About a six months ago, I finished the original Command & Conquer (loved it - it has aged so well that I didn't mind playing through such an "old" game for my first time) and then attempted to play the original Red Alert... that one, I didn't like so much.

The rub - I really don't know why. Maybe I found Red Alert to be too silly contrasted with Command & Conquer, maybe I was done with an old-type RTS... I don't know.

What I DO know is that after playing through the first map of Red Alert, I gave up on both series until tonight. Tonight, I played the second C&C game: Tiberium Sun and immediately fell in love with this iteration as much as I did the first.

So what is it? Do any of you have a preference between the two? If so, why? I have yet to be able to fully articulate why I have the preference that I do, so maybe if I hear others' input, it can help me to figure out just what is going on up in my noggin'.