[Kamikaze]

Westwood is working on their next game, Command and Conquer: Generals
Read about it here

Hopefully it'll be as fun as Red Alert2 and more realistic, the graphics look pretty sweet though

[Setekh]

Skaggs and Bonin discuss how they can make the game more like a Hollywood movie.

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I like the sound of that. I wanna see this.

[Nico]

Yeah, I've seen that already. Actually, it's not westwood who does the thing, it's a newdevelopper that belonged to westwood (they made RA2 and yuri's revenge) ans split up. They stay in good terms it seems, they gave their 3D engine to westwood, westwood shared models, stuff like that.
What is disturbing with that game is that it's the third C&c universe... that begins to be quite a lot, after the tiberium and the red alert series...

[Rampage]

Hmm... Broken link.

[CP5670]

I hope they bring Kane back... (Yuri was a bit of a Kane-wannabe IMHO )

[Nico]

Originally posted by CP5670
I hope they bring Kane back... (Yuri was a bit of a Kane-wannabe IMHO )

yuri is nowhere near as cool as kane
but no, no kane in this one, as I said, it's a different universe.

[phreak]

US and China? Yeah right.

[Nico]

Originally posted by PhReAk
US and China? Yeah right.

why not? Have you read the plot, at least? it happens in 25 years, and then China is supposed to have turned into quite a powerful country. And I trust the guys to make a good plot, they didn't just throw USA+China w/o a reason, obviously.

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by Rampage
Hmm... Broken link.

[Stryke 9]

Didn't they come out with another C&C, like, two weeks ago?

This is shameless.

[phreak]

try this link: http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2853879,00.html

by the looks of it, the game will be US vs. Terrorists vs China or Europe



wow....

[Stryke 9]

If "wow" is used in the sarcastic sense here, I wholeheartedly agree. The unholy offspring of SimCity 3000 and Tachyon fails to impress me thoroughly.

[Stryke 9]

Mmm... make that the bastardized American version of Earth 2150 disguised as the unholy offspring of SimCity 3000 and... well... Earth 2150. Or Emperor.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
If "wow" is used in the sarcastic sense here, I wholeheartedly agree. The unholy offspring of SimCity 3000 and Tachyon fails to impress me thoroughly.

what the hell? it's a RTS!
Oh, yeah, you hate Westwood. remind me not to care about your opinion next time.

[Stryke 9]

If you remind me to reciprocate. I modified my opinion on a closer inspection, but it has little '2150 didn't, and that's ages old.

[Stryke 9]

I list:

WHAT THIS GAME'S GOT THAT THE FIRST MAJOR 3D RTSES DIDN'T:

Infantry (actually, some had this)
Properly done flyer contrails (easily done, but a waste and it gets in the way)
(apparently) tons of NPCs
The Westwood logo



Anything to add? Or is there some other reason I should be impressed?

[Nico]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
I list:

WHAT THIS GAME'S GOT THAT THE FIRST MAJOR 3D RTSES DIDN'T:

Infantry (actually, some had this)
Properly done flyer contrails (easily done, but a waste and it gets in the way)
(apparently) tons of NPCs
The Westwood logo



Anything to add? Or is there some other reason I should be impressed?

if there's half the new stuff they put in RA2, yup.

[vadar_1]

I hate the whole C&C Story lines they seem to dig out of there ass, every game its just the same damn units and same damn gameplay that makes it boring as hell.

And what kinda dumbass soldier stands in the way of a tank and gets run over?

[Stryke 9]

A contrived special effects one?

C&C has, I'll admit, some merits. At about 50000 versions, it damn well should. However, it isn't even close to being as cool as many of the less mainstream strats out there, and the "wow" factor of anything they do is hampered somewhat by the fact that

a. If they've got it, odds are they've had something that comes close in the last half-dozen games

b. If they've got it, it's an isolated goodie in what is essentially a series of tank rush games with all the strategy and mental challenge of hitting something with a hefty stick after traveling through a simple maze, then hitting it with a hefty stick while traveling through a simple maze with slightly more things to hit.

[Kamikaze]

Well Stryke just shut up and play this www.teridianshadow.com - that nice and tactical enough for ya?