Command and Conquer 3 Announced

pasamio writes "After years of April Fools Jokes and other pranks, EA has officially announced Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Set for PC release in 2007, they're keeping the details very close to hand but it is being developed using the next generation SAGE engine (used in C&C:Generals and Battle for Middle Earth)."

New direction needed..

[Komarechka]

C&C Generals didn't have as much of a following as the original C&C games. I found it had more of a Warcraft 3 feel then a classic C&C game, which was a turn-off for some players such as me. It was also the first RTS game published since EA's assimilation of Westwood, and was under a different director.

Westwood is now just a shell of the company it once was, since a lot of the staff have moved on to other projects. I hope whoever is left at the development house knows how to design with the same concepts that started the franchise.

Going back to its roots is something I think this series needs to do. Red Alert 2 was the name's last huge success, and the bad sales of Renegade and the mediocre response to Generals should show that a new direction is needed.

Re:New direction needed..

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

If you LAN at all, Renegade is actually in high demand. It's got some fun multiplayer.

Re:New direction needed..

[Anonymous Coward]

>>Westwood is now just a shell of the company it once was, since a lot of the staff have moved on to other projects. I hope whoever is left at the development house knows how to design with the same concepts that started the franchise.

Many of the Westwood employees got together and created Petroglyph. Their current title is Star Wars: Empire at War. It's a great RTS.

CnC Timeline

[thepotoo]

I believe it works like this:
RA1: Solviet Campaign --> CnC-->Tiberiun Sun-->CnC3
RA1: Allied Campaign --> RA2/Yuri's Revenge
The two campaigns in RA1 esentially follow two paralell universes. I believe wikipedia has a good article on the CnC universe connections here [wikipedia.org]

Some goodies.

[antdude]

There are various links to drool on: #1 [gamespy.com], #2 [gamespy.com], #3 [cncden.com], and #4 [apathbeyond.com] for magazine scans, information, and discussions.

Re:Possible Hope

[sirnuke]

Petroglyph will be releasing a military style RTS around the same time (actually a guess, since neither EA's or Westwood's games have solid release dates as of now).

http://www.petroglyphgames.com/press/segaann.html [petroglyphgames.com]

Coincidence?

Re:Always seemed like a pale immitation of...

[MachDelta]

Ok, im a big TA fan too, but you do know that the original C&C was released before TA, right? If memory serves, C&C was '95, Red Alert was '96, and then Total Annihilation was released in '97. Oh and then Starcraft appeared in 98, but who cares about them, right? :P

Also, for the record... the sequel to the most amazing RTS ever, aka Total Annihilation 2, aka Supreme Commander [supremecommander.com] is scheduled to rock the RTS world some time in 2007. Oh hell yes. *Fanboi drooling noises*