Browsing all articles tagged with RTS.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
It’s time for my yearly RTS craving, and going down the chronological list brings us to Command and Conquer’s prequel-sequel Red Alert. The RA series would eventually go off on its own path and split timeline (mostly after EA took over from Westwood), but the original is a fitting companion to the first C&C, an [...]
Command & Conquer
When Command & Conquer was released, it was snarkily referred to as Dune III. This got so pervasive that Westwood even had to refute this directly in the documentation. To this day, writers of walkthroughs and forum posts still refer to C&C’s refineries as “spice factories” out of pure spite. I suppose the allegation is [...]
Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis
StarCraft, Warcraft, and Command and Conquer are the most famous historical examples of the subgenre, but they can all trace their lineage back to Westwood’s Dune II. If you’re curious about how it all started, here’s a look at the inventor of real-time “build-n-rush” strategy as it is known today. Though billed as a sequel, [...]
Star Wars: Rebellion
It had to happen eventually. The only thing LucasArts loved more than pimping out its Star Wars franchise, was staying on the cutting edge of technology. So when galactic conquest simulations became the new buzzword, you could have bet dollars to doughnuts that you’d be seeing a galactic conquest simulation Star Wars game. This is [...]