Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars™

The pinnacle of command and conquer in my opinion, just above Tiberian Sun. Brilliant game and even better in 2024 on a 50" 4k screen. Graphics are fantastic for 2007 and game play spot on as usual

TLDR: Classic C&C IP meets the Generals engine with mixed results.

Pros:
- It's a modernized version of the original C&C games
- Fun base building
- Great cutscenes and acting

Cons:
- Less of a focus on base building
- Too many missions give you only units
- Not as strategic or fun as Generals Zero Hour...battles are paced more slowly and are more about spamming units

Great old game :)

Great for enhancing command and conquer skills

Tested working on Steam Deck (Arch Linux) online multiplayer.
(just need some work getting it to work!)

This is where it started to feel like something is terribly wrong with the series and the EA. It's a boring and bad game with lame story (compared to C&C or Tiberian Sun). We should have known it is the beginning of a terrible downfall :(

Still better than most games coming out today.

Took what I loved about Tiberian Sun and Tiberian Sun Firestorm and made it better.

STEAMDECK (LINUX) TESTED ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WORKING

Followed this guide: https://gist.github.com/Medstar117/c9b17dcd8d8427b7cced25c072bc6f8e
method 2 (no need to change proton compatibility version)

Summary:

1. Install protontricks (via Discovery or pacman or apt)

2. Run game at least once so that the pfx folder is created so protontricks can see it
2.1 When you run protontricks GUI it will ask you which game prefix to use (virtual environment)

3. (proton/winetricks) WineCfg, emulate/enable Virtual Desktop (1280x720 will suffice)
3.1 If using EAapp/Lutris, you will need to temporary switch to a non proton-GE WINE (ie. lutris-7.2.2) in order to enable Virtual Desktop (ie. Virtual Desktop broken in proton-GE WINE)

4. (proton/winetricks) Install DLL/components: vcrun2005,2008,2010,2012,2013,2019
4.1 vcrun2019 may have CRC checksum warnings, just ignore and accept

5. Ask in C&C Online discord ( https://discord.gg/7Yp3HXg ) for revora.zip file which contains the enabler.exe fixes)

6. (proton/winetricks) Windows Explorer, run the TWEnabler.exe for the corresponding game (Tiberian Wars)

7. Disable Virtual Desktop
7.1 If using EAapp/Lutris, switch back to proton-GE WINE (ie. default wine-ge-8-26)

8. Load up game. Login using the C&C Online credentials of the account you created from C&C Online!
8.1 For reminder of login see My Account in C&C Online website (ie. TW/KW uses non-email address, whilst RA3/GEN uses email address login)

amazing classic game everyone should play

Great RTS game that came on 2007. I play it as a child and still feeling great playing in 17 years later. Definitely one of the best classic RTS games.

It is an old game that I wanted to play when I was a child, at that time the specs that could play this game were expensive. A computer that can be played without jerking is considered very cool.

Great strategy game and I love to make all the primary units veterans, taking my time and trying not to use many units.

Not played it before but been a huge fan of the C&C series since the start. Like pulling on a old jumper. Familiar. Comfy. But still a bit different. If you are looking for something totally original then this may not be for you.

Still an awesome game years later.

Love strategy games and this one is definitely right up my alley A+

Probably my favorite after Aftermath. Endless sandboxy battles to challenge yourself with galore.

Still one of the great classics...

Classic RTS. Great interactive movie also!

It's a C&C, so of course I recommend.

PS: C&C4 doesn't exist.

this is my childhood game, finally got it on steam
buy it, play it, worship it
PEACE THROUGH POWER

good game

this game has many different mods. and even though it was made by EA, you can find mods that keep the westwood style alive for this game. Even in 2024, this game is still tons of fun. I wish there were still players playing online. but if you grab a mod and map pack this game is still tons of fun.

I don't remember this game being as glitchy when it came out in comparison to current state. For example, GDI Albania mission - if you capture primary objective with last engineer => automatic defeat. You destroyed a building (on the way to said objective) which becomes primary objective later? You cannot win the mission. And campaign difficulty due to current patch surely doesn't help.

Kane lives! The oppressors must die! Down with GDI! Hold your weapons high! Rise up!

It's Command and Conquer...

very fond memories playing this game,

In the Name of Kane! Kane Lives in Death!

The last worthwhile Command and Conquer game. As far as I'm concerned the travesty that is C&C 4 never happened. It must be erased from living memory.

Tiberium Wars shall live on as the last hurrah of one of gaming's most hallowed franchises. You will be sorely missed.

Ive always had a soft spot for this game, being my first ever game on my grandpas computer it brings me back to simpler times. 100% recommend

At the height of the C&C era we had this and Kane's Wrath. It feels as a natural evolution of C&C Generals just with all the live Action Cutscenes you'd expect from a mainline C&C game.

This time you have 3 campaigns and the 3rd one is unlocked after completing the first two. The story is your standard crazy Sci-Fi we love from the insanity that is the C&C universe. Quite a lot of missions here and good actors with varying performances.

