That time Lego made a Command and Conquer game...
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
- Did you know that almost 15 years ago Lego made a Command and Conquer game where you could fight aliens on Mars as Santa Claus? Mars Mission Crystal Alien Conflict was an RTS game developed by 4T2 games modeled off of the old Command and Conquer series.
I've been wanting to talk about this gem for well over a year now and with one of my subscribers (shout out to Shrek Snow) telling me about the Godot port of this game I figured there'd be no better time to cover it than now.
Thanks to 4T2 games for making the original. It was a big part of my childhood. I love this game all these years later. Really it's fun check it out...
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Creator of the Remake here
Good Video! Glad that you enjoyed my project
A couple things
- A remake from scratch not a port
- You can press space to deselect units
Oh good to know. Thank you. I will pin this so the correction is known. Sorry I thought it was just a port. That's even more impressive! Thanks for remaking such an amazing game!
dude thank you so muthe four making this. i reamber kid me like 7 or 8 years old. being so sad when i code no longer play the lego RTS. so i am so unbelevbly happy to se it preservt
Is the project open source? I am interested in preserving the game & engine code in my archive, and maybe future content that could be made with it too. :3
You have my thanks for doing this, very awesome.
@@Nice.Creeper @Marxon1134 :)
I am glad that someone else remembers this banger
Me too!
Not forgotten, but believed lost. This video is pretty much the best thing I'll watch today!
Seems to be the same genre as Age of Empires 2, but more like Star Wars: Galactic Battleground
Ditto
Hell I still play it!
"In the name of Lego!"
"Lego lives in death!"
"In the name of Lego!"
"Lego lives in death!"
"IN THE NAME OF LEGO!"
"LEGO LIVES IN DEATH!"
"LEGO... LIVES!"
Lol I love it
"We build for Lego!"
Ogel, surely. Anyone else remember that?
DOWN WITH K'NEX
The Builderhood has entrusted me...
The Builderhood of Blocks
I sunk hours into LEGO Battles which has these aliens missions, as well as a pirate and medieval campaigns. This was on the DS. They even had a special event for the santa mission where you could unlock him as a commander
People keep recommending that to me. I'm gonna have to try it out.
@@BrokenCircle1 I had my copy stolen and bought another, if thats anything to go off of. It was my intro into the genre and a high water mark.
Lego Battles pretty much echoed the first 3 Blizzard RTS games, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness, and Starcraft.
@@BrokenCircle1 highly recommend it, it is rather good, and has an unreasonably good soundtrack for a lego rts
it’s a great game,my only gripe is the alien factions tier 3 special units is completely busted and can out range everything including defensive turrets. this means no matter how high the enemy ai difficulty, you can beat them in
Memory unlocked: Seriously, I loved playing this game on my mums old blocky PC back in the day.
Yeah I'm glad so many people are finding this video and enjoying the nostalgia. Thanks for watching.
@@BrokenCircle1 Hell yeah!
Lego's site from back in the day was notorious for ripping off games, to the point that I'm surprised they never got sued. There was a game that was straight up Mega Man Battle Network. I thought it was 100% original when I was a kid, and while I sucked at it, that was some of the most fun I've ever had.
Whhhatttt? I love Battlenetwork! What game was it?
@@BrokenCircle1 think it was a ninjago game
@@casualsilver2702 wait, THAT game? I enjoyed the heck out of it too! Somehow it never occurred to me even after learning about Battle Network that the Ninjago game was derived from it.
@@BrokenCircle1 Spinjitzu Smash. Flashpoint Archive player has the original, the "DX" and the "Creations" versions of the game.
@@LilAlfiq Njnjago was a bit after my time. I stopped buying Legos for a while then didn't really pick it up again until my 20s.
LEGO surprisingly has quite a few RTS games. There's LEGO Rock Raiders on PC (there is a version on PS1 but it's totally different and terrible apparently), LEGO Battles for the DS and even LEGO Star Wars 3 had simplified RTS like levels.
LEGO must really love this genre.
The Lego Star Wars 3 RTS levels were cool but got repetetive too quick imo.
