Tiberium Wars review, Spoilers inside, you have been warned! Options

[Crash]

SPOILERS!


In this review, I review the game as a C&C

Let's start with the FMV's.... The FMV's were boring actually, and eww at the blue GDI, Cheezy. Kane isn't who I recognized as Kane.
The characters acted bad, I did like the news thing and the GDI guy, Billy de Williams acted as, along with the Nod dude who briefs you. It just didn't fit good enough. Could use more in battlefield videos. 4\10

Next thing will be the missions. The missions weren't really good. Mostly boring long lasting ones. Could use more speeches. Like in the first TS GDI mission "where the hell are those reinforcements?!" and text triggers. The camera function thing was annoying. I did get some bit of C&C atmosphere in the Nod mission where you protect these trucks inside your base, with Kane popping up and sending you reinforcements (the avatars) The other missions were mostly boring. Some were a bit hard and fun to play. The first Scrin mission was horribly boring, you have to get a lot of units to destroy the GDI bases. 6\10

Storyline was pretty ok, however it didn't reach the deepness it should be, C.A.B.A.L should be included along with the other mech technologies (Technology story)
The Technology looks backwards.... No further comments 5\10

Atmosphere (Music included) was quite boring compared to TS's The lighting of the missions were just too standard, didn't really fit to what it should be.
3\10

Other things:
The way the multiplayer works, is cool. The unit spamming isn't fun, and should been avoided.
The way the scrin was..... too bug alike! Superior airforce, bad ground units.
Squad system ? ...... OH-NO
Walls and gates cut out..... not cool
What happened to the distruptors and other things like the laser fences and firestorm walls ? They should have included or brought this technology further.
The liquid tiberium bomb should kill everyone on the battlefield shortly if it really was that deadly in the last GDI mission.
Tiberium ? in Firestorm we saw tiberium envolving into different mutations and types of tiberium. And they just "disappeared" ?
You should feel like "WOW! I WON THE GAME" at the end, but I just felt "that was it?!"
The EVA voices weren't good. The game was unserious, the selection sounds were awful.

Overall: As a C&C it's bad, but as a game it's cool. Not something for real C&C fans though, 4\10 as a C&C, 7\10 as a game.

More to come perhaps.

This post has been edited by Crash-King: May 11 2007, 09:25 PM

[Clazzy]

All games developed by the true Westwood had walls. Really a big thing that buggs me.

Walls would be nice but they're not necessary. The game has been designed in a fashion such that walls aren't needed. The case is the same with RA2, really.

It fits better being able to train one soldier to scout with, then you could make the squads on your own. Numbering them with 1, 2 ,3 etc.

But an infantry squad doesn't exactly cost a great deal, a mere £250 or so.

I personally found the scrin more of a robotic race than an organic one looking at the scrin ship in TS, I just didn't like the way some of their units were. Did like the airforce, but it was a bit too powerful, a bit weaker airforce and a bit stronger air units would do.

I never thought they'd appear robotic really. There's little point arguing this ultimately since it's more personal interpretation. I preferred their stronger air force, however. They're a technologically superior race who have mastered space travel, it makes sense they would have superior aerial units. It makes a welcome change from the typical style.

I agree with you lighting being boring in TS too, but some missions were pretty good with blue alike or different kinds of lighting, Ion storm one etc.

Look at the lighting in the Red Zone levels, I think it's extremely fitting and looks very nice.

I don't see a real point including bonus objectives, I do see the deep story, but it's not very much about the earlier things that had happened. Of course some, but not really the BIG things earlier. I didn't like the way you have to unlock all the story pieces doing several things extra. Not the way to tell the story IMO

Better than the TS method of telling you nothing of the backstory besides the fact that Kane disappeared and was presumed dead. There weren't any major events between TS and TW so they don't particularly need to be shown with a large song and dance.