A little over 15 years ago, Westwood Studios introduced the PC world to Command & Conquer. Skip ahead to today, six years after EA got their hands on C&C, and a year after the release of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3. Commander's Challenge, a pseudo-expansion to Red Alert 3, has finally come along on Xbox Live, but it has a few features that are bizarrely missing in action that may keep players who enjoyed Halo Wars and Red Alert 3 from picking it up.
The Command and Conquer games have always been some of the best real time strategy games for the Xbox 360 console. The new Commanders Challenge on XBLA is like a walk with a familiar friend if you played any of the Command and Conquer games. It is a new way to play an old favorite it doesn't have any new gameplay systems to figure out and that means it is easy to learn for a beginner and more importantly it is still challenging for a veteran of the game.
NZGamer writes: "Red Alert 3 as an XBLA game? Surely this will be a very simplified version of the game, or maybe even a completely different style of game using the Red Alert franchise? Red Alert mini-games perhaps?
To my surprise, Commander's Challenge is a full, stand alone expansion to the Red Alert 3 universe. Basically this is a very large extra mission pack, and you don't need to have Red Alert 3 to play it."
Now here is a game with Flair, Rick Flair! Yes, everybody's favourite Nature Boy makes an appearance to bark out orders as Commander Hill. More pleasing to the eye is the inclusion of Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, better known as the psycho Company assassin, Gretchen, in Prison Break. So with the FMV Commander sequences taken care of, how does the largest XBLA download stack up with other titles?
