Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun

The sequel to 1995's genre defining Command & Conquer, Tiberian Sun takes place in a bleak future where the tiberium infestation has spread across the world, and made large regions uninhabitable, and the long…

20 August 1999

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy Science fiction Warfare

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Westwood Studios, released 20 August 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Westwood Studios and released in 1999. It was published by ak tronic Software & Services. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

While the game is set only twenty years after its predecessor, the world of Tiberian Sun is much different. The lethal Tiberium continues to infect the world at an ever-increasing rate which has made most of the Earth uninhabitable for human beings. To survive, GDI has moved to the arctic regions of the world while NOD has set up camp underground. The game’s story is driven by the difference in goals between GDI and NOD. As GDI strives to maintain world peace and discover the root cause of Tiberium, NOD is hell-bent on achieving world domination. The story is complicated by the apparent loss of Kane, NOD’s leader, at the end of the first Tiberian War which has thrown the Brotherhood into…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Command & Conquer series

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is the eighth of 30 entries we hold in the Command & Conquer series. It arrived 12 months after Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Retaliation. The next entry was Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun - Firestorm in 2000.

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What it launched against

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun launched on 20 August 1999, within three weeks of Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, Shadow Man and Croc 2.

Released around the same time: Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, Shadow Man, Croc 2.