The Music of Video Games [313] Command & Conquer

[daveruda]

Enter 1995! This was so hot... I played a demo version with volume turned way up. Absolutley loved the feeling this music gave.

[Agent1W]

Heh, looking at the UI of the game: "Modern Warcraft"

[MediaFilter]

This game had great colours. Realistic. And by having the backing colours duller, the important colours (such as your side colour) really come to the fore. If only more game visuals designers understood this.

[Jamaalinnit]

I'm a mechanical, I'm a mechanical, I'm a mechanical man.

They don't make gold like this nowadays.

[PrafektRider]

This is Win98 or the PSx Version!

[gabeangelos83]

hmm on start dont you think its the same like crusader no remorse/regret ?

[theorangegreen]

you know how hard it was to find Frank Klepacki songs the year this came out??

[DragonsAreAttackin]

patsux imo

[Stahlvanten]

Yeah, the film is also from the Demo which I myself must have played over 1000h of back in the days.

[vondoomindustries]

@Stahlvanten Let me guess... the second level? :)

[Stahlvanten]

@vondoomindustries

Mammoth tanks 4 th3 w1n!

[AMOKfaction]

huh..i have C&C gold. it looks different from this. your game looks like the sega saturn version

[heirihunziker]

for me, this game completely and utterly defined coolness. it didn't even matter that the A.I. sucked, this game came upon us PC gamers like a religion.

[Andres33AU]

Although Dune 2 introduced me into RTS games, C&C definitely set-in-stone my love for them! Listening to this music brings a lot of nostalgia. My favourite songs: Act on Instinct and Warfare.

[ugforthewin]

HELL YEA'!!

[atalis1]

Still have it for ps1 :D

[lennyslen]

C&C in the good old days! EA F*cked up Westwood Studios

[Kiercols]

for all you retards that like EA's version of C&C there is a website saying they fucked up C&C's plot XD

[NightraderPictures]

i miss C AND C GENARALS!

[GodHatesDonkeys]

this game had the best music out of all of the games

[Schwefen]

@GodHatesDonkeys I agree on one thing, Frank is the best music creator for games, however he managed (unbelievably ) to create a track better than any of the ones in cnc. But i still love the game and I always will. Think the name was Enter the Harkonnen in Dune 2000.

[Schwefen]

@Schwefen Dune 2000 music (Rise of Harkonnen). Sry, my misstake

[GodHatesDonkeys]

@Schwefen i meant out of the c&c series.

also, ill have to look that song up...

[summertimeloveful]

i remember playing this game and getting goosebumps from the hell march tune and the rest of the music was incredible and i love command and conquer red alert nod and the one with the terrorists in are great games i just love all what they have done with command and conquer

[mainkilla]

@summertimeloveful Hell March was ok, but C&C Red Alert Retaliation's Hell March was probably the best one out of all of them.

[jonezey119]

@mainkilla Without a doubt, retaliation was and still is my favorite out of the whole series

[Timvanoirbeek]

If you want to win a war, you just need to play this music to boost your troops morale!

[slaneslau]

dam great game i complete the GDI without lossing a man.... as for NOD well a few noddies have to die for the cause right?

[DefendinMyBase]

I would love to see someone remake this game on the same format, just improve the AI and unit controls. No telling how many times my attack force was oblitterated because I told them to go across a bridge and half of them go away and straight into an Oblesk of Light. 0_0

And yet, this game had the biggest influence on my childhood than any other game. I was so young when we got this game, I called Medium Tanks "Size Tanks" if that's any clue.

[Spudidups]

What was different about EA and Westwood was simply the immersion factor. Does anyone remember the cut scene where you attempt to rescue a trapped informant above a flight of wooden stairs? He was getting the tar beaten out of him and by the time you reach the door, you see the silhouette of his head get blown away by what appeared to be a very high caliber sidearm. I still remember that vividly and that was over 15 years ago. RIP Westwood, you are forever missed.

[DUDEDAMAN321]

I actually got this game to work and its the windows 95 version

[BigNorwegianBear]

i love listening to this on full volume on that thing that makes sound lol =D dont remember what the name was on english =P hihi

[rougeleder3]

THE BEST GAME AND MUSIC EVER. So sad it's ending with CNC 4

[6smithy]

fukin sick song man one of he best tunes iver ever heard in a computer game

[cocojumb0]

8:25

Paul Bastardo

[xM4MACx]

i miss this game it was hard as hell when i was ten not so much now CALL FOR REMAKE!! p.s people who made the songs needs a gammy!

