EA has re-released a bunch of classics from the past on Steam and is now offering the games directly at a steep discount. Among them are all titles of the famous strategy game series Command and Conquer.
What kind of games are they?
- Command and Conquer are strategy games with base building and large battles. They are considered one of the cornerstones of the genre.
- The series can be roughly divided into 2 branches: Command and Conquer, where fictional forces fight over alien resources and Red Alert, where powers like Russia, the USA, and Japan wage war in an alternate timeline.
- The new bundle also includes the shooter Renegade and the spin-off Generals.
This is what you get in the bundle now: On Steam, you can find all C&C games directly at a steep discount. Included in the bundle are:
- Command & Conquer + expansion “State of Emergency”
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert + expansions “Counterstrike” and “Aftershock”
- Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun + expansion “Firestorm”
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 + expansion “Yuri’s Revenge”
- Command & Conquer Generals + standalone expansion “Zero Hour”
- Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars + standalone expansion “Kane’s Wrath”
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 + standalone expansion “Uprising”
- Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
Additionally, the bundle includes the shooter Renegade, which somewhat resembles the early Doom titles or Unreal Tournament. For the bundle, you get a 50% discount and only pay €9.88.
So far, the ratings for the games are almost exclusively somewhere between 90 and 100% positive.
Additionally, EA has other classics in the new offer, such as the construction game Populous, SimCity 3000, or the 4X game Alpha Centauri. Here you can get to the EA sale on Steam.
A personal recommendation from the author is Kane’s Wrath, possibly the best part of the series:
C&C is finally on Steam, but an important feature is missing
Command & Conquer is especially known for its exciting campaigns and battles against the AI. I myself played the games extensively earlier and hardly played any strategy game as long as the C&C series.
What makes Command & Conquer especially appealing to me were the battles at LAN parties – you know, back then when a dozen nerds met with PCs somewhere in a basement. C&C still offers a LAN mode today.
However, no Steam multiplayer has been added for the Steam version of the games. This means you have to either build complicated workarounds for games with friends (which never really worked properly with EA Origin), or you just have to play solo.
EA has left a lot of potential here. That it works is shown by the C&C Remaster from 2020 or the Stronghold Remaster. Unfortunately, still, under €10 is a good offer for the games, of which I personally especially recommend Red Alert 2 and 3 as well as Tiberian Wars and Kane’s Wrath. And if you wait a little longer, you can soon play the remaster of a true classic: Age of Mythology is coming back!
