Command and Conquer - the RTS super classic now a free download!
Command and Conquer Gold
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The Godfather of Real Time Strategy Games!
To celebrate the 12 year anniversary of the much beloved Command and Conquer series, Electronic Arts has made the game that started the real time strategy rage a completely free download!
The Original Command and Conquer
Command & Conquer, is an interactive strategy game like no other. Unlike traditional "strategy" games, Command & Conquer offers real-time combat. The emphasis isn't on turn taking or solving tactical problems like fuel, food, and bullets, but on real-time thrills, spills, and kills.
In Command & Conquer, you must first choose who you fight for. Does your allegiance go to The evil Brotherhood of Nod, a terrorist faction bent on world dominance? Or, do you choose to fight for the good of all, and support the United Nations Global Defense Initiative (GDI)? Each side has its own campaign and unique units.
Added to the addictive fun of the game's play are the animated cinematic sequences. Employing the latest cutting-edge graphics techniques, the Westwood staff artists working on Command & Conquer combined the use of rendered and digitized full-motion video. Set to a script written by professional screenwriters, these animated sequences set the game play in an exciting story that places you right in the middle of the action.
And because you asked for it, Command & Conquer will allow you to go head-to-head against other commanders in specially designed missions over a modem (2 player) or network (4 player)! As most of us know, nothing feels better than blasting your friends into dust, then gloating in triumph afterward. All of this, combined with the ability to play good or evil, modem or network, Human or Computer AI makes Westwood's Command & Conquer a game with tons of replay value.
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Revolutionary beginning, Aug 19, 2008
by Adam (IN, USA)
Command and Conquer is the fore-runner of all RTS (real-time strategy) games. It was not necessarily the first of it’s kind, but it is the most popular, and the most well made. In this game you can take control of the battlefield in a way no other game type allows, at the helm of a commander’s bird’s eye view. This game puts you above the battle, instead of in it’s midst. You control small commando teams, as well as an entire base of operations. The game brings in an economic essence as well, as all the units and buildings at your command have a price in ore, which must be harvested. This game takes combat games and revolutionizes how we think about them. Overall the game is an excellent play. I own several copies of the game, and I play it often. Due to it’s release in the 90’s, the graphics are less than what many gamers have come to expect out of modern day games today. However, like any well made game, you will find you keep coming back for more, despite it’s aged graphics.
Legend, Jun 28, 2008
by Darroch (UK)
This game was the foothold in the Westwood company and definately was the game that defined RTS as what it is today… with all the RTS out there, most of it being based, somehow or other, on this game.
It may have a low standard of graphics, but this was ‘94, and this game is still superb (personally i prefer CnC3, but I still play this a lot)
Hands down one of the best games in the industry due to the sheer impact it had on gamers round the world.
10/10
Command and Conquer was the Beginning, Jun 12, 2008
by Corrie (United Kingdom)
Command and Conquer was the first of its westwood brother games, it was this game that influenced so many people into playing RTS’s. Offcourse age of empires came out before it and was just as big a success, but C&C was the first to be set in modern day. It is this game we should thank, for all the new RTS games such as "Empire Earth" and the latest Warhammer 40k games. C&C is a true classic and should never be forgotten and should be admired for its contribution to game enthusiasts Everywhere. LEGEND
Beginning of a Legendary Franchise, Jun 09, 2008
by Ryan (Fort Pierce, FL USA)
Back in 1995, Command and Conquer gave PC gamers a new take on RTS games. Users choose from GDI or Nod forces and begin their eventual attempts to eliminate the other.
You control your building trees and can choose different strategies depending on the mission. You can go all out offensive with GDI Mammoth Tanks or build an untouchable defense with the Nod Obelisks of Light.
Resource management, as in most RTS games is important, but obviously overshadowed by the action content. You’ll have to carefully manage patches of tiberium, by harvesting and defending your supply, in order to have the funds to develop your base. Tiberium also harms troops and can be used offensively, but leading a group of opposing soldiers through a tiberium field.
As the Single Player mission progresses, you can choose different routes for your forces to take, which allows for replayability.
The biggest highlight is the networking multiplayer, players can spend hours dueling each other for fun
Command & Conquer best strategy game!, May 16, 2008
by Smith (CANADA)
At first when you start it is easy, but only because the want you to get to know the commands better before trying out the harder missions later on. I love it how you can get to pick from GDI or The Brother Hood! The graphics are actually pretty good for the time the game was made. I also like how there are specialty type missions where you have to make one person survive through the mission, those missions ae AWSOME!!! I think you should download this game, it is WORTH IT!
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