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Tiberium Wars is a military science fiction real-time strategy video
game developed and published by Electronic Arts for the Windows, Mac OS X
and Xbox 360 platforms, and released internationally in March 2007. The
direct sequel to 1999's Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun by Westwood
Studios, a now defunct company that was taken over and liquidated by EA
in 2003, Tiberium Wars returns the Command & Conquer series to its
roots in the Tiberium story arc of the franchise, once again featuring
the factions of the Global Defense Initiative and the Brotherhood of
Nod, and also introducing a new extraterrestrial faction known as the
Scrin. An expansion pack to Tiberium Wars, titled Command & Conquer
3: Kane's Wrath, was released on March 24, 2008.
Tiberium Wars takes place in the year 2047, at the advent of and during
the "Third Tiberium War" when the Brotherhood of Nod launches a
worldwide offensive against the Global Defense Initiative, abruptly
ending 17 years of silence and temporarily crippling GDI. With the odds
tipped in the Brotherhood's favor this time, GDI field commanders rally
their troops and begin to combat Nod's second re-emergence, trying to
restore lost hope. In the middle of it all, a new playable faction
appears: the alien Scrin.
If you're a fan of the Command & Conquer series, three small words
are bound to get you excited: Kane is back. Indeed, so are a good number
of beloved series hallmarks, like a huge amount of full-motion video
and intense strategic combat. But Tiberium Wars is a lot more than just
lip service to franchise enthusiasts, and you don't need the rose-hued
glasses of nostalgia to appreciate its polish and intensity. It's simply
a superb game that's fun and exciting to play both online and off.
Bald is beautiful.
No matter which of the two main campaigns you start off with, you're
rewarded with a whole lot of live-action video in between missions,
featuring familiar actors getting hammy in near-future command centers.
There's never been anything subtle about C&C's full-motion video,
and, true to form, the campaigns are loaded with wonderfully overblown
sequences filled with intrigue and suspense. Yes, Joe Kucan has returned
as Nod figurehead Kane, and he's as irresistibly creepy as ever. He and
other familiar actors serve up a heap of extravagant solemnity against a
backdrop of flashing lights and important-looking video screens.
If you think it sounds over the top, you'd be right--but it's cheesy in
the good way, and it won't take you long to get involved in the story
and the characters that drive it. The narrative is structured well, with
the Global Defense Initiative and Brotherhood of Nod campaigns telling
the same story from opposing viewpoints. There's also a new player in
the mix: the alien Scrin race. At this stage in the series, the mineral
tiberium has propagated over most of the Earth, but it's more than just
an environmental plight--it's a key to future technology. It'll take you
a couple dozen hours to get through the campaigns, and just when you
think you've finished, there are a few surprise missions in store, and
they are well worth the time it takes to unlock them. There are also
plenty of reasons to return to the campaign once you're done, since the
game rewards you with medals based on your performance and tracks a good
number of statistics for you to chew on.
The missions themselves are incredibly varied and involve a lot more
than destroying an enemy base or defending a particular structure.
You'll have to do these things, of course, but you have both primary and
secondary objectives to complete, which include using engineers to
capture certain buildings, amassing beam cannons to take out defenses,
or teaming up with your sworn enemy to defend against alien attack.
You'll be doing it all in a variety of real-world theaters, such as
Washington, DC, downtown Sydney, and the eerily dry Amazon basin. The
near-future take on familiar locales makes the intense battles feel even
more thrilling, because the settings are recognizable and meaningful.
These Firehawks are delivering more than pizza to Nod's door.
That's not to say the combat isn't gripping on its own. If you're
usually content to turtle up in real-time strategy games, you're in for a
surprise: Battles are intense and focused, and they give you little
time to prepare. Like any RTS, you still need to build up resources, but
it's a quick process of plopping down a bunch of tiberium refineries
and power generators and finding the action, because if you don't, the
action will quickly find you. Once you get past the first two acts of
each campaign, you'll discover that Tiberium Wars' artificial
intelligence is aggressive and resourceful, and it will take advantage
of your strategic flaws. Don't expect to put your trust in one or two
favored units, because even the most powerful units have noticeable
weaknesses.
It's a rusher's paradise, but you shouldn't take it to mean that
technological advancement and thoughtful strategy don't have their
places. You won't need to deal with long, complex tech trees, and it
makes Tiberium Wars feel somewhat limited in this aspect next to
advancement-focused strategy games like Supreme Commander. However, you
do have multiple powers and upgrades to earn by building various
structures. The powers run the gamut from GDI's powerful ion strike to
Nod's vapor bomb, and they fit each faction perfectly. As you use units
they level up, making them more effective in battle, and in some cases
you improve units by more unconventional means. For example, you can use
a Nod warmech to destroy your own flame tank, and the mech will then
spew fire in addition to its own native attack.
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