[.ca] Command & Conquer The First Decade

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In 1995, a young game studio named Westwood released one of the first real-time strategy games. They had created the genre a few years earlier, but this title took the fledgling genre to new heights with impressive graphics, revolutionary gameplay features and an enthralling story told through the then-young art of full motion video. After twelve successful games spread out over ten years, the venerable Command & Conquer franchise has become synonymous with the real-time strategy genre it popularized, and the entire series is now available on one disc in Command & Conquer The First Decade. Command & Conquer the First Decade collects the entire Command and Conquer library on one disc. Red Alert offers mixes vintage World War 2 vehicles with some distinctly modern touches. View larger. Generals is more geared for the current gamer, with a contemporary setting and modern graphics. View larger. Tiberian Sun updates the classic Command and Conquer game, continuing the storyline with improved gameplay and graphics. View larger. Battle the old-fashioned way with the original Command & Conquer, watch an alternate World War II unfold in Command & Conquer Red Alert or control the modern warfield in Command & Conquer Generals--all three of Command & Conquer's worlds are open to nostalgic gamers and modern aficionados alike. Tiberian Dawn Old friends await the seasoned gamer in the original Command & Conquer universe, as the fanatical Brotherhood of Nod battles the Global Defense Initiative in a war over the mineral Tiberium. Whether playing as the Brotherhood and obeying the charismatic Kane's every command or taking control of GDI forces as they seek to save the world from Kane's ambition, every detail of Command & Conquer is just as you remember it. The original full motion videos tell the story in what was once cutting-edge and is now quaint, and the gameplay is simple as can be. Gather Tiberium to produce tanks, infantry and more to decide the fate of the world, or try to connect to others with one of the first online game-finding services! Bring the original storyline to a close in Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun, and determine the fate of the world--or, if you want a break from the strategy formula, take control of a GDI Commando in the recent Command & Conquer Renegade, a first person shooting game set in the Tiberium universe. See the world of C & C up close and personal from Nick "Havoc" Parker's point of view as he fights a one-man war against the forces of Nod armed with a diverse arsenal of weapons and one-liners. Engage in heated battles over nameless fields and familiar territory alike in your struggle to save the world. View larger. The Red Menace Perhaps the most popular game of the franchise, Command & Conquer Red Alert asks the question, "What if Albert Einstein mastered time travel, then used it to go back in time and kill Hitler?" The answer is a world at war not with Nazi-led Germany, but the rapidly expanding Soviet Union under Stalin's iron fist. Dip into the world of historical fiction as the Allied forces take on the Soviet bloc in a war fought not just by soldiers, planes and tanks, but by time travelers, psychics and giant tesla coils. This more refined and advanced real time strategy game features gameplay innovations that greatly influenced the games that followed, including building queues and other convenient options, providing a nice balance between nostalgia and playability. A World at War While Command & Conquer takes place in the future and Red Alert in the past, Command & Conquer Generals offers its version of the present, as the United States, China and a terrorist group known as GLA battle all over the world. The most game-oriented of the series, Generals contains no FMV like its predecessors, concentrating instead on pure 3D gameplay as well as the wry humor that peppered the previous games. In all, Command & Conquer The First Decade contains not only the games that defined a genre, but the history of that genre. Players can experience the evolution of the real-time strategy game as they play each game in sequence, and see for themselves how far the technology has come since 1995--but also find out that the old games still have some life left in them.

Command & Conquer The First Decade:
I would advise strongly against purchasing this game. EA has taken this great game series, built for Windows 95 and re- released the series for XP, WITHOUT CORRECTING the compatibility issues that prevented playing the orignial series on XP. So for your money you get a bug infested series of games that crash and lock up your system, even with the patches installed. It is a real tragedy and a testament to the high profit motive and poor game quality integrity of EA Games. P.S. Read the reviews before you buy. If you read any reviews from people praising this release as wonderful and perfect, you will know whose pocket they're in!

COMMAND AND CONQUER THE FIRST DECADE:
COMMAND AND CONQUER THE FIRST DECADE I CAN'T BEGIN TO EXPRESS MY DISSAPPOINTMENT AND DISGUST AT EA GAMES FOR CLEARLY RIPPING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LOYAL C & C FANS OUT OF 50 BUCKS OVER THIS WORTHLESS POS RE RELEASE THAT VIRTUALLY NOONE CAN PLAY WITHOUT GRIEF. A TESTAMENT TO THE MAGNITUDE OF THE DELIBERATE FRAUD PERPETRATED ON MILLIONS C & C FANS. EA, YOU REALLY HAVE BECOME A BIG TIME MONEY GRUBBING CORPORATE MACHINE, HAVEN'T YOU? HOW MUCH DID YOU MAKE ON THIS LITTLE SCAM? YOU ARE A FRAUD AND A SCAM! ARE YOU LISTENING TO THE GROUND SWELL OF OUTRAGED USERS OUT HERE? ARE YOU READY FOR THE BACKLASH? THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF WHO HAVE NEVER BOTHERED TO WRITE TO ANY GAME PRODUCER BEFORE ARE TAKING UP THE SWORD BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU FRAUDSTERS HAVE SO BLATANTLY DONE TO BUTCHER THIS GREAT GAME FOR PROFIT. EVERYWHERE TALK OF A BOYCOTT OF EA GAME PRODUCTS. I TOO HAVE JOINED THIS MOVEMENT. I PERSONALLY HAVE IN THE PAST BOUGHT MANY OF YOUR GAMES. I WANT YOU TO KNOW I WILL BUY NO MORE PRODUCTS FROM YOU AGAIN. I HOPE AND WILL ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE AND PUSH FROM NOW ON TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF YOUR KIND OF SELF SERVING OPERATION. I HOPE IT HURTS YOUR BOTTOM LINE BADLY. THAT WOULD PLEASE MANY MANY PEOPLE. AND TO PUT YOU THIEVES OUT OF BUSINESS WOULD BE A JUST EVENT.

A compilation of the greatest strategy games ever created:
Whether you're a C & C fan or are not familiar with the series, this is a must have game. As the name suggests, there is a decade worth of games dating all the way back to 1995 when the first C & C was released and 1996 when Red Alert was released. You get all games created up until and including C & C Generals plus all and any expansions that came with each respective game. Suffice it to say, there's a great experience to be had, whether you have played all of these games or not.