Some signs indicate that an announcement of a new member of the Command & Conquer RTS family is coming soon. But as announcements go, this one must have been sabotaged by the Nod or something.
The ball started rolling when fansite CNC Generals World found an interesting survey, made by EA. A section of the survey seemed to be designed to get feedback on some new things, in a new Command & Conquer 4 PC RTS game. Here are the fascinating bits from that survey that has since been taken offline:
• Play in the first RTS game with MMORPG like player progression in which you are rewarded every time you play. Every unit you kill in single player, multiplayer, or skirmish gives you experience points that allows you to level up your abilities and unlock new units, powers, and upgrades to your arsenal.
• Introducing the first mobile base in RTS games: The Crawler. Focus on the action as the Crawler becomes your all-in-one base, which can be deployed and redeployed anywhere on the battlefield for even more strategic options
• Play with all new, bigger and badder, units from GDI and Nod, including the Crawler, the first ever mobile base in RTS games
• Dive into an all-new story written by a new scriptwriting team and told through trademark C&C cinematics taken to the next level with grittier, stylized FMVs in the vein of Minority Report.
• Play in the first ever class-based C&C game – a new challenge for C&C and RTS players to master
• Play the campaign on your own or tackle it with a friend, as co-operative campaigns return
• Play in epic 5 vs 5 online multiplayer with all new objective-based game modes
From there, the story goes on. EA found out that C&C fans were all excited by the new hints of a new game. So then it seems some EA-inite thought that they might as well let the cat out of the GDI-sanctioned bag, and Tweeted that a press announcement was up on their press site, with the official word about the new game. But the press release never showed up. The Tweet read "EA LOS ANGELES ANNOUNCES THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMAND & CONQUER 4!"
Come on, EA! It's not like anyone would be surprised to hear that there is a new C&C in the works. Spill the beans.
