Another great C&C game and a great RTS game for Xbox360.
C&C3 is a great RTS game for Xbox360 and is another great game in the C&C series.
The story for Command and Conquer 3 is set 50 years after the events in the first C&C game and another war between the Global Defense Initiatve and NOD has broken out.The Global Defense Initiative(GDI) are the Army who are supposed to protect the world from bad guys and NOD are a terrorist group who believe their leader named Kane is some sort of prophet and it's their right to rule the world.For a twist,an alien race named the Scrin have showed up and the Scrin want to take over Earth and this creates another enemy for the GDI to defend the people of the world from and NOD see the Scrin's arrival as a great opportunity to steal advanced alien technology and use it for their ambitions to take control of the world.
The story does a good job of adding mystery and twists.For example,Kane looks like he hasn't aged since the first C&C game and it doesn't explain why and the aliens have technology that allows them to travel to other worlds and you can probably guess what NOD would try to do if they gained access to Scrin technology and were able to travel to other worlds.
Even though the story might seem black and white,it's not because the GDI are incompetant and reckless at times and their actions can result in the deaths of millions of innocent people.
The gameplay uses the gameplay formula that it's predecessors use where you'll build a base,need to build adquate base defenses,build an army and destroy the enemy bases.However,C&C3 the aircraft do a lot more damage than in previous C&C games and the Scrin add more diversity to gameplay because the Scrin start off with very weak units and are very vulnerable early on in missions but if they can progress through the tech tree they'll become almost unstoppable due to their incredible technology.The Scrin have motherships that can fly over bases and shoot powerful energy weapons that inflict massive damage to objects underneath it over a wide radius and even worse the motherships can recharge their weapon quickly and shoot that weapon an unlimited amount of times,but thankfully the motherships are very slow moving and vulnerable to air defense.
The Scrin also have aircraft that can shoot powerful energy weapons over a long distance that can inflict massive damage to buildings and units.The Scrin can use a rift creator that destroys buildings from far away but takes a while to charge up,and the GDI still have the ion cannon(which destroys buildings from far away but takes a while to charge up)and NOD can use nuclear weapons for the same purpose.
The GDI and NOD's are fairly evenly matched,except the GDI units are a little bit more powerful but more expensive to build.
GDI still builds tanks,NOD builds mechs.As you would expect,GDI and NOD can build infantry.The Scrin have their own version of ground units such as Tripods(which are giant aliens with powerful weapons)but they have some very weak ground units too.
In C&C3,you'll need to use your units more tactically than in the previous C&C games because in some missions you'll need to send infantry into an enemy base but the base will be heavily defended so you'll need to put the infantry into a vehicle so they can make it inside the base without getting killed by the base defenses.The Scrin have mind control abilities and can take possesion of enemy units and in some missions the Scrin won't be able to build a base so you'll need to use the mind control abilities carefully.You'll need to be tactical in how you remove defensive structures before you attack a base.And in some missions you need to capture certain buildings but the timing for when you capture the buildings is very important.So,simply relying on building lots of units and swarming an enemy base with them doesn't guarantee victory.Also,even on the easy difficulty,the CPU is fairly aggresive and challenging and much tougher than in C&C Tiberian Sun or Red Alert 2,so you'll need to balance your money for base defense(building defensive structures) as well as building units to launch an attack,and don't forget air units do a lot of damage in C&C3 so air defense is crucial.
However,the unit and structure building menu is unneccesarily convoluted compared to the previous C&C games.But I like how the game allows you to select every unit on the screen with the click of a button.
Unfortunately,you can only use the Scrin for 4 of the campaign missions GDI and NOD have more than 10 campaign missions each.
The graphics look decent,a bit washed out,but not bad.
The game uses FMV with real actors and I like the way they look/dress such as the high ranking NOD guy with the long hair and Geri Ryan(from Star Trek voyager) acting the role of one of the characters in this game,The game also uses CGI that shows Scrin aircraft destroying cities and Scrin killing people on the streets and it's quite horrifying and motivates you to fight off the Scrin,
The script writing is quite good,it's very philosophical and Kane does a good job acting psychotic at times.
The voice of the Scrin commanders sounds scary and I like the way their alien voices sound.
Overall-It's another great C&C game and if you wanna play a great RTS game on Xbo360,here is one.