Command & Conquer: The First Decade Comments by Jim Rossignol

To be fair, reviewing the games alone from the perspective of someone who's never played them before would probably rate at around 6. Anything below RA2 is solely playable for retro value. An equivalent comparison would be playing 5 hours of Civ 4 and then starting a new game of Civ1, I guess.

But for fans of the series, the review and score has little meaning.

It has RA 2 in it, so it's automatically worth getting :D

RA2 was a new depth in the C&C series imo (after TS, also published by EA). 0_o

RA2 is one of my all-time favourite games and, IMO, the best RTS game ever made.

But then again, I loathe Starcraft and Warcraft games. Awful.

Anyone knows how Renegade in multiplayer is supported? That is still possible to play online now I mean? Say whatever you want about the game but that demo had great stuff in it imo.

I loved Renegade online! offline was boring though.

6/10 For this superb package? Are you mad

12 Games for the price of 1, worth every penny. Each one of these games in the mammoth DVD is brilliant (excluding renegade). This is just a great way of releasing all the classics fit to work on modern pc's with no hassle. Sure you may already have the games, this great package fills in those odd addons or entire games you missed out. Even if i had every single C&C gam, i still would have got it, it's just so simple and easy having everything store on 1 DVD, worth every penny.

Sure the old games such as C&C and C&C Red Alert can be now slightly annoying to play, with somewhat bad AI, but you play it because you played it years ago, you're remembering the days. Hell im playing them and am fully enjoyin them, also laughing at bad acting.

You can't really rate this package to be a six, not when nearly all the games in the package when first released where around a 9. The average then would be 9, i give it 10 because it's great value for money, especially if you never actually played these before and it's all-in-one. Don't know what im talking about? Consider other series then such as Quake or Jedi Knight. What's the best C&C game, some would say Generals, some would say the original because thats what made this series, I say Red Alert because i grew up playin this game and couldn't get enough. Whats the best Quake game, some would say Quake 4, some would say Quake, alot i think would say Quake 3, personally i would say Quake 2, i grew up playing this game, and still today it is my fav game of all time.

Oh and all the oldies have not been altered in anyway so you can play the classics the way they were first made, what more could you ask

For me, this would get a 4/10 - the games are dated, no different to the original, and tbh I only ever really liked Red Alert (am more of a Starcraft man myself, C&C was too sluggish for me)

smally, if you regress even further, you probably grew up playing with Playmobil too. Would you rate that a 10 as well?

Sure, there's some classics in there, for me its the grandaddy of resource gathering RTS, but if you look at it objectively, after a couple of hours nostalgia value, there's nothing that's going to make you want to ever play it again.

It gets a 6. Above average. Not too shabby for some ageing games if you ask me, and worth the price for Generals alone, but 9 or 10? Behave.

Christ, I'd hate to be a Eurogamer reviewer. They just can't win.

"They couldn't be bothered to come up with a one-key-fits all, no you have to manually type in one hundred and fifty digits before you can even install."

Am I the only one who finds that level of sheer incompetance hysterically funny? It made me fire luke-warm Earl Grey through my nostrils. In the office. At a particularly quiet moment.

Pretending there aren't two-dozen people watching you clean snot and tea from you keyboard isn't quite as difficult as I'd feared though, thankfully.

Truly, a most excellent review Mr Rossignol. "Mad props" etc.

Why not just release Generals (or whatever the latest one was) and call it a Special Edition with all the old games in it, that would make it appear less like a bargain bin bundle bungle

I love how certain people rush to buy 'classic compilations' that developers release just to cach in on a dead franchise.

It's obvious this type of thing appeals to true fans of this (or any other) series due to being a collectors item, but at 40 quid you can't really expect anyone else to take this 'offer' seriously?!

I think nostalgic garbage like this is lucky to get a score as high as 6/10.

Well I just ordered it and it only ost £18.