Can confirm, LEGO Rock Raiders on PS1 is just a top-down adventure-platformer and it's full of fake difficulty. The PC RTS is much more fun, whenever your braindead Raiders aren't just dicking around and blatantly not doing what you need them to do. Manic Miners fixes everything wrong with it.
@@CidSilverWing manic miners is amazing!
Ninjago had an RTS as well, on the DS, similar to LEGO Battles.
It's called LEGO Battles: Ninjago in North America and LEGO Ninjago: The Videogame in Europe and Australia.
Its less that Lego loves the genre I believe and more that the genre used to be immensely popular.
Whoa, not only did Lego make a CNC game, they also included Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Man, I would have loved to play this back in the day. Thank you :)
Thank you for watching!
Gotta reference the pinnacle of sci-fi Christmas films. Hurray for Santy Claus!
Considering Lego is all about collecting parts and building things, this genre of game feels like a no brainer for the brand.
I loved being able to take over the alien structures and use them to make alien units, it was so nice.
I’d argue that Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds that you mention at the beginning was more inspired by Age of Empires, right down to the fact that it was made off of AOE2’s engine and is, pretty much, just Age of Empires 2 with a Star Wars coat of paint, moreso than any C&C game.
Regardless of that though; solid video. Loved this game growing up, and seeing it mentioned here again after years is… whew, nostalgia hit me hard.
Edit; This web game ALSO went into Lego Battles, their Nintendo DS game, which included Pirates, Mars Mission, and Castle sets and themes.
Yeah, Galactic Battlegrounds was built off the AoE2 engine and was just a clone of it. a really good one but still not C&C
Same for supreme commander which was more a follow up to Total Annihilation then command and conquer.
Also Star Craft is a thing...
And World in Conflict
But ya, glad Suoreme Commander got a mention.
This is pretty much my first RTS. I remember playing this game when I was little. I had so much fun and it was my favorite game at the time and I played it very often! I realized that I liked building your own base and army and then go attack the enemies', which I learned later that it is called a RTS. Funny, at the time I never even heard of Command and Conquer then. I learned of Command and Conquer rummaging through my Dad's cd jewel cases and found "Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun." I was hooked! It was like RTS was tuned up to 11! And there is where my Command and Conquer Journey started.
I wonder, considering Open RA, if there will be a Mars Mission mod? Not Lego style of course.
I doubt it. Sadly this Lego theme seems to have been largely forgotten.
Tiberian Sun was one of my first games too.
First RTS for me as well. Ah, fond memories.
MARS MISSION MENTIONED
Man, I remember playing this so much back in the day. One of the best flash games Lego ever made.
I agree.
This game was legit one of the first RTS games I ever played growing up, I remember I got in trouble as a kid for mispronouncing assault as ASSault lol.
Good video showcasing it all
Sounds like the time I mispronounced 'garbage' as 'garbitch' trying to sound it out.
Didn't they make a quasi-sequel with LEGO Battles on DS, but with added themes with Knights and Pirates?
Yeah, kinda. Battles' mechanics were a tad different.
Yes, it had medieval, pirates, and space levels. Also there were campaigns for each faction (2 factions per theme).
There was also a Ninjago one.
@@RemTheInsominiac Yeah, but that was an entirely separate game. LEGO Battles was a single game that had medieval, pirates, and space themes for a total of 6 campaigns that had 15 levels each. By comparison, LEGO Battles Ninjago had one theme, two campaigns, and while each campaign had more levels than the campaigns in the original, there were far fewer total levels. On top of that, it completely removed the concept of armies. Your units consisted of seven or so named characters. Plus, the multiplayer had significantly worse performance than the original LEGO Battles. I loved the Ninjago theme, but that game was a disappointment as both a LEGO Ninjago game, and as a LEGO Battles game. Ninjago would've been better off following the standard LEGO game formula instead of being a worse version of LEGO Battles.
God this brings back good memories.
Its also the meme of "but we have Command And Conquer at home." The 'command and conquer' game:
Was pretty damn good
"Take care down there Rock Raider"
Naw Power Miners is where it's at
I loved this game when I was so younger, not only the game but also the sets. What's more it was the game that really got me to enjoy RTS games. If I had more sets of these Lego products I could have recreated some of these events :'(
Yeah I had quite a few myself though missed out on alot of cool ones. I always wanted the Recon Dropship.
