Gaming Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars

[The_Pope]

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/...um_wars/1.html

[quack]

The Ion Cannon is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

[samkiller42]

I absolutly love this game, its almost the best thing since sliced bread
Im surprised you were comparing it with an expansion pack? Red Alert is as you probably know it is a stand alone game, set in a different universe to this game, but it puzzled me as to why you did.

I do agree with quack there, the Ion Cannon is good fun, but the Rift Generator is a novel idea i must say.
Its a shame Frank Klepaki has not done the soundtrack to this, as the soundtrack was something people knew what made a C&C, but i agree, it does work with the game i find.

All in all, a good review, cheers.

Sam

[DriftCarl]

for the record, this game works like a dream in vista, AMD 5600 , an 8800GTS and 2 gig of ram.

I really enjoy the skirmish in these games. I find the single player game boring and multiplayer is full of "l33t rushers" that crush you within minutes while you try to have fun by building up an army. So playing the MP maps against several computer players is most enjoyable for me. I even prefer this over stalker at the moment.

[samkiller42]

Originally Posted by DriftCarl

I even prefer this over stalker at the moment.

Is that because Stalker doesnt work in Vista? heh

Yes, thankfully, it does work in Vista, otherwise EA would have a mutiny on there hands.

Sam

[Cabe64]

I love this game. I've been a huge fan of the C&C series ever since the very first one.
Bringing back Joe Kucan was a pretty good idea.

For the Brotherhood!

[Paradigm Shifter]

Begun back in the hey-day of Windows 95, the original Command & Conquer operated only on MS-DOS

I mentioned this when it was said in the preview - it told you in the manual of the original boxed copy of Command and Conquer how to get it working from within Windows 95... it didn't improve the graphics, but it worked just fine.

...

Overall, I've been really enjoying C&C3, but it has certainly reminded me why I hated missions where you can't build a base. And having the Mammoth tank back the way it was (but better!) rather than that horrible AT-AT rip-off is fantastic.

[Ramble]

Agreed. The game is bloody awesome.
Just had a 12 hour LAN and we played this game for a lot of that time, good fun.

But the performance is just awful.

[Jipa]

Spamspamspamspamspamdispamspam Just like the other C&Cs. Some people love and the rest find them total waste of time. I got to agree the graphics are awesome, but in the same sentence I'd like to add that SO WHAT. I tried out the demo and most of the time the candy effects just made it harder to pick the units and build stuff.

Maybe the game just isn't for me and I shouldn't even tried in the first place... /end of rant.

[wafflesomd]

All settings maxed:

C2duo E6400
7800gt
2 gigs/ram

Runs like a dream.

And has anyone cuaght this yet, spawn a juggernaut unit, and select him till he says, "I'm the juggernuat!"

I luaghed.

[CardJoe]

The ion cannon is pretty cool admittedly, though the best thing about it isn't the actual effect but aiming that massive crosshair on a single rifle unit.

"MWHAHAHAH! FEEL MY PWNAGE!" I yell before being promptly squished by the opposition because I wasted my superweapon.

[TomH]

Originally Posted by TFA

We started our performance testing by quickly installing the game on a free computer and slapping in an NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS card and a single gigabyte of RAM...

...The action on screen was a little jerky, though still playable at around 16 FPS on average, but we oomphed up to 1600 x 1200 anyway because we’re show-offs at heart. This had a negative impact on the FPS obviously, with highs of 25 and lows of just 14, but the game was still easily playable...

...Pushing in an X1950 Pro and using the Ultra High preset allowed the game to function at a rock solid 30 frames, never falling below 28 FPS for more than a second.

Excuse me for being inexplicably pedantic, but surely you'd expect such a rise from an x1950 Pro, against the 7600GS?

Or did you mean, 7900GS, as per the Mid-range/Low-end graphical performance?

[mikeuk2004]

I love the good old C&C. I remeber my younger bro getting it for xmas when it came out and we sepent ages trying to get it to work in good old dos on my dads 486DX.

