Love this game.

The campaign design is a little scattershot, and it shows the seams of the scope-tightening it reportedly went through, but the result is still great. Unparalleled ambience, looks fantastic to this day, an all-timer OST (in my top 5 for sure), and a goofy sci-fi plot about climate change made in the late 90s.

Less solid as a game than its successor Red Alert 2 for sure, but still effortlessly iconic.

The platonic ideal of the single-player RTS. Almost perfect.

Very different factions, but each can counter the other's overwhelming strengths, so it's more about probing your enemy's defenses and figuring out the right angle. And sometimes the correct approach is A Lot Of Tanks.

Looks and sounds wonderful. FMV cutscenes with CyberLenin Udo Kier and President Ray Wise that embrace the camp and go all in on funny production design and overacting. Iconic soundtrack by Frank Klepacki and perhaps the best pre-rendered 3D of any RTS.

Campaign is basically flawless. Every mission is a puzzle that teaches you some interesting unit interactions, culminating in macro-scale matches that demand you apply everything you learned to date. Many little secrets and multiple approaches on each level makes exploration of the map profitable and fun.

In my heart, before my replay of this whole series, Tiberian Sun was the best one. But now, upon finishing Red Alert 2, I can confidently say it's the high point of Command and Conquer.

Really wanted to like this one, and there are some parts of it I do like - the broad brush strokes of the narrative, the soundtrack (sans the rapping; lyrics were too cringe for me lol) - but ultimately it felt easy, repetitive, hollow, and boring. Making most of the enemies in a Max Payne homage melee was not a good move, and there's way too many levels. You don't have to slo-mo or dive-dodge basically at all in this game, and in fact will actively hurt you in the boss fights as the roll-dodge is how you get away from the boss tracking. A strong effort for sure, but a weak outcome.

The only genuinely good game in this franchise, but wow what a banger. Textured pacing that makes the scares genuinely startling without being annoying, inspired level design that did "The Backrooms" before that was a thing, an incredible soundtrack, revolutionary AI technology, wonderful lighting and particle effects, and a plot inspired by some of the best anime ever made. It's a shame the sequels never approached this level of quality again thanks to meddling from WB and a focus on the wrong parts of what made this game good from Monolith. Maybe someday another studio will do it right. For now, it has aged really well.

I really love this game. It's one of my favorite interpretations of the Metroid formula (alongside Prey), the production design is inspired, and the combat loop subtle and satisfying.

However, there's arbitrary padding in the form of "alerts", randomized weapon mods, and repeatable missions that end up dragging the experience down, especially when I was going for a 100% clear. Would've much preferred for these things to be discreet powerups you earn through exploration, like missile tanks or whatever, rather than Diablo-esque drops from "powerful enemies".