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Command & Conquer: The First Decade (PC DVD)
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2/5 |
Depends how many old titles you're missing
(May 28, 2008) |
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To celebrate the anniversary EA offered up the 1995 CnC for free download. This kind of compilation would be great in a half-price sale, then you'd only be paying for the add-ons that you might have missed.
Anyone who has bought, played and kept all the old games from the past, this compilation's pointless, and brand new PC owners might want to just buy a combined CnC 3 with Kane's Wrath add-on and start from there. Hearing from other reviews that Tiberian Sun's just as buggy as it was before is another personal minus, I'll stick with my retail copy from back then. However with Red Alert 3 on its way fairly soon, EA can re-issue this one every so often and it might eventually become more worthwhile. |
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4/5 |
really for the person who knows what its about
(March 21, 2008) |
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OK. so u have played command and conquer before and you loved it. fair enough. This pack contains all the command and conquers up till last year. 12 games in one. including the excellent Red Alert series and Tiberium sun. command and conquer is a brilliant franchise and series of games. for those of you that don't know what its about, it takes war play to a whole new levels. build your bases and eliminate you enemies with some of the uncanny and unusual armoury and weaponary only the mind can come across. for those of you who havent played it...do it. it also containts the 1st person shooter renegade which wasnt the reason i bought it. |
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3/5 |
Fantastic retro action, and very good value
(January 30, 2008) |
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First of all I should say this is not the best RTS ever, or the most innovative, and there are other worthy RTS out there, Total Annihilation, Ground Control. Dark Reign, Z, available for peanuts, so don't forget about them.
Red Alert and Command and Conquer haven't aged well, and the video still looks awful, with los res and interlacing all over the place. The acting in Command Conquer is some of he worst since Night Trap.
The missions are also extremely hard, even on easy, unless you play on snore inducingly slow speed as the AI can work faster than you.
It also has the annoying idea, and Command and Conquer is not the only offender, or having missions either start off with nothing against an AI all over the map, or start off with nothing and try to acheive an abjective with the AI spread out all over the map.
By Tiberian Sun things get better, the graphics are much better, and it runs better, mainly because it wasn't based on DOS with the first two.
I didn't find the bugs everyone did, I'm runnning WINXP SP2.
This is fantastic value with the later editions, but only if you don't have the original games. Given the choice, personally I'd rather have any of the games in the first paragraph than this, simply because the single player game gets so boring, repetitive and difficult.
For old school, and to see the birth of RTS, look no furthur. And check out Dune II in DOSBox for the real dawn of RTS, it plays better than Command and Conquer and Red Alert do now! |
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4/5 |
Great games but some problems...
(December 22, 2007) |
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This is a great pack and great value for money but it does have lots and lots of bugs which need fixing! They are not so bad as to prevent the game from starting but they appear to happen completely randomly during play so make sure you save lots!
The actual games themselves are amazing, Westwood Studios make the best games of this type by a long way. The other advantage is that you can play them on a below average computer, unlike C&C 3 whereby you need a brand new laptop or an expensive desktop to play! Though make sure you're
computer can play DVDs before buying...
Also shop around because you can get this pack very cheaply now... |
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5/5 |
CNC HELL
(September 04, 2007) |
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all the games and expantion packs (apart from cnc 3 tiberium wars) fun for weeks |
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