Gameplayer interviews C&C 3 Senior Producer Mike Glosecki, who discusses the possibilities of PlayStation 3 and Wii versions of the game, as well as the pricing for downloadable content on Xbox Live.
VGChatz's Taneli Palola: "There's no question that during these years the overall popularity of the genre took a significant hit, as most games within it specialized even further by adding new elements from other types of games into their gameplay loops and consequently became increasingly niche as the years wore on.
However, this doesn't in any way mean that the period was devoid of great games. Quite the contrary, in fact. Arguably some of the greatest RTS titles ever made came out around this time, and much of this was because many developers were increasingly familiar and comfortable with adding new twists and gameplay elements to the familiar formula. As such, even when the genre's popularity dwindled, many studios were still creating excellent and groundbreaking titles almost every year, just for a smaller audience than in years past."
those were fun years red alert star craft command and conquer well when westwood studio made good games before EA brought them like bioware...
Aside from C&C 4, the other C&C's from EA were all good/great. The genre nose dived once Moba's rose in popularity, even Petroglyph Games (ex-Westwood employees) haven't had a hit since Star Wars: Empire at War (2006), all there games got abandoned after launch.
It's been a while since we have seen a new C&C and while it was a brilliant RTS game in it's time is there any hope for the series? For those who didn't know there was going to be a FPS version of C&C but instead we got C&C Generals.
GamingLives laments the frustrating lack of controller support offered by some PC games.
"Perhaps most importantly for me, If I ever want to experience Oblivion - one of my most loved Xbox 360 games – in all its shiny PC glory, then, for the time being, I’ll have to stick my well-chewed wad of apathy gum under the table and dick about with Xpadder. However, if the mapping goes tits up and I end up attacking Thoronir instead of trying to buy a mortar and pestle, then I’ll be damn annoyed. But not too much. He’s a creepy bastard. Somehow though, I doubt that the Imperial Guard will buy the classic “Sorry, officer, I was asking if he wanted to buy a used primrose when my sword just accidentally went off. It’s never done that before!”
I feel the same way you feel and its nice to see an article that talks of these issues.
Nice!
tailor made for the Wii's strengths. The only thing that could be better than this is Starcraft Wii. Of course the inevitable question is, will it support online? If not they shouldn't even bother...
"We’re still talking with Microsoft about the finer details… They basically make a recommendation on how much we should charge for the content, but the ultimate decision is made on our side."
Finally some developers got balls, to recognize that microsoft should not be blamed when some developer desides to charge for some stupid crap more than they should (i.e. horse armor).
Why fart around with controllers and just make it mouse and keys for ps3?
Just like the pc versions.
If this supports a mouse on the PS3 I will buy a PS3.
The 360 version gives me motion sickness.
and even better, if for MP mouse+keyboard will be default one. :)