DOS

Command & Conquer

Description

Command & Conquer developed ideas from Westwood's previous Dune 2, forming a real time strategy game which has influenced many. The control system of selecting units with the mouse and then directing them is similar to future titles such as Total Annihilation.

The game focuses on a war between two organizations, The Brotherhood of Nod and the Global Defense Initiative. You 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 you have to build a base first to build new units and structures. Most important are the special harvesters, which collect Tiberium and deliver it to a refinery, where it's converted into money - money which is needed to create additional units.

The game also features FMV mission briefings and victory cutscenes.

Alternate Titles

• "終極動員令" -- Chinese title (traditional)
• "Command & Conquer: Tiberium Dawn" -- Working title
• "Command & Conquer Teil 1: Der Tiberiumkonflikt" -- German title
• "C&C" -- Informal title

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User Reviews

A fast paced, brilliantly designed game that has stood the test of time	Maw (828)
The yardstick by which all RTS are measured.	The Mahaduta (8)
A Definitive Title of the Real-Time Strategy Genre	Antti Salminen (66)
Full of flaws- yet addictive and fun.	El-ad Amir (111)	unrated
An addictive game.	robotriot (6165)
This game made "Real-Time Strategy" a household term.	Raphael (1175)
I like this game. A lot. This is the anti-Warcraft.	Thohan (19)	unrated
I HATE this game!	PCGamer77 (3051)
Genuinely dislikable.	Tomer Gabel (4480)

The Press Says

Abandonia	Dec 28, 2004	5 out of 5	100
Coming Soon Magazine	Mar 14, 1996	95 out of 100	95
GameSpot	May 01, 1996	9.3 out of 10	93
PC Player (Germany)	Jul, 1995	91 out of 100	91
PC Games (Germany)	Aug, 1995	90 out of 100	90
Just Games Retro	Aug 11, 2007	81 out of 100	81
High Score	Nov, 1995	4 out of 5	80

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Trivia

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