Free Download – Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive in 1995 for the MS-DOS platform, was the very first game in the Command & Conquer franchise and created a milestone for the excellent real-time strategy genre. Being the new kid on the block Command & Conquer introduced a lof of new great ideas to the genre and made available a lof of new features such as multi-player and multi-select on units. The developers also understood the importance of game music and design. Therefore they introduced a vast line of game pumping tracks mixed with some of the best cut scenes in-game!
The game is considered to be one of the most classic strategy games to date, filled with a wide variety of challenging missions. There are two different teams you can choose to play as: the Global Defense Initiative and the Brotherhood of Nod. These two teams are in war due to a rare and powerful resource known as Tiberium. The Tiberium is infecting the world by killing civilians and anyone else trying to settle down near the expanding Tiberium fields. The Tiberium problem needs to be solved before it covers the whole world but the means of getting rid of the Tiberium differs between the teams.
The typical mission provides you, as the player, with a small number of units which you need to use to build up your ground base. All the structures available comes from the main unit called the construction yard. As in many strategy games today the buildings available have different proposes; some are defensive structures, some provides new units, some provides upgrades to buildings and units and so forth. Building new structures and units will reduce your credits. To increase your credits again you need to harvest resources. Resources take the form of the deadly Tiberium. The Tiberim is harvest by a special unit and is taken to a special building, refineries, to generate credits. Without credits you cannot build any structures or units.
The units between the teams are quite different. The Global Defense Initiative units are often heavier and stronger but costs more and are a lot slower. Nods units are in contrary faster and cheaper but when it comes to fire power the GDI units are better. Common tactics with Nods is therefore hit-and-run with a more guerrilla warfare  and with GDI you build up a strong team of units and attack in a more straight forward manner.
The game has over 10 years behind it now but even today its still one of the best strategy games out there. Lucky for us Westwood released Command & Conquer as freeware! Enjoy! Click here to download Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn.
Update: Apparently EA decided to remove the free downloads in February 2011. All the C&C titles are now part of the First Decade case which is now on sale on their website. Lets hope the free downloads comes back up soon again.
Tags: Command & Conquer, MS-DOS Games
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