[Moks17]

@xM4MACx yh dude i was at that age back then also, maybe the hardest RTS of them all

[cl0vvntiem]

Excellent game. The demo of this was one of the first video games I ever played, on DOS.

Too bad Westwood got swallowed up by the EA monster.

[redfowlham]

Yesssssss!! I love that first tune! How can war sound so good!! Great vid.

[aznphil88]

makes me want to play it on my PSP again, o hell I just go now :P

[adem44a]

@aznphil88

Hey,

Did you play it through the PSP dos box?

Or was there like a ps1 or homebrew version?

[aznphil88]

@adem44a

there was a PS1 version

and PSP plays PS1 games which you can Download from the PSN store

[255Knights]

I miss that game!

[Malthus0]

The soundtrack to my childhood. And the best computer game music ever. Better even then Red Alert. And brilliantly evocative of the high tech yet gritterly down to earth world of C&C with enough power to keep the game play flowing.

[milkybar100]

@Malthus0

i agree. This game was brilliant back then... I still ahve it today thanks god

[mrguyorama]

westwood really knew how to put music in their RTS games

[1poiuztrewq2]

We are going to have to play this music, if we want to live in an epic world.

[BigNorwegianBear]

@1poiuztrewq2 ahahah or "We are going to have to play this music, if we want to listen to a epic song" =D hhihi

[shadowstalkerable]

this game is simple cult^^

[GeneralIgor]

Frank Klepacki thank you very, very, very, very,..., very much!

RA has a great soundtrack too, but this here is almost unbeatable.

I'm addicted to CnC! But only the Westwood Games. EA has transformed it into bullshit, ok I must understand, the whole company produces only bullshit. :)

[mrguyorama]

its not just the CnC series, dune 2000, another westwood RTS has great music too!

[MaxRideWizardLord]

I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!!!!

(I have no words to say how much)

[GeneralIgor]

@MaxRideWizardLord

BEST SOUNDTRACK EVER!!!

[LiangHuBBB]

Agreed.

[Lie1987]

löl some people thinks this is boring spectating this game... who cares its fun to remind again !

and the best is i played now ... didn´t do it for years xD thx dude :D

[RA9935]

what gdi mish is that wen u get 6 mammoths?

[Schwefen]

@RA9935 You only got 6 mammoth´s in the Beta version, when they released cnc they removed them so you only got like 1 construcion yard and a few expendable units (graneiders or something, don´t remember exactly). 

[MrJakys1234566]

@Schwefen you get a mvc 4 med tanks and two squads of grenadiers

[pbzkfdt11]

back then, I thought this game's graphics was awesome....lolz....this vid sure brings back some sweet memories

[ruleram1]

me too, i tried reinstalling this game on my better and faster computer and the seemless framerate on such shitty graphics takes away from the feel, you need a sub shit computer to feel this game correctly. lol

[DaRevoolver]

Playstation 3, playstation store = buy it ;)

[GaryGarratt]

Mechanical Man!! My absolute favourite! :-)

[Argiespowers]

When the enterprises think only in money they create bad games, that first Command an Conquer was the best game ever played, the missions, the graphics,the music...them only think in money "ok the first one a lot of people like it,lets create 10 command and conquers, is no matter if they will be good games,les think how make more money" (im sorry if mi english is bad) From Argentina

[haavard1989]

I remember the first song :b Still the best on C&C

[iCABALi]

the person in the video is cheating lol.... 5 mammoth tanks on the orca level!!!

love the music here, my faves are, depth charge, destructible times, no mercy, airstrike and act on instinct

[Executus300]

This is the demo. They wanted this to be easy for first-time RTS gamers. This was my first RTS and I became addicted to Westwood games after.

I remember playing the demo because the building and infantry icons have a sort of gray background. In the full version, you get more "scenic" pictures of the buildings and infantry.

[papitsch]

the last song is the best !!!! love it thanks !!

[oAscarot]

they are just in the german version robots, in all english versions they are bleeding and screaming^^

[aiklarung]

Why's that? I mean, it's stupid. "Do war but don't watch the blood" is the message?

[oAscarot]

Don´t ask me, the german fsk meant, it would be to brutal with blood ect. and westwood got to remove the blood or the game would have been forbidden to sale in germany... the same shit with the NES-Pistol, Nintendo had to change the colour, cause the fsk said, it would looks too real, like a real gun -,-

[Kajotex]

Actually germany is with violence like america is with nudity.

