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When the German motorized forces were met with a counterattack at Arras, British tanks with heavy armour ( Matilda I & IIs ) created a brief panic in the German High Command.
In the Command & Conquer real-time strategy games, both the gameplay and storyline revolve heavily around the introduction to Earth of an extraterrestrial mutagen called Tiberium via meteor, which displays strikingly lifelike behaviours such as self-replication, evolution, and homeostasis, without undergoing anything like common carbon-based metabolic cycles, and which appears to be colonising the Earth, converting it into an environment unsuited to carbon-based biology.
* An artificial intelligence unit in Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
In real-time strategy ( RTS ) game Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, a number of the vehicles of the Empire of the Rising Sun are referred to as mecha, since they are capable of transforming from ground or sea units to aerial fighters, granting them additional flexibility in battle but making them closer to robots then to true mecha.
Command & Conquer 2 Tiberian Sun features more conventional / realistic mecha including the bipedal Wolverine, Titan and the 4-legged Mammoth Mk2.
* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum
* Korean War, Naval History & Heritage Command
* Polmar, Norman, Strategic Air Command, 1st Edition, Nautical & Aviation Publishing, 1954
* Polmar, Norman, Strategic Air Command, 2nd Edition, Nautical & Aviation Publishing, 1996.
* Titan, a type of main battle bipedal walker carrying a cannon in the Command & Conquer series
Incorporating CentreComm, London Buses Command & Control Centre, a 24 hour Emergency Control Centre based in Southwark.
" No formal Purchase, -- no tedious negotiations ,... A firman insistently issued to Sir F. Maitland authorizing him to take & retain possession is all that is necessary, & the Squadron under his Command is quite competent to do both ,... until an adequate naval and military force ... could be sent out from the mother Country.
It received an entry to the Guinness book of records, for selling more than 10 million copies of Command & Conquer worldwide.
Electronic Arts continues to develop games based on Westwood's Command & Conquer series.
The last former Westwood employee quit working for Electronic Arts after the release of Command & Conquer: Generals in 2003.
Westwood's greatest commercial success, however, came in 1995 with the release of the real-time strategy game Command & Conquer.
Command & Conquer, Kyrandia, and Lands of Lore all spawned multiple sequels.
Because of this and EA's newly imposed demands, games being developed by Westwood Studios at the time were rushed and left unfinished upon their release, namely Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
Westwood Pacific developed or co-developed games like Nox and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, which takes place in an alternate universe to that of the original title Command & Conquer.

Command and Conquer
One of the last games released by Westwood, Command & Conquer: Renegade ( an action game, which mixed elements from first-person shooters and real-time strategy games ) failed to meet consumer expectations and commercial goals Electronic Arts had set for it.
* Command & Conquer series ( 1995 – 2002 )
The Myth games are categorized as real-time tactics, representing a departure from established real-time strategy titles such as Warcraft and Command & Conquer ; resource retrieval and unit construction were removed entirely to focus on squad-and soldier-level tactics.
* In Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, the Tiberium infestation on planet Earth has reached critical levels by 2062 and Kane, leader of the Brotherhood of Nod, approaches GDI command in order to contain the organism, in a diplomatic meeting taking place in the destroyed city of Manchester
** Command and Conquer: Generals ( 2003 )
* In Command & Conquer Saga in 2077 has been started the Fourth Tiberium War.
** Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun ( 1999 )
The computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 references this in a video regarding the Allied Chronosphere, in which footage is shown of a ship disappearing then reappearing seconds later.
For example, the original Command & Conquer gave birth to the now-common " tank rush " tactic, where the game outcome is often decided very early on by one player gaining an initial advantage in resources and producing large amounts of a relatively powerful but still quite cheap unit — which is thrown at the opposition before they have had time to establish defenses or production.

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The Philips Videopac + G7400 was a video game console released in limited quantities in 1983, and only in Europe ; an American release as the Odyssey³ Command Center was planned but never occurred.
Several other episodes and licensed materials such as the Next Generation episode Face of the Enemy and the video game Star Trek: Starfleet Command III support this, and give the indication that the force multipliers of cloaking technology and other such secrecy is the only way they can maintain an even footing with the numerically superior Federation.
Trackballs have appeared in computer and video games, particularly early arcade games ( see a List of trackball arcade games ) notably Atari's Centipede and Missile Command – though Atari spells it " trak-ball ".
During the Chinese campaign of the 2003 video game Command & Conquer: Generals, the bridge was intentionally bombed by a fictional terrrorist group called the Global Liberation Army ( GLA ) as Chinese Troops cross the bridge.
In late October of that same year, Hasselhoff played a bit part in the EA real time strategy video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 as vice president of the United States, while also starring in its promotional microsite, conquerthislife. com.
* EVA, short for " Electronic Video Assistant ", an AI featured in the Command & Conquer series of video games.
* The Hermitage appears in the video game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, as you find it being attacked by the Empire of the Rising Sun, in the Soviet campaign.
Command & Conquer ( abbreviated as C & C or CnC ) is a video game franchise featuring real-time strategy games, first developed by Westwood Studios and considered a staple of the RTS genre.
The full motion video is also scripted differently ; while the cutscenes of Command & Conquer and Red Alert were filmed from a first-person perspective, Tiberium Sun used traditional cinematic shots for its FMVs featuring well known Hollywood actors such as James Earl Jones of the original Star Wars trilogy and Michael Biehn of Terminator and Aliens.
One review noted that Generals was the first ever Command & Conquer real-time strategy game that did not include full-motion video cutscenes to tell the story and that it departed from the unique interface and base-building mechanics that had characterized all of the previous C & C RTS titles.
The original score for Command & Conquer: Red Alert was composed by Frank Klepacki and was voted the best video game soundtrack of 1996 by PC Gamer and Gameslice magazines.
* Command & Conquer, a series of video games
The release of Starfleet Command is considered in the Star Trek gaming community as the start of the " Golden Age " of Trek video games.
The biblical quote is mentioned in the Command & Conquer video game, and is thought to be the origin of the name for the Brotherhood of Nod, as the group's charismatic leader is also known only as Kane.
A deposit of Tiberium as seen in the original Command & Conquer ( video game ) | Command & Conquer
She also played the part of Brotherhood of Nod propagandist Oxanna Kristos in the video game Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
In the video game Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, one of the campaign missions is titled " Klingon Maru ".
By no means a complete listing, some video games that employ the concept of force fields include the Command & Conquer franchise, the Mass Effect trilogy, StarCraft ( series ), Haegemonia, Earth 2150 ( and its sequel, Earth 2160 ), the Halo franchise and Supreme Commander series.
There are claims that Sid Meier talked Bunten into doing Axis and Allies ( which became 1990's Command HQ, a modem / network World War II game ), while Meier did Civilization, which went on to become one of the best-selling video games of all time.
* Crawler, a mobile base vehicle in the video game Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
He also plays a role in the video game Command and Conquer 3's expansion pack Kane's Wrath.
* Global Liberation Army, a fictional group in the video game Command and Conquer: Generals

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