EA Confirms Command & Conquer 4 News

Added:Sat 18th Dec 2010 20:46, Post No: 11

The old C&C games were awesome, I don't understand how they screwed the whole series up. I liked Red Alert the most and for some reason they took a good idea of an alternate reality that was reminiscent to how people during WWII and in the early cold war wanted to make fantastical superweapons to crush the other side. But then they just went absurd with all of the cartoony, stupid, and useless units. After that fiasco, they actually made a good game like Generals, which had units that used real tactics and you could do fun things like send in your rangers to clear out houses, or plant IED's all over the place. Oh and the Chinese hoards shooting fire and nuclear bombs everywhere, hahaha. Its too bad they would rather make games now with units that you have to micromanage just to get their abilities to even have an effect. I mean come on, Im in charge of a whole fricking army and I have to worry about one measly little unit. Fire the damn thing already!!! Its why I spent the money to research it for you!!!

Added:Fri 13th Aug 2010 01:15, Post No: 9

One thing I just want to say to EA. Graphics alone do NOT make a good game. The end.

Added:Thu 12th Aug 2010 09:07, Post No: 7

I can not believe EA ruined the Command & Conquer franchise. This game sucks. I loved Command & Conquer and after EA took over it went down the hill. After I played this game I turned it off and downloaded the original Command & Conquer Tiberian sun. I miss you Westwood. Please come back!

Added:Sun 04th Jul 2010 06:33, Post No: 5

I'm ahuge FAN of this series, albeit, I'm now in my early thirties, I haven't had much time to play strategy games as much as I use to,...So, I pay attention to reviews. Based on the comments I've heard.... EA is not getting a penny from me for C&C 4: First, for not only taking over Westwoods and not being able to retain the core team that made this series last. Don't you understand that it's the creative minds that produce the success you so richly desired to take over? Secondly, for mucking up the game from its core concept of "Base building"...You do yourself and the consumers of this type of game gendre a great disfavor...we will not forget this!!

Added:Thu 01st Apr 2010 08:37, Post No: 3

I'm not particularly fearful that this is the end of C&C as we know it.  I don't think EA will pursue this experiment again.

That said it makes me angry when companies take over a game from another studio and then attempt to modernize it.  This always leaves me with a feeling of emptyness because whatever the creators of [insert here] Heroes of might and magic 4, Fallout, Red Alert 2 wanted to add to the formula is washed away.  There is this feeling in the back of my head. 

Although Heroes 5 was pretty good by itself, it still feels dumbed down.  Red Alert 3 is literally a lazy clone of Red Alert 2 which just makes me angry.  In Fallout 3 they don't even try.  They just throw out the game and keep the name.

At least with C&C here these fundamental changes don't seem permanent. I didn't like C&C 3 too much but hopefully if they pursue that, it'll turn into something good on its own.