A Disaster of Epic Proportions

User Rating: 1 | Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight PC
By Anachronizer | Review Date:
One cannot fathom how and why this game turned out to be such an epic failure without looking back at the Command and Conquer Tiberium series. Briefly, it all began in 1995 with Westwood releasing the first Command and Conquer and the rest is gaming history with the release of Tiberian Sun in 1999 followed by the expansion Firestorm in 2000. Later in 2003 EA took over Westwood and not many games were able to achieve in the transition from 2D to 3D what EA did with the release of Command and Conquer: Tiberium Wars in 2007 which even got ported to Xbox 360 despite the fact that it was a real time strategy game, not exactly a thing for consoles. The follow-up expansion Kane's Wrath was rather short but exciting nonetheless.

Then it happens in 2009, EA announces the epic conclusion to the Tiberium saga, Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. Everyone got so excited but sadly the excitement lasted for many until the day they actually got to play the Command & Conquer 4 beta. With units appearing like 3D version of the ones in Tiberian Sun and gameplay mechanics borrowed heavily from Dawn of War 2, totally undermining all of the visual and gameplay achievements of Tiberium Wars, as if it got lost somewhere in the timeline. The main essence of Command and Conquer type gameplay like base building and resource harvesting, the very thing that defined the Command and Conquer sub-genre has been totally replaced by Dawn of War type control node capturing and mobile combat.

It appears as if EA were in a huge rust to finish and start selling this game before the world came to an end in 2012 that the end product looks and feels severely unpolished and heavily curtailed. If you are new to the Command and Conquer sub-genre you might as well give it a shot, maybe you will like it, but if you've played Command and Conquer games before, especially Tiberium Wars, you're in for a letdown of epic proportions which is a sheer insult to the huge Command and Conquer fanbase.

R.I.P Command and Conquer
R.I.P Kane
See you in Hell EA.

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