Show a boob in a game and oh boy... that goes straight to the censorstudio ;)

[DianaMod27]

I've always wondered about that. Reducing gore in games doesn't reduce violence. Like in Half-Life, when scientists would just sit down after being shot, basically telling people who are supposed to be influenced by games (right...) that shooting people in the head just makes them sit down and sulk.

[T3rm3nator]

3:05 absolutly my favorite

[UltimateTecc]

best game ever

[drunkensailor112]

this game I played for first time on pc in 1995 by a friend. I was so amazed by it. now years later I bought it for sega saturn for only 10 euros and it's still amazing!

[rayruiz12345]

the first ever intro was awsome..

[gerwarrior08]

you say it

they are all robots^^

[dragonstormx]

Lousy EA took away Kane's witt

"Kills Kane in C&C3 because he must be an impostor"

[haubsen]

LOL THEY ARE BLEEDING!

^^

never saw blood in c&c cause in europe its censored... all are robots :p

[19949599]

i live in europe and i see blod on my c&c

[VR61661]

Only in Germany.

[dukedase7]

I love 9:15+ That is a song they have remade over and over!

[cyberstal]

Frank Klepacki is a game music god :)!

[Sentenza83]

This first C&C was such an impact to me when it came out! For its time great graphics, great soundtrack and a nice scenario.

But with every C&C game following,the series became more ridiculous.Shame on you,EA.

[Tiberiansam]

It's a shame that EA ruined the franchise... If I could go back in time, I would warn Westwood Studios not to let themselves be tempted by EA's money...

[daarkside]

wtf? just install red alert and go warn em

[Tiberiansam]

Lol. I'll warm up the Chronosphere and input spatio-temporal coordinates! XD

[makaay1000]

greatest game of allt ime

[fhishgomoo]

Ah, my trusty Null Modem allowed me and a friend to play against 2 AI with no bases on the lowest tech rating for massive tank battles. Tons of fun.

[BuQdu]

5:25 !!! That was the most awesome Song in a vido game so far !!! Damn, this is good!

[cwidrowaty]

Yeeeah man! I looked up this video in search for that song!! I loved it!! Still do!!

[goat6668]

that last song i think its called looks like trouble, but that might be a different one... anyway, that used to be my jam, haha that and C&C thang or something. i was hooked on this game when i wasl ike 6.

[m14g]

so if it was still running it would be the oldest game company i think the new engine and westwood just like too work with old engine

[m14g]

west wood was old when i was born it was 5 years old

[sgtmyers88]

Love this game even when graphics did not matter compared to what we have now. If you love it too I may mention that this game is being recreated and is released as a C&C Generals Zero Hour Mod on Moddb or you can also look up the "Tiberian Dawn Redux Trailer" on youtube here. ;)

[dnebdal]

Oooh, I remember when I got C&C.

It felt so ... fresh, and the music definitely played a part of that. Most excellent.

[orkzmichael]

aw man brings me back to when graphics didnt matter

[pepsitexaco]

in that genre, they never did

graphics mattered in 1995, you just didn't care about them

[sergius666]

that game was and still is awesome,long live Westwood^^

[KeMeEscupaUnPollo]

AMEN! FUCK EA!

[Lasermannen]

My favourite game of all time, real-time strategy is so 90s hence the decade I grew up in.

[TheFrankyJones]

Points for Westwood! Man this game made my childhood superb!

[DanameaTheBattleLock]

I probably couldnt phrase that better if tried man !

[jorasave]

great music and game I love Mechanical men theme

[killerjg]

good music, very good

[schoenzool]

I remember getting this game the year it came out - Frank Klepacki's music blew me away. It's a bit better than the Red Alert one but damn, everyone knows the Hell March :)

[CrazyTalkin]

GDI, what scum! lol

[DUDEDAMAN321]

Damn. this is such a good game. If only I can play this on Windows XP.

[garudoh]

Pretty sure DosBox will do the trick, but you'd have to look into it.

[Dreforian]

@garudoh

C&C Gold (for win 95) works on XP if you manage to dig up the patch on the internet.

I'd try it on the newer operationg systems too. Never tried it on DosBox as I dont have the dos version but I've used DosBox for other games of similar calibur so I dont see why it wouldn't work.

