♫ACT ON INSTINCT (Command & Conquer) SNES Arrangement - NintendoComplete
111This is my arrangement of the first mission theme, "Act on Instinct," from Westwood Studios' 1995 PC classic Command & Conquer It has been arranged for native playback on SNES hardware. The audio was recorded directly from a launch-model SNES deck.
This one was really a fun throwback to do. I remember being stupidly excited when my dad came home from work one day in 1995 with a new copy of this game in his briefcase. It was like Warcraft but seven-hundred times better, and totally addictive - even for someone like me who generally avoids RTS games like the plague.
But for as excellent as the game was, the video and the sound was by far the most memorable part of it. It was all so glamarous and flashy and high-budget looking for the time - the production values here were so much higher than pretty much every other game around. I loved the music, and this track was by far my favorite one on the disc. This was fairly tricky to remake on the SNES - it wasn't particularly easy coming up with a good set of samples that could (hopefully, maybe, somewhat) mimic the sound of the original track, but I think it all came together pretty well. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to include all of the lines that were spoken over the original song - there wasn't near the room in memory to fit all of that - but I did manage to save, "We're going to have to act if we're going to live in a different world."
Wow. What a line.
Seriously? Hahaha, what does that even mean? It tries so hard to be both meaningful and memorable... and, well I guess it manages memorable. I've certainly never forgotten how utterly absurd and senseless it was. But then again, that just makes it fit the tongue-in-cheek tone of the game all the better.
I loved to hate those damned dogs, though. So many random deaths because of unexpected maulings. Command & Conquer was pretty violent for how small the little soldiers all were.
Great game, and I imagine just the thought of playing it again brings back all sorts of warm fuzzies for the number of thirty-somethings that remember it like I do.
The video footage was recorded from the PlayStation version of the game.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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