There are no major leaps in terms of core gameplay – you’re still tasked with maintaining a military while trying to outsmart the genius that is the crazed Yuri – but there’s still a few noticeable things to talk about. With the respectable, hilarious writing of this expansion, I was also pleasantly surprised with the gameplay in it. What’s better, the dialogue and campaign were not the only major successes of this expansion. Regardless, it shows that there was a great deal of care that went into writing the campaign here and that’s easy to appreciate. The Yuri’s Revenge expansion takes shots at itself. Normally, this sort of cheesiness or ‘campy’ flavor would be unlikable if the game took itself too seriously. In fact, the characters in-universe are almost literally smacking their heads against the fourth wall as they recognize the insanity. The sheer ridiculousness of the situation, in which Yuri attempts achieving global domination using his own mind-controlled forces instead of solely the Russian population, is not ignored by the game whatsoever. However, this cheesy isn’t really a bad thing in this case its actually makes this expansion even better to play through. Generally, the story and campaign are pretty cheesy. Maybe fun isn’t the best way to describe a crazed fallen idol trying to take over the world once again, but there’s a certain charm that the C&C development team crammed into this expansion that is hard not to praise.