EA celebrates C&C News
PC News by Tom Bramwell
EA has announced Command & Conquer: The First Decade for release in February 2006, but before you get too excited, it's not a new game, it's actually a compilation of the last ten years' worth of C&C releases - lovingly compiled by EA's LA studio with a DVD of video features thrown in to boot.
The series has apparently sold in excess of 23 million units worldwide including expansion packs and spin-off (like the woeful C&C Renegade), and after ten years EA reckons it's worth reminding people. EA LA's Louis Castle, one of the founders of Westwood, which first developed the game, said he was "thrilled" by the prospect of a compilation. "It seems like yesterday when we were all pleasantly surprised by the way the gaming community wanted to play this new type of strategy game," he said.
As well as the games listed below, C&C The First Decade comes with a DVD consisting of half a dozen features (including an interview with Castle), and EA is also planning to talk to the world's biggest C&C fan - as soon as they've found him or her. A search is currently underway at www.commandandconquer.ea.com.
The full line-up then:
- Command & Conquer (August 1995)
- Command & Conquer The Covert Operations (April 1996)
- Command & Conquer Red Alert (Oct. 1996)
- Command & Conquer Red Alert The Aftermath (September 1997)
- Command & Conquer Red Alert Counterstrike (March 1997)
- Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun (August 1999)
- Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun Firestorm (February 2000)
- Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 (October 2000)
- Command & Conquer Yuri's Revenge (October 2001)
- Command & Conquer Renegade (February 2002)
- Command & Conquer Generals (February 2003
- Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour (September 2003)
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PearOfAnguish
04/11/05 @ 14:39
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Best news of the month.
they might want to get rid of those goofy Michael Biehn videos Get out. It's thank to people like YOU, yes, YOU, that EA took all the fun out of the C&C series. |
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Royal Fool
04/11/05 @ 19:23
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It's a nice little effort from EA, totally not what I was expecting from them considering their total lack of support for C&C Generals, which they have all but abandoned (Like the game series in it's entirety). I doubt they'll increase the resolution very much... well, maybe they will bundle the gold editions which saw an increase in resolution features... but even today it's only a paltry 800x600.
Red Alert 2 is just one of the most awesome multiplayer strategy games of all time... along with the original C&C, Warcraft 2, Total Annihilation and others. |
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Lost_in_Darkness
05/11/05 @ 22:56
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1st thing ea has ever done right. I can't wait to play the early C&C's again, they just don't work on current OS's.
But adding to what someone said earlier, i really hope they have the badly acted videos inbetween missions for Red Alert 3, that was one of the staples of the franchise. Plus post ea C&C has been shit anyway, I really hope they make RA3 true to the series rather than the crap that was Generals. |
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