Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series — How to Play
What it is
The Tiberian saga is the story Command & Conquer began with: the Global Defense Initiative against the Brotherhood of Nod and its prophet Kane, fought over Tiberium, an alien crystal that spreads across the Earth. Later the alien Scrin arrive to harvest it.
The games
- Command & Conquer (1995, later called Tiberian Dawn) and The Covert Operations.
- Tiberian Sun (1999) and Firestorm — the war in a Tiberium-scarred future.
- Renegade (2002) — a first-person shooter set in the First Tiberium War.
- Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (2007) and Kane's Wrath — the Third Tiberium War, with the Scrin.
- Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight (2010) — the end of the saga.
The basics
- Harvesters gather Tiberium and bring it to a Refinery for credits — protect them, they are your whole economy.
- Power plants run your base; low power slows production and shuts down defenses.
- Build from a Construction Yard; each production building adds to what you can make.
- Each side has a superweapon late in the game.
Starting out
- New to the series? Start with the Remastered Collection or C&C3 — both have modern controls.
- Play the first campaign missions of both sides, then skirmish against the AI.
- Read Install and Setup to get each game running and online.