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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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
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