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

[Sir Modsalot]

I made a mistake ignoring this, and have a few things to address.

First: Saying C&C3 is just an upgraded Generals, this is just a huge mistake. Yes, they used SAGE. No, it's NOT the same SAGE that Gens/ZH had. Gens/ZH used an unrefined version of the engine; in fact if I recall correctly Gens was actually a public TEST of the engine. It's a very flexible system, you can see this in C&C3 and the SAGE in C&C3 is in NO way the same as in Gens/ZH. Second part of the mistake is that Gens/ZH didn't follow any previous storylines. EA actually attempted to link C&C3 with the previous "Tiberian" games, that's another major difference.

Second: Tore said the Mammoth tank/Predator in C&C3 are weaker than previous incarnations. Unupgraded, yes. Give them rail guns, and they're almost TOO powerful (even with the balance fixes in 1.05; decreasing ROF and INcreasing firepower for the upgraded Mammoth Tank wasn't very smart on their behalf IMO).

Third: Poskov said the movies were "all un-Westwood like". Well, of course they were, WW didn't play any part in the making of the game (since, you know, WW isn't really around anymore anyway). How can you expect consistency on this level from EA?

Fourth: Wess said that "Nod has changed to much from a real army to a rebel one". When were they ever a real army? The new designs make them look like organized, devoted fanatics (you even saw this element in TS/FS where they refer to the commanders as the "Inner Circle", and the cheers Nod soldiers did praising Kane and Nod).

Fifth: Walls/gates. Who has ever used either of these online? Seriously. Sure, I wall in my CY in all situations, but that's it. Walling in a base costs too much and for online purposes is impractical.

Sixth: Firestorm walls. Though this wasn't mentioned much in this topic, I feel it needs to be addressed as well. Simple 3-part reason I could see for omitting them; power drain, money drain, and they only work for so long, all three to keep things balanced, but they also make it ineffective. 250 per section? 2000 for the generator? Who-knows-how-much power to keep all these running? And they only work when the shield is charged and you have power. It was a good concept but, as with walls/gates, wasn't practical online. How EA would have approached this is beyond me, but we could only imagine. It was better off being omitted.

That's all for now as far as counterpoints. But I will say this: evil ol' EA went outta their way to continue the C&C franchise, be glad they did and enjoy the game for what it is if you have it. If you don't like it, don't play it; if you bought it and don't like it, return it. That's money EA loses. If you don't have it, you have no right to complain about it if you don't like any part of it (not directed toward anybody that's posted in here, I'm just saying). What EA-haters keep forgetting is that Petroglyph LIKED C&C3 and what EA did with it. You know? Petro? Some of the employees of which helped START the franchise? Yeah. Finally, for those that say "OMG EA RUINED C&C!!!11one!", well, guess what, people like you ruined it. In fact, the best way to say it is, the Internet ruined it. It's not perfect, but EA could have easily decided not to make it and leave us with Generals/ZH. Thanks for reading all this, I guess.

This post has been edited by Sir Modsalot: Jun 3 2007, 11:34 AM