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With The First Decade pack.

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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Aretak #1 6 years ago

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Nice... I'll be having of those if the price is right. All the games before Tiberian Sun simply don't work with Windows 2000 (won't even install), so being able to play them again will be nice.
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trevd72 #2 6 years ago

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C&C is indeed a great series. it took the foundations of Dune on the amiga and i would say created a new genre. it was one of the first LAN games i set up along with Doom and Duke Nukem - and hold it up with those two as great games from the past.
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space_ace #3 6 years ago

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the first c&c still is the only strategy i got into. whatever that means
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jellyhead #4 6 years ago

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Dune 2 as an Easter Egg please!
damn, that game was addictive.
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Eldritch #5 6 years ago

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With 23 million units sold they could've recreated the old games in the new engine, like Lucasarts did with TIE Fighter (best game ever, by the way). Oh, and they might want to get rid of those goofy Michael Biehn videos (or put them on a seprate DVD for laughs).
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PearOfAnguish #6 6 years ago

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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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Eldritch #7 6 years ago

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By buying Westwood?
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Artemus #8 6 years ago

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I presume they'll be sorting out compatibility with XP for the earlier games...?

Shame I own all of them, bar Renegade, already though. Reckon this'll be pretty hefty price.

Any news on Red Alert 3? Here's hoping for the return of shockily badly acted clips between missions.
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#9 6 years ago

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Definitely going to pick this up!
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Eldritch #10 6 years ago

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They should turn it into a direct-to-video film with Michael Biehn, James Earl Jones ("This is CNN", Ray Wise, Nicholas Worth and Udo Kier. As new characters I propose Robert Z'Dar, Larry Drake and Wings Hauser.
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sephy #11 6 years ago

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This is definately of interest for Red alert 1+missions alone

But it would have to be cheap

anyone know if the psone games are playable if i get the mouse?
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Aretak #12 6 years ago

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I used to very much enjoy the PSone version of Retaliation, but that was before I ever played the PC version. I suspect it would look a bit rubbish now.
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Bitkari #13 6 years ago

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Now Red Alert 2 will work with Service Pack 2, presumably...
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jellyhead #14 6 years ago

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I hope they do something about the res on these games, they'll look awful at 640x480 or 800x600.
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eric2k5 #15 6 years ago

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Kari Wuhrer as Tanya rocked in Red Alert 2.

Yeah Baby!!!
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jellyhead #16 6 years ago

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cha-ching!
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Artemus #17 6 years ago

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anyone know if the psone games are playable if i get the mouse?

A lot better with a mouse but matches are prone to slowdown. Plus there's no saves mid mission.
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Xerx3s #18 6 years ago

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�A sequelirites. What exactly is there to celebrate? They destroyed westwood. They destroyed C&C. Good going �A, party aweh!
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teccrom #19 6 years ago

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I hope they're updated to run on modern machines, as Rockstar did with their classic releases.
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AHiFi #20 6 years ago

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Gamespot says it'll be selling for $40 in the US...that's a nice price for so many games.
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c.lo #21 6 years ago

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Brings a tear to the eyes

my word, ive been playing pc games for 10 years now
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Trog #22 6 years ago

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Will they work on my DS (hint, hint)?
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Royal Fool #23 6 years ago

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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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StixxUK #24 6 years ago

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The series was fucking great up until Renegade.

/realises he's never played Generals, retracts statement.
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Freek #25 6 years ago

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You're not missing much. Generals feels like a tech demo for the Sage engine, all sparkly but no soul or originality.
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Lost_in_Darkness #26 6 years ago

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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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urban #27 6 years ago

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they dont deserve it...westwood...hack yourself free from the scum.
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