History YMMV / CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars

** GDI's mission to destroy to port of Alexandria (Hard mode especially) is one mission where [[{{Nerf}} nerfing]] in multi-player has a poor result on the single-player missions. Your adviser who briefs you encourages you to build Mammoth tanks and roll over the NOD port authority base, but the over-nerfed Mammoth is a poor choice for direct assault because of the [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard infinite]] [[NotPlayingFairWithResources resources]] fueling the enemy's constant assault, and the severe lack of money for you to harvest. Also, the tanks are too under-powered and slow to handle the job, and the rail-gun upgrade to increase their firepower is a ridiculous $5,000 (that's the price of a superweapon).\\
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You're better off using Orca aircraft or [[PowerArmor Zone Troopers]] to gank the InstantWinCondition while playing HoldTheLine with Mammoth Tanks as damage sponges near your war factories, rather than playing like your adviser suggests in the mission briefing.

* CatharsisFactor: Nod Vertigo bombers giving you hell? Enjoy the pilot's furious [[BigNo "No! NOOOOO!!"]] when you manage to take one down. It sounds like a fit of petty rage which makes it all the more atisfactory.

* EvilIsSexy: Not of Red Alert levels, but Kilian Qatar and Alexa Kovacs certainly qualify.

** If a battle situation involves ''all three factions'' and you battle it manually and lose, one of the other enemies just commits suicide. Literally. This can lead to [[HilarityEnsues hilarious outcomes]] when one enemy nearly obliterates the other save for a sole survivor, then proceeds to steamroll you and once it's done with you, their entire army blows up to smithereens making the single surviving unit victorious. It's exactly as funny as infuriating.

* SpiritualSucessor: ''Tiberium Wars'' makes for a nice ''Film/IndependenceDay'' video game. The Scrin help this case by having nods to the invaders featured in the film, including their own versions of City Destroyers (Motherships).

** If you're playing Global Conquest and opt to resolve battles automatically. The game chooses the map, which the battle will take place on by amount of the bases/strike forces involved with a single exception. Sometimes it loads the ''Top Gun'' (2 player map) even if there are more than two bases/strike forces. One of the strike forces spawns beyond the map border and cannot take part in the battle. If you happen to lose your base, it doesn't matter if the extra strike force is yours or enemy. You're forced to surrender otherwise the battle won't end because the AI doesn't have the word "surrender" in its vocabulary. The only way to counter this is to save the game before each battle, which is incredibly tedious.
** Also sometimes on the global map, some strike force may ocassionally struggle to reach its destination, especially in choke points due to poor pathfinding and just keeps wandering about its position. This brings the game to a halt because the battle situation are only designated after all strike forces have stopped moving. This can be easily fixed by saving and reloading the game. Most of the time...

** Distributing techs between the new subfactions wasn't maintained very well, as due to the hypothetically same unit having different upgrades in each subfaction, there's essentially two to three types of the same unit in the game. This causes a '''mess''' especially in the Global Conquest mode when you have both a base and some subfaction's strike force involved in a battle to resolve. Suddenly you have e.g. Mammoths ''both'' '''with''' ''and'' '''without''' railguns/reactive armor on the battlefield and double clicking them does '''not''' select them all, since technically they're not the same unit. It doesn't even matter whether you actuall purchased the upgrade or not. [[SarcasmMode Have fun coordinating your forces.]]

* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: [=MARV=]'s voice itself is this, and it's made even better through all of it's lines being spoken with a dutiful and hope-inspiring tone of voice.

* IdiotPlot: The plot of the entire game hinges on a complacent and downscaled GDI putting the AchillesHeel of its entire KillSat network on Earth (where it isn't protected by said network), in a small, poorly defended base. The GDI campaign reveals this was a decision born of cost according to GDI bookkeepers.
** Taken up to eleven in Kane's Wrath, where it's revealed that before the attack on the A-SAT control, Nod launched an attack on Johannesburg to ''steal the Ion Cannon network blueprints in order to find a weakness'' ([[Film/ANewHope Sounds familiar]]?). Yet GDI apparently didn't even bother increasing security at Goddard Space Center after this.
** FridgeBrilliance comes to play as the treasury department is headed by [[TheNeidermeyer Director Boyle]], who would have slashed defense fundings out of self-interest rather than common sense.

** Distributing techs between the new subfactions wasn't maintained very good as due to the hypothetically same unit having different upgrades in each subfaction, there's essentially two to three types of the same unit in the game. This causes a '''mess''' especially in the Global Conquest mode when you have both a base and some subfaction's strike force involved in a battle to resolve. Suddenly you have e.g. Mammoths ''both'' '''with''' ''and'' '''without''' railguns/reactive armor on the battlefield and double clicking them does '''not''' select them all, since technically they're not the same unit. It doesn't even matter whether you actuall purchased the upgrade or not. [[SarcasmMode Have fun coordinating your forces.]]

