Set in 2030, 30 years after the GDI had won the First Tiberium War in Command & Conquer (1995), following the second major war between the GDI of the United Nations, and the global terrorist organization known as the Brotherhood of Nod.
When a new and powerful mineral, the Tiberium, is discovered, two organizations start a war for its control: the criminal Brotherhood of NOD and the UN derived GDI forces.
Robert Foster is an innocent outsider stranded in a vast city where oppressed civilians live and work in soaring tower blocks while the corrupt and rich lie underground, shielded from all pollution.