I'm a big fan of the C&C, everything up to Yuri's Revenge is pure gold. Even Generals was good. But is there really any place for C&C anymore. With the lastest installments really adding nothing to the RTS genre (TW,KW,RA3) and in my opinion being very average RTS's I really can't see the once proud Flagship for the RTS genre having a future. RTS wagon has moved on with games such as DoW, CoH, SupCom, WiC each adding there own take on the RTS formula, also the WarCraft series of games (which was round at the same time as the C&C series golden years) changed and evolved its self to be still relivate today, something the C&C games decided to ignore.

With 2009 being the year when 2 very big RTS series launch there sequals ( DoW 2 and SC 2) sadly I can see C&C being forgotten only to occasionally pop up its head with a game thats just more of the same and being brushed to one side.

Personally, I think C&C in its current format either needs an overhaul or they need to focus on lengthening the life of the games themselves.  There's not enough gameplay changes between C&C 3 and Red Alert 3 for me to warrant purchasing Red Alert 3 at full price.  I'd rather see them focus development on expansion packs for the games with gradual, meaningful additions and tweaks to the gameplay.  Additional multiplayer modes & maps, new campaigns, and additional units could greatly lengthen the life of the game, but releasing a Command and Conquer every year or so at full price isn't exactly warranted.

So what's Starcraft 2 gonna bring new to the table. I've never played starcraft, but it always seemed like C&C with aliens. A solid, well balanced game.

"So what's Starcraft 2 gonna bring new to the table. I've never played starcraft, but it always seemed like C&C with aliens. A solid, well balanced game."

Im pretty sure my first pc game was c and c gold edition. It might have been something else I cant exactly remember but I did have cnc

"Steve_C said:

"So what's Starcraft 2 gonna bring new to the table. I've never played starcraft, but it always seemed like C&C with aliens. A solid, well balanced game."

I'm of a similar mind.  Starcraft had a different setting and finely balanced gameplay.  But if you look at Starcraft and, say, Command and Conquer: Generals, the gameplay is fundamentally the same.  Even the factions play out similarly.  That's why I was so disappointed with Command and Conquer 3 - it felt like a mere graphical upgrade to a formula nearly eight years old.  Of course, that's not necessarily a bad thing, as I wasn't expecting them to reinvent the wheel.  However, I'd at least like the factions to feel somewhat different.  I'm just not entirely sure how."

Chinese ppl like RA a lot it's been put on a high place in Chinese people's mind.