Trivia
In the German gaming magazine PC Player (issue 01/2000) Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun received a special award as "Most Hyped Game in 1999".
Between 1999 and 2000, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun won a single Gold- and three Platinum-Awards from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 units (Gold) and more then three times 200,000 units (Platinum) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. As the Gold-Award is not counted into the Platinum-Award, all four awards total in between 700,000 and 1,700,000 units sold.
Contributed by
Xoleras (66993) on Apr 09, 2008.
Tiberian Sun was the fastest selling game on the EA games label (1.5 Million copies within a month).
Did you know that the final sun map editor can be used for C&C:RA and C&C:RA2.
The German version replaces all the soldiers with cyborgs.
Tiberian Sun was voted #29 overall in PCGamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll (April 2000 issue).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 
(3025) on Jan 22, 2001.
After four years of development upon C&C:TS project, Westwood Studios released "Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun" soundtrack as well. Soundtrack is automatically packed in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Platinum Edition, that's 50,000 pieces limited edition, or it can be found in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Firepower bundle pack that contains C&C:TS, C&C:TS:FS and soundtrack.
Beside that, this soundtrack is available for purchase, either directly from Westwood Studios, or from SynSoniq Records (the world's biggest game soundtrack store).
Here's song list with a composer aside the titles:
- Timebomb (Frank Klepacki)
- Pharotek (Jarrid Mendelson)
- Lone Trooper (Jarrid Mendelson)
- Scouting (Jarrid Mendelson)
- Infrared (Frank Klepacki)
- Flurry (Frank Klepacki & Jarrid Mendelson)
- Mutants (Frank Kepacki & Jarrid Mendelson)
- Gloom (Jarrid Mendelson)
- Heroism (Jarrid Mendelson)
- Approach (Frank Klepacki)
- Dusk Hour (Frank Klepacki & Jarrid Mendelson)
- The Defense (Jarrid Mendelson)
- Mad Rap (Frank Klepacki)
- Valves (Frank Klepacki)
- What Lurks (Frank Klepacki)
- Score (Frank Klepacki)
All songs composed & performed by
Frank Klepacki (Westwood Studios), and
Jarris Mendelson (Digital Media House).
"I didn't want to stray too far from the original C&C soundtrack, but it had to be more futuristic and ambient. From there I tried to capture the mood the designers wanted for each mission. I even brought in another composer for some of the in game scores, Jarrid Mendelson, who I knew would compliment my style for this genre of music. Also, you'll notice I put more development into GDI & NOD's signature themes for the movie sequences."
-
Frank Klepacki, Senior Composer
Contributed by
MAT (36675) on Jul 27, 2000.
Designers -- The design team started work on Tiberian Sun in 1995, just a few weeks after Command & Conquer shipped. The final design document was finished in late 1997. The game was completed in July of 1999.
Filming -- In July of 1998, in the 110 degree heat of the Nevada desert, a crew of more than 40 came together to film the story of Tiberian Sun.
Artists -- Over the four years of development, the art of Tiberian Sun evolved from simple pencil sketches to high-resolution 3D movies pushing several million polygons.
Audio -- "We had a blast with this game. We hooked up with the FBI to record explosives from their bomb detonation training course to bring realistic sound effects to the game" - a quote by Dwight Okahara, Senior Sound Designer of Tiberian Sun.
Contributed by
MAT (36675) on Jun 02, 2000.
There is a special version of Tiberian Sun game called Platinum Edition which contains soundtrack, making of the game booklet, and a small GDI/NOD figurine. There was only 50.000 pieces out in the world which made it rarely collection.
But the peoples in the Asian market were hard to get those limited edition pieces, so Westwood made about 18.000 (a bit more I think) pieces of Platinum Edition set which was slightly different from the previous one. The game code didn't existed here, and that thing makes these Platinum Edition pieces even more rare as a collection.
Contributed by
MAT (36675) on Apr 22, 2000.
