#TACITUS COMMAND AND CONQUER SERIES#

Most of them have you begin with a construction unit, which you use to construct a base. Meanwhile, there's the standard selection of RTS mission styles in the campaign. While prior knowledge of the previous games isn't necessary, it would certainly be helpful in understanding what's going on. Instead, you get glimpses of the back story. As such, you don't get much of a cohesive story. Things start off just at the end of the Second Tiberium War, and every few missions the campaign leaps forward a decade or two. The single-player campaign feels disjointed, mainly because it jumps all over the Command & Conquer timeline to fill in the gaps. Each side also has alternate victory conditions (the Scrin, for example, must successfully build nine 'Threshold Towers') that frequently throw spanners into well-laid plans and are a lot more fun than the original vanilla Skirmish matches. Global Conquest requires a surprising amount of strategic acumen from the player as limited resources require them to create a variety of 'strike forces' which must then battle for control in real-time skirmishes. Players can select one of the game's three sides and, based on the numbers of cities controlled, slowly spread their influence over the world. This is a turn-based RISK-style capture-the-world meta-game that, while not particularly original in concept, stands out as an excellent example of the breed. The expansion pack's best addition for single-player fans is easily Global Conquest mode. The result is a by-the-numbers addition to the Command & Conquer universe that offers some enjoyable new content to the faithful (along with a few missteps) but is ultimately an eminently forgettable addition to the game.

#TACITUS COMMAND AND CONQUER SERIES#

As the inevitable expansion pack for C&C3, Kane's Wrath clearly isn't looking to mess up the nice little niche the series has carved for itself amongst strategy gamers. The result was an enjoyable, hyper-fast RTS geared toward those who enjoy creating huge armies of toy soldiers and watching them blow each other up - a lot. Command & Conquer 3, the return of EA's seminal Command & Conquer franchise, brought back the kind of brute-force action-oriented 'meat and potatoes' RTS that the genre's brainier grandchildren like Company of Heroes almost put out of business.

Tacitus command and conquer