An interesting tidbit about this game is how it's not the only Lego RTS to use this theme. Lego Battles, a dedicated RTS game they made for the DS, (Which basically plays like starcraft.) had 6 factions based on 3 different product lines Lego sold at the time, with Mars Mission being one of those lines. During the game's development, the original plan was to have three games, each one containing two factions, to encourage players to buy multiple copies and trade units like pokemon. They ended up scrapping this idea just for the final game having all the factions together, but this flash game did kind of serve as a visualization of what it would look like if one of those 3 planned games released on its own.
I will check that out
@@BrokenCircle1 Lol. You're attracting all us DS kids with your thumbnail.
When you do finally check out Lego BATTLES, you should definitely record your first impression.
I thought that’s what this video was going to be about, it was such a cool game. It and fossil fighters were probably my most played DS games
Man I played so much of this back in the day... Mars Mission was my favorite theme as a kid, and I still love it as an adult. Thanks for shedding some light on an almost forgotten classic.
This game was a favorite of mine a while ago, I'm glad someone did a remake.
:)
Unironically this game is what brought me into RTSs, I went from grinding that game until I could beat it, then started playing StarCraft 2
I sunk so many hours into this game on Lego's website, and now I have to go find the remake.
youtube recommended me something valid.. well.
Rock Raiders was my favorite game from back when. Still have my original disc somewhere... it also died to time.
Looks neat - might need to try it ._.
Definitely try it! I played Rock Raiders and Lego Island when I was very very young. They were fun for their time but I don't think they aged well especially Lego Island.
Have you played Manic Miners? It's a port of Rock Raiders with both the original campaign and new levels with new mechanics.
No I haven't. I played the original Rock Raiders game many MANY years ago (when I barely knew how to turn a PC on) but I don't remember it well.
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Something I didn’t expect you would drop. Awesome 😎
I've actually had this on my 'video ideas' list for over a year. I just haven't had the time to make it plus finding a way to make the game playable again (the flash player issues mentioned) was a pain.
But I LOVE this game and CnC so I always love to talk about things like this when I can.
No god damn way, I remember playing this when I was little. Straight forgot about it (and my kits) till I saw this thumbnail.
Now I'm taking psychic damage from a defcon 1 nostalgia blast
Such a blast from the past, I can't begin to tell you how may hours I spent on this game as a kid, I was super bummed they discontinued the Mars Mission line. I'm surprised somebody like the Biomedia Project didn't save Crystal Alien Conflict like they did with all the Bionicle games.
dad saw me playing this and suggested I try Starcraft and that's how I found my favorite game. I definitely wrote it off as lost to time till I saw this video. so many memories...
Glad I helped bring back an old memory. Thanks for watching!
oh wow, that's incredible. I never new it was remade in godot, I've been playing it through a flash game archive (flashpoint) this entire time.
How did they make a lego C&C game where you don't see the buildings being constructed brick by brick! Blasphemy!
God, I remember playing this in middle school. I actually told lots of my friends about it and some of them checked it out at the time despite not being gamers. I grew up on Dune 2000 and StarCraft Brood War, RTS is my favorite genre of all time. Also, at one point I had almost every Mars Mission set as a kid. It was one of the few Lego collections that I actually got close to completing, and boy were those sets fun. Good times.
i played this game so much as a kid and was a big buyer of all things lego mars mission. I was super sad to have it disappear one day and to not be able to play it. Until today when you're video came up on my feed thx so much for making this video I'm reliving my childhood with the biggest smile.
Oh man, I remember this game. I grew up during the era of tons of LEGO web games. Those were a massive source of entertainment for me growing up. I feel so much nostalgia now. I had forgotten that this game even existed until seeing the thumbnail for this video. This brings me back to when life was simpler. I miss being a naive, young child whose biggest responsibility was homework.
I remember playing this back in the day. i think my dad still has a screenshot of one of the early levels where i found a 'face on mars' that was a minifigure head with the classic smiley face
Cool! Good memories. I wish I had some of the old files from when I was a kid.
There was also the ds game LEGO Battles, which comes with multiple factions which you can mix and match units with.
