INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Command and Conquer was everything in the '90s
In this extremely influential real-time strategy series, you'd build a base, gather resources, raise an army and send them to battle, hoping
and the goofy story went into alternate history: the game starts with Albert Einstein erasing Adolf Hitler from reality, leading to a
version of the 20th century where Stalin's Soviet Union is at constant war with the Allies
Unit types became more colorful, weird and sci-fi, giving the series a personality that's otherwise so elusive in games about military
clearly been developed with great reverence for their many fans
If you spent hundreds of hours knocking down power plants and ore refineries with mammoth tanks in your younger days, this is a treat
when the RTS is barely a force at all on PC, outside of shiny re-releases and Starcraft 2's ever-strong following
Between this and Microsoft's extensive efforts to update the Age of Empires series, the future of this type of game seems to be revisiting
primarily Red Alert, sampling story missions we remember very well and getting into a few apocalyptic rounds of Skirmish Mode against the
You can even hit the space bar in the middle of battle to transition from the new art for units, buildings and map tiles into their original
Command and Conquer series has been widely available for some time in an Ultimate Collection pack, compatibility with Windows 10 varies
wildly depending on the game
While we'd argue that EA could've patched this collection and solved that a long time ago, this new edition feels like far more than a
As well as the new art pass, which produces fantastic results even when you zoom in on units using the mouse wheel, composer Frank Klepacki
has completely remastered the iconic soundtrack for both games
well as the expansions for both Command and Conquer and Red Alert, some memorable secret missions have made the cut, too, along with levels
released exclusively for the console edition of C-C (note that we haven't tested the multiplayer at the time of writing, though).Our only
issues with this remaster have been some graphical stuttering and overly long waits on loading save files, both of which were alleviated
when we moved the game to an SSD
matter, two decades later(Image credit: EA)The upgrade in presentation aside, these games are exactly the way we remember them, even down to
the units' absurd pathfinding
If EA wants to make a new Command and Conquer game down the road, that suits us, but these entries are best left with their quirks
So many more lazy afternoons are about to be eaten up by chaotic bouts of Skirmish, as entire bases disappear in a storm of tesla coil zaps,
monster hit back in its day, we're really glad that it did
Fingers crossed this is successful enough that we get a similar collection for Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 on
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