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Those 2 words that have started a revolution in the Real Time Strategy
Genre. The 2 words that started a World Wide Phenomeon, the 2 words that
lead to the sequels and that hold many people glued to the seat and watching
that computer monitor for hours on end.
Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn started one of the greatest computer
game lines in the world today and also brought a little gaming company
out of the darkness and into the halls of Game Industry Creators for all
time. Indeed the original may have lacked the abilites that today's modern
version like Red Alert 2 and Generals which is soon to come. What allows
this came to hold it's own though, is not it's age, it's originality,
the units, the genre of "mod friendly gaming". No it is the fact that
it started the entire Command and Conquer franchise.
While many could say Tiberian Dawn lacked many great controls and the
ability to start up a skirmish battle, it holds it's own when it can say,
Without me, none of you would exist. Without me the whole re-definement
of RTS might not exist. While Games like Starcraft have the ability to
say, yes we were good and made good stuff and advances, it is only now
that they create a sequel when The CNC saga is into it's 5 sequel (RA,
Tiberian sagas and Generals), not encluding the expansion packs that were
produced.
Now while we can debate the possiblies and the futures of the Command
and Conquer series, one thing is for certain. One small game produced
by 2 people created the domiance of the Command and Conquer series and
the re-defining of the Real Time Strategy Genre.
Without Tiberian Dawn, we might not even be here, instead playing WarCraft
or Homeworld or maybe not. We will never know what Tiberian Dawn inspired
in other gaming companies...
All we can say is that it was the Dawn, the Sun has come, and will there
ever be a Twilight of such a great period?
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