringe* even Generals. Don't like it? Go complain to EA instead of continuing this pointless argument.

[anzin74]

@nyerguds "*cringe* even Generals"? I thought it was not bad considering it was done by *Cringe* EA...

[nyerguds]

@anzin74 It's the first one where they flushed the classic building & harvesting system down the drain and replaced it by a copy of Warcraft's system.

[mastergoop500]

@Mashermat it is :P:P:P:P:PPPP:P:P:P:P::P:P:P:P­

[sandbyeuhlmann]

@Mashermat Yes, it is C&C. C&C: Red Alert. Dumbass..

[TheDeadzone911]

@Mashermat c&c is not a dumbass i know who works for wet wood and ea

[Microsoftultimatefan]

I remember playing a map in skirmish mode that has giant ants. What's the name of the map?

[moh9696]

omg i used to look to that graphics and sad WOW ITS SO REAL

[XArcPaladinX]

@moh9696 still is bro..still is..right here. * points to heart *

[infringementMAN]

I bet those ants were part of Kane's experiment with Tiberium! Ha! Now it makes sense.

[nyerguds]

You don't make sense :P

[infringementMAN]

It hints to a possible link between the Red Alert and Tiberium universe. Er...that still didn't make sense. lol

[VaciliNikoMavich]

@infringementMAN well in most of the C&C games units have spitting images or similarities with each other such as the Apocolipse tank and the overlord tank, humvee and the multigunner ifv...the list is endless :)

[Stormalisk]

What I think it was is someone launched too many nukes lol

[fabioitanhaem]

@infringementMAN Actually,this is 40 years before tiberium dawn

[paulgoudzwaard]

@infringementMAN In that age there was NO tiberium @ all!!!!

[dawagget]

how do you beat the ant mission its HARD AS HELL even on easy is there any particular strategy that works?

[nyerguds]

land mines :P

[KohrsFM]

I'ts because i was using unpatched Frist Decade but now it works :)

[KohrsFM]

i was evacuating some civilians and and error occured, nooo all m work i had a huge army.

[SaintMarneusCalgar]

i to i dk any ants at cnc ^^

[nyerguds]

ehh... if you can't do it in English, just reply in German. I understand that too :P

[ovoon7]

I played Red Alert and C&C when they came out until now... and I never knew about the giant ants mission...

[JGD714]

Then its like if you have never played Red Alert 1

[FreakyGremlinDK]

wtf O_o listen to the music and look at that thing

[nyerguds]

Heh. The music is the intro piece of "Surf No Mercy". I got a rather funny video with Hitler in my list that has the complete song.

[Beggi11]

1998, what do you expect?

[FreakyGremlinDK]

its kinda epic :)

[Starman117]

Lol Godzilla style music.

[JHoaxInstitute]

lol

[speedbreaker100]

oh yeah! burn babeh!

[alldamnnamesaretaken]

God I loved this game this mission was great, I had allways thought about a game where I could fight giant insects rts style. I allways asumed I'd have to wait for a starship troopers game, but then Westwood created this mission! Thanks for uploading these

[Ericosproduction]

THEY WILL BURN! *soviet conscript*

[tron178]

the tune that you hear is actually a music piece of tiberium dawn

[nyerguds]

Nope. First of all, it's tiberiAN dawn, and secondly, this is "Surf No Mercy", a new version of the track. It was added on the soundtrack CD as hidden extra, pasted behind the last track.

I've got it uploaded in a video too, just look for "Surf No Mercy" in my videos.

[Darbyjack]

Heh, I remember stumbling across that track almost 10 years ago now.

[jamin108]

lmao

[Elintasokas]

lol awesome

[ZBrock1045]

Giant ants eh... wtf are they going to think of next O.o

[Astronout07]

BURN BABY BURN!

[gecko1986]

THEM! THEM! THEM!! THEM!!!

[NxakoNecv]

THEM!!!!

[nyerguds]

"Them" indeed... as my vid desription already says, anyway :p

[NxakoNecv]

i did not look at that ^_^;

[lethalbullet1]

how do you play the ant missions on the PSX, I just got it, I'm confussed

[nyerguds]

By finishing the entire game on Hard. They'll be added in England.

[lethalbullet1]

i played it off, it was kinda hard, but worth it, I got it on Pc aswell.

[lauinfeliz]

huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[Wilfilco]

how do you get these missions

I've played red alert for over 5 years and I haven't found them?

[nyerguds]

The ant missions are in the Counterstrike Expansion. To get them, start RA, and on the main menu press [shift] and click on the speaker in the upper right corner.

[alvinsantos95]

this campaign against giant ants is one of the most difficult missions i've ever encountered, next 2 the allied campaign. Imagine 4 missions straight with no access 2 memory card, but it's very challenging, crushing all bastard ants that try 2 invade england, haha very exciting.

