Apocalypse Then: Firestorm

10 Years of Firestorm

Back in 2000, around the end of February, beginning of March (damn release dates – Wikipedia says it’s today, the 8th), Firestorm, the sole expansion for the RTS great, Command& Conquer: Tiberian Sun, was released.

It brought some new GDI and NOD units to play with, new upgrades, new maps, a random map generator, and a whole new story and missions.

Recently EA released both Tiberian Sun and Firestorm as freeware, and you can download them off the C&C website.

Apocalypse Then: Firestorm

Command& Conquer: Tiberian Sun and Firestorm now Freeware

A few years ago, the first Command& Conquer as well as the first Red Alert were released for free. Now the good news is that EA recently announced that Command& Conquer: Tiberian Sun, otherwise known as Command& Conquer 2, has gone the same way, and is now available for free to download. And in addition to this, the expansion, Firestorm, is free as well. This was done to promote the upcoming C&C 4.

I was glad to see that as usual, the news has all ready spread to forums, including NAG, so it’s likely we’ll see both games on the “queue” soon, and eventually on the DVD and on our harddrives. I haven’t played Tiberian Sun for years, but all of a sudden I really want to, for some reason. It would almost certainly have to go on the NAG or PC Format DVD seeing as the file sizes are pretty large.

Now all we need is for Red Alert 2 to be free of charge on day as well. That game is nearly ten years old, and that seems to be a trend among developers. After ten years or so, they become freeware, unless they’re really big sellers that keep funding the studio.

So that means that C&C 3 and Red Alert 3 are way off from being gratis.

On a related note, Command& Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight should be out next month.

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Source: commandandconquer.com/

Command& Conquer: Tiberian Sun and Firestorm now Freeware