My brother and I have CORE memories of taking turns playing this game for hours on end when we were kids. Glad to see it’s back and other people remember this banger.
There was a really good lego DS game that was basically this, except you could pick between a variety of different themes like castle, pirates, city and space of course. Can't remember the name but it was a blast to play
Lego battles! Loved it as a kid
I remember that my brother left this game on while we were on vacation, and when we came back, there was so much in-game currency that it blew our minds. There was a glitch or something that prevented the last units from noticing us.
Bro my whole introduction to RTS was the Mars mission one. I’m so happy this got remembered
I spent WAY too much time playing Crystalien.
It couldn't measure up to the other Command and Conquer titles for a handful of reasons, but it's by FAR the BEST Lego Flash game to date.
I remember playing this game for hours back in the day. So much fun! Unfortunately, I was born too late for the classic space themes, but I loved Mars Mission.
Honestly clicked this video expecting Lego Battles, didn't even know they had this banger too!
Thanks for watching!
Now we just need a revive of the old alpha team flash games, as well as the original knights kingdom flash games, and we are golden.
I played C&C AND played with Lego Mars Mission sets as a kid. Imagine how amazed I was when I found this back then. lol
I’d never even heard of this game, I was thinking you were gonna talk about the LEGO Battles games for DS!
I always forget this era of Mars LEGOs, I always loved the original series with the teal skin
Are you talking about Life on Mars?
@@BrokenCircle1 now that you mention it and I looked it up yes that was the series, the aliens were really unique for the era and I always wanted to find the whole set, sadly only ever got 2-3 of them
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the funny thing is if it werent for this game I will never have even thinking of playing Command & Conquer 3 & Red Alert 3 in the first place. back then my parents was very strict on me playing video games as they want me to focus on studying but the leeway is they allow me use the family computer and there is where i used up my time playing online games from miniclip, nickelodeon & lego. lego was the most time I spend time in. after a while i was able to skip classes and go to a nearby cybercafe and there was an advertisement on C&C 3 plastered on the glass door & i was like what is that and booting the game i was hooked as it feels similar to the Mars Mission game and everything is history then.
Very cool. Glad you found the C&C franchise.
That mars mission with the little air pump tower that shoots people through the tubes is immensely nostalgic
before we had our own computer i would go to the library and use my card to get an hour of internet access. while my mom was browsing for books to read i was playing this work of art!
I played this and I loved it as a child, but I completely forgot that I played it all. It had exited my memory until I saw those little animated buildings
I used to play this so much as a kid and I lost all hope that I'll ever be able to try it again, but here it is, it's just incredible. And it did work damn well as an ad, I used to have this set as well, I don't think the entire thing but definitely more than one box.
This game is the reason i still have one of those three wheeled scout units on my shelf.
I want so many original lego themes back so bad.
Alien conquest was another amazing space theme.
i remember playing this as a kid on my PC with windows xp
I had every single Mars Mission set and was so stoked on this game as a kid lmao those were the good days.
THANK YOU! I've been trying to find this game for literal years, and I almost thought it was some childhood delusion when I couldn't find a single thing about it. Loved it as a kid, even though I completely sucked.
I loved this game as a kid! Lego actually had a few surprisingly good browser games, from what I remember they only really started going downhill after the blind bag minifig series started getting games
Just like chex quest back in 96. It being a huge ad added to it's charm 😃
This game literally got me into video games. Mars Mission was my first passion, first obsession. It was like crack for a kid in the second grade.
Holy fuck you just unlocked one of my secret childhood memories
God what I wouldnt give for lego to make a PC RTS at some point. If they dont want that, at least a remake of Lego Battles..
RTS games have been one of my favorites ever since I was a kid, and lego being one of my favorite brands, it was a match made in heaven for me. Shame they havent done anything like this recently.. and might not ever..
I feel Lego battles is the ultimate upgrade to this game
Oh god, Mars mission toyset were one of my favorite lego sets. Love collecting them, especially those alien mechs
What a blast from the past! As a little kid I was addicted to both Lego and Flash games, so for a while this title was my favourite thing in the world! I think it was legitimately the first rts game I ever played, and probably contibuted significantly to my taste in strategy games even today.
