![]() ![]() Sometimes this takes the form of choosing the specific route you’ll be entering a country through, the objective likely to be the same but the exact map layout for the skirmish shifting based on the chosen approach. While there are a set amount of missions before the story will end, the path to conquering a continent can take a few different routes based on choices made between missions. Notably though, there is no illusion about who the good guys and bad guys are, the Brotherhood including attacking innocent civilian villages as mission objectives so their claims of trying to elevate the impoverished through a sort of forced peace under one ruler rings deliberately hollow.īoth of the campaigns focus on the faction of choice making pushes against the control of the opposition, GDI trying to retake Europe and Nod focusing its efforts in Africa. The other countries of the world establish the Global Defense Initiative through the United Nations to combat this rising threat, the GDI clearly meant to be the main story thanks to its greater prevalence of story developments and it having 15 campaign missions to Nod’s 13. A supposedly ancient group known as the Brotherhood of Nod outpace the rest of the world in developing military tech with it and quickly use that advantage to cultivate their cult-like faction, elevating third world countries and allying with some large but controversial world powers in a bid for complete dominance. Set on an alternate version of our planet, a mysterious crystalline substance known as Tiberium disrupts the global balance of power after a meteor brings it to Earth. Sometimes referred to as Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn to differentiate itself from the series as a whole and occasionally going by Command & Conquer: Gold or Command & Conquer Special Gold Edition for the port to Windows PCs that we’ll be covering here, this strategy game does focus on military activities but allows you to pick either side of the game’s central conflict. The original Command & Conquer goes by a few names. ![]() With the creative touches added over top the familiar elements of war, it becomes much easier to see why Command & Conquer would go on to be one of the largest names in a genre it helped establish. ![]() The battles between armies that feature soldiers, humvees, and tanks take place in real world countries and can look like standard military fare at a glance, but spend a little longer watching and you’ll notice vehicles with mandibles like stag beetles scooping up green crystals, motorbikes that fire anti-air rockets, and occasionally corny cutscenes that give the game a much stronger identity and personality. If you only took a quick look at the first Command & Conquer game, it would be easy to think this seminal real-time strategy game was grounded in reality. ![]()
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