A company's number 1 projects consisted of contract function for corporations rather Epyx and Strategic Simulations (SSI), porting 8-bit titles to Xvi-bit systems rather Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. One of a company's number 1 successes was Eye of the Beholder (1990), a real-instance computer role-playing game based on the Dungeons & Dragons license, developed for SSI. Issue from either contract operate allowed a company to expand into designing its have games inside-home.

Their number one original title was Mars Saga, the game developed for Electronic Arts and released within 1988. More publishers of early Westwood games involved Infocom and Disney. Around 1992, the company was renamed Westwood Studios & sold to Virgin Interactive.

Easily-known Westwood titles from either this time period include Dune II, the adventure game The Legend of Kyrandia and the role-playing punt Lands of Lore. Westwood's greatest commercial profits come around 1995, with a release of real-time strategy game Command & Conquer. Building on the gameplay & interface ideas of Dune II, it added pre-rendered 3D graphics for gameplay faery & streaming videos cinematics, the techno soundtrack streamed from either disk, & modem play. Command & Conquer, Kyrandia, and Lands of Lore all spawned multiple sequels.

Inside 1998, Westwood was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA). Around response to what it perceived when involuntariness to maintain a Westwood br& and independence from either EA's side, several long-period employees quit. One of a endure games freed by Westwood, Command & Conquer: Renegade (an action which mixed elements from first-person shooters and real-time strategy games) failed to meet consumer expectations and commercial goals Westwood and EA had set for it. Around March of 2003, Westwood Studios was closed by EA and totally uncoerced staff were absorbed into EA Los Angeles. At a period of its closure, Westwood listed supplementary than C humans. Their previous game was a MMORPG Earth & Beyond.

the few period when a closing of Westwood Studios, a freshly back studio, Petroglyph, was formed consisting mainly of previous Westwood employees.

Selected games developed by Westwood
''Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception Blade Runner computer game movie adaptation Circuit's Edge'', a game adaptation of George Alec Effinger's novel When Gravity Fails Command & Conquer series (including the Red Alert titles) DragonStrike a 3D dragon flight combat simulator Dune series Earth & Beyond Lands of Lore series The Legend of Kyrandia series Monopoly NOX