More grandstanding from the follicly challenged super villain!

With the “back to basics” approach of C&C 3 and its classic (bordering on outdated) look and feel, it was always going to be interesting to see what could be done to add to this madcap RTS classic.

Sadly they couldn’t get the sexy chicks from Battlesar Galactica back for this one (Boomer and Six) so they got some random other guy from the show to do cut scenes instead. Its kinda fun that in this day of fully rendered cut scene animation, we get good old full motion video with mainstream actors desperately trying to act against blue screen cgi sets. Having said that, some big names have appeared in the C&C series including Michael Bien and James Earl Jones so it shouldn’t be too bad.

What do you get?

Well it’s more of the same really. The baldy one in full on camp “Dr Evil” mode and the usual turn / mission based mayhem. There are a few new and interesting sub-factions here with a sprinkling of new vehicles and some of the battles are huge with tank rushes and infantry zerging to keep the action going. We also see some uber units for each side and the new equipment provides extra variety and balancing.

All in all it’s not bad but we didn’t see anything revolutionary here. Perhaps that’s a good thing in some ways as C&C is popular for “being what it is”.

This will likely be the last expansion for C&C for the time being as we have Red Alert 3 to look forward to with is interesting alternate future time-line.

Verdict

Definitely for C&C fans, less so for the casual player

Popularity: 17% [?]