[ibragim65]

in red alert 2 i saw a glitch when i wass playing skirmish there were ants at soviet base lol

[nyerguds]

I don't think that's a glitch. There are some multiplayer maps with ants in them.

[joebadams4]

yo nyerguds thanks for the CNC95 options

[nyerguds]

Hh? You man the hidden options tool? It's obsolete now. All of those are freely editable in my new C&C95 v1.06a patch.

Also... this isn't exactly the place for this kind of stuff... YT has a private message system, you know.

[helldog57]

wich map

[FlowingWithFate]

this is the secret ant mission from the counterstrike expansion. start RA, click the speaker on the top right corner while pressing the shift key will unlock it.

[Dwaas88]

these bastards live in Island extreme or Extreme island

[zenophas]

I can just imagine the soldier that found Stalin

being in this cut scene using a flame thrower on the queen ant as he's saying, "JEEZ LOUISE, GIANT ANTS!!!!"

[nyerguds]

Haha! Yeah, that's what this is missing :)

Then again, this is the end of the ant campaign, so the already know by then.

[NFSfreak91210]

hey can somebody post gameplay from the missions?

[nyerguds]

why don't you?

[NFSfreak91210]

Because I dont have Red Alert 1. Why else would i ask?

[nyerguds]

Well if you're so interested in it, why not GET the game?

[NFSfreak91210]

because why should I get a game with horrible graphics to play some hidden missions? Besides u already have the game, why dont u just put it up?

[nyerguds]

if you think the graphics are horrible, why are you interested in seeing them anyway?

Also, recording ingame footage isn't that easy. FRAPS has a tendeny to dislike full screen 256-colour DirectX mode games.

[Damocles178]

The graphics might not be the best by todays standards but when it comes to game play Red alert is outstanding, it even rivals todays RTS games even with their better graphics.

[406278]

well why should someone else spend their time to do this for some random on the internet who just asked for it. u'd be able to find C&C:RA and the counterstrike expansion for like, $10...

[stickmanjr54]

y... isnt... their.... ANY game play on that mission is it too gory or what

[nyerguds]

what on earth do you mean? Like gameplay videos?

That's probably because 256-colour DirectX games have loads of problems with screen grabbers like FRAPS.

[UltraBibendum]

It's... It's... THEM!

[nyerguds]

well yeah, I already said that in the video description :p

[insomnia100]

Wow, those graphics suck. Looks like a giant turd burning lol!!!

[BGCommando]

quick call peta

someone yell nedm

[nyerguds]

lol. Frank's music is far better than Doom music anyway :p

[BGCommando]

hell march ftw

[nyerguds]

This video's music is the intro to "Surf No Mercy", actually. This track was hidden on the RA soundtrack CD, pasted behind one of the other tracks.

It's on Frank's site with all the others :)

[BGCommando]

O ya I knew it wasn't hell march. I just like hell march the best lol

[mikeeey1337]

WHAT? lol no, nothing is better than doom music. doom music is so famaliar! it's the best, and it's all based off of real metal songs, mainly pantera, metallica, and slayer.

[nyerguds]

it's also very, very MIDI :p

[mikeeey1337]

lol but it's the good midi, it's multiple instruments, not just an annoying single tone midi. if you type in "doom stole music" and watch the first video, i think youl be very surprised what you hear.

[codenameak47]

huh?

[zalseon]

lol

[Markl2407]

Looks like somthing that would be in Turok lmao.

[j03mcb0bp4n75]

What a lame ending. The ant burns to death, ans so she deflates like a basketball. That makes sense...

[nyerguds]

Please, this is an ode to a B-horror movie. It's supposed to be cheesy :p

[j03mcb0bp4n75]

well, yeah. But I seen many B-horror movies that don't have a burning/deflation of a basketball ant. It's still funny though

[nyerguds]

actually the ant queen just falls down. She was already that flat, but just standing up on her legs.

The eggs definitely deflate like basketballs though :P

[j03mcb0bp4n75]

plus, the camera only shows the queen from it's underside. that makes it less flat-looking.

[nahcey]

there were giant ants in Red Alert?

wot the hell?

r they some kind of Kane's secret weapon or something?

can somebody tell me wot's going on??? :S

[nyerguds]

If you have PC RA1, you should try decyphering the morse code at the bottom of the pages of your RA manual :p

The ant missions are in the Counterstrike Expansion, actually. To get them, start RA, and on the main menu press [shift] and click on the speaker in the upper right corner.

[nahcey]

thanks alot for the tip

oh btw, in that mission, do u get to kill these giant ants lol?

[nyerguds]

Actually it's like a 5 or 6 mision mni-campaign.