* ScrappyMechanic: The modern free-range building placement does ''not'' translate well to Command & Conquer's traditional base-building restrictions when it comes to base proximity. Most buildings don't provide much expanded building space ''at all'', which means you often find yourself attempting to place a building on what seems to be a close enough spot, only for it to ''not work''. In some cases, it's downright necessary to plant an outpost (which is primarily meant to be deployed away from your base as a means of expansion) ''directly adjacent to your base just to get more building space''. ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' would go back to the grid-based system, which would solve a ''lot'' of construction headaches (and it helped that the building ranges were larger and that there were more diverse expansion methods).

** Taken UpToEleven in Kane's Wrath, where it's revealed that before the attack on the A-SAT control, Nod launched an attack on Johannesburg to ''steal the Ion Cannon network blueprints in order to find a weakness'' ([[Film/ANewHope Sounds familiar]]?). Yet GDI apparently didn't even bother increasing security at Goddard Space Center after this.

** Moreover, some players were really salty that Tiberium lost its pod.

** On the other hand most of the problems of the yellow zones - the wars, social instability and ecological damage - can be directly or indirectly blamed on Nod and it's history of waging wars of aggression, infighting, and deliberately spreading Tiberium. All of Nod's care for the people of the yellow zones can be seen as a fairly transparent cover for whipping the population of those zones into an anti-GDI fury and most of the Brotherhood's higher-ups openly consider them expendable. Kane even outright admits that he planned for the majority of the Brotherhood of Nod to be wiped out in the Third Tiberium War - a war he started, and was the initial aggressor, with a smile on his face. And the whole time this is going on Nod is still continuing it's highly-unethical research policies resulting in, among other things; war machines that can only reach their potential by destroying other loyal Nod forces, under-equipped masses being dosed with Tiberium as a combat drug, suicide bombers and a massive secret cybernetics program that erodes the free will of it's subjects.
** Many also point out the hypocrisy of Nod in spreading Tiberium but scolding GDI for not letting people from other regions into the Blue Zones. From the perspective of those people, however, the blame is 100% on GDI: they are blocking most if not all attempts of the Brotherhood to actually change the human biology to be Tiberium-compatible (or the world itself!), deny the Brotherhood access to critical knowledge (Tacitus mostly), constantly try to manipulate the Brotherhood into heresy, and don't lift a finger to actually help the Yellow Zones by saying that it's Nod territory (which does not prevent GDI from interfering with Yellow Zone business when it suits ''them''). That's not to mention that GDI does not shy from ''using'' Tiberium, which it cannot grow much of in its own Blue Zones, so they take what they need from Yellow Zones without providing anything in return. From a Nod-territory dweller viewpoint, the true hypocrites would be on the other side of the wall. For Killian specifically (who utters the quote about the pristine Blue Zones), it may also be interpreted as "we wanted to seed Tiberium but let people live in untainted zones and grow resources in others, yet GDI beat us to it", which would probably be cynical but understandable.

* MoralEventHorizon: Kane's much-contested arrangement for the destruction of Eastern Europe as part of his plan. Even followers in game question it.

** On the other hand most of the problems of the yellow zones - the wars, social instability and ecological damage - can be directly or indirectly blamed on Nod and it's history of waging wars of aggression, infighting, and deliberately spreading Tiberium. All of Nod's care for the people of the yellow zones can be seen as a fairly transparent cover for whipping the population of those zones into an anti-GDI fury and most of the Brotherhood's higher-ups openly consider them expendible. Kane even outright admits that he planned for the majority of the Brotherhood of Nod to be wiped out in the Third Tiberium War - a war he started, and was the initial aggressor, with a smile on his face. And the whole time this is going on Nod is still continuing it's highly-unethical research policies resulting in, among other things; war machines that can only reach their potential by destroying other loyal Nod forces, under-equipped masses being dosed with Tiberium as a combat drug, suicide bombers and a massive secret cybernetics program that erodes the free will of it's subjects.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''Kane's Wrath'' only has a campaign for Nod. This is especially baffling when Kane admits that inbetween the final TimeSkip GDI wiped Nod off the map, which sounds like plenty of opportunity to give GDI a campaign. Particularly considering the expansion introduced two subfactions to GDI that were ripe for campaign scenarios.

** On the other hand most of the problems of the yellow zones - the wars, social instability and ecological damage - can be directly or indirectly blamed on Nod and it's history of waging wars of aggression, infighting, and deliberately spreading Tiberium. All of Nod's care for the people of the yellow zones can be seen as a fairly transparent cover for whipping the population of those zones into an anti-GDI fury and most of the Brotherhood's higher-ups openly consider them expendible. Kane even outright admits that he planned for the majority of the Brotherhood of Nod to be wiped out in the Third Tiberium War - a war he started, and was the initial aggressor, with a smile on his face. And the whole time this is going on Nod is still continuing it's highly-unethical research policies resulting in, among other things; war machines that can only reach their potential by destroying other loyal Nod forces, under-equipt masses being dosed with Tiberium as a combat drug, suicide bombers and a massive secret cybernetics program that erodes the free will of it's subjects.