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(2010) and several expansions, the genre has not achieved any major sales III (2002), Dawn of War (2004), Company of Heroes (2006) and Supreme Commander (2007) all proved successful. The genre became significantly less popular in
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The genre subsequently struggled with a move into 3D and a series ofĬommercial failures followed. The genre was massively popular in the late 1990s, The genre was codified in the mid-1990s by games such as WarCraft: Orcs and Humans (1994) and Command and Conquer (1995), although theĮarliest examples of the genre are generally held to be Carrier Command (1988), Herzogįor Arrakis (1992).
