

"To some extent we've named the alien units as they would be perceived by GDI and Nod.

Now I don't want you to start thinking that the very fabric of C&C is being broken (for better or worse that certainly isn't the case), but the invaders are strikingly different in concept from anything the series has seen before. They've been camping out just beyond the orbit of Neptune you see, and they've been there for generations - just waiting for when the time is ripe and juicy for an attack.

There's more than a touch of World of Warcraft's Draenei to C&C's friendly neighbourhood alien invaders - perhaps it's in their shimmering light blue colourings and rather bulbous crystalline vehicles and units, although there's also a vague insectoid nature in there too. So with such an unflinching juggernaut of a franchise, just how very dare they shake things up? Just Moved In "Kane, on the other hand, keeps on referring to these guys as 'the visitors' - and it's clear that there's some kind of agenda."īut what does this mean for the C&C franchise? The delicate balance between the solid, dependable, build-and-conquer GDI and the sly, finesse and stealth techniques of the Nod is about to be trampled upon merrily - and one false move could spell disaster for the Westwood enclave at EA.

"The GDI unambiguously sees them as the invaders: they show up, their intentions are hostile, they start laying waste to cities and fighting both GDI and Nod troops," explains C&C3 executive producer Mike Verdu when I quiz him. Our planet into a toxic, yet energy rich, wasteland. Hie first place they strike is fair London town, a 'blue zone' city unaffected by the crystalline tiberium plague that's turning Do the right thing." Ladies and gentlemen, the FMV has landed - and so have the new faces in the third act of the Tiberium Wars. Then you are failing every man, woman and child on this planet!" Then suddenly, he mellows. If you don't use every asset available to fight this war right now. "If you don't use everything in your power. ''This is war against an enemy unlike any that mankind has ever seen!" screams a wild-eyed Billy Dee Williams, hiding out in an Icelandic bunker as the alien menace thunders overhead. They're Here, And Lando Calrissian knows it.
