Command & Conquer

Command & Conquer

This deep into 1999, the N64 is just now getting it’s first real time strategy battle game and the verdict is appropriately bittersweet. To their credit, Looking Glass developed Command & Conquer with all of the elements you want from a quality RTS. The problem is the genre in 1999 is much richer and more thorough than it was in 1995, which is when the N64 version of Command & Conquer was born. While the game plays fine and a good time will be had, it’s tough to escape the feeling of delayed deja vu and and the feeling of loss from not having a multiplayer experience. The story of Command & Conquer follows a typical good versus evil plan. The evil terrorist organization, The Brotherhood of Nod (NOD) is led by a figure named Kane, who is all about world domination. They’re opposed by the good guy-esque Global Defense Initiative (GDI) who are a super elite force backed by the United Nations.

Features

The controls for Command & Conquer are actually very easy to use once you get them down. You’ll be moving, guarding and attacking with the greatest of ease after you get blown away early in the first mission that is. The look of C&C is both hit and miss. The miss is that the units look both blurry and simple. We’ve said before that the polygon count for an individual soldier might be in the single digits and we’ve seen nothing to change our minds. Many times when we’ve selected a huge force of, say, 14 soldiers to go attack something, we’ll include a couple of engineers in the mix so we can take over buildings.