Command & Conquer: The Motion Comic Debuts Options

[Luk3us]

The time has come! Command & Conquer: The Motion Comic is now available for your viewing pleasure.

EPISODE ONE - AN UNEXPECTED HERO. The year is 2068, and Tiberium has nearly destroyed our world. Christian Pierce, a young farmer and militiaman who is quickly losing his livelihood to the encroaching crystals, leaves his family and heads for the nearest GDI Blue Zone to find work. But what he finds there isn't just a job. It's destiny.

Click here to watch this episode on the CNCNZ.com YouTube Channel. And don't forget to check out the Command & Conquer Motion Comic section on the Official C&C Site.

[Nmenth]

Well that was... um... pretty lame...

I don't know why I expected anything different, but for some reason, I thought they could actually make this good...

[Mighty BOB!]

It wasn't all that bad. The music was pretty good, as was most of the artwork (that 'flying car' thing in the blue zone was ridiculous though. It looked like something you'd see in a 1950s magazine that was trying to predict what 2000 would look like). It could have used some more foley as an improvement.

My main gripe is that EA obviously still has no idea how to properly handle Zones. Civilians living in Red Zones? Remember Verdu's blog about Tiberium? 300MPH winds blowing lethal shards of Tiberium through catastrophic Ion Storms? Cut to the motion comic and we have civilians, farmers no less (as if crops could actually survive in a Red Zone), living right next to giant Tiberium crystals with no protective gear. Not even face masks. Cut to the main character driving in an old junker that must be well over 120 years old now through a giant field of Tiberium, again with no protection (I doubt that something that old was retrofitted with proper positive atmosphere seals and a filtration system). Cut to a Blue Zone with perfect periwinkle skies. Just how do they keep the air clean in an unsealed environment the size of a city? Cut again to the farmhouse which is now completely overgrown by Tiberium and the main character is sitting on top of his vehicle with exposed skin and no ventilator once again.

It's completely contradictory to TD and TS, but even worse, it contradicts their own fiction established since C&C3.

Still, my opinion of the comic is higher than my opinion of the game at this time, except perhaps for the FMVs, but it really all remains to be seen.

[purplescrin]

This motion comic: good for listening, bad for watching. The question remains as of now, will this be the remaining C&CTV show after a possible finale episode of BCPT (due to Raj Joshi's departure)?

Gee, I wish all of this story should be turned into a C&C type drama/action/adventure series on national TV rather than a motion comic. It doesn't fit for a movie but it does fit for a TV series.

Still....Zee Hynoptist's Tiberium Legos is better to watch.

This post has been edited by purplescrin: Saturday 6th March 2010 5:34 AM

[Wee_Ooh]

Eh, that wasn't so bad. I'm kind of indifferent to the whole idea anyway, but it was mildly entertaining. I'm looking forward to the next episode.

[TheBlackOut]

It was alright. That's really all I can say. I'm not going to say it was horrible, but I was definitely looking at the time line at the bottom to see when the end was coming.

[Mighty BOB!]

I suppose this is as close as I'm ever going to get to that Tiberian Sun anime I've been thinking about.

This post has been edited by Luk3us: Saturday 6th March 2010 7:32 AM

Reason for edit: Don't want to get EA any more ideas...

[Nmenth]

Tiberian Sun anime

Don't even say something so vulgar!

[Mighty BOB!]

Pfft, it would be awesome if done right.

[Luk3us]

Watched it, it was OK I suppose. Could be better hopefully future episodes are better.


Oh and stop giving EA ideas dammit!

[Trukem]

Eh, that wasn't so bad. I'm kind of indifferent to the whole idea anyway, but it was mildly entertaining. I'm looking forward to the next episode.

mighty_bob gives very valid critic though but I can't be bothered. EAs continued rapes on everything that is c&c doesn't effect me anymore, I'm indifferent to it all.

[gben]

Oh well, I thought it was fantastic... I thought it was much better than I was expected.
(of course I wasn't expecting anything canonical or consistent or well really any criticism mentioned above.)

Perhaps, I'm just relieved the motion in the comic was really quite minimal.

[Nmenth]

Pfft, it would be awesome if done right.

Error, does not compute.

[Sonic]

It was better that I expected, in fact I rather enjoyed it. Good voice acting and I really like the art style. Looking forward to the next episode.

[Malevolence]

Looks good, can't wait for more development of the series.

[sith_wampa]

My main gripe is that EA obviously still has no idea how to properly handle Zones. Civilians living in Red Zones? Remember Verdu's blog about Tiberium? 300MPH winds blowing lethal shards of Tiberium through catastrophic Ion Storms? Cut to the motion comic and we have civilians, farmers no less (as if crops could actually survive in a Red Zone), living right next to giant Tiberium crystals with no protective gear. Not even face masks. Cut to the main character driving in an old junker that must be well over 120 years old now through a giant field of Tiberium, again with no protection (I doubt that something that old was retrofitted with proper positive atmosphere seals and a filtration system). Cut to a Blue Zone with perfect periwinkle skies. Just how do they keep the air clean in an unsealed environment the size of a city? Cut again to the farmhouse which is now completely overgrown by Tiberium and the main character is sitting on top of his vehicle with exposed skin and no ventilator once again.

It's completely contradictory to TD and TS, but even worse, it contradicts their own fiction established since C&C3.

All of this.

I enjoyed the presentation very much. It's just these terrible contradictions that Mighty_BOB pointed out that really bother me.

[Silverthorn]

Looking good, the storyline it gives me is creative, although not 100% to some others. But I got to agree with them a little bit, a family in a Red Zone? That's wrong, it has to be a Yellow Zone! And without real protection, aren't Tiberium gases are supposed to be toxic to breathe in even within at reasonable close distance?

Anyway, expecting the next episode. Artworks, the scripts & the voice acting are cool, hopefully there won't be any crappy or Red Alert looking units, particularly both of C&C4's Avatar & Scorpion tank, I can't imagine how they would to look like if they were in the motion comics.

This post has been edited by Silverthorn: Saturday 6th March 2010 6:50 PM

[recover]

It wasn't too bad. As repeated many times in this thread, the only bad thing is that it broke about 10 already established canon facts each minute.

[Mighty BOB!]

hopefully there won't be any crappy or Red Alert looking units, particularly both of C&C4's Avatar & Scorpion tank, I can't imagine how they would to look like if they were in the motion comics.

Well it takes place in the C&C4 time frame so I doubt there's any way to avoid that.

[Inferno]

It was pretty good