C&C3: Kanes Wrath

[Paradox]

Gamespot covers the announcement. (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/commandconquer3kaneswrath/news.html?sid=6176655&tag=topslot;title;1&om_act=convert&om_clk=topslot)
An expansion! Finally! But one could not say it was unexpected.

[Gazza_N]

Saw this one coming, but I'm not complaining! They seem to have a common naming scheme for C&C expansions though. Yuri's Revenge, Kane's Wrath...

[H1TMAN]

Will this be for dx10? When do you think it will be released?

[Miktar]

It won't be DX10, that much I know.

[CaptainCrunch]

An expansion already, and i'm still on like mission 3 or something...where does the time go?

[Nferno]

Zombie post, but read here:


After experiencing the Soviet time-travelling thrills of Red Alert 3 at EA's impressive Los Angeles development studio I was prepared for an anticlimax of Phantom Menace proportions when getting to play the upcoming C&C3 expansion Kane's Wrath. However, I was very, very wrong.

This is a huge expansion that adds a 13-mission Brotherhood of Nod campaign, six sub-factions, dozens of new units, structures, powers and upgrades, 30 minutes of new hi-def FMV sequences and a new Risk-style Global Conquest Mode.

Kane's Wrath spans over 20 years of Nod history from just after the second tiberium war (featured in Tiberian Sun) when the slap-headed terrorist has to rebuild his shattered organisation, and follows the action through C&C3 and beyond, when a rare alien artifact called the Tacitus is being chased around the globe.

I was shown a couple of new in-game movies - one where Kane is being wrathy about a renegade Black Hand splinter group leader called Brother Marcion (Carl Lumbly from Alias) and another where I'm being briefed by a suspicious-but-sexy agent called Alexa Kovacs (played by Natasha Henstridge - the often naked lady from Species).

LAND OF NOD
The hands-on revealed the six new sub-factions in the three main warring parties of GDI, Nod and Scrin. The Global Defence Initiative's Steel Talons use older technology, such as the popular Titan and Wolverine mechs and heavy vehicles that are fantastic to garrison infantry.

ZOCOM is a futuristic GDI outfit, reliant on sonic technology, that goes into red zones with protective armour to eradicate tiberium using weapons with large area effects, such as the Shatterer sonic beam and Orca attack helicopter.

Nod have the Black Hand who are the in-your-face propaganda wing of the terrorists - they lack stealth, but have tough infantry and vehicles packing flamethrowers and other fire weapons. Mark of Kane is an experimental technology sub-faction with powerful cyborgs - the Awakened (armed with an EMP cannon to disable vehicles) and the Enlightened (very fast troopers for hit-and-run raids).

However, the most fun I had was with the Scrin - Traveller 59 who are a force that can implant brain slugs in humans to control them, and Reaper 17, a fundamentalist sub-faction populated with tripods and otherworldly units that can suck up tiberium and fire out lasers or shards of the radioactive green death for monstrous attacks.


Global Quest Mode finishes things off, giving you a turn-based way to play C&C, watching a rather lovely glowing red tactical world map, moving bases and forces around and either dropping into the RTS mode or auto resolving battles. This first expansion has much to offer the C&C3 addict

Want, Want, Want, Want.

Omg, just the RTS fix I needed. Bt says release date is 14March, not long to go now.

Want, Want, Want, Want.

[Jimbo007]

Cyborgs RULZ!!!
Time to spew out Flamethrowing Avatars :) BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURN!!
MUHAHAHAHAHA

[Gammaray]

I've never been a fan of C&C expansions. This sounds like Tiberium Sun with better graphics. Correct me if im wrong, but it states the time span begins just after the second tiberium war .... up until where C&C3 starts?
If thats the case, how can they bring the Scrin into the picture if they only arrived in C&C3? A tad confusing me thinks.

[Jimbo007]

If I remember correctly, it goes past C&C3's events.....

EDIT:
and follows the action through C&C3 and beyond

[BlackMage]

It is set from TW2 and keeps going past the third (few years I think).

[Nferno]

Did you play the NOD campaign Gamma? Kane knew about the Scrin before they came into the picture, he didn't mention it, but it was clear he had knowledge of them.

[Paradox]

I've never been a fan of C&C expansions. This sounds like Tiberium Sun with better graphics. Correct me if im wrong, but it states the time span begins just after the second tiberium war .... up until where C&C3 starts?
If thats the case, how can they bring the Scrin into the picture if they only arrived in C&C3? A tad confusing me thinks.

The campaign is a NOD thing I think, following Kane's exploits and plans. If you played till the end of C&C3, you'll want to know what happens.

[Gammaray]

If I remember correctly, it goes past C&C3's events.....

EDIT:and follows the action through C&C3 and beyond

Ok, thanks ... missed that part somehow.



Did you play the NOD campaign Gamma? Kane knew about the Scrin before they came into the picture, he didn't mention it, but it was clear he had knowledge of them.

I am currently 2 stages into the 5th ACT of NOD. He knew about them yes, but i dunno if they were on the planet already (before the TW3 actually started) .... maybe i'll find out later in the game?? I promised myself not to get expansions to C&C again anyway, the previous ones was too much of a let down.

[Mic]

although there is a thread somewhere in the forum about this, it is awesome, also the campainge goes from TW2 past TW3 and fills the gap between C&C TW and Tiberium (the FPS game)
But the expansion only has a Nod campainge. So why bring in GDI units and stuff?

[Nferno]

Ah, ok. It's going to be good though, lot's of new units and a few new factions so I doubt many people will be dissapointed. The ending of NOD campaign on C&C3 bites, it leaves too many questions unanswered, maybe this game will fill the gaps in for me.

[Jimbo007]

But the expansion only has a Nod campainge. So why bring in GDI units and stuff?

You're still playing against GDI etc. Going back in time, and to the future, means that all the teams effectively had and would create new units, regardless of whether you can play as them.

Plus there's Multiplayer to think about :)

[Wiggles]

This is going to be a nice expansion.

[Nferno]

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"Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow, you're only a day away..."

[GhOsT_828]

Um... Redeemer ftw? I really want to see it's Rage Generator in action.
For more info, head over to http://www.commandandconquer.com/. Check the news thing. Lotsa info.
I am sooo glad I've pre-ordered this. :D

[Nferno]

You and me both man, this is my ****ing holy grail of gaming.