Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection (2012)
Genres:Strategy, Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Themes:Action, Warfare, Science fiction, Sandbox
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Are you ready for the ultimate real-time strategy experience? Gather resources, build your base, and create the most powerful armies in the world before engaging the enemy in all-out war. Fight as the Global Defense Initiative or the Brotherhood of Nod as they clash over the rare mineral Tiberium in the classic original series. Challenge the red menace in an alternate universe in Red Alert, then step into the near future with Generals as China and the United States battle the Global Liberation Army, a terrorist organization hell-bent on bringing the world to its knees. However you play, you’ll enjoy limitless hours of RTS Command & Conquer gaming with 10 base games and 7 in-depth expansion packs.
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Game Features:
Engage in intense, strategic battles. Make the most of every move as you order soldiers, vehicles, and aircraft across large maps filled with enemies, traps, and mission-critical resources. Move single troops, select small groups, or issue a unified attack order to all allies as you work to defeat the opponent.
Collect, create, conquer. Success in battle requires more than just a keen battle strategy. Fight for control as you struggle to collect the resources necessary to build new bases, troops, and weaponry, all while keeping the enemy at bay.
Command and Conquer everything. Explore the wide range of Command & Conquer games and fight every war from both sides! Rediscover the epic conflicts across two decades of gameplay. Take a first-person view of the C&C universe through Command & Conquer: Renegade – the series’ one and only first-person shooter – or start playing from the very beginning and enjoy the frenetic style of combat, immersive strategy and campy banter that launched a generation of strategy warfare games.Show more
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Strangely, my clearest memories are of the soundtrack and random mission flashes. I wish I could revisit it on GOG to see how well my memories hold up. Of course this was THE RTS series. What is sad there genre is not so popular as it sued to be, so it is even more important to keep the classics alive.
To this day and since I could configure my own notification sounds on phones, it's CABALs voice from Tiberian Sun saying "incoming transmission". The lore and world building of CnC was never achieved again by other (rts) franchises.
I think the oldest photos of me are of me playing general: zero hour. I still play it though it is more than janky on modern hardware and Red Alert 2 would be nice to have in say widescreen without messing with it.
C and C Red Alert 2 and Yuri Revenge have tickled my brain in a way that no other RTS has done. Everything from the game play and cut seen videos are awesome. I have found memories of playing for hours with friends / by myself and going to bed and seeing flashes of game play in my dreams. I have the 10 year C and C anniversary box-set (DVD disc), however one great barrier to playing this now is that the disc is degrading and I only have one remaining working DVD drive.
If this is released on GOG it will be an instant purchase for me!
The RTS games I grew up with. Own and played and still play some times!
I can't not recommend this series to anyone looking on trying a RTS series, but really, who hasn't played a Command & Conquer game before ;)
The C N C series was THEE RTS series to beat and in many ways still is. It's historic and classic gameplay, story telling and presentation defined parts of two whole generations of gamers. However, it's absence from GOG is as glaring as it is confusing. Come on EA, list them all here and include the Remasters!
My earliest memory are the responses from units: Tanya, Einstein, then the iconic spy "Yesh Shir", "Commander?", and following up to Allied and Soviet units. Red Alert games were always my favourite (apart from 3) and I loved setting up bases all over the map until I finally crushed the isolated (by my forces and clever strategy) enemy in some corner.
Good times!
My first experience with falling in love with a video game was with Red Alert 2. I was around 5 years old and my father installed the game for me to play, and instantly fell in love. Every year I return to beat it because it feels like home. It inspired me to pursue computer programming so I could make games that made people feel, the way this game made me feel as a kid.
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