Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge

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In one interesting advertising gimmick, Westwood ran advertisements for a 1-900 number to Yuri's psychic hotline. The ad read that you could call 1-900-454-YURI and find out if domination is in your future. It is a real hotline set up for Yuri's Revenge, and I found it entertaining. Calling this number is $.95 a minute, but its only a message a few minutes long.

Delay

The game was originally scheduled to release in September 2001. However, it was delayed for some weeks because of the WTC attack. The reason for this is that, like Red Alert 2, the box art featured ruined buildings (this time in Los Angeles instead of New York). The cover was altered, but some markets did receive the original design.

Online servers

The game's online servers were migrated from the official Westwood Online infrastructure to the community-run XWIS (XCC WOL IRC Server), under approval and sponsorship from EA's German office on 6 October 2005. The Westwood Online domains have acted as a redirect to XWIS services since then, requiring no additional steps from the user to access the servers short of registering an account.

References

• In version 1.000 of the expansion, in Allied mission 2 (Hollywood And Vain) there are three special civilians: Arnnie Frankenfurter, Sammy Stallion, and Flint Westwood, who join the player as controllable units. They are parodies of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Clint Eastwood, and have special soundbanks which are references to their movies. However, in version 1.001, they lost their respective names for unknown reasons (replaced with Hero, Cowboy, Bodybuilder, respectively), and share the soundbank with the regular G.I. unit.
• In the first mission of the Soviet campaign, the player's taskforce needs to capture and use the Allied time machine in order to travel to the past and prevent Yuri from taking over the world. Once captured, the machine sends the Soviets too far back in time, and they have to fend off dinosaurs until the machine is recalibrated. This is most likely a reference to the hidden bonus missions from Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations where the player has to fight dinosaurs.
• In the Soviet ending cutscene, Yuri explicitly uses the franchise name as part of his final taunt to the player.

Samples in soundtrack

The game's soundtrack has two sampled quotes from the 1957 film The Brain from Planet Arous - in the Brain Freeze track ("Your feeling of helplessness is your best friend, savage.") and Drok track ("The power of pure intellect."). They were taken from the same scene, about 40 seconds apart, and were licensed out from a sample library.

Soundtrack

The in-game track list is below. Unlike the base game, it did not have an official soundtrack release.

1. Brain Freeze (04:00)
2. Drok (02:35)
3. Deceiver (03:53)
4. Phat Attack (03:56)
5. Bully Kit (04:13)
6. Defend The Base (04:25)
7. Tactics (04:57)
8. Trance L. Vania (03:27)

Installer track: In Deep (03:24)
Main menu track: Drok (02:35)
Loading screen track: Phat Attack (03:56)
Post-game track: Score (01:50)
Credits track: Untitled (01:50)

Information also contributed by phlux and Plok.