

Access to advanced units and abilities can be temporarily blocked if the required structures are destroyed, or if they are not being provided with adequate power by the supporting "power plant" structures.Īll structures available to the player are built on-site at a "construction yard" building, which can either be already deployed on the battlefield as the mission starts or begin as a large-sized mobile construction vehicle ("MCV"), which is capable of deploying itself into a construction yard at a suitable location of the player's choice. Virtually every type of structure in the game acts as a tech tree node, and additional units, structures and special abilities become available to the player as new structures are built and placed.

Command & Conquer features around 50 different units and structures. One of the quintessential titles of the modern real-time strategy genre, Command & Conquer's gameplay mechanics will typically require the player to construct a base and then acquire a flow of resources, in order to fund the ongoing production of various forces to assault and conquer the opponent's base. Met with acclaim by consumers and critics, Command & Conquer was released for seven separate platforms along with becoming the initiator of the Command & Conquer franchise, and today generally is considered as one of the titles (alongside StarCraft) which originally defined and popularized the modern real-time strategy genre. The factions become locked in a mortal struggle for control over a mysterious resource known as Tiberium that is slowly spreading and infecting the world. Set in an alternate history 1995, Command & Conquer tells the story of two globalized factions: the Global Defense Initiative of the United Nations, and the ancient quasi-cult, quasi-state organization, the Brotherhood of Nod.

The game had minimum specifications released for both MS-DOS and Windows 95.

The game was also released on the PlayStation Store for PlayStation 3 owners. On August 31, 2007, current publisher and owner of the C&C franchise Electronic Arts made Command & Conquer ( Windows 95/ Gold version) freely available for download from their official website, to mark the franchise's 12th anniversary. It was the first of twelve games to date to be released as part of the Command & Conquer franchise, including a prequel and five sequels. Command & Conquer, abbreviated to C&C and also known as Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn during development, is a 1995 real-time stratgy computer game developed by Westwood Studios for DOS and published by Virgin Interactive.
