Teen
ESRB Rating
Genre
Perspective
Non-Sport
88
MobyRank
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
3.9
MobyScore
5 point score based on user ratings.

Description

Command & Conquer develops ideas from Westwood's previous game Dune 2, forming a real-time strategy (RTS) game. The control system involves selecting units with the mouse and then directing them, while the opponents make their moves without waiting for a "turn" to end.

The game focuses on a war between two organizations, The Brotherhood of Nod and the Global Defense Initiative. The player can take control of either side for more than 15 missions. Both have different units and structures, including artillery, tanks and light infantry.

In most missions, a base needs to be built first in order to build new units and structures. Most important are the harvesters, which collect Tiberium and deliver it to a refinery, where it's converted into money, thus funding the construction of a base and an army.

The game also features FMV mission briefings and victory cutscenes.

Alternate Titles

  • "終極動員令" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
  • "Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn" -- Working title
  • "Command & Conquer Teil 1: Der Tiberiumkonflikt" -- German title
  • "Command & Conquer: Der Tiberiumkonflikt" -- German DICE release title
  • "C&C" -- Informal title
  • "コマンド&コンカー" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

A fast paced, brilliantly designed game that has stood the test of time Maw (849) 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars
A Definitive Title of the Real-Time Strategy Genre Antti Salminen (65) 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars
Full of flaws- yet addictive and fun. El-ad Amir (110) unrated
An addictive game. robotriot Bronze Star Contributing Member (8642) 3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars
This game made "Real-Time Strategy" a household term. Raphael (1164) 3.75 Stars3.75 Stars3.75 Stars3.75 Stars3.75 Stars
The yardstick by which all RTS are measured. The Mahaduta (8) 4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars
I like this game. A lot. This is the anti-Warcraft. Thohan (19) unrated
I HATE this game! PCGamer77 Bronze Star Contributing Member (3027) 2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars
Genuinely dislikable. Tomer Gabel Bronze Star Contributing Member (4418) 2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars

The Press Says

World Village (Gamer's Zone) 1996 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars 100
Coming Soon Magazine Mar 14, 1996 95 out of 100 95
GameSpot May 01, 1996 9.3 out of 10 93
Entertainment Weekly Nov 17, 1995 A- 91
PC Games (Germany) Aug, 1995 90 out of 100 90
Jeuxvideo.com Aug 10, 2011 18 out of 20 90
Just Games Retro Aug 11, 2007 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 80
Computer Gaming World (CGW) Dec, 1995 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 80
High Score Nov, 1995 4 out of 5 80
Gamezilla 1996 80 out of 100 80

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Trivia

Cover screenshots

Obviously, the in-game screenshots on the back cover are faked or taken from a beta version that actually had better graphics than the release version.

German version

Westwood voluntarily changed a few things in the German version, because they feared the game could be indexed.
  • The cover: the soldier on the cover was displayed bigger, so that the weapon on the left couldn't be seen anymore
  • The manual: the photos of the soldier units were censored with "Geheim" [secret], so that nobody could see that they had human faces
  • The game: the soldiers were called 'androids' or 'bots', and they spilled black blood when they died (oil)
  • Some videos were censored, e.g. when Seth gets a head-shot and a few video sequences are missing altogether.
A complete list of changes can be found on schnittberichte.com (German).

Kane

Kane is played by Joseph D. Kucan, the voice & video director for most of Westwood's games (including the Command & Conquer series).

Mega Score

It was the first game to be featured on the cover of Mega Score, the longest running Portuguese gaming magazine, on the second issue (November 1995). The honours of the first belong to the Sega Saturn.

References

Open up the instruction manual to the page right after the table of contents, the one with the fire that has the quote from Kane. The last line says "(Global Net Interpol, file #GEN4:16)". That "#GEN4:16" actually refers to Genesis 4:16 from the Bible. That explains where they got the idea for Kane and the Brotherhood of Nod.

Sales

Westwood received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records, because they sold the game more than 10 million times worldwide.

SVGA version

Later Westwood also released an SVGA Windows 95 version, called Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn Gold. The game content itself was unaffected, but when playing against someone with the SVGA version you had a great advantage: you could see almost 4 times as much as the DOS version on one screen.

Awards

  • Computer Gaming World
    • April 1998 (Issue #165) - Introduced into the Hall of Fame
    • June 1996 (Issue #143) – Strategy Game of the Year
    • June 1996 (Issue #143) – Strategy Game of the Year (Readers' Vote)
    • November 1996 (15th anniversary issue) - #48 in the “150 Best Games of All Time” list
  • Game Informer
    • August 2001 (Issue 100) - #28 in the "Top 100 Games of All Time" poll
  • GameSpot
    • 7th Best Villain in Gaming History (for Kane)
  • GameStar (Germany)
    • Issue 12/1999 - #2 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
    • Issue 01/2007 - one of the "Ten Most Influential PC-Games". It is the milestone which stands for the change from turn-based to real-time strategy games.
  • PC Gamer
    • April 2000 - #24 in the "Readers All-Time Top 50 Games" poll
  • PC Player (Germany)
    • Issue 01/1996 - Best Game in 1995
    • Issue 01/1996 - Best Strategy Game in 1995
  • Total! (Germany)
    • Issue 01/2000 – Most Exotic N64 Genre in 1999
Information also contributed by Adam Baratz, Der.Archivar, havoc of smeg, Itay Shahar, Luis Silva, Maw and PCGamer77.


This entry was contributed by Charly2.0 (30584), Kartanym Bronze Star Contributing Member (10797), Kabushi (104257) and robotriot Bronze Star Contributing Member (8642)
 

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