{"id":110,"date":"2001-01-01T23:33:18","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2007-09-11T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T08:24:33","slug":"command-and-conquer-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2001\/01\/command-and-conquer-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Command and Conquer series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\">PC<\/font>,<font color=\"orange\">Real-Time Strategy<\/font>,<font color=\"green\">9\/10<\/font><\/p>\n<p><b>Original:<\/b>When this came along my life seemed complete. RTS was original back then. I loved the resource management, the building of an army and the marching all over the enemy in large numbers.<br \/>\n<b>Red Alert:<\/b>Command and Conquer went high-res and now you could amass an even larger army on the screen. Serial linking 2 computers and multi-playing RA allowed afternoon long battles, requiring huge amounts of concentration to make sure the enemy isn&#8217;t able to break though your defences.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/GameReviewImages\/commandAndConquer.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nI soon learnt that the feeling of being defeated after 5 hours was horribly depressing and that it&#8217;s often better to play co-operative with a friend against the computer. Unfortunately the computer was rather crap and once the ore ran out it&#8217;d just sit and do nothing. The firing range of a cruiser was stupidly unfair.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Tiberian Sun:<\/b>From now RTS&#8217;s were well established and completely unoriginal, however if you like RTS&#8217;s you like RTS&#8217;s. The game is essentially the same as the other but with nicer graphics. The forces seem the best balanced out of the different versions.<br \/>\n<b>Red Alert 2:<\/b> The magic seems to have worn off but I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s the games fault or whether my tastes are changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC,Real-Time Strategy,9\/10 Original:When this came along my life seemed complete. RTS was original back then. I loved the resource management, the building of an army and the marching all over the enemy in large numbers. Red Alert:Command and Conquer went high-res and now you could amass an even larger army on the screen. Serial linking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}