Command and Conquer

Command and Conquer is a series of video games launched in 1995. These first-person shooter games involve real time strategy. While Westwood Studios developed these games from 1993 until 2003, the subsequent series were developed by EA games.

The Command & Conquer Tiberian series revolves around the war between two major entities wielding sizable power and influence, namely Union Nation’s Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and Brotherhood of Nod, a terrorist group. A material called Tiberium is at the centre of the conflict between the Command and Conquer warring parties. Tiberium is an alien substance with the ability to extract minerals from the land it’s placed upon. While the GDI wants to use Tiberium for people’s good, Nod prefers to hail Tiberium as a harbinger of the new age. In fact, Nod wants to convert the whole world into a Tiberium ecosystem.

The Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, launched in 2007, leaps to half a century in the future. A third entity, called the Scrin, which is an extra-terrestrial force has been added to the series. The other series in Command and Conquer include Command & Conquer: Red Alert and Command & Conquer: Generals series.