Back to the fundamentals and with less cheesyness, no more FMV and made more like a proper RTS game.

Mortal Kombat showed that a proper reboot can be done, I'd love to see it again.

I thought that CnC 3 was a step in the right direction but CnC 4 was a joke, the game play, art style, story, music and so on were all terrible.

Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn Redux

They wouldn't get it right because they can't figure out what made C&C 1 special.

One of C&C1's trademarks was fmv's btw. But they were unintentionally funny. In the sequels they tried to be funny and it didn't really work.

Also, all that stuff involving mechs, aliens etc was not what C&C originally was. It has to be very near future tech, almost present day with some very light sci-fi influences. An adrenaline pumping soundtrack is also necessary. No other C&C came close to C&C1 in that regard.

Gameplay-wise, it has to be a base-building game that relies heavily on tank rush vs digging yourself into base-tactics. F that dynamic shit of modern rts games, with less units, moving bases (or none at all) etc. I want to build a base, I want to hole myself into that base and I want to tank rush my opponent! That's C&C.

As for the graphics, they should also take a look at the first game - it had a relatively realistic, brownish color palette which was crucial for the atmosphere.

I bought, installed, played, uninstalled, and subsequently hated myself for having experienced CnC4 in the span of 10 minutes.

THE Command & Conquer: RECKONING

Played a pirated version of CNC4 for like half an hour since I was incredibly skeptical. Top 10 of the worst games I have ever played, what the fuck were they thinking?

I would love the shit out of a proper ass CNC though, FMV and all.

Played a pirated version of CNC4 for like half an hour since I was incredibly skeptical. Top 10 of the worst games I have ever played, what the fuck were they thinking?

I would love the shit out of a proper ass CNC though, FMV and all.

Just play the originals again. Not as if they crumbled into dust. 

The big thing behind the recent Command and Conquer iterations being all over the place is the fact that most of the original group of people (Westwood Studios) who conceived and executed on the idea of C&C have been long gone since EA bought them. Most of the original group ended up leaving to Petroglyph Games. They're doing pretty well but I'm pretty sure their games nowadays have come a long way from what we know and love of C&C. (They're working on that "MMORTS" End of Nations right now.)

Unfortunately I doubt we'll ever have a reboot similar to the MK reboot considering that the people behind the original C&C games have all gone their separate ways. While some of them are still "together" at EA LA or Petroglyph, it seems neither group of ex-Westwood employees are actively seeking to bring an RTS that could succeed what we remember the C&C games to be, sadly.