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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Electronic Arts EAN: 0014633159424 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: DVD-Video Label: Electronic Arts Manufacturer: Electronic Arts Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: March 24, 2008 Sales Rank: 5497 Studio: Electronic Arts
Features:
Experience the ENTIRE Third Tiberium war
Features Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars and also its expansion pack, Command & Conquer 3 - Kane's Wrath
Gain access to the beta test for Command & Conquer Red Alert 3
Includes the combined 45 single player missions that make up two decades of Tiberium lore, from the rise of Kane and the rebirth of Nod all the way through the Third Tiberium War and beyond
Over two hours of the franchise's trademark high-definition, live-action movies starring Natasha Henstridge, Josh Holloway, Michael Ironside, Billy Dee Williams and of course Joe Kucan as Kane
Product Description: If you are one of the few who missed out on this major chapter of Command & Conquer, you now have a way to experience the ENTIRE Third Tiberium war. The Command & Conquer 3 Limited Collection, features Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars and also its expansion pack, Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath. All gamers who purchase the Limited Collection will also gain access to the beta test for Command & Conquer Red Alert 3. Together, the Limited Collection includes the combined 45 single player missions that make up two decades of Tiberium lore, from the rise of Kane and the rebirth of Nod all the way through the Third Tiberium War and beyond. Also included are over two hours of the franchise's trademark high-definition, live-action movies starring Natasha Henstridge, Josh Holloway, Michael Ironside, Billy Dee Williams and of course Joe Kucan as Kane.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - It's ok, but not really
I bought this with high expectations that it would be among the best of RTS as the older versions have been in years past. This turns out to be a major disappointment. When playing GDI, units tend to look so similar that is difficult to identify them at first glance. Is that an APC or a harvester or something else? Is that a rifleman or a grenade thrower? Everything just blends together sort of. The previous version of C&C - Tiberian Sun - was awesome. Units were visually interesting and distinctive.
Then there's other issues such as base and unit management. Click on the repair icon to repair base structures. Need to quickly go back to managing units? Not until you click that repair icon again. It didn't used to be that way.
The AI tends to just build units very quickly and then throw them at you in wave after wave. Usually it's just a matter to slip past the enemy masses and pretty easily destroy their base.
I haven't even played the whole game and already it has become boring and tedious. Want to have good fun? You're better off going back to playing Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2. I hope they had a different team of designers and programmers working on Red Alert 3, because the ones that created this have failed to hold up the C&C tradition of providing great or even good gameplay. As Morgan Webb would say, this game gets just 2 Tiberium Crystals out of 5.
Rating: - Just another average C&C Game
Its just another addition to the C&C series, more or less. I will say that the graphics and overall quality have improved, but its still the same basic gameplay. I guess I'm glad it hasn't really changed much, but its still never going to come close to a game created by Blizzard.
Rating: - Good Strategy Game
I love command and conquer - good gameplay and good graphics. The expansion pack keeps things interesting. I routinely play with up to six friends and it is always a good time. Once I get tired of playing GDI I will still have 2 other races to explore and enjoy.
Just one technical glitch - I installed on my laptop which just doesn't have the horsepower to run the game, and plan to just move to my desktop. However, I cannot seem to UNINSTALL the game or the expansion pack from my laptop! uninstaller just hangs no matter how I launch it.
Rating: - GET READY COMMANDERS! THIS IS THE LONG RIDE!
I generally do not like expansions. They used to be additions only very successful games got to have. Nowadays they are mostly the...other half of the game the publisher withheld when selling us half the original for $50! C&C:KANE's WRATH is a rare exception that brings new dimensions to an already great game!
The original C&C3:TIBERIUM WARS is one of those graphically beautiful and gameplay intelligent games that will keep your interest for months! True, I could do without the wooden acting of Michael Ironside! (Gone are the days of Kari Wuhrer...Lock'n'Load!)
Story-wise, the expansion is somewhat of a prequel to C&C3-TIBERIUM WARS, as it is set on the history of NOD, starting off just after the 2nd Tiberium War and continuing well past the 3rd.
There is a big campaign comprising of 13 single player missions, new units and upgrades and a new (a la RISE OF NATIONS) Global Conquest mode, that can turn C&C3 into a Turn-Based game! What make this REALLY interesting are the six subfactions, each with its special units, strengths and weaknesses. Not to worry, all GDI, NOD and Scrin get their own off-shooting factions.
On the opposite ends of the spectrum, there is Reaper-17 (a Scrin sub-faction): with hard-hitting and powerful offensive options; and then there is Traveler-59 (also a Scrin offshoot): a much more devious faction that relies on mind control of humans (remember how much fun Yuri's Revenge? was). In between, GDI's (retro) Steel Talons and (futuristic) ZoCom and NOD's (mind-benders) Black Hand and (cyborgs galore) Mark of Kane.
Production of the new epic-units can tip the battlefield scales dramatically. Most are not only devastating but are pretty hard to take down too. GDI gets the MARV [Mammoth Armed Reclamation Vehicle], a souped-up triple-barreled tank; NOD gets the Redeemer, an augmented killer avatar; whereas, Scrin get the Eradicator Hexapod, a impressive six-legged mech.
Revamped units, such as the Shard Walker or the Reaper Tripod, or back-to-the-drawing-board units, such as the Prodigy or the Ravager all add to a renewed experience. Moreover, as a long-time C&C fan, I particularly enjoyed the reappearance of good-ol' units such as Titans and Wolverines on the side of GDI!
The graphics are beautiful, the physics detailed and the explosions and beam-weapons spectacular! Don't forget to turn on the volume on those speakers, because this is a total immersion experience.
As with the original: it misses the 5th star for fun because one cannot hold a battle formation while moving. As most units move at different paces (and although the AI has improved they keep bumping on each other), this results in the more agile, yet vulnerable, units having to face the enemy first - a short-lived sight... May be the next C&C (say, RED ALERT 3) could have some TOTAL WAR infused into it, with battle formations options.
If you are boycotting SecuROM you should know that it is the copy-protection used (nevertheless, it is the usual version used in the original C&C3-TW as well, coming nowhere near the BIOSHOCK RootKit madness!). I usually withhold at least one rating star because of such security inconveniences. However, I enjoyed the game so much that I was willing to overlook it. On the other hand, since it is important for a great number of Amazon customers, I have to mention it for the sake of a well informed decision.
Finally, be advised that for the expansion yes, you do need the original C&C3: TIBERIUM WARS to play it. If you do not have it, take note that this pack is good deal, as it includes both the original game and the expansion. However, the prices of the separate items fluctuate (and some times the cost of buying the separate parts is actually less than buying the bundled pack) so make sure to get the best deal.
- It's ok, but not really
- Just another average C&C Game
- Good Strategy Game
- GET READY COMMANDERS! THIS IS THE LONG RIDE!
