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EA Releases Command & Conquer for Free
Zxerol
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for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
In something that seems completely out of whack for the perennially evil EA Games, the company has released the original version of Command & Conquer - Tiberian Dawn... FOR FREE! It's for the game's 12th anniversary. I know that Tiberium Wars did pretty good business, so for those youngin's who, haven't played the game that started the whole shebang (or old diehards that want to relive old memories), here's your chance to do so.
The download is actually for the Gold version of the game, which was the native Windows 95 re-release (so no ultra-cool DOS installer for you). It should run in Windows XP fine, but you may or may not run into any quirks since the code is so old. YMMV. (FYI, it's the same version that was in the Command and Conquer First Decade compilation.)
Full disc images and install instructions are on the EA C&C site here. Now, download and play for Kane!
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I hope they do the same for Red Alert.
I want Red Alert though ;(
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Awesome.
Too bad that Westwood Online isn't functional anymore for it..
edit: dear lord EA is getting hammered. torrent plz
When your neighborhood murderer and child rapist suddenly decides to give your child a ride to school, he hasn't had a sudden change of heart, it's a trick!
We had 2 computers setup next to each other to versus, he had put a curtain up between us so I couldn't peek at his base.
Impossible. If you're telling the truth, I'm going to have to revoke your Internet license, pending your completion of at least Red Alert. A life without Hell March is a life without joy.
The only good Covert Ops mission was the one with 5 bases, and you start out with 1 commando
That mission made the entire pack worth it, though
Never played anything from the entire series. I did play Nox. Think that was a westwood game. But now I'm getting offtopic.
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Too bad I still have my working original copy though.
EA is trying to change its image. Ive heard a lot out of there about this. Producing a quality madden, skate, free games and a change in marketing is an attempt to return ea to the old days before they supposedly 'turned evil'
The competition by activision for top spot has made them turn good again.
Amen, brother. I never really got to play Renegade online, but I keep hearing these stories of how awesome it was. But judging from the bot games I played (lame, I know) it definitely had awesome potential.
sigh
I don't have a program to make it work.
Halp?
My Backloggery
Oh how I miss entering I/O port, IRQ and DMA for my games.
http://xhp.xwis.net/ http://xwis.net/
Greetings from your C&C Community Manager!
To continue the ten year anniversary celebration of the widely popular
Command and Conquer franchise, I am pleased to reveal EA's partnership
with XWIS (XCC WOL IRC SERVER)!
Through this partnership, all Command and Conquer games formerly
supported by EA/Westwood Online will be redirected through XWIS, thus
instituting XWIS as the main online game server management team. XWIS is
a community driven online game server that launched in October 2003 to
replace the XCC Community Ladder. The new and improved features enabled
include chat, in-game ranks, matching filters, lobby monitoring,
improved Quick-Match, and fully functional automatic ladders for clans
and individual tournament players. The beauty of this partnership is
that you won't have to download any external programs to utilize XWIS.
All the enabled features and connections to the servers are already
integrated into the supported games!
I'm also excited to share with you that the Strike Team will be
monitoring the banning and anti-cheat controls on a daily basis and will
provide technical support as needed. The Strike Team is a website built
of hardcore Command and Conquer fans and is sponsored by the EA German
Community Team. Their goal is to ensure a controlled and fun online
environment for all players.
XWIS will commence a two week trial period with Command & Conquer Red
Alert 2 and Command & Conquer Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge. Once this
trial is completed on Oct. 20th, XWIS will be supporting the following
EA/Westwood online games:
* Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
* Command & Conquer Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge
* Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn
* Command & Conquer The Covert Operations
* Command & Conquer Red Alert
* Command & Conquer Red Alert: Counterstrike
* Command & Conquer Red Alert: Aftermath
* Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun
* Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun: Firestorm
* Command & Conquer Renegade
* Dune 2000
* Nox
* Emperor: Battle for Dune
EA is 100% dedicated to the Command and Conquer franchise and wants to
ensure a strong and secure online gameplay environment. Long live
Command and Conquer! We hope to see resurgence in the legions of NOD and
GDI followers claiming ground online.
Good luck soldier. Hit the hot keys and get online with Command and
Conquer!
tl;dr: EA used best and most popular freeware replacement for Westwood OnLine for the decade pack (So it says at least, never bought the pack myself) Implies the new free versions do as well?
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Freeware.
Works pretty good for me.
Must have a [Game On] of this, somehow.
Renegade 'almost' FTW. The demo is still on Fileplanet and you can still find a few servers, but it's plagued by bad netcode and other issues. I played the hell out of the demo and had some good moments, but just couldn't bring myself to buy it because of all the problems. Came close though. It had such potential.
Also, a Game On for this will be very possible, EA teamed up with a freeware Westwood Online replacement for their re-releases of the C&C games.
10th anniversary messsage and shill
Man, I wish they'd release that game for free. Nox multiplayer was insanely awesome. I keep wanting to do a game on, but there's really no way too thanks to the fact that the only way to play now is over Hamachi (it has no non-Westwood internet mode) and because the LAN mode isn't optimized for the internet the lag is horrendous. That's not even counting that the damn thing checks if all players have a unique CD key, so the only way to be able to play is to hunt down a copy on ebay.