This game was my childhood fav out of all lego
Some ancient neuron paths got refired. The best feeling ever I did not even know I had a memory of this game stored in my brain
OH MY GOD! I'm so glad someone else remembers this game, this game was my childhood!
I remember playing the shit out of that game as a kid, thanks for the throwback
Thanks for watching!
Ah, the nostalgia. I loved the Mars Mission line, and this game!
Good times.
I should really get around to playing this. The original was a lot of fun (although, the two factions were pretty much reskins of each other. Luckily, the campaigns had different scenarios).
Wasn’t aware a Santa mission existed. I should try that out.
Let’s hope that someone’s crazy enough to remake Lego Battles. That game was a lot of fun. Since Lego seems to be fine with this and Manic Miners (Rock Raiders remake), I’m sure they wouldn’t care about someone remaking a DS exclusive rts.
Speaking of C&C I wish there was a Lego theme for it. Yes, I know it wouldn’t make much sense because rts games are super niche and Lego supposedly has those violence rules (Megablocks would be a more realistic contender for this purely fictional scenario). I’m sure that someone could make a bunch of cool MOCs based on the vehicles. If anyone is reading this on Bricklink there’s this program called Studio that’s basically the unofficial continuation of Lego Digital Designer. Please make this a “reality” using that.
If Lego were to put out some Prequel/Clone Wars era droid vehicle sets I’d buy them yesterday. ESPECIALLY if there was a big model for the Lucrehulk (I’d buy it from AliExpress since that’s so much cheaper. Be sure to get the ones with good reviews because they’re less likely to be missing pieces, and the colors will be more accurate).
I was actually thinking earlier lego C&C would be cool but also in a weird way I think a Lego Stalker game would be cool.
Thanks for telling me about this remake.
Do you think you’ll use the Studio program from Bricklink to make C&C MOCs, or probably not? It would be cool if some crazy person made a C&C Lego fan game where the buildings would put themselves together, damaged units would be missing pieces, and other things you’d expect form a Lego game. I wish that Lego would make more rts games. Battles was a lot of fun for what it was and so was Crystal Alien Conflict. The closest we’ve gotten to a Lego rts in recent years would be those large battles in the Clone Wars Lego game. I wish they’d bring that feature back in others.
You’re welcome! It’s too bad the other fan version isn’t working.
What are some other videos you think you’ll make?
@@shreksnow1918 No. I don't have the knowhow or time.
That’s too bad.
@@shreksnow1918 As for other things I want to make vides on I have a Halo Wars video planned, a video on modern Bungie planned, among many many others.
Me and my mom were big fans of C&C, especially RA2. When our home was being renovated, I found this game and that's what we were playing. Over time I started forgetting about it, and recently, until now, I kinda assumed it was a false memory. Very interesting, gotta check it out again
This next to the star wars clone wars game was absolutely my favorite. Would afk if it I was away and absolutely dominated to basically endgame
This was easily the best in house theme/franchise/wtv you call it that Lego ever had. Nothing will ever beat Mars Mission at least when it comes to the space theme. And shoutout to the runner game they had, when you died your character let out a blood curling scream and that shit scarred me as a kid ❤️
I had this game on DS lol. It was LEGO battles and one of the campaigns was a mars mission scenario.
Oh my gosh, I remember playing this game when I was in elementary school! Amazing how time flies!
Oh man I remember playing this do much as a kid. I didn't even know what RTS or C&C were at the time but I loved this game. Thank you for the blast from the past.
Thank you for watching!
Same here!
Even as a kid I could tell this was just better than it was supposed to be.
Does anyone remember Lego battles
God this brings me back i remember playing this game and a bunch of other lego games on the website back in the early 2000's
I did not know this game existed, thank you! Going to download this and play it myself.
Thanks for watching!
There are two versions of this game, the classic Flash versions, available in Flashpoint.
Flashpoint is a huge archive of basically ALL old Flash games and animations.
It also includes a program with which you can still (safely) play them!
It's really an amazing project!
used to play this at school. saddens me that young people will never get to play through the golden age of Flash games. so many hours spent on Newgrounds..
