The expansion, Yuri's Revenge, has the best Soviet ending. On the news broadcast you over hear someone saying "The stock market was closed forever as Soviet troops march down Wall Street" and it brings a tear to my eye everytime.
"a new golden age of space exploration..."
"who knows what the future may hold as communism leaves the boundaries of our planet and expands across the Solar System" :ussr-cry: :fidel-salute-big:
Most feel good game. It may have literally made me a communist.
he's straight-up an actual Romanov that got installed as a Western puppet after RA1 (where canonically the Allies won), but I guess the immortal science was so powerful it managed to convert even a royal to the cause, so in RA2 he invades the US :gigachad:
Nah, it's the ending you get when you win while playing the soviets. There are campaigns for both sides. Playing as the capitalists portrays the soviets as comically corrupt, playing as soviets portrays the capitalists as comically inept. Excellent, excellent series.
I liked it a lot, but it's probably the weakest of the series.
It's the weakest of the RA series, but the live action cutscenes carry it hard.
Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight is excellent for this.
Yuri is a "the communists just want to brainwash everyone and control their minds" figure. It's foreshadowing the expansion packs.
the "communist brainwashing" trope is kind of amusing from an "oh no, this person is no longer under the sway of our propaganda espousing hegemonic discourses... they must have been brainwashed!"
reminds me of that samurai jack episode with the Woolies, where jack puts on that helmet and sees the story of how the once peaceful and sophisticated Woolies were enslaved by the invading Chritchellites. jack, upon learning this, decides to fight for the Woolies and liberate them, leading a Chritchellites to say something like, "he's been brainwashed by their mind control device!"
"Jump good" probably the episode I think they played the most. I swear they showed it more than any other when it was airing.
The Soviets had a secret psionics program, led by a guy called Yuri. In the original RA2 Soviet campaign, he betrays you and you have to defeat him, and I guess they just stuck his brain in a jar for further study afterwards.