And heck yeah. They're tough bastards, too. The first mission is almost mpossible to survive without using land mines.

[Antaresfy]

the first mission is easy, just build a bulk of infantry

[prochrono]

4 missions, actually

A number of vehicles will take down the brown coloured ants in the first mission.

[nyerguds]

oh right. Only four... C&C1 has 5 dinosaur missions :p

[sn0wD]

im in the

3e mission i cant win of those bastard ants they kill my ore truck always:( then if found out they dont like stinger missles so i camp 1 of those holes with stingers (destroyer) and send in 1 apc with a researcher

[prochrono]

For the 3rd ant mission, I usually just spam tanks to play defense and offense, and APC rush scientists to the hills. Soviet Heavy Tanks come in handy if you capture the abandoned War Factory. The faster you work in gassing the nests, the greater your chance of success.

[hotboymm777]

there was giant ant on red alert? Lmao i forgot

[Deviator88]

They was in couterstrike (datadisk)

[hhhhhhyy]

DIE pitifull insect !

[Mazryonh]

Westwood is dead! LONG LIVE WESTWOOD!

[nyerguds]

oh shut up.

[Mazryonh]

Really? What's wrong with hailing a dead company that was great before it was killed?

After Westwood got eaten by Electronic Arts, many of its non-C&C franchises (Lands of Lore, Nox, Dune, etc.) were canned as unprofitable. There won't be quirky and funny quality like these giant ant missions, let alone technician units who will start doing Karate moves if you let them alone for a while.

[nyerguds]

Eh, just kinda tired of hearing that same silly comment on ALL my C&C-related videos, perhaps? -_-

[Mazryonh]

Maybe you're tired of it, but I have to wonder everyday why Westwood was killed.

Go look for some more of their CGI movies, like the AWESOME ones from Lands Of Lore: Guardians of Destiny. Now THAT's artistry!

[nyerguds]

dude, stop deluding yourself... they sold themselves, and for lots of money, too.

And I know all about WW's CGA. I got loads of their C&C1 vids posted, and just got the Blade Runner game, which is 100% made of animated CGI scenes.

[Mazryonh]

Then I guess Louis Castle made the wrong decision. Lots of money, but complete loss of autonomy.

But it isn't every day a company actually decides to go and recreate all the music for a license-based game when they couldn't get the real music itself! Frank Klepacki remade all the Vangelis music for Westwood's Blade Runner!

[nyerguds]

Yah, he probably did make a wrong decision, but it as still made with full mutual agreement.

And I know about the Vangelis music. I got the original BR soundtracks, and I got all the Klepacki remakes in hi-quality MP3.

[Mazryonh]

I'll look into those soundtracks.

And if I ever make a game company, I'll be sure never to repeat Louis Castle's mistake. I'll probably try to contact Rick Gush too--Lands of Lore deserves a second chance.

Just looking at the credits movie for Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny makes me wonder why Louis Castle was willing to give all that up for a future that proved to be worse than the past.

[Sentinel1969]

Rick Gush can't help you.He likes canvas more now these days...

Westwood is no more .

[Sentinel1969]

Oops, followed the wrong line... my reaction was meant for Mazryonh.

"And if I ever make a game company, I'll be sure never to repeat Louis Castle's mistake. I'll probably try to contact Rick Gush too--Lands of Lore deserves a second chance."

[Mazryonh]

And that is why I hope never to make Louis Castle's mistake.

No amount of money is worth complete destruction of your artistic visions.

[Sentinel1969]

Mistakes? Maybe it's speculation and rumours on what exactly happened.

I don't know who you are ,but good luck with your big plans.

[qqqCYBERLEADERppp]

yeah i hate people like that. As if we dont know westwood is better than EA.

[pawel1818]

She on fire la la la la :)

[watnameisnttaken]

I used infantry for most of the time.

Seemed to work for me.

[nyerguds]

Hehe. That doesn't work in the C&C1 dinosaur missions though. The 2 carnivore dinos heal when eating infantry, lol.

A combination of grenadiers and bazookas is the best counter to ants, since the ants don't attack because they keep running around trying to dodge the grenades :)

[jackofblades232]

damn ants they eat through 1 tank like it was nothing but i send a legion of tanks in groups of 30 and gas though ant hills it got easer after that

[Raptor4000]

Dude...

[KillrClam]

DUD

[HTankGlory]

I remember this ending but it has been over 8 years since I last saw it so thank you for this nyerguds!! :P

[nyerguds]

Hey, no one is stopping you from grabbing the game and playing them again :p

[HHE98]

The first mission was the hardest, you couldn't build any good units and rebuild structures when they are destroyed (no con yard) and in the end, all these ants would hoard your base. I barely won the mission when I sold all buildings and had a medic evacuate the base and run from those bastards.