Command & Conquer: The First Decade

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Many of us grew up on the Command and Conquer series and now a new generation will be able to experience all 12 C&C released titles! Command & Conquer: The First Decade will give gamers access to the all the hits in one handy box set.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2006--Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS - News) is pleased to announce Command & Conquer(TM) The First Decade, one of the largest PC franchise compilations to date, shipped to stores nationwide today. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the special collector's edition includes a dozen of your favorite Command & Conquer(TM) (C&C) games spanning the last ten years plus a bonus DVD of commemorative video features.

Command & Conquer The First Decade will combine the following titles:

Command & Conquer(TM) (Aug. 1995)
Command & Conquer The Covert Operations(TM) (April 1996)
Command & Conquer Red Alert(TM) (Oct. 1996)
Command & Conquer Red Alert(TM) The Aftermath(TM) (Sept. 1997)
Command & Conquer Red Alert Counterstrike(TM) (Mar 1997)
Command & Conquer(TM) Tiberian Sun(TM) (Aug. 1999)
Command & Conquer(TM) Tiberian Sun(TM) Firestorm(TM) (Feb. 2000)
Command & Conquer Red Alert(TM) 2 (Oct. 2000)
Command & Conquer Red Alert(TM) Yuri's Revenge(TM) (Oct. 2001)
Command & Conquer Renegade(TM) (Feb. 2002)
Command & Conquer(TM) Generals (Feb. 2003)
Command & Conquer(TM) Generals Zero Hour (Sept. 2003)

 

[tris-]

at last, people can witness how things slowly turned to crap after EA took over westwood studios.

 

[Mazling]

We're stuck with that crap - Supreme Commander has been put back until 2007.

 

[PLightstar]

Should be good playing through orginal C&C and RA but not to bothered about the others, renegade was okish pretty much didn't see the point of Generals

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Heck, if this means C&C and RA will have full compatibility with XP, woo.

 

[Whipped]

Heck, if this means C&C and RA will have full compatibility with XP, woo.

Somehow, I doubt it. They'll probably just give you the old version and a text file explaining that it may not work

 

[pingu]

Somehow, I doubt it. They'll probably just give you the old version and a text file explaining that it may not work

Too fucking true.

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Read up on this, apparently xp compatibility is the big thing for the set, some reported minor problems exist with vanilla Generals. Zero hour is fine though.

Although there's no network support (that is, updated network mojo so they can be more easily played over the net) which is a shame, going to have to use the same old tools to set up network games it seems, not that i'm much of a multiplayer anyhow (read: crap).

 

[KevinUK]

Just to say I agree about EA ruining the series. The first games were the best then they slowly got worse and worse until I didnt even buy the last few.

 

[PLightstar]

If it works on XP im looking forward to seeing the classic Cutscenes from C&C

 

[ECA]

Haha.

C&C was made because westwood didn't want to pay for another dune license.
In fact the original C&C was a poor hashup of Dune 2, worse unit strengths/weaknesses, only two sides ( Hello fuckoff multiway battles in the later stages of Dune 2 ).

Just a shame Dune 2000 went down the route of C&C ( ill thought out units, and stupid amounts of build types/units ).

 

[Aada]

Yeah i loved dune 2 for the megadrive was really hard come the last 2 lvls when you were against the other 2 houses... them battles would take all day.

 

[ECA]

The megadrive version wasn't as good as the PC version.

PS: Last two levels not too bad, as long as harkannon death hand missile doesn't destroy your base with the first strike.

Great luring enemy units onto sandworms etc :-]