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In 1995, a young game studio named
Westwood released one of the first real-time strategy games. They had
created the genre a few years earlier, but this title took the fledgling
genre to new heights with impressive graphics, revolutionary gameplay
features and an enthralling story told through the then-young art of
full motion video. After twelve successful games spread out over ten
years, the venerable
Command & Conquer franchise has become
synonymous with the real-time strategy genre it popularized, and the
entire series is now available on one disc in
Command & Conquer
The First Decade.
Command & Conquer the
First Decade collects the entire Command and Conquer library on one
disc. |
Red Alert offers mixes
vintage World War 2 vehicles with some distinctly modern touches. View
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Generals is more geared for
the current gamer, with a contemporary setting and modern graphics.
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Tiberian Sun updates the
classic Command and Conquer game, continuing the storyline with improved
gameplay and graphics. View larger. |
Battle
the old-fashioned way with the original
Command & Conquer,
watch an alternate World War II unfold in
Command & Conquer Red
Alert or control the modern warfield in
Command & Conquer
Generals--all three of Command & Conquer's worlds are open to
nostalgic gamers and modern aficionados alike.
Tiberian Dawn
Old
friends await the seasoned gamer in the original
Command &
Conquer universe, as the fanatical Brotherhood of Nod battles the
Global Defense Initiative in a war over the mineral Tiberium. Whether
playing as the Brotherhood and obeying the charismatic Kane's every
command or taking control of GDI forces as they seek to save the world
from Kane's ambition, every detail of
Command & Conquer is
just as you remember it. The original full motion videos tell the story
in what was once cutting-edge and is now quaint, and the gameplay is
simple as can be. Gather Tiberium to produce tanks, infantry and more to
decide the fate of the world, or try to connect to others with one of
the first online game-finding services!
Bring the original
storyline to a close in
Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun, and
determine the fate of the world--or, if you want a break from the
strategy formula, take control of a GDI Commando in the recent
Command
& Conquer Renegade, a first person shooting game set in the
Tiberium universe. See the world of
C&C up close and personal
from Nick "Havoc" Parker's point of view as he fights a one-man war
against the forces of Nod armed with a diverse arsenal of weapons and
one-liners.
Engage in heated battles
over nameless fields and familiar territory alike in your struggle to
save the world. View larger. |
The
Red Menace
Perhaps the most popular game of the franchise,
Command
& Conquer Red Alert asks the question, "What if Albert Einstein
mastered time travel, then used it to go back in time and kill Hitler?"
The answer is a world at war not with Nazi-led Germany, but the rapidly
expanding Soviet Union under Stalin's iron fist. Dip into the world of
historical fiction as the Allied forces take on the Soviet bloc in a war
fought not just by soldiers, planes and tanks, but by time travelers,
psychics and giant tesla coils. This more refined and advanced real time
strategy game features gameplay innovations that greatly influenced the
games that followed, including building queues and other convenient
options, providing a nice balance between nostalgia and playability.
A
World at War
While
Command & Conquer takes place in
the future and
Red Alert in the past,
Command & Conquer
Generals offers its version of the present, as the United States,
China and a terrorist group known as GLA battle all over the world. The
most game-oriented of the series,
Generals contains no FMV like
its predecessors, concentrating instead on pure 3D gameplay as well as
the wry humor that peppered the previous games.
In all,
Command
& Conquer The First Decade contains not only the games that
defined a genre, but the history of that genre. Players can experience
the evolution of the real-time strategy game as they play each game in
sequence, and see for themselves how far the technology has come since
1995--but also find out that the old games still have some life left in
them.
From the Manufacturer
Relive
a decade of real-time strategy history. Celebrating the anniversary of
this innovative franchise,
Command & Conquer: The First Decade
features a dozen classic C&C games, plus an exclusive bonus DVD of
commemorative videos including a rare interview with Louis Castle,
co-founder of Westwood Studios and the creator of the Command &
Conquer franchise.
Features:
- The ultimate
collection features 12 Command & Conquer games on a single DVD
- Bonus
DVD with commemorative video features including exclusive interviews
and tribute videos from our biggest fans
- Hundreds of
single-player missions and multiplayer mayhem spanning every Command
& Conquer universe:
- Tiberium--the Sci-Fi universe that
started it all
- Red Alert--the battlegrounds of alternate
history
- Generals--fight the masterminds of modern warfare
Command
& Conquer: The First Decade includes the following titles:
- Command
& Conquer (Aug. 1995)
- Command & Conquer: The
Covert Operations (April 1996)
- Command & Conquer:
Red Alert (Oct. 1996)
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Counterstrike (Mar. 1997)
- Command & Conquer: Red
Alert The Aftermath (Sept. 1997)
- Command & Conquer:
Tiberian Sun (Aug. 1999)
- Command & Conquer: Tiberian
Sun Firestorm (Feb. 2000)
- Command & Conquer: Red
Alert 2 (Oct. 2000)
- Command & Conquer: Yuri's
Revenge (Oct. 2001)
- Command & Conquer: Renegade
(Feb. 2002)
- Command & Conquer: Generals (Feb. 2003)
- Command
& Conquer: Generals Zero Hour (Sept. 2003)
Customer Reviews
A must have for any strategy gamer
The Command and Conquer
series is just incredible. Some of the first walkthroughs I wrote were
for the original Command and Conquer series.
These games began
coming out in 1995, and it's just amazing how fun they still are to play
- and how quickly I remember the missions. They really were a ton of
fun. They were great strategy, the plotline was great, and the graphics
were very impressive for the time.
Sure, in modern times we might
chuckle at the white-square grenade being "lobbed", but after a few
minutes you get right into the spirit of things. You run over the enemy
troops with your harvester, you go after that base, you build your
barracks and are sucked in for hours.
I do have all the original
games - but half of them won't run on modern computers! With this set
you get the full set of games, all of them run quite nicely, and they
are all just as good if not better as far as graphics go.
If you
haven't played any of these games, you really have to get this set.
These are true gaming classics that are incredibly fun to play. If you
HAVE played these in the past, then you owe it to yourself to buy this
set so that you can play them on your current system. The price is
amazingly cheap for the number of games you are getting.
Highly,
highly recommended - a must have for anyone who enjoys strategy gaming.
Amazing Setup
I got into Command and
Conquer quite late, I started playing Red Alert 2, and eventually bought
the collection with five games(Yuri's Revenge never worked on my
Windows Xp in that version). Then I bought Generals and that kind of
lagged on my comp. Now this comes out, 12 games on 1 disc, and all of
them run smoothly as ever. It's all updated and gorgeous. These games
never looked so good, and for the price the amount of gameplay time is
ridiculous. A great buy. AAAA++++
Well
worth the money
I've always been a huge fan
of the Command & Conquer games, and after owning them all
individually (and losing some CDs along the way), it is great to be able
to get them all back and running flawlessly on my computer.
Playing
the orginal Command & Conquer and Red Alert delivers a level of
original gameplay just not seen in a lot of newer games. Every game in
this 12 pack is worth the price itself, and to get all 12 on a single
DVD is just incredible.
As a note, someone mentioned that this
bundle does not include the map/terrain editor for Red Alert, when in
fact it does. It may not appear in the start menu, but you can still
find it in the Red Alert directory.
I would recommend this
product to anyone, from the battle hardened players of the C&C
series to people who have never played the games and are looking for
hours of entertainment.
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