Red Alert fans stay clear, but other RTS gamers might get some kicks out of it.
Now I won't say it was necessarily a bad game, because its got its up and downs, let's just say maybe it just wasn't exactly what I had imagined it would be.
THE GOOD: Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun has some catchy techno music, a great terrain map generator and full motion video cut-scenes in the campaign modes starring famous actors such as James Earl Jones (The voice of Darth Vader) Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Aliens) but it just isn't enough to balance out the cons.
THE BAD: Who the heck was in charge of the art direction for this game? Some of the units look alright but other look like bad lego rip-offs put together by children, and everything is so tiny. Sound is okay as well but lacking a ton of creativity for unit responses (why couldn't they have done something cool like Star Craft's units) After the first 10 minutes of gameplay you've heard all the units phrases twice already. And what's with the storyline? I understand it is supposed to be Sci-Fi but what happened to the Russians, Britians, tesla tanks, mammoth tanks, jeeps or just plain rifle infantry? The units in Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun are just a little too weird for my tastes. I also found AI opponents extremely difficult to beat as well; they were always coming in for cheap kills with burrowing APCs filled with instant-structure-converting-engineers to immediately take over my base.
THE BOTTOM LINE: I won't lie, Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun was the first RTS game I actually found worthwhile to beat the entire campaign mode (because of the full motion video cut-scenes) but ultimately this game will probably end up in my garage sale box sometime in the near future.