"Standalone expansion pack" isn't a very exciting phrase, but we're going to have to work with the tools we're given, and it's the most apt description for what Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath actually is. On the PC, this was a straightforward expansion pack for a popular real-time strategy game, sold cheaply and requiring the original game to be installed. On consoles, it arrives as a game in its own right - not full-price, thankfully, but a standalone game regardless.
This retreat from the expansion pack concept raises a few issues. For a start, there's the possibility of players who never picked up last year's C&C3 giving this a shot, only to face a truncated and disjointed campaign mode that makes absolutely no sense to anyone who hasn't played the original. We're not saying C&C's story makes sense in general, mind you, but at least the high-camp melodrama normally follows something like a conventional story arc. Kane's Wrath's campaign only lets you play one side, gives you a limited number of missions and spreads them around a 20-year time period spanning a pair of wars from previous games. The stuff of expansion packs, then, not of full games.
Electronic Arts has today released the Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Edition retail package, offering incredible value from the best-selling real-time strategy (RTS) franchise of all time. Rule all three Command & Conquer universes and more with this incredible value package, which includes seventeen complete videogames.
DSOGaming writes: "Electronic Arts is offering the entire Command & Conquer franchise with a 75% discount on Steam."
PC Games shows how C&C evolved from C&C 1 to Generals 2. Check out the screenshots.
Never played generals but I have played c&c 3 and red alert 2 and 3. Is it anything like those?
They need to re release the older ones with hd graphics and compatible with smartphones and tablets. Would love to replay the older ones from 90's and early early 2000's with touchscreen controls.
