EA Announces New C&C Game
RTS goes FPS, FYI.
by Martin Robinson, IGN UK

UK, December 18, 2007 - Electronic Arts has announced the impending arrival of a new entry in the Command & Conquer series, Tiberium, a first-person squad-based shooter that will hit the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC towards the end of 2008.

It marks the second time the series has departed from its real-time strategy roots, following 2002' s Command & Conquer: Renegade, a shooter which was met with a muted response. The new game has been subject to rigorous preperation, and promises a mix of tactical action and gunplay, with players in control infantry, armour and air squads in their travels through the Command & Conquer universe.

Not quite sure if I personally would like one of my favorite RTS going FPS, but if done well it may change my mind.

It' s on the front page of the new GI. I don' t own a scanner, otherwise I' d scan the article in question.

I' m not totally sure what to think of it yet to be honest. I see Star Wars: Republic Commando, Halo, Haze and a little bit of Timeshift in the graphics department. The character models look pretty nice, if the screens aren' t as touched up as I' m inclined to believe they are, but the weapons & environments are pretty average. Nothing bad mind you, just nothing to write home about either.

Nothing bad mind you, just nothing to write home about either.

After all the great 07 FPS' s we dont need anymore mediocrity. Being a good FPS isnt good enough anymore. Not when you must compete with games like CoD4, Halo 3, UTIII, Orange Box and upcoming games like Haze and Half Life 2 ep.3.

Dude, don' t forget Battlefield: Bad Company!

These guys just did Medal of Honor: Airborne. It' s not going to turn out well.

Medal of Honor started alright, but slowly sank more into mediocrity with each sub-sequent installment. Too stuck in past glories, that they can' t even recreate now with better technology.

Oh lawd... that' s pretty.

Oh lawd... that' s pretty.

Oh lawd... I bet thats not in-game.

I' ve just seen gameplay screens of this new C&C game...

...it looks disgusting.

Iy quite honestly looks like it could be done on Wii. It would have been passable as a first gen title, but not now. It' s too brown, the levels are completely non-descript, the enemies and weapons are lame... it just looks awful.

Things could change though and it could end up being great... but i highly doubt it. It' s a shame too because the C&C universe is pretty ***ing cool and could play host to any genre of game. Personally i' d have taken it towards a more Matrix style storyline where machines virtually wipe out the human race in a war over Tiberium... but meh... this is going to be ass.

C&C Renegade sucked and so will this.

Oh lawd... I bet thats not in-game.

Have you seen some of the early build in-game footage?

It' s close enough.

i just hope that if this FPS does well they dont stop making the RTS all together, Lord knows we already have enough FPS and CnC Renagade was an awfull game