A Difficult Reimagining of a Classic Game - Tiberian Alternative - Part 1 - Gameplay and Commentary

A full blind playthrough of Tiberian Alternative, a mod for the original Command and Conquer (or more precisely the OpenRA version), filled with unedited gameplay and commentary. I’ll be your guide and across this makeshift walkthrough we shall complete the full game from start to finish. So join me as we playthrough this impressive custom campaign for one of the finest strategy games of all time. Let’s play Tiberian Alternative for PC!

Tiberian Alternative is a custom campaign for C&C made by Dr. J. as a sequel to his other C&C Mod, the incredible Red Alert Alternative. Having played through the previous game I am well aware of Dr. J.'s quality as a level creator, with variety, complexity and difficulty abound. Needless to say I'm excited for what's to come! Viewing of the previous game is recommended though not essential for this LP; if you'd like to see my previous playthrough then behold, a link!

Tiberian Alternative makes use of pre-recorded Youtube videos to give Starcraft style pre-mission briefings. These add much needed warmth, personality and life into the characters of our story, and are an enormous improvement over the traditional "block of text" exposition used by most other custom campaigns.

Tiberian Alternative is finished to a high standard, with complex scripting and in-game events throughout. A wide variety of missions await that mimic the style of many Westwood classics, and it's all the better for it. I've been truly impressed by what I've seen thus far, and there's two ways you can see if you're equally impressed. First, you can join me as we explore the war torn world of Red Alert Alternative!

Secondly you can download it for yourself; it's completely free! Follow the link below which has the campaign, together with a full set of instructions on how to get it running.

As an added bonus this campaign runs through OpenRA, meaning you don't even need to own the original game in order to experience everything that you're seeing here.

Make sure to check it out if you're a fan of the classic C&Cs. I assure you, it's worth the effort.

#C&C #TiberianAlternative #CnC

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[gameranma]

I am rewatching Red Alert Alternative just to make sure I know the full story.

[typical_name]

So yeah, this mod was actually how I heard about the previous series. Looking forward to it.

5:05 - hell yeah, we have a date! So our first campaign was in 1965, got it.

6:30 - ah, reminds me of how socialist Poland collapsed partially because basically their entire central government died in one plane crash.

7:46 - "preserve freedom", yeah right

[Daniel-xaogjeyh]

drj the magican, hopefully this will be the same as the red alert one

[Normandy]

The road looks Strange ^^
Beside that I am really hyped.
Maybe I will rewatch RA Alternative again, because I can't remember all of the Story 🤔

[elthwar]

Definitely looks interesting to see how it's gone to continue the original plot line, It seems as though Nod is a much better-known force, and because of that GDI is closer to an expeditionary force rather than a police group as the original one suggested.

[dr.jstudio]

It begins! This is going to be so fun. 😁

I hear you with regard to a button in the text briefing. I'll see if I can customize the OpenRA UI to enable that... but I'll probably prioritize finishing Act Two first (you are correct, it's currently under development).

Note, you can dynamically zoom in and out of the battlefield with the mouse wheel. I find myself zooming in and out constantly depending on whether I want battlefield awareness or finer control. You can also scroll with right-click-and-drag, which I personally find a lot more responsive than moving the mouse to the edge of the screen.

Oh and yeah, the OpenRA mission complete screen is incredibly underwhelming. Although I entirely agree with that, I'll be honest, I'm probably not going to try to hack the original score screen back in; that would be more of an expenditure of effort for relatively minimal gain than I'm willing to put forth. :P

[glhf]

16:45 Don't worry, at least you didn't drive the MCV around trying to find harvestable spots because you didn't read the briefing like I did. :P I ended up practically driving up to the enemy base, it was not successful.

[glhf]

21:10 He actually fixed the grenadier to not blow up the entire force. It explained the changes in the manual.

[Duchess_Van_Hoof]

I hope the good doctor makes another cutscene program. I quite liked the first one.

[ExplosiveNotes]

I gonna need bigger screen to enjoy this fully 🤔

[michaelnelms]

Cool video. Made me chuckle when your c&c brain couldn't cope with all the buttons. I will admit that I play the remasters on classic controls.

[miracletiger]

Stealing Nod tech as a canon explanation how GDI managed to get their hands on that in order to harvest tiberium is pretty cool writing.

[dubsy]

Enjoyed this, loved the homage to the original. Could you okay slightly more zoomed in? I have trouble seeing everything

[samragsdale]

Artega wouldn’t have had a bit of trouble getting the BEF off of Dunkirk.

[Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Is the game finished, I'll have to install this at some point. Edit, I got my answer.