There's an interesting story attached to my own recollections of this game, since the early press versions weren't quite the same as the version that landed on the shelves, (or so the journo hive-mind reminds me). This is the rich top layer of sediment in our site of gaming archaeology. Hell, the explosions are ace and you've gotta build 'em all. Button pushing, repetitious but disgustingly compulsive. This is no Total War, in fact it's barely anything above what we'd demand from an RTS in 2006. Then, as planned, I begin lurching onwards into the recent past.Ĭommand & Conquer Generals is a 3D RTS as slick as a glob of engine grease, and about as intellectually attractive. That's right, 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.Īh, but with installation motoring there's time enough to make a cup of tea, tidy my desk, and explain to Kieron what 'RTFM' means.
#Command and conquer games chronological serial
How's this for nostalgia: installation begins with you having to type in a decade's worth of serial keys. "Your mission, should you choose to pay money to accept it, is one of bloated nostalgia."
Like some grotesque hypnotherapy session, I begin in the now and float backwards to where all these memories come from, surfing the present into deepest, darkest hours lost to gaming.
#Command and conquer games chronological free
I say goodbye to my loved ones, microwave my mobile phone and set the dog free into a nearby landfill.īut what is the method? Do I start at the beginning, play that first C&C game and go forward? Do I bow to the obviousness of chronological order? Do I simply rig up all the spare part PCs I have lying about and attempt to play ten games at once like some child genius defeating ten grandmasters at chess? I will tank-rush a dozen AI constructs simultaneously! I guess I'll just have to start installing the blighters and begin that long haul review.
Speed-induced psychoses clash with those Burton two-piece suits, or so he claims. Perhaps I should ring up that amphetamine addict I used know, but he's an insurance salesman now. Imagine if I'd been into football or something. "Please review the last ten years of the Command & Conquer franchise (enclosed)." Ten years? So that's five games and about as many expansion packs? And I still get paid the same rate, right? Right.ĭamn, well at least I was paying attention to something over the last decade. I am occasionally forced to think that someone is having a laugh at my expense.
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