Frank Klepacki's music for the series culminated in the awe-inspiring Hell March for Red Alert (and the amazing work he would continue to do over at Petroglyph). This, coupled with the rise of CD-ROM gaming, also made use of real actors for its admittedly cheesy cutscenes that added a lot of character to the games. The near-future C&C world of the GDI and NOD still saw a bit more love in the 90s, but Red Alert was everywhere. Not every fan liked the changes but it was still incredibly popular and critically acclaimed for the time. Even if you didn't care too much for story driven campaigns, the new units and forces proved to be a welcome change up from Command & Conquer's "near future" setting. Nearly every RTS game today can trace elements of its lineage back to something that Command & Conquer did in those early years.īut Westwood wasn't done yet so they added a new "what-if" twist to their concept with the epic Red Alert series, imagining a world where Einstein went back in time to take out Hitler but inadvertently opened the door to an ascendant USSR using weird science and psychic agents. It was the Doom of RTS games in the way Doom was for the FPS genre. Units were based off of conventional arms and weapons with creative twists to keep things more fun than militarily accurate and it worked wonders.Īlthough the idea of RTS games wasn't new, Command & Conquer crystallized a lot of the existing concepts into an impressive mix of strategy and real-time elements that would go on to define a genre and create an iconic series. NOD wanted to conquer the world, the GDI fought to keep it free. Command & Conquer pit the forces of the GDI (Global Defense Initiative.the "good" guys) against the forces of the cultish NOD led by the enigmatic Kane (the "bad" guys) in a bid to harvest a mysterious mineral called tiberium that enabled all sorts of advances. Westwood Studios (closed by EA in 2003) were the original devs behind Command & Conquer and revolutionized RTS gaming with the first game back in the early 90s (following another game of theirs, Dune II). Just chiming in to add the other answers here.
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