Celebrating the 12th Anniversary since Command & Conquer series was born, Electornic Arts has released for free the Gold edition of the first title in this popular series, compatible with Windows XP.

Welcome to the New World Order. A gritty high tech world where the art of electronic intelligence and covert surveillance reigns supreme. Where guerrilla strategies and savage combat are the norm. Build bases, muster forces and dominate your enemies. All for the love of power.

Features:

• Complete control over land and air units; muster forces; build bases; and manage resources
• Over 60 minutes of intense action video and 3-D rendered excitement
• Pick your side: Fight the good fight with the GDI or bring the world to its knees with the Brotherhood of Nod
• Over 35 missions in all
• Digitized speech and adrenaline-pumping music featuring 25 original scores
• Detailed, interweaving storyline
• See four times the battlefield/new screen sidebar
• Smooth scrolling screen

In order for C&C GOLD to run on Windows XP, you will need to burn the ISO image onto a CD with a CD Burner and any "CD Burning Software" or perhaps mount the image with daemon tools. The full game download comprises of 2 ISO images.

EA has also provided installation instructions for the game.

Note from FreewareFiles.com: The download link provided will redirect you to Gamershell where both ISO files are hosted.