So much detail, so many units, so much unbound sci-fi, so much destruction, a true future-war: this was my dream game. I hadn't experienced the interim period between Dune 2 and Tiberian Sun, so the jump seemed enormous. I was dimly aware of grumbling that it was not true 3D, that some felt the cutscenes weren't as thrillingly silly as before, but I didn't care. When I clapped eyes on screenshots of Tiberian Sun, I was in love - how far it seemed to have come since Dune 2. By 1999, I was back in the game, having built a new system to find out about this Half-Life thing everyone was talking about. I spent at least a year of my life obsessed with Dune 2, but Command and Conquer itself and Red Alert arrived during my dark ages - the period where I didn't have a PC capable of running contemporary games. Oddly, Tiberian Sun was the first C&C I ever played.
One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.
