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Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection
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Is it still worth playing?
Building bases, gathering resources, raising armies and winning by destroying enemy units and either capturing or destroying their bases is the loop of this 1999 real time strategy game for Windows. The story is a second war between the UN-backed Global Defense Initiative and the cult-like Brotherhood of Nod, on an Earth in ecological collapse. GDI relies on heavy strategic attacks, with special defensive walls and units that cross water, while Nod uses unconventional methods, such as deployable defenses and units that burrow underground and emerge behind enemy lines. The isometric engine has varied terrain and dynamic lighting, with day and night cycles and ion storms. Tiberium gives the struggle a single focus, which keeps the tension high for anyone who plays today.