Red Alert: C&C Generals 2 Has No Single-Player

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<blockquote>EA recently announced that Command & Conquer: Generals 2 is going to be free to play under the umbrella of an online series known simply as “Command & Conquer.” Bioware Victory general manager John Van Caneghem told me last week that Generals 2 will ship without a single player mode. Instead, “co-operative and competitive” skirmishes will serve as the core, with more modes to be added later based on community feedback. A story mode could be added later, but “it is something we haven’t announced yet how we’re going to do it.”

Van Caneghem said that the studio "really want to get back to the roots of what made Command & Conquer great." Generals 2 will let us harvest and throw up bases in order to “build a zillion units” and “go out and kill all the bad guys.” Despite the familiar RTS trappings, Generals 2 will be a dedicated online experience at launch.

As well as multiplayer deathmatch and co-operative modes, Van Caneghem mentioned that the team are integrating e-sports features. “We’re really going to run the gambit of what people enjoy in a multiplayer environment,” he said.</blockquote>

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/08/20/c...features-no-single-player-campaign-on-launch/


Because the roots of Red Alert & C&C were always the skirmish and co-op play, not the awesome single-player and hilarious cutscenes, right? :facepalm:
 
Once I heard this game was going to be free to play, I knew it would have nothing for me. There's no reason for free to play to have single player because people don't pay for things that no one else will see.

It needs to be all about multiplayer so you buy the cool flags and skins so your tanks will now look like pokemon or star wars armies or whatever else they can think of to profit off the masses.

It's disgusting to hear them say they want to go back to their roots in the same breath as they announce this. Shameful.
 
the roots of command and conquer is the single player experience.

the only way to play the original without single player was over IPX/SPX LAN, or else via dial-an-opponent with the modems.
 
What's with this e-sports crap that everyone is so fascinated about. I'm over at tribes ascend and those guys are desperately trying to become the next big thing in e-sports.

You can't just spit something out and get a good game. And high levels of competitiveness demand a polished and balanced game.

They keep forgetting that it took starcraft over a decade to get where it is now. Most of these games won't get the developer attention nedeed to polish them if the money doesn't keep on coming.
 
EA experimenting on CnC...again. Nice.

In reality, I will probably try this out, since it is F2P. The multiplayer itself won't necessarily be bad, quite on contrary, but it is sacrilege nonetheless.
 
Well they attached the Bioware name to it so it's not like the stupid didn't start early. Presumably some EA exec got rts and rpg mixed up because they start with R and thought it would be good PR.

A multiplayer only C&C is almost as bad as a C&C without base building. :V
 
TheWesDude said:
the roots of command and conquer is the single player experience.

the only way to play the original without single player was over IPX/SPX LAN, or else via dial-an-opponent with the modems.
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Actually, Generals has an online game browser similar to Starcraft (Unless you're talking about the very first C&C). There's still a small dedicated community that plays, so it's easy to find a game. It's one game that never gets uninstalled.
 
we should simply stop calling it C&C from now on, spread it over the net, tell it your friends, everyone that knows something about C&C. We should simply stop calling it that. Lets call it "the travesty" or what ever. Just not CC. Maybe one day even EA will realize it amd they will simply let the franchise die, in peace.
 
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
TheWesDude said:
the roots of command and conquer is the single player experience.

the only way to play the original without single player was over IPX/SPX LAN, or else via dial-an-opponent with the modems.
Click to expand...

Actually, Generals has an online game browser similar to Starcraft (Unless you're talking about the very first C&C). There's still a small dedicated community that plays, so it's easy to find a game. It's one game that never gets uninstalled.
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yes, i was talking about the original. and RA C&C.

note how i talked about original, ipx/spx, and modems? never played generals, did it have ipx/spx and modems?
 
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