[Colonol Dekker]

It was the third great RTS after Dune and Herzog Zwei. It let you play as both sides and was original as hell.
 
But I still want to play 4. Story is a big thing for me and I wanna see it through to the end.

[CP5670]

It seems decent enough for what it is (an RTT). You can't tell much about RTS or RTT gameplay from just looking at a video.

That brings me to a point, in C&C1 Westwood wasn't afraid of giving player morally questionable tasks (when playing NOD), or showing people blow up to pieces and GDI interrogator killing prisoners. I still like the video sequences of C&C1 best of the series, though they are lowest in overall graphical quality and don't have professional actors.

Yeah, I think C&C had the best acting and scripts of the series, even though the actors were mostly game developers except for Kane.

Although I can't remember seeing any GDI interrogator anywhere.

[Colonol Dekker]

He might be confusing it with the allies in Red Alert..

[Sarafan]

Am I the only one who watched the trailer and got thinking that was more Mechcommander than C&C?

[SpardaSon21]

Wow.  I can't believe they cartooned the C&C series that much.  It doesn't look at all gritty or realistic.

[Liberator]

You can't tell much about RTS or RTT gameplay from just looking at a video.

True, but what you can tell is that unit design went down the crapper, the environment DOESN'T look like it's about to be subsumed by Tiberium and collapse and, finally, the whole concept isn't C&C.  They wanna toon up RA that's fine, RA was cartoonish to begin with, but this is the original, it's supposed to be dark, dreary and depressing.  There are supposed to be Ion Storms, according to they're own published lore, the planet is supposed to be literally tiberium almost everywhere yet you hardly see any of the damnable crystal in the trailer at all.

[Mika]

Although I can't remember seeing any GDI interrogator anywhere.

and

He might be confusing it with the allies in Red Alert..

Nope. I'm referring to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJassRFjrjU

It was one of the "Mission accomplished" -cutscenes in early NOD missions.

[CP5670]

I love that video. That's a Nod interrogator though. The "captured" guy is the GDI agent Delphi. You're supposed to rescue him in GDI mission 11, and you get the cutscene if you fail that mission.

[Mika]

For some reason, I'm pretty sure I saw it when playing with NOD.

Could be my memory, though.

[Scotty]

I thought the campaigns mirrored each other, more or less.  It's quite possible you did see it.

[Mika]

Oh, again something new:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiWhTl9uBro&feature=related

I never noticed he had warts on his face due to Tiberium poisoning. The details they put in this game never ceases to amaze me. And that the guy was never seen after the Obelisk (supposedly) destroyed the boats he was leading.

[carbine7]

Well, on-topic I'll add my two cents. Played the beta, it sucks. It is still a beta, but the walker concept is incredibly awkward (you can't even repair the damn thing without getting a defense class to build a unit to repair it). Plus, air units are either wtfpwn if there are 50, or useless. Also, agreed on the environments, there's no Tiberium anywhere.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, WTF. The trailer for the game had Tiberium everywhere.

[carbine7]

The only tiberium you'll find comes raining down from the sky magically (which EA claims will make sense later, which makes me think "Damn, we screwed ourselves over so completely that we can't build refineries. Oh well, the only possible solution is for the sky to rain tiberium in nice organized packages onto nice little round concrete circles.")

[ShadowGorrath]

The only tiberium you'll find comes raining down from the sky magically (which EA claims will make sense later, which makes me think "Damn, we screwed ourselves over so completely that we can't build refineries. Oh well, the only possible solution is for the sky to rain tiberium in nice organized packages onto nice little round concrete circles.")

Aha... Wait, what?

[General Battuta]

ALLOW ME TO REPEAT MYSELF

[Nuclear1]

The only tiberium you'll find comes raining down from the sky magically (which EA claims will make sense later, which makes me think "Damn, we screwed ourselves over so completely that we can't build refineries. Oh well, the only possible solution is for the sky to rain tiberium in nice organized packages onto nice little round concrete circles.")

An attempt to clean up the Earth's surface?

[IceFire]

You can't tell much about RTS or RTT gameplay from just looking at a video.

True, but what you can tell is that unit design went down the crapper, the environment DOESN'T look like it's about to be subsumed by Tiberium and collapse and, finally, the whole concept isn't C&C.  They wanna toon up RA that's fine, RA was cartoonish to begin with, but this is the original, it's supposed to be dark, dreary and depressing.  There are supposed to be Ion Storms, according to they're own published lore, the planet is supposed to be literally tiberium almost everywhere yet you hardly see any of the damnable crystal in the trailer at all.

From some of the fiction that we've seen it seems like Kane worked with GDI (see the trailer) to develop some sort of control mechanism so that the power of Tiberium could be utilized while not converting and destroying the planet.  I've heard Tiberium Control Network mentioned.  How that works and how it factors in to the fiction and the gameplay I'm not sure...

I'm really not sure about this game.  C&C3 I've actually come to really enjoy.... but this one doesn't look as good visually or anywhere else.

[General Battuta]

Ah, right, the Tiberium Control Network. That does help make sense of things. That intro with Kane approaching GDI was supposed to occur many years before the game's actual story.

[Aardwolf]

Hard to dominate if it's been taken over by aliens and you've been ousted, innit?