[vasilicod5]

The game is now freeware. Just look up command and "conquer gold freeware" on google. There will be numerous sites for downloading the game+instructions on how to run it on XP. I have it on my XP right now and it is fully functional.

[Uglypasta]

If you get C&C: The First Decade, you could.

[TViPx]

Buy the first decade, then you`re able to play it :]

[Jakedasake]

@DUDEDAMAN321 you can get the C&C The First Decade. "The games it includes are: C&C, Red Alert, Red Alert2, C&C Renegade, and Commander Generals" All would let you play on XP, and Vista. the cost is about $10 which is not bad of a deal...i have the game and it is a great deal...i still play it today.

[1337ASM]

@DUDEDAMAN321 Command and Conquer 1, RA1, and C&C2 are NOW FREE from EA. Google "Command and Conquer Classics".

Its the best thing EA have done for years.

[SmashMaster22]

I still have the xp lol with m 4 year old pc and can still play this game :) maybe cause i 1st decade :P

[OrbitalSP2]

@DUDEDAMAN321

The Windows 95 Version works on XP.

[runewizard9]

@DUDEDAMAN321 The classic command conquer games can be downloaded from the Command and conquer website absolutely free! :D i think it works on xp

[Stampi]

@DUDEDAMAN321 You can play all C&C Parts even under win 7 with the Command & Conquer the First Decade Package.

[MrErk4]

Damn awesome soundtrack. Yeah 5:27 is best.

[pagman95]

good old times :) i have an mod for CnC:tiberian sun witch gives me all the stuff of CnC1 :) i love it!

[Jawblues]

They guy in the cut scenes got a ugly fuckface!

[ashmish123]

one of my favourites is the one that kicks in at 5:27

[ctruman]

just give, just jusjustjujust give it up!

[exscProduction]

Damn F**king Nice game :D

I love it

I used to play all over the night !

Great game !! :D

[Wilfilco]

wait at the very beginning of this video what version of C&C was that? Cause I don't remember that being there on the PC version

[Nicko93]

Sweet souvenirs :')

[GZA1983]

holyyyy....this brings back memories!

respect to the guy/girl that created this soundtrack!

[gruffgruff92]

act on instinct, mechanical man, march into doom and industrial ftw

[1986abc]

One of the best games with a very good soundtrack!

[DervlX]

I love this game!

please! I need more music

[Luincir]

God bless C&C and Frank Klepacki

[mockingbird83]

omg so many sleepless nights playing this against my friend. So so many.

[g8282]

The father of RTS!

[Kevin2341]

Hahaha I love that original song, I tabbed it out on my guitar :D

[IownCC]

me and my bro where rank 3 and 4 in usa and canada for commander and conquer and most people that play it are garbage cant even survive 5 mins with us we got booted from games regularly because 0 could beat us.

[Fortwaba]

This game is so good man... and so is the music...

I'm the Mechanical... I'm the mechanical, I'm the mechanical man....

[rockiwan]

I am the mechanical, I am mechanical, I am mechanical man.

[GeneralIgor]

The Holy Grail of strategy!

[SuperJax]

so badass!

"I'm a mechanical man!"

[reytheevil]

really cool tracks. You're doing an excellent jop man. GG. I'm following you from italy :P

[Alexyvil]

The first song is the best~

[nyerguds]

Hehe. You're kinda cheating with those first two IMO, since that Act on Instinct remix needs to be activated with a hidden switch (or blatantly extracted from the game archive), and that second theme (Enemies To Be Feared) doesn't appear in the ingame playlist at all without hacking the exe file.

Anyway... this is a VERY nice overview of the C&C music, with nice gameplay behind it too. Faved :)

[garudoh]

Damn, I didn't really know about those tunes, thanks for clearing that up. Anyway, glad you liked the vid man.

[nyerguds]

Eh, no problem. The next unofficial patch for C&C95 I'll release will enable them all anyway. It's a shame for such cool music to be one byte away from being heard ingame :p

[garudoh]

Whoa, checked out your channel, and dude, you're a C&C king. Props on being so devoted to the franchise man.

[nyerguds]

heh. Mostly just the first game though :)

[Alexyvil]

This is the best command and conquer game in the whole serie! (The new ones sucks compared to this) Classic!

[GeneralIgor]

yes you're totaly right man!

[painkiller468]

this is my favorite rts!

thanks for uploading the music!