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Command & Conquer: The First Decade (PC DVD) | 
 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  44 reviews
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: military-action-games
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.8 x 1.4
EAN: 5030930049539
ASIN: B000E543LI
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 How to stop those crashes September 3, 2006
Dr. P. J. A. Wicks (London, England)
51 out of 54 found this review helpful
Like many of the reviewers who were unhappy with their purchase, I too experienced a lot of crashes to desktop when playing the original C&C (retro!). Here's something that worked for me:
Control panel
Regional and Language Options
Languages tab
Click "details"
Advanced tab
Tick "turn off advanced text services"
Hope that helps!
Right, on with the review. The first time I saw C&C was at a friend's PC at school. A crowd gathered to see this fascinating new game. We laughed when the little soldiers did pressups if left alone, we cooed at the screaming clatter of a guard tower, and we delighted at the "squelch" noise when you drove over a soldier. We didn't even need to have a go playing it, it was great just watching it. The basic premise of this pack is pretty sound, and with the fix I've given above (and the patch installed) you should have no problem going back in time and seeing how things were done.
What's interesting is that it allows you to see some of the advances in user interface that we now take for granted. For instance, we now take being able to "queue" build orders for granted. But in C&C1, if you wanted 5 troopers you've got to press the button 5 times. "Artifical intelligence" seemed determined to have your little fellas march directly into harm's way for no reason whatsoever. It was common to be unable to finish a level until you killed every last enemy including someone hidden under a tree in the corner of the map. There was no such thing as quicksave. Regardless of all this, there is one other crucial thing which surprised me. The old games were hard. There's a genuine sense of tension you rarely find anymore, and certainly not in the recent Generals which whilst spectacular was very easy.
I found the extra content fairly uninspired, but it wasn't the main reason I bought it. I'm going to try and play the whole C&C dynasty from end to end before Christmas. But not Renegade. I've got a strong stomach, and Renegade makes me wish the microchip had never been invented. What's funny is I remember reading a preview of it in the late nineties and thinking "cool! You can actually BE the commando!". The FPS evolved so quickly and rapidly that now you could rustle up a game in Flash that was better than Renegade. The basics of the RTS however have stayed set in stone for nearly a decade because of C&C. Relic's Dawn of War series has changed some of that (inspired partly by the under-rated Z I might add), and the upcoming Company of Heroes looks set to change it all again. Until then, buy this and remember. If for nothing else other than for: "Cha-CHING!"
 Great in theory but badly bugged April 5, 2006
Jeffrey M. Black (Stockport)
34 out of 41 found this review helpful
I loved these games and I've played every one in its origianl form, except Renegade. However, due to EA's grab-their-money ethos and usual poor attitude to quality control some missions are prone to memory exception errors which cause the game to crash. This is extremely frustrating and prevents completion of the odd mission. It only makes you mourn the loss of Westwood.They've already released a patch to fix the missing movies, now we need one to fix the games. So five stars for potential gameplay, two stars for execution. EA Games - Ruin Everything.
 Don't believe the hype! Don't, don't believe the hype! February 14, 2006
31 out of 38 found this review helpful
Overall this game series is a classic, I for one absolutely love the franchise, well until generals, but thats only because my pc wasn't up to it!
Anyhoo, straight to the point, this compilation from EA is not without its flaws.
I'll copy & paste the known bugs found so far from planetC&C :Command & Conquer 95 and covert ops:
*No Internet or LAN play.
*Levels crashing when troops are placed at specific points on the map.
*possible memory error maybe related to..
*..Mission 9 GDI does not work. Red Alert, Counterstrike and Aftermath:
*No Internet or LAN play
*Problems with soviet videos (won't play soviet FMVs) Tiberian Sun and Firestorm:
*Unable to start game, asks for cd to be inserted. Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenege:
*None known. Renegade:
*No support for RenGuard or game modifications (cannot install RenGuard or mods suchs as RenAlert or Reborn) Generals + Zero Hour:
*Unable to start game, asks for cd to be inserted. So there are a few, and as I wanted this specifically for the original games, I was pretty disappointed to say the least.
So if you have the original games, you'd better of spending £26 on an old Win98 PC from your local classifieds and installing them on that instead. That is until EA release a patch to fix the aforementioned errors, but I bet that won't happen anytime soon, especially now that they have my money already! Scummy EA :( If it wasn't for nostalgia, this franchise would be ruined, but don't take it wrong, the original games still deserve a 5/5.
Good value, if it worked March 25, 2006
30 out of 36 found this review helpful
I would actually advise against buying this, at least, until patches are released to fix the myriad show-stopping bugs in the games.
This whole pack reeks of cheap cash-in - from the cheap and nasty looking loader screen, to the fact that Command and Conquer 1 is actually rendered unplayable by bugs which cause the game to totally crash whenever you enter certain areas of certain maps. The Soviet campaign in Red Alert 2 is also missing it's FMV sequences; instead, the allied ones play. In addition, Command and Conquer 1 and Red Alert both lack multiplayer network play in any form!
It's abundantly clear that EA have simply spent minimal resources to do some sloppy hacking of the older games to make them barely even load up on Windows XP - adding only the same degree of compatibility as free, fan-made XP compatibility patches that have been on the net for ages - and then just shoved all the modern ones onto a DVD without even bothering to bug test them properly.
This would be a great value pack, if it actually worked. EA have said they're "looking into" solving the issues. Don't take their word for it; only buy this if the patches have already been released.
*** Command & Conquer *** July 11, 2006
Gavin Moore (Gateshead. England)
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
I'm sorry but it doesn't get much better than this, `Command & Conquer The First Decade' if you'll pardon the pun is THE Bomb. A box full of more war than you can shake a stick at The First Decade has it all!
In this set you have... well, every Command & Conquer game to date (apart from Sole Survivor as someone pointed out) really that is until `Tiberian Wars' comes out in January 2007 setting things back to the good old NOD Vs GDI shenanigans but I would HIGHLY recommend anyone who likes these games to purchase this title as I myself have had no problems with this and think some of the negative remarks a little undeserving, there are patches available at Westwood's site that I downloaded FIRST however so this may account for my lack of problems.
Give it a go!
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