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Posted by SpoolE on Mon Nov 14th at 4:02pm 2005

Its a pity that. I much prefered it 2D. Made it much more fun. I never really liked Generals. The only 3D strategy game I like was Emporer:Battle for Dune.
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Posted by Captain P on Mon Nov 14th at 9:07pm 2005

I think 3D is not the reason that the CnC series went downhill. 3D can actually be used quite well as it allows some more graphical freedom, and with a good default camera stance it isn't essentially different from 2D.

What I believe the CnC games were so strong in is their story and how it was implemented with the gameplay and gameplay elements. Take tiberium - not only was it a key element in the story, it also was the resource for your army and harmfull to infantery making it even more than just a steady source of income. In Tiberian Sun they used it good just as well introducing the Forgotten, the idea's behind Tiberium and all.
That lacks in most RTS these days. Generals played ok but I was disappointed by the storyline enormeously. It isn't worthy of the CnC name at all. Recently I bought Codename Panzers: Phase one and though it played nicely and had a great deal of detail, it's story lacked just as well that depth that I liked so much in the early CnC games.

Red Alert was fun for me too though I felt it was too much just a mod of CnC. Red Alert 2, although funny at times, felt way over the top. The later units just lost every touch with reality which made the game so much less believable to me. Tanks that are destroyed by infantery as cookies... Buildings being chrono-erased... not really my taste.

/CnC rant... I just loved those first CnC games and it's a shame there's no good sequel to them these days...



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Nov 15th at 2:20am 2005

Actually.. the Warcraft series has been great for RTS, imo. They have a great story, which, like you pointed out Cap, is important. The most recent games have great 3D graphics with a lot of style and humor.

WC3 and FT are definitely up there on my all time list.




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Posted by Gorbachev on Tue Nov 15th at 3:19am 2005

A great 3D RTS is Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War. I normally don't like the 40K world (for actual Warhammer models I deal with fantasy) but this game was a hell of a lot of fun.





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