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Another game from the past that we want to talk to you about this month dedicated to games Open source, after Arkanoid and Flappy Bird, is Command and Conquer. You have probably already heard of it despite its venerable age. The latest version, available only for Android and iOS dates back to 2018 and is called Command & Conquer: Rivals. The latest for Windows should be Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, from 2010 1.
One of the first real-time strategies
It is a real-time strategy game, one of the first and best released in that era, together with Warcraft (what many know today as World of Warcraft). He got applause from everyone at the time and, as Wikipedia points out, defined and popularized the real-time strategy genre. It was followed, the following year, by a sort of spin-off called Command & Conquer: Red Alert, set in the 1950s of a parallel universe.
One of its peculiarities was being able to choose which side to be on at the beginning of the game. In fact, at the beginning of the game you will have to choose whether to drive the Global Defense Initiative, a fictional multinational military organization, or whether to be part of the Brotherhood of Nod, a secret society.
If the choice of faction may be trivial and obvious in a game nowadays, it was not so for real-time strategy games of the time. The release date of the first one Command and Conquer in fact it dates back to 1995.
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Command and Conquer: HTML5
The version we are going to propose to you today is truly exceptional also because it is fully playable online thanks to HTML5 and from Javascript. There are two versions both created by Aditya Ravi Shankar. The first is a demo Open source 2 and you can see a demo here: http://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=HTZCMxNtloQ
The most recent version however, with many levels and even multiplayer (which perhaps no longer works?) is totally free but the author he decided not to do it anymore Open source, Sin!
Play Command and Conquer offline
OpenRA
Another version is called instead OpenRA, a real one Command & Conquer clone not playable online but by installing it on your computer. In fact, it is available for all platforms: Windows, Linux And macOS. It's a truly incredible and well-made version. Totally free and very funny. If you are passionate about real-time strategy games, don't miss it!
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