But while other developers have been keen to expand on the theme, adding everything from 3D graphics to first-person perspectives, Westwood has always remained true to its retro roots. It's a simple formula, and a much-imitated one. Somewhere else on the battlefield your opponent is doing the same. A few units and a battlefield with scattered resource fields at your disposal, you build a base, harvest these resources, and use funds thus gained to construct an army. Command & Conquer games, in the past, have followed the same recipe. At the cost of perhaps some additional compatibility coding and hosting, they get lots of good publicity (see this story above) and talk about their games (these comments), while gamers get to play the old games they loved to play or wanted to pay but missed, from a safe source.Westwood isn't exactly a name people associate with innovation.
Giving old games away for free is a great idea, even if it was not started by EA. I've gone back the to it with the First Decade, and aside from some frustrations with the controls, it was a fun experience. I've played most of the the Tiberium C&C games soon after they were released, but somehow missed the first Red Alert game, only starting with RA2. However, you still get the game so the difference is negligible. The First Decade includes pretty much every C&C game ever, so I guess you could say that your purchase just lost some value. I just purchased the C&C Collection Pack, you insensitive clods! This way I don't have to double the traffic through my slow DSL+WiFi link. The Red Alert download link uses HTTP transfers rather than Bittorrent for 2x500MB files. Maybe you'll think twice before using the fruity browser next time ) Renders perfectly in Opera, so who cares. The Tiberium Dawn link does not render correctly in Webkit. It also limits the ability of companies to continually repackage old works, thus forcing them to move forward with new titles rather than backward with the old. Embracing the "abandonware" mentality legally means that the game is preserved both physically and in the hearts and minds of the new generation of players. Old games are easily lost to the sands of time, the trials of moving, the march of operating systems, and the bateria that eats CDs.
In all seriousness, I'm glad to see EA take this step. Hey! It was on sale! (pause) You know what? On second thought, let's just forget about the collection thing, shall we? It will be our little secret, Comrade. other than purchasing a "collection" that's missing the most defining games of the series that is. So thus I avoid the typical Slashdot failure!Įrr.
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