I knew I was right the first time.īut the world of video games is largely a hateful business and many people - whether competitors or insecure loners -have secretly (and not so secretly) wanted Westwood to fall on its face.

A classic in its day, it's still great now. As such, there's always a multiplayer game available, something that can only increase with it now going for a fiver.

Perhaps most surprising is that EA is still supporting the game online, with even a bespoke UK server. Along with skirmish mode, two separate campaigns are available (NOD and GDI) and the interim FMV is quaintly watchable too. As such, it is of course excellent, even now capable of sucking the hours away. The futuristic scenario may have irked the purists, but Tiberian Sun is simply C&C in different trousers: no more, no What did they expect? That's what Westwood does (or at least, did). Indeed, expectations were so rampant that when people realised that it was simply another C&C game, there was almost rioting in the streets. The groundbreaking original plus the Red Alert follow-up had set the bar so high that it could ultimately only disappoint. One of the most high profile cases of slippage in recent years, by the time Tiberian Sun finally came out, Command & Conquer fans had been whipped into a frenzy.

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