Command & Conquer 2 + Expansion Available for Free

[Sarconix]

http://www.commandandconquer.com/sites/all/themes/cnc/locale/en/images/classic/boxart-game1.jpg

To promote the upcoming release of Command & Conquer 4, EA is now offering Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberian_sun) (a.k.a. C&C 2) and its expansion Firestorm as free downloads here (http://www.commandandconquer.com/classic).

[Sarconix]

I should add that the same page has free downloads for Command & Conquer (the original game) and Red Alert, in case you missed them earlier.

[Ulysses]

Ah good stuff. Game wasn't anything innovative, but I liked it - was more of the same I guess. Some of the FMV sequences were pretty amusing.

[brandonjclark]

Tiberian Sun, although not my favorite C&C game, WAS innovative.

It was a totally new engine developed for the series (which would also later be used for both Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge) which had a totally new isometric viewpoint.

Also, it was the first RTS engine to use the Mega Voxel®
technology, which was Westwood's-developed tech for rendering pixels with height, width and depth.

Lastly, if your a C&C fan, you can't deny that taking the story into such a futuristic realm was a major break. I thought it was actually a very good game, but nothing like Red Alert. Red Alert blew me away.


*Good find Sarconix!

[Paranoia]

Damn, shouldn't have bought C&C First Decade. Ah well..

[CSargeP]

Ah! My favorite game in the C&C series! I've bought it probably 3 times by now.
Now I won't have to worry about finding those old CD's again.

[Mysterio]

Too bad they don't run under Vista (according to the websites).

[modeps]

We played the shit out of Tiberium Sun back in college. Generally, the matches would last three hours due to our self imposed rules of a time limit before attacking and no harvester attacking, but it was a lot of fun.

[LilAbner]

Even though a lot of people didn't like this one, I enjoyed it.

[Gusj]

This is the only game in the series I never played (not counting expansions). I'm excited to try it out now.

[Emabulator]

I never got the expansion for this one. Free is good! :)

[Johan]

Thank you for linking, Sarconix! :)

[brandonjclark]

Another thing about this mini-series is that this was the last game (including expansion) that the C&C realm would deal with "terrain smoothing" as in Dune so you could speed up troop movement and harvesting time.

I wish more games had this element.

[pooty-tang]

Red Alert is one of my favorite games of all time. My cousin that lived down the street and I would actually play over 56k modem. God I miss dial-up.

[SnakeMGS135]

Too bad they don't run under Vista (according to the websites).

i got it running on vista, even online so if you want its worth a try.

[Mysterio]

i got it running on vista, even online so if you want its worth a try.

Did you have to do anything special?

[Johan]

i got it running on vista, even online so if you want its worth a try.Did you have to do anything special?

Reinstall XP? ;)

j/k. Compatibility mode?

[SnakeMGS135]

Did you have to do anything special?

to tell you the truth, nope, just normal vista and it downloaded fine. i just followed the instructions to the letter.

[Mysterio]

Reinstall XP? ;)

j/k. Compatibility mode?

Why, I oughta...!

to tell you the truth, nope, just normal vista and it downloaded fine. i just followed the instructions to the letter.

Hmm...okay, I'll give it a shot. Was this for all the free C&C games listed on their site, or just the ones they most recently offered for free?

[SnakeMGS135]

Hmm...okay, I'll give it a shot. Was this for all the free C&C games listed on their site, or just the ones they most recently offered for free?

i went for tiberian sun, however it was such a nice experience i expect to go for the others soon.