Trivia / Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series

• Dummied Out:
  • The Orca Dropship was supposed to be a mechanic within the GDI campaign where the player can select what units to deploy during the mission. These units would be received on a Dropship Bay structure (which the player could construct). This was later removed and part of the Dropship bay was repurposed for another structure, but much of the code remains (albeit unfinished) within the final game.
  • The Orca Transport was originally supposed to be available as a troop transport, but for whatever reason it was removed. Assets (including a build icon) still remained in the game and in custom scenarios it's possible to spawn one under the player's control, but outside of mods it's unavailable for multiplayer.
• Executive Meddling:
  • Killed Tiberium, the planned squad-based FPS. There was so little leadership that it was hard to determine how the game was exactly supposed to be played. Oh, and it was expected to be completed in eleven months.
  • Tiberian Twilight was originally planned for the Asian (read Korean) gaming market without a singleplayer, but was adapted into the conclusion of the Tiberium saga in order to increase sales, and to help make up for the economic failure of Red Alert 3 (which resulted at least in part from the game's DRM).
• Franchise Killer: Tiberian Twilight may very well be the death knell for the Tiberian Series, having ended on a massive cliffhanger that fails to address many of the questions throughout the series. It in turn may have killed the Command and Conquer series entirely.
• Real-Life Relative: Daniel Kucan, who is the brother of Kane's actor, Joseph D. Kucan, played four characters in the Tiberian series(the "At least your mother tipped well!" guy from the channel 319 during the channel flipping intro of Tiberian Dawn, Jake McNeil in Tiberian Sun, an unnamed Nod reporter in Tiberian Wars, Joshua Mitchell in Kane's Wrath and a random civilian in the epilogue of Tiberian Twilight who scoffs about Kane being gone).
• Referenced by...:
  • SimCity 4 has Kane Tiberium as an industrial complex.
  • The Sims 3 has it possible to find Tiberium crystals by researching ancient Egyptian relics and moon rocks. Predictably, it makes the poor sim who found them ripping sick.
  • Lady Ga Ga's music video for Telephone calls for a cup of Tiberium as an ingredient in a poison.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Tiberium would have featured a new generation of Titan walkers, a modular weapon called the GD-10 that could fire rockets, grenades, railgun rounds, or ion blasts, and would have been in 2058 Italy during the second Scrin invasion.
  • Westwood's version of Tiberian Twilight was going to be known as Tiberian Incursion, the third game in the Tiberian continuity in place of Tiberium Wars, and would have continued the post-apocalyptic plot set by Tiberian Sun. Not much is known about what was intended, but it would have led into Red Alert 2 due to another time travel act and conclude the Tiberian series. Red Alert 3 would have been the bridge between the original Red Alert and Tiberian Dawn, showing how the Brotherhood of Nod would have risen from the ashes of the Soviet Union. This would later all be nixed by EA, possibly because of the confusing plot lines involving time travel.

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