Which C&C am I buying?

[Liet]

Hey dudes,

The C&C series is on sale at Steam, and I've never played a game in the series. I just bought Tiberium Wars - which other ones are worth playing? Bear in mind I'm only interested in SP play.

I recall that fans of the series had some serious hate towards the last one, right?

 

[Nintendesert]

Someone had a good warning earlier, watch out for the last one and the always connected to the internet requirement.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I like every C&C or Red Alert but Red Alert 3 and I know C&C4 had horrible reviews, they completely changed the play style. I found Red Alert 3 too comical and over the top in stupid ways (guard bears that get on jet ski's??). My favorite ever was Red Alert 2.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I almost forgot EA released C&C 1 and RA 1 as free downloads whenC&C3 was released. Google it.

 

[Cogman]

Red alert 3 was a train wreck. They turned a classic with a semi-serious story to a comedy. All the others that I've played have been good. I haven't played C&C 4 yet.

 

[Maximilian]

Everything before generals so thats RA2/RA1/Tiberian sun/Tiberian dawn and maybe renegade if you feel like mixing it up with an FPS, theyre all pretty dated now though.

Everything after and including generals sucked hard. I bought CNC3 and thought it was okay at the time but looking back nah it was pretty poor, lacking boring maps, single player story butchered, stale gameplay.

 

[Cogman]

Generals wasn't THAT bad. The story line was meh, but it was still fun to play (I thought at least).

The biggest problem with generals was/is how buggy it was/is. It is a memory hog and a CPU hog that will STILL choke up even modern computers during certain parts.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Only thing I didn't like about generals was the terrorist faction, couldn't get myself to play those missions. I know it's a game but it bothered me. I really liked C&C3 especially the expansion with world domination(?) mode. Overall nothing new game play wise but it looked nice and was fun to play.

 

[MentalIlness]

Why not just purchase a retail copy of Command & Conquer The First Decade.

I think its like $20 bucks now and has like 12 whole games on it.

# Command & Conquer
* Command & Conquer–The Covert Operations
# Command & Conquer: Red Alert
* Command & Conquer: Red Alert–Counterstrike
* Command & Conquer: Red Alert–The Aftermath
# Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
* Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun–Firestorm
# Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
* Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2–Yuri's Revenge
# Command & Conquer: Renegade
# Command & Conquer: Generals
* Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour–

 

[MentalIlness]

Generals wasn't THAT bad. The story line was meh, but it was still fun to play (I thought at least).

The biggest problem with generals was/is how buggy it was/is. It is a memory hog and a CPU hog that will STILL choke up even modern computers during certain parts.

I still play The First Decade regularly, and I have never had one single issue with the game, or the way it runs.

It has always ran perfectly smooth for me with no hiccups.

 

[The Green Bean]

So RA3 isn't worth buying then? Guard bears on skis sounds dumb!

 

[MentalIlness]

I have Red Alert 3. And I think its a fine game. But I dont like C@C 4 though.

 

[Liet]

Thanks kindly for the assistance, guys!

 

[Fanatical Meat]

So RA3 isn't worth buying then? Guard bears on skis sounds dumb!

I didn't like it, was too comical and over the top.

 

[Modular]

I didn't like it, was too comical and over the top.

Thanks for the info. I was thinking about picking it up on Steam, but think I'll pass.

 

[Pia]

Get Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert. Great games, $0. Tiberian Sun was bad, IMO, but it's free too so nothing lost if you try it. Generals was bad, I'd just avoid it.

Downloads:
http://www.commandandconquer.com/classic

 

[Maximilian]

I still play The First Decade regularly, and I have never had one single issue with the game, or the way it runs.

It has always ran perfectly smooth for me with no hiccups.

It would always crash with a "serious error" and EA's answer to that was its probably your hardware overheating or something. They never patched it properly, i havent played generals in years but back when i used to play it online with windows ME and later windows XP it was never stable, okay nothing is stable on ME but it shouldve been fine with XP.

 

[frozentundra123456]

I have played the later games in the series. I liked Generals and the Zero Hour expansion and C and C3 was pretty good too. Red Alert 3 was kind of goofy as others have mentioned, but it was OK if you didnt take it seriously.

The game that really irked me was Red Alert Uprising. That was the most frustrating game that I have ever played. Avoid it like the plague.

I just bought a CD copy of C andC 4, and am playing it now. It is not that great, as others and the reviews have mentioned. Very strange in that there is no resource gathering system as such. Basically you just pump out units as fast as possible to stay at your command point limit. I bought if basically just to see what the final ending is for Kane. BTW, the voice actors in this game, except for Kane, are different from the earlier games and are not impressive at all.

 

[Pia]

It would always crash with a "serious error" and EA's answer to that was its probably your hardware overheating or something. They never patched it properly, i havent played generals in years but back when i used to play it online with windows ME and later windows XP it was never stable, okay nothing is stable on ME but it shouldve been fine with XP.

Yeah. It's one thing when they give the old games away for free to promote the newer, crappier ones, but when they put a game in a compilation (The First Decade) and expect to be paid for it, those kinds of bugs are unacceptable. My friend bought TFD and he noticed that whatever version of Tiberian Dawn the compilation had, crashed on his computer whenever any one unit went onto the uppermost row of tiles on the map. Every map. Every time.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Command & Conquer was an excellent series until they tried to modernize it too much. Tiberium Sun added some interesting features, but really took away a lot of things that made C&C so fun at the same time. It was the beginning of the end for C&C, in my opinion.

Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert were excellent games. Tiberium Sun, Generals, and Red Alert 2 were mediocre, but still enjoyable. Everything after that is just horrid.