EA confirms development of new Command & Conquer game for PC

Brian Ambrozy 15 Nov, 2011 at 7:10pm ET Article published in Gaming

Today on the official Facebook wall for Command & Conquer, EA posted the following:

“There are a lot of people asking about a new C&C game. The only think we can say at the moment is: Yes, there is a Command & Conquer PC game in development. No other official details are available yet!”

Whether this will be a full new “Command & Conquer 5” follow up to the venerable series, or an offshoot like C&C Generals or Red Alert remains to be seen. At the very least, they did specify “PC game”, which means it won’t be something lame like a Facebook game or something.

If you’ve never played a C&C game, the classic beginnings are available for free, and C&C 4 is now available on Steam or Origin.

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15 Nov 2011 ~ 7:24pm ardichoke Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

After making me think they knew what the series was about with Red Alert 3, they went and bastardized the series with C&C 4... Please stop touching my favorite series in the no-no spot EA ;_;
15 Nov 2011 ~ 7:25pm Thrax Cain will be 42% more legacier in this new title.
15 Nov 2011 ~ 7:33pm Basil
15 Nov 2011 ~ 8:46pm allenpan geeze they going to butcher another C&C, like what they did to C&C4, it survived for 12 min = 3 min installation, 2 min intro, 5 min game play, 2 min uninstall
15 Nov 2011 ~ 9:27pm Winfrey Maybe, just maybe this won't be a going through the motions milking of the cash cow...

Man, I miss Westwood.
15 Nov 2011 ~ 10:00pm CrazyJoe C&C 4 existed?
15 Nov 2011 ~ 11:25pm Koreish Only in our Nightmares.
15 Nov 2011 ~ 11:27pm Ilriyas Why cant they just leave well enough alone!

Seriously this 'run franchises into the ground' business policy Ea, and ActivisionBlizzard have got going is ridiculous.
16 Nov 2011 ~ 12:23am ardichoke

Crazy Joe wrote:

C&C 4 existed?

Yes. It was crap. Didn't even have the same game mechanics of any other C&C game. No base building, no resource collecting, no tech tree.
16 Nov 2011 ~ 3:45am Shorty Question is, will anyone buy it? Magic 8 ball says "this is unlikely"
16 Nov 2011 ~ 8:23am MiracleManS

Shorty wrote:

Question is, will anyone buy it? Magic 8 ball says "this is unlikely"

I've bought every iteration so far, might as well go for broke!
16 Nov 2011 ~ 11:03am ardichoke Bought every C&C game thusfar (some of them twice thanks to the Decade box set). After the fiasco that was 4, however, I might have to pass on this one
16 Nov 2011 ~ 12:15pm Colgere They need to return the mechanics of the game back to something closer to 3. If it's anything like the cluster that was 4, I won't bother buying it.
16 Nov 2011 ~ 12:42pm Shorty

MiracleManS wrote:

I've bought every iteration so far, might as well go for broke!

But why? Really. Serious? Come on man, you know it's going to be pants. BIG granny pants. Why do this to yourself?
16 Nov 2011 ~ 4:36pm Koreish

Colgere wrote:

They need to return the mechanics of the game back to something closer to 3. If it's anything like the cluster that was 4, I won't bother buying it.

3? No, sir they need to return to the mechanics of Tiberium Sun and Red Alert 2. From the WestWood days.

How can the even make another game from the Tiberium franchise anyway? They killed off Kane.
16 Nov 2011 ~ 4:40pm ardichoke Maybe it's going to be a Red Alert 4? They haven't completely effed that line up yet.
16 Nov 2011 ~ 5:01pm Basil

Koreish wrote:

They killed off Kane.

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10 Dec 2011 ~ 10:09pm primesuspect Well, it's C&C Generals 2.
10 Dec 2011 ~ 10:39pm Basil I'm actually OK with this.

Generals was a competent RTS and if a sequel keeps EA from their pathetic attempts to milk the franchise proper so much the better
11 Dec 2011 ~ 1:41am ardichoke ugh... this is the last straw. I'm giving up on the C&C series until such a time that EA either sells it to a competent game company or they prove they can go back to C&C's roots.
11 Dec 2011 ~ 12:57pm jared I liked Generals, but wasn't it poorly received overall? I seem to remember most people disliking it.
11 Dec 2011 ~ 1:04pm NiGHTS IIRC, it was their first step away from the 'traditional' Westwood-styled C&C that had everyone so pissed off.

Personally, I wasn't a huge fan of it, I had both Generals and the Zero Hour expansion and I can't honestly say I remember damn thing about either outside of general dislike for both.
11 Dec 2011 ~ 1:41pm CB Generals was the only C&C game I really got a lot of enjoyment out of.
12 Dec 2011 ~ 10:55am ardichoke

NiGHTS wrote:

IIRC, it was their first step away from the 'traditional' Westwood-styled C&C that had everyone so pissed off.

This is the real issue. It wasn't a terrible RTS game, but it wasn't a Command & Conquer game. It's the same problem they had with C&C4, they took a game that has a ravenous fanbase (myself included) and gave them a game that wasn't what they wanted.
14 Dec 2011 ~ 11:55pm Basil And now to piss on the wound; "EA Announces Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances".

A free-to-play, browser/mobile based, MMO in the Command & Conquer Tiberium Wars universe.

Presumably that's the only genre left for a half assed spinoff since Renegade went down like a fart in a lift.
15 Dec 2011 ~ 10:55am jared hahahahha, oh man i forgot about Renegade, Now *that* was bad...
15 Dec 2011 ~ 12:15pm ardichoke Hey... I LIKED Renegade. It was campy, cheesy, loyal to the C&C universe and FUN. The critics and fans tend to agree: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/command-conquer-renegade

Of course, that game was actually made by Westwood which helped, even if they were owned by EA at the time.