Still, programmers managed to keep C&C from becoming "just a clone". Also, prices of basic units and structures are similar to the ones in Dune 2 (barracks are 300, gunner is 100.). Usually in this type of games the winner was the one who had more money. At that time, starting with Dune 2, this will more or less be the principle in all real-time strategies: building and expanding your base and army, by gathering various sorts of supplies. You "harvest" in order to earn cash, which will permit you to construct buildings and buy units. Actually, it is in many ways very similar to Dune 2. You have probably heard of Generals, Red Alert or Tiberian Sun. Not before Command & Conquer.Ĭ&C was the first game in a series that would become the most popular in this genre. But there still wasn't a game that made this genre popular enough to launch a video-games market overflowed with its clones.
True defining of nowadays well-known genre came with its sequel, which brought real-time strategies to life. When Westwood made the first real-time strategy Dune, it was mix of adventure and strategy and "real-time" still wasn't used as expression. But after Doom, first-person shooters started to be called Doom-like games. When ID made Wolfenstein 3D, they had made something unseen and revolutionary.
0 kommentar(er)
