Command and Conquer series

[David Alan Abramczyk]

This thred is for discussing the Command and Conquer family of games. You can talk about any facet of the universes here.

For instance, the famous Red Alert theme Hell March. I just discovered what the slightly muffled shouting at the start is.

The actual words are "Die Waffen û legt an!", which is a German military command which means approximately "Bring rifles to fighting position!"

 

[Cornuthaum]

Being a native german speaker (Austria, woo-hoo), that part was clearly the least surprising

To be honest, I ask for Generals not being included in the "Command & Conquer Series".

It is an excellent modern-time RTS, even years after it's publication.

It is not, however, a Command & Conquer game.

From the lack of FMV to the lack of a SIDEBAR!!! (//the// C&C Element in RTS) to stupidly cliched factions ("Evil Terrorists", "Heroic Americans", "Inhuman Chinese"), it ain't no C&C.

As for Game Music:

Klepacki is god. All C&C without his soundtracks sucked (Generals & Tiberium Wars).

Yes, C&C3 is made of suck. Do not ask me why, but it is the ONLY C&C I have not played through (both NOD and GDI at the last mission).

"The" C&C for me, to be honest, was Red Alert II, esp. with Yuri's REvenge - 3 similar, yet fundamentally different factions (Heavy Armor Soviets, Hightech Allies and WTFPSYCHO Yuri). Maximum of fun with a maximum of comfort and acceptable graphics.

Plus, nothing beats the feeling of dreadful glee you get when you -make your own wood out of mirage tanks-

Why hide near woods when you can make them yourself?

 

[locke69]

Why do I have the urge to reinstall all of the First Decade DVD games except Renegede(sp?) now? Wait... now I know, I've never been able to beat C&C and the first Red Alert and it drives me slightly mad when reminded.

The best game of the series was TS for me, spent hours upon hours of ripping NOD forces apart without sensor arrays or with just Orca Fighters and Bombers. Good times.


And one question before I decide to buy a a few GBs of RAM (hate it when I find out that I have damaged RAM chips) and a newer graphic card (GeForce 4 for my gaming computer), is C&C 3 even worth buying for the PC or 360? I've almost picked it up a few times, but each time I do, I remember buying the various collections of C&C and decided not to waste another $50.

 

[lord geryon]

Red Alert 2 was/is the epitome of C&C.

I don't think they will ever beat it.

 

[Cornuthaum]

Why do I have the urge to reinstall all of the First Decade DVD games except Renegede(sp?) now? Wait... now I know, I've never been able to beat C&C and the first Red Alert and it drives me slightly mad when reminded.

The best game of the series was TS for me, spent hours upon hours of ripping NOD forces apart without sensor arrays or with just Orca Fighters and Bombers. Good times.


And one question before I decide to buy a a few GBs of RAM (hate it when I find out that I have damaged RAM chips) and a newer graphic card (GeForce 4 for my gaming computer), is C&C 3 even worth buying for the PC or 360? I've almost picked it up a few times, but each time I do, I remember buying the various collections of C&C and decided not to waste another $50.

Play a few mission at a friend's place. Or download it, to test whether you feel it's worth spending the money.

Wish I had done the latter... because I DISTINCTLY regret spending 50Ç on it -.-

As for difficulty: C&C1 GDI Commando Mission and the 12th Soviet/13th Allies mission in Red Alert. Each of those REDEFINES "unfairly hard".

 

[Paradigm Shifter]

I loved C&C (and Covert Ops), Red Alert (and it's addons) and Red Alert 2 (and Yuri's Revenge).

I hated Tiberian Sun with a passion that has rarely been exceeded by any game other than Deus Ex: Invisible War... I disliked a lot of the units, I disliked the levels and the story. Mammoth Mk.II was not a Mammoth tank! It was an AT-AT ripoff!

C&C3 I was keen about for a while (I played through the whole game in about five days over Easter) but to be honest now I've completed it, I probably won't play it again - toward the end, the missions all played the same. And that got boring very quickly. A mix of grenadier and rocket troops in APCs, and Zone Troopers... instant win for GDI if you were cautious. Orcas to run interference. NOD... well, as soon as you got the Venom, you could just spam-build loads of them and walk most levels over with ease.

The thing that really shocked me in C&C3 was how overpowered the Ion Cannon was. I mean, NOD's nuke was pants in comparison! You aimed the Ion Cannon at anything and it was toast, along with 90% of the things around it.

 

[locke69]

Right, avoid C&C3 like Barney. That's doable.

Play a few mission at a friend's place. Or download it, to test whether you feel it's worth spending the money.

None of my friends play C&C within a thrity mile radius of me and they are all stuck on FPS games or whatever crap game that is out now that they play because of the graphics. :headbanger: :headbanger:

Moving right along.

Stopped playing the Allied campaign for RA during the mission when you invade a nuke installion with a time limit... or was it the mission after that? The Soviet campaign was a breeze though, just gotta throw more heavy tanks, V2 launchers, and anti-air at the Allies then they can withstand (and at the same time hope the AI doesn't get smart and start using their navy).

The GDI campaign in C&C... I think I ended that final battle as a draw. Ran out of resources and men, both sides, though I was throwing around several Ion bolts down before they could use a nuke. Forgot which mission I got stuck at in the NOD campaign, though I do remember stealing an Orca and destorying a small village protected by a single gun boat.