Thirith on 31/8/2015 at 09:57

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I never got more than a couple of hours into any RTS, but I always enjoyed the B movie charm of the Command & Conquer games. Can't get all the links here at work, but I have a particular fondness for the Red Alert trailers and their use of Mozart's Requiem. And Kane is one iconic motherfucker.

Sulphur on 31/8/2015 at 17:35

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C&C was one of the first games with FMV that I ever played. I still remember the install/setup screens, along with the sound test. It was this new and slick thing for us, this strategy genre. You could deploy soldiers, point them at things and each other and watch bodies fly into the air, painting the ground red on impact, grenades flying every which way - it epitomised ultra cool. Even the building animations when they deployed were amazing. Slick as hell. The FMV was the cherry on top, a reward for finishing a mission; something that Starcraft perfected to a science years later, but without the hammy brilliance.

Red Alert was a class apart, too, especially when Tanya came onto the scene and blew it the fuck up. Westwood knew what it was doing. It's been over a decade since I've played C&C, and now that the memories rise to the fore, I find I miss those days. Talking to friends about how cool Einstein was. Didyouseewhathedid!? Hitler! Holy shit!! Man. Where's that crazy shit today? It's been too long.

driver on 1/9/2015 at 16:41

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My favourite mission from the first game will always be the GDI one where you get a single commando and a chinook. Hard as nails it was (and slightly unfair as there was a chance that when you C4'd a building minigunners would spawn and take out your only unit) but oh so satisfying when you finally figured it out and snuck (sneaked, snook?) him into the NOD base. I was also really impressed that it remembered which building you destroyed in for the following mission, if you managed to take out his construction yard, you had a much easier time.

Also, dem Orcas. Oh man were they fun!

Shadowcat on 2/9/2015 at 07:32

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I'd really enjoyed WC2, and was looking forward to finally playing C&C, but I bounced off it in a fairly big way, so I never tried any of the sequels.

Unfortunately I was in a phase where I played almost every game I had to completion (in retrospect I'm going to say that was definitely some kind of OCD); so even though I wasn't really enjoying it, I forced myself to complete the first campaign, and convinced myself that was sufficient to consider that I'd finished 'the game', and I could put away the CDs without it bugging me.

(I presumably lost that particular OCD manifestation by necessity, as the number of games I acquired simply exceeded my ability to ever complete them all.)

I really wish I'd liked it. So many people love the series that I'm sure the games (or at <em>least</em> the first couple) must be genuinely good.

Was C&C vs WC2 a big divide in general? Or did people who liked one tend to like the other? I don't remember any more.

edit: That <em>is</em> an awesome intro movie, though! :)

Ev0luti0n_ on 3/9/2015 at 21:06

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20 years have passed... Oh my... I remember the game, although i didn't got to play the first one, but I did play a lot "the red alert" oh how time passes! :")

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