The Global Defense Initiative (GDI) is a military alliance of Western nations operating under the auspices of the UN Security Council.

Players can take control of either faction in the single-player campaign or multiplayer skirmishes. FactionsĬommand & Conquer documents the First Tiberium War, which pits the Global Defense Initiative (GDI), lead by General Mark Sheppard, against the Brotherhood of Nod, lead by Kane. The game was released as freeware on its 12th anniversary and can be downloaded from EA's official website. The two factions primarily vie for control of the mysterious substance Tiberium, which acts the as game's sole resource.

The first entry in the long-running Command & Conquer franchise, it is often credited, along with Westwood's previous game Dune II and Blizzard's Warcraft II, with popularising the genre and establishing many genre conventions which persist to this day.Ĭommand & Conquer is set in an alternate history 1995 and focuses on the conflict between the GDI, a multinational military organization, and the Brotherhood of NOD, an ancient and mysterious terrorist group lead by the enigmatic Kane. Overview Base-building is at the heart of Command & ConquerĬommand & Conquer (also known as Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn) is a critically-acclaimed real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and originally released in 1995.

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