Reception and Legacy
| Game | GameRankings | Metacritic |
|---|---|---|
| Command & Conquer | 84.33% | 94% |
| The Covert Operations | 72% | – |
| Sole Survivor | 62% | – |
| Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun | 80% | – |
| Firestorm | 73% | – |
| Command & Conquer: Renegade | 75% | 75% |
| Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars | 85% | 85% |
| Kane's Wrath | 77% | 77% |
| Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight | – | 64% |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert | 91% | 90% |
| Counterstrike | 63% | – |
| The Aftermath | 70% | – |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 | 86% | 84% |
| Yuri's Revenge | 85% | 86% |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 | 81% | 82% |
| Uprising | 65% | 64% |
| Command & Conquer: Generals | 85% | 84% |
| Zero Hour | 84% | 83% |
The Command & Conquer series has been a commercial success with over 30 million Command & Conquer games sold as of 2009. Games in the series have nearly consistently scored highly on video game review aggregator websites GameRankings and Metacritic, which collect data from numerous review websites. As noted in the table to the right, the highest rated game is Command & Conquer with a score of 94% from Metacritic. The highest rated game averaged over both sites is Command & Conquer: Red Alert with an average of just over 90%. As a series, Command & Conquer games have averaged approximately 80% when including expansion packs and approximately 84% without.
Command & Conquer's long history resulted in Guinness World Records awarding the series 6 world records in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008. These records include "Biggest Selling RTS Series", "Most Number of Platforms for an RTS", and "Longest Running Actor in Video Game Role" for Joe Kucan, who has played the part of Kane, the villainous mastermind of the series, for 15 years.
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