This attracted a wide audience and set the stage for the development of the modern RTS genre. Command & Conquer injected fast-paced action into a genre previously defined by slower, turn-based gameplay. The story is told through cutting-edge live-action cutscenes and mission reports, a feature that became standard in future titles. Gameplay focuses on base creation, resource management, and combat. Commanding either the NOD or GDI, players take charge of troop units, air strikes, base installations, production facilities, and ground vehicles. The two factions are involved in an intense battle over a powerful alien resource called Tiberium and the future of the world hangs in the balance. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn places players in the middle of a global conflict between the criminal organization Brotherhood of Nod (NOD) and the Global Defense Initiative (GDI), a UN task force. Publisher Virgin Interactive and developer Westwood Studios released the first game in the Command & Conquer series in 1995. Catch the reveal trailer below, and wishlist it on Steam to keep up with development updates.The Command & Conquer franchise is credited with defining and popularizing the real-time strategy (RTS) genre of video games. The PvP-only game is coming in 2020, and Petroglyph promises two factions with their own unique units and abilities.
Like most RTS games, you'll be gathering resources and building different factories to unlock the different units. Earthbreakers is a multiplayer shooter/RTS hybrid that keeps the construction element of an RTS while letting you take control of individual units in first-person. Many of those same developers now work at Petroglyph, and so have now returned nearly 18 years later for another go at the concept.Įnter Earthbreakers, which Petroglyph quietly revealed late in November. The end result was a clunky, but nonetheless special detour for creator Westwood. The ambitious 2002 project was built on the idea of bringing together the immediate action of first-person shooters with the tactics found in RTS. Some of the developers who created the original Command & Conquer: Renegade are back with another take on the RTS/FPS hybrid.Īmongst the many classics the Command & Conquer series has produced, C&C: Renegade is sort of its bastard child.
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