Mars mission had sets I still desire many years later as an adult
This video brings me back to my childhood playing that game on the browser. I loved that game, I'm so happy to see that it's resurrected.
Mars mission was my favorite Lego theme when I was a kid and I played crystal alien conflict a lot around that time. I also made sure to grab a downloadable copy of it so I can play it to this day
Yeah Mars Missionnwas a fantastic theme. That and Space Police I loved so much.
I remember when SP first came out I was apprehensive because I loved Mars Mission so much but in time I came to love it even more than Mars Mission.
Really all the space themes were fantastic except for the last ones for me. I never liked Alien Conquest or Galaxy Squad ai felt they looked way too 'modern' with the bright colors and all. I mean they were cool but just wasn't a fan personally.
I think around then Lego was changing up alot of stuff.
You gotta talk about lego kingdoms, peak ds game.
I didn't have a DS until 2021 sadly so never played it. But I will check it out for sure. Not sure if I'll do a video on it.
That was an amazing game. I still play it from time to time on my old ass DS... when it works! xD
I remember Mars Mission, and this fun little flash game from when it was still available. Loved playing it
Man what a weird blast from the past. That line of lego sets and this game were my favorite thing for a while growing up because I had a phase where I was obsessed with aliens and the alien's stuff had really cool designs.
Yeah I had a similar experience. Space Police for me really had me going though. The idea of all the different kinds of aliens living in the same city made me wonder where they all came from and what the lore was behind them. I made so many stories.
@@BrokenCircle1 Hell yeah! That was a bit before my time but they seem really cool, and that general design philosophy from lego to spark a kid's creativity and imagination almost just seems like something of a bygone era now.
Now this takes me back. I played this a lot on their website back in the day. I remember the secret level where you controlled the Alien Commander. The opening text for that level read “I’m all out of bubblegum”
Of course, it wasn’t until years later I realised what they had done. They had put a Duke Nukem reference in a game aimed at children. That’s *#£!ing awesome!
I like to think this game paved the way for Lego Battles on the DS. That game plays more akin to Warcraft/Starcraft but it’s a worthy successor to this flash game. It even unlocks Santa as a playable character when your DS calendar reads December 25th.
Thanks for watching!
ITS THIS GAME! This was a game I always wanted to play again because I was too young back then to understand anything, despite that it was my favorite game from the site
I loved that game in the past.
It was simple, basic, bit also just fun ^-^
Perfect for a kid to feel like an awesome commander.
Lego battles was so fun on the DS!
I just got this picture in my head of Kane sitting on a table, building something out of Lego bricks, then stopping, looking directly to the camera and saying "The Temple is complete!" 😅
That's great lol
This game was my childhood. I played this game excessively growing up and remembered trying to recreate the units in it with pipe cleaners and popsicle sticks as I couldn't afford the majority of the sets.
One thing I would like to mention was the alien faction wasn't there on initial launch so the game in fact went through a few updates or expansions! I think there was a time where if you use the cheatcode to skip forward a level after the last level you are able to start playing the alien campaign missions from the human side, some missions were kind of fun or easy, but others were completely broken.
I did not know the alien missions weren't always there. Right there with you with the pipe cleaners. I used to use paper, cardboard, old trash, dirt, whatever. Used to make my own toys.
dude, fuck yes, been thinking about this game every now and then, and its back! Hell yeah, thanks for the vid
Thanks for watching!
I remember playing this game when I was a kid on their LEGO Website years ago; I was collecting C&C games since Tiberium Wars was my first C&C game then I noticed it's previous game Tiberian Sun was Free, playing it reminds me so much of that LEGO game, what a banger it was
Oh what a blast from the past. I used to have a couple of these sets when I was a kid and was already playing with them as if they were a command & conquer game. Good times.
I used to do the same thing. My family had a jar full of pennies and dimes for savings. I used to be allowed to take the coins out and play with them. I used piles of coins as 'tiiberium'.
This game went so hard. Shoutout to that War of the Worlds rts game too, whilst on the topic of mars
I remember playing this as a kid and having no idea what it was or what an rts was, still had fun
I swear I remember playing a game like this on my old Nintendo DS
Lol damn I totally forgot about this game. I used to play it all the time. Thanks for making a video on it.
Thanks for watching!