The studio and some of its members were absorbed into EA Los Angeles, which continued development on the series.Īfter Westwood Studios developed the critically acclaimed Dune II, Computer Gaming World reported in 1993 that the company would not use the Dune license for Westwood's next strategy game 'mostly because the programmers are tired of sand'. Westwood Studios was taken over by Electronic Arts in 1998 and closed down in 2003. This includes full-motion video cutscenes with an ensemble cast to progress the story, as opposed to digitally in-game rendered cutscenes. The first game was one of the earliest of the RTS genre, itself based on Westwood Studios' influential strategy game Dune II and introducing trademarks followed in the rest of the series. Apple Mac, Nintendo 64, PlayStation PlayStation 4, PC ( MS-DOS, Windows), Sega Saturn, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Android, iOSĬommand & Conquer ( C&C) is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game franchise, first developed by Westwood Studios.
