http://pc.ign.com/articles/705/705757p1.html

If EA can make due on the things they are talking about in this article, they have a winner on their hands and my money in their wallet.

Also, I love the ripple effect on the water the Orcas make in the screenshots.

I love CnC and Tiberian Sun, but they need to find some new gimmicks for CnC3. WC3 has the hero system (whether you like the system or not) and DoW has resource nodes and squad combat. CnC3 needs to make sure it can keep up with the other games in this aspect.

Now, I’ve never played Generals (which from reading posts seems to be a thankful thing) but from TS I know that once you get Goliaths (those the tanks/mechs, been ages) there is no point for infantry men. I want to be able to use all units throughout the game and get good performance out of them. It’s stuff like this CnC3 needs to make sure it’s updated on.

I don’t mean to ramble on much longer, but I just want to make sure CnC3 will not be stale even before it is released. Two sides to a conflict is not such a massive thing anymore, especially since in the next expansion DoW will have now SEVEN races. Don’t want to see CnC3 not able to live up to its past games.

As for C&C3? Well, I’m not too excited about this one as I’m expecting another plodding pace. If they can introduce the pace and fun-factor of Red Alert 2 then I’m interested but the past games set in the GDI/Nod Command & Conquer universe haven’t given me much cause for hope.

See, i think that they realised how slow Tiberian Sun was, and that is why RA2 was so much faster - it is not just a general difference between the Tiberium games and the Red Alert games - as I recall, the original Red Alert was slow too. I think faster paced RTS games are where it’s going to stay, and RA2 + Generals shows that EA at least understands that now. So I think that’s what we’ll see in the next Tiberium installment.

I actually think that Generals gameplay was pretty solid, so a new step up from that (but with a story worth telling) and a better game engine will pretty much have me won over. Maybe my expectations are just lower than you guys?

Not for nothing, but I’m pretty sure the GDI/NOD universe was originally supposed to be a trilogy. The first game was supposed to be subtitled “Tiberiab Dawn” the second “Tiberian Sun” and the last “Tiberian Twilight.”

So, I don’t really blame EA for milking this franchise. I just really, really hope it gets a deserving Swan Song.

Come on…it’s EA. They are only interested in the bottom line, revenue generating nature of this game and nothing more. Kids the world over will go “Cool…CnC3. I must buy it, cos it’s CnC!”.

Will it sell? Yes. Will it be any good? Possibly.