Good old sound Blaster 16 problems. If you didnt have a Creative Sound Blaster then your screwed as early pc games mainly supported them only. We had that many problems trying to get our sound card to work that we bought a Sound Blaster 16.

I was good fun and from then on we got every C&C that came out. Have not got C&C 3 yet. Not sure how it will run on a AMD 3700, ATI 1600PRo and 1GB ram. I prefer to play these games on my laptop sat on the sofa in the living room than in the bedroom on my own on the desktop, but I think I got no chance it working on a 1.6 centrino 64MB ATI 9700 512mb DDR 333.

Time to persuade my wife into buying me a new laptop Dint think I can though

[CardJoe]

Yes, you're right, we meant the 7900 GS and thanks for pointing it out.

Thats the infuriating thing about this business: one digit wrong and suddenly everyones a critic

The mistake has now been corrected.

[Springs]

i liked the game... missed some of the stuff from the original..

[dragontail]

This game is the result of EA trying to appease the old school "traditional" cnc fan. A lot of the old school stuff is there, like the FMVs (production values are pretty high). Unfortunately, the gameplay is a step backwards from generals. Ah well. Still a decent product though.

[kenco_uk]

What a strange analogy, "who normally has the strategic prowess of a fart in a spacesuit".

Page 2 - Para 5 "Playing it feels like playing an updated version of Red Alert, which is fitting given that it was developers are all admitted fans of the C&C classics and have tried hard to recreate them." - doesn't read correctly to me, perhaps just omit the highlighted 'was' and add an 's' to 'it'.

Page 2 - Para 8 "I'm not going to give anything away about The Scrin" - missing 'give'

"top-down-at-a-bit-of-an-angle perspective" - so, isometric, then lol

Page 3 - para 2 "This begs the question: just now necessary is anti-aliasing for Command & Conquer 3?" - change to 'how'.

Page 6 - para 5 "afterall" - space between after and all needed.

Page 6 - para 5 "Windows that are actually recessed into the wall rather than just look like a white, square decal on a wall." - two ways this could go. Get rid of the first 'that' or change 'look' to 'looking'. Either way, this sentence feels unfinished/fragmented.

Page 7 - para 10 "Dropping the graphics preset to a more lenient Medium setting bought Terrain Detail and Texture Detail much lower than we would have liked ..." - doesn't make sense. Perhaps change 'bought' to 'made'?

Page 7 - para 12 "It puzzled us that the dropping the graphics settings didn’t seem to do much" - omit 'the'.

Page 8 - para 5 "excellent game and it's impossible to deny that the same" - add 'to'.

Page 8 - para 5 "to get a decent framerate at 1600 x 1200 or higher" - add 'at'. btw, missing full stop at the end of this paragraph.

Genuinely, a brilliant review. Well done

[CardJoe]

Wow, thats a fair few mistakes. It goes to show that even with a Degree in English Language and Creative Writing and with an editor constantly checking your work you can still mess up! Still, thanks for point those typos out (they've all been corrected now)

Hopefully when I get more used to writing in the editing engine we use there won't be as many typos!

[saeghwin]

I like the game a lot so far, even though I've barely played much. I'm stuck at this one mission in Croatia where you have to guard a broken down base, and then rescue your reinforcements (how ironic). I really cannot get past that part, and by the time I can build enough forces to guard my base and get the reinforcements, the enemy has begun attacking full force. Any suggestions?

Does anyone else hate Jennifer Morrison's acting? I think it is seriously pretty bad. She has this attitude that always comes off as artificially serious, as if she is trying to make her voice sound lower or more dramatic than anyone would actually sound in real life. As a result, it sounds corny and scripted. Overall though, I've been really satisfied with the live-action in this game.

[willyolio]

grace park, guys!! how could you possibly not mention boomer?

although yes, there is some serious geek casting pwnage.