[Dave2040]

WEEEEEEEEEE

http://www.cncden.com/index.php?action=fullnews&showcomments=1&id=279

Kane lives in death!

[CP5670]

Wow, very interesting. I haven't heard anything about this game since the TS release in 99.

[Dave2040]

Some pictures:

[Ghostavo]

Wasn't Westwood like... disbanded?

[Dave2040]

EA Games bought Westwood and integrated them into EA Games LA

[Ford Prefect]

Tiberian Sun was impossible. I expect instant gratification from this game as reparations.

[Turambar]

you're going to be disappointed, i know already.  know why? i got 2 letters

EA

theyre going to rush the deadlines, the game will look pretty, but play and run like crap.  and it will most likely have no plot

[Ghostavo]

Except most members "fled" and created Petroglyph Studios...

[Grug]

Another mindless revisit of an old game / genre by EA with a few new shiny's.
*Doubts it will be as good as the originals*

[Dark Knight]

Don't care it'll keep my dad happy. He can't handle a lot of the newer RTS's, anything with a moving camera really he just dosn't get it. He NEEDS his command and conquers with it's simple views and locked-off camera or he'll ... well read a Tom Clancy novel but thats the not the point. With this news he should be happy enough to lend me the money to buy a Geforce 6800!

Besides EA dosn't always screw the fans over for the sake of a quick buck. Sometimes they do the right thing and give the developers the time the need to create a truely masterful game. I am, of course, unable to keep a straight face while typing that.

[Turambar]

I am, of course, unable to keep a straight face while typing that.

phew, for a minute i was afraid you might have gone deepblue on us

[Flipside]

I quite enjoyed BfME2 which was an EA game, even if it was Warcraft 3 with LOtR characters, but  I suspect this will work along the same lines, pretty, but more about gaining resources to build lots of units than about using the units you have tactically.

[StratComm]

I quite enjoyed BfME2 which was an EA game, even if it was Warcraft 3 with LOtR characters, but  I suspect this will work along the same lines, pretty, but more about gaining resources to build lots of units than about using the units you have tactically.

Well, it is a CnC game.  If you had to use actual tactics, then it would be something else. 

[Nix]

It looks interesting, and being a fan of the CnC Series, I've had hopes we'd go back to the traditional CnC story, not the Red Alert story, or something modern like Generals that has absolutely nothing to do with CnC's story.  The problem is, without the folks at Petroglyph, this game will not have the heart and soul the other games had when Westwood was at it's peak.  Without music from Frank Klepacki, the original actors (James D. Kucan as Kane) and without the uniqueness of the original writers, this game will be "another RTS that EA has a exclusive license to".  Now, if petroglyph IS involved, and EA is simply publishing, then I'll have some hope.  But EA's decision to not let Klepacki do the music for Generals was almost an automatic turnoff from the start.  It has the name, but none of the SUBSTANCE which games are lacking horribly today. 

I dont know whether to be happy or to feel sick hearing this news, honestly....

[Dark Knight]

Feel Happy, feel sick only if after finding it really is a crappy EA rip that and you still payed £45 for the privelage of buying the special edition boxed set with the free T-shirt and Key ring.

Well to be fair to C&C games you could use a carefully planned strategy to win a battle. I remember once in one of the RA addons I won the level with a carefully co-ordinated three-pronged land/sea assault that took a good few hours to pull off, but when my landing craft deployed infantry squads took out the powerplants diabling the Tesla Coils defending the main entrance allowing my main force to roll over the base while my secondary force bottled up their tanks elsewhere it was really worth it.

Then my dad did the same level in half the time just by building 50 tanks and rolling over the enemy base in five minutes.

It made me feel a little sick at first, but then I realised the stress-relief value of crushing an oponent 'neath my steel tracks and from that day on it was "Tank Rush! Ho!"

Edit: I however will only be happy with C&C3 if the game features propper movie sequences like the origenals. They're a big part of what makes the game, Joseph D. Kucan was brilliant in the old games and in Tibby sun they had James Earl Jones as the GDI general! If it hasn't got that kind of quallity than I probably wont bother with it. Not after the disapointing generals.

[Nix]

After paying what I paid for the buggy piece of steaming bile from EA which was supposed to be "Command and Conquer, The First Decade" I am waiting on a playable demo before I even think about buying Tiberian Twilight.  Then, I'll probably wait till the first expansion pack comes out, so it's at least had a couple of patches applied to it by then... wishful thinking at best, but yeah. 

Some of the bugs in the games can be fixed really easily, but there's still my issue of Red Alert 2 being absolutely unplayable on my system.  Really dissapointing because that's the one I've never ever played, and actually want to at least try it now that I have it.  The music is pretty darn good at least.

[Dark Knight]

I still have Hell March from the first Red Alert in my playlist.

[NGTM-1R]

I ended up doing most of Command and Conquer by the tactical route, simply because that was I liked to do. (Admittedly I was a tank-rusher when I played the first game, until that no longer availed me on the last few levels; I was also...twelve? I learned to appreciate subtlity later.) Say what you want about Tiberian Sun, it made my life much more fun by being capable of much more tactically interesting solutions. If this collapses back into non-tactical fare I'll be most upset.

[Dark Knight]

Strangely, my favourite part of Tibby sun was when you got your hands on some old Mamoth Mk.I's in the final mission. It was like coming home. As long as there are double barreled tanks I can probably be content.

But your right on the tactical choices, although on the Nod front there were a bunch of missions that weren't so much about tactics as about timing. Avoid patrol A with your 6 units so you can hit base b unhindered then run away before patrol A can return to cick your ass. I just found them plain boring.

I think I'd rather play Supreme Commander when it comes out anyway.

[Col. Fishguts]

I still have Hell March from the first Red Alert in my playlist.

"Hell March" and "Face of the enemy" all the way baby.