The soundtrack is, as always, a banger and the units voice lines are just as insane or even better than they were before.

The gameplay is fast and hectic. It somehow feels even faster than any C&C game to date for me. A lot of stuff is happening and you have a lot of both micro and macro to manage here. Armies are built fast and destroyed even faster. Quite a staple in the RTS genre.

My only downside is that it is difficult to locate units at times depending on the buildings surrounding them. And you would like to undo the patch that the game has integrated due to balancing multiplayer. Why? Because it made the campaign a lot harder to manage.

So i do recommend this game as any other RTS fan would.

fun game

REMINDS ME THE OLD GOOD TIME. TIBERIUM WARS IS A GOOD ONE AMONG C&C SERIES.

Last gem of the series

at 68 years of age, i like that i can play this without going online and getting killed by children ALL the time

It is a great game even years after release

This is so frustratingly unfair and against fun.
Imaging taking on the mission the first time when you don't know what to expect so you push cautiously toward the object with solid ground force. When you at the object's door step the game just decide to F u in the arse by spawning freaking aircraft carrier and siege craft none stop. Oh by the way both of which are flying units with insane tedious range, delete 30 minutes of your progress on the grindy push against the mission.
I'm not against challenging game design, in fact I just finished a very hard game dying over 20k times over 70 hours play time and enjoyed 99% of that game. However, this is just unfair and hostile to the player and lazy design(a very large portion of the missions works on the same formula of spawning increasingly stronger enemy waves on clock), which could be fixed by just add auto save before powering up each enemy waves.

good game, shit owners of franchise.

Great series!

Exotic matter goes munch munch munch

You cant play online multiplayer anymore due to the nice little fact that the servers have been shut down years ago. You can play online if you install CNC3 Online but do be warned it's very frustrating to install, create an account, boot up without any problems and after all that you find out the community is very small, still fun though.

Main reason I bought this game was because of nostalgia. This was the very first RTS game I played and it was on the Xbox 360 lol. The thing about the Xbox 360, it had a pop cap (meaning) you could only have a certain amount of units and because of that I didn't feel the full experience of CNC3. I can confidently say now without said restriction the game is way better. Clashing armies against each other that cover most the map is awesome. Campaign is as good as I remember it although now that I'm older the live acting is a little corny but I still love it.

Pretty much it. Bought it mainly for the Campaign and Skirmish, it's great. I don't really recommend it if you want an online experience but if you are really motivated to play online just type up Youtube tutorials.

Thanks for reading.

I'll give it an unenthusiastic thumbs up, There's a good reason EA can barely give this game away., Following the 1.09 EA "patch," The final Ground Zero mission becomes next to impossible to beat. since it's heavily weighted to multiplayer.

After several days I finally beat the final Ground Zero mission but with some pain. For example, I was near defeating it earlier but my harvester got glitched and wouldn't drop off a Tiberium load. I had to sell the entire refinery and rebuild, costing valuable time and resources. By then, I was getting attacked by the tripods and all went south. The missions are fun but don't bother with the last mission unless you're willing to put in some time. I suggest loading the mod that gives the value of the 1.09 nerfed tiberium value.

Classic enough said.

This is the last, and 2nd best C&C game ever. It is a close 2nd to RA2/Yuri's Revenge. There is no C&C game that came out after this one. Nope, absolutely not. We still have no idea what Kane's plans are.

classic, be aware that the minerals in this game kill your units if you stand on them, I guess it's to prevent sniping enemy harvesters

I did not grow up in the 90's or the 2000's, I grew up in the 10's. So I can not share the nostalgia a lot of people in the C&C community have. But still, C&C is a game franchise that is under my all time favorites. And C&C 3 Tiberium wars is one of it's best installments. One of the few games before EA ended up butchering the series for profit.

oh the classic. still as challenging as it was when it came out.

"Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars" is a must-play for fans of the RTS genre, offering a deep and engaging single-player campaign that explores the return of the Tiberium threat. The game's multiplayer mode is also incredibly fun, featuring a variety of maps and game modes that will keep players coming back for more.

EA ruined the campaign with this 1.09 patch. If you liked the campaign revert to 1.04.

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is the last entry in the Tiberium Saga worth mentioning.
It being a direct sequel, the story takes place around two decades after Tiberian Sun with
Tiberium having grown to become a threat to our planet.
In my opinion, C&C3 seems less futuristic and doesn't look as dystopian as Tiberian Sun,
but that is a purely aesthetic choice.
Once again you can play as either GDI or NOD.
Although this time the different campaigns don't show completely different stories/endings,
but instead the same conflict from different sides, which I enjoyed.
Even though this game is from 2007 the graphics hold up surprisingly well.
One of the bigger changes is that the old grid system has been replaced by a circular one.
This and no more walls makes the game more fast paced and probably better for PVP.
But I do miss being able to build impenitrable and visually statisfying fortresses.
All in all another great entry in the series