Set in an alternate history, the game tells the story of a world war between two globalized factions: the Global Defense Initiative of the United Nations and a cult-like militant organization called the Brotherhood of Nod, led by the mysterious Kane. Or the RA3 counterpart where your decisions have impact on a long-term and drawn out scale, where a payoff could be minutes away for a decision made in the here and now it comes down to what you appreciate and want from a game really.Command & Conquer (also known by the retronym Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn) is a real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive in 1995. On the whole though, one is not necessarily better than the other - it's really more about what kind of strategy you wish to play, there is the quick action-packed thrill ride of an SC2 match where the hands of victory are balanced on a knifes edge. The play speed is vastly different in both games, there is a certain speed difference in the amount of time a unit gets constructed or a base gets built which I find is much faster in the SC2 world, that amount of speed forces the player to act quicker rather than musing about specifics which typically happens in RA3 because the option to garrison buildings and capture vital areas (for whatever reason) is another decision that needs to be made.

RA3, without it's unit cap, ensures there is no massive sacrifice for building multiple types of units in any quantity aside from the resources available to you it'll allow for you to create an adequate second strategy if your first attempt was thwarted. The unit-cap in SC2 also ensures that your decisions to favour one strategy over another is paramount and perhaps a deadly mistake if you choose the wrong strategy. This allows for a similar starting game but really diversifies itself into something epic the longer the game runs.

RA3 is a different ballgame altogether because the factions in themselves overlap in similarity at the lower levels of the tech tree while being extremely different at the higher level of the tech-trees. This ensures that for any particular one of your building strategies has a particular set of counter-strategies, which forces one to make decisions extremely quickly. Each side provides a unique building strategy which doesn't exactly translate as easily to the other factions. SC2 is about extremely quick resource management and exploiting that to your advantage, it's very much a game about cognitive processing potential. The games are really different in nature even though belonging to the same genre. The game still looks great, I love the water effects & naval warfare! Too bad it only exists in private servers now. SC2 has definitely helped me step my game up in RA3. Other than the loose build order I use to do in Generals to get Auroras bombers ASAP in '10+ MIN NO RUSH' custom lobby games, I never did any of these things during strategies.

I automatically try to focus on macro and perfect a build order to get a certain unit out. I'm constantly trying to harass and keep my opponent starved compared to back in all iterations of C&C where I would exclusively play'10 MIN NO RUSH' matches and build up a large army. I try to micro now by mid battle pulling back the unit being attacked to save it from being destroyed. Though I suspect thats what most other players did as well. I used to just click my army on one individual enemy and my whole army would trip over themselves trying to get to it. Using A+move to attack and move units, something I never did in C&C before.

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