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Project Camacho - Another Cancelled C&C Game?

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1UP.com have posted this really long story about what happened with EA's ambitious cancelled collaboration with Steven Spielberg known as LMNO. So what does this have to do with Command & Conquer? It turns out that a couple of years ago EALA were working on a real time strategy/first person shooter hybrid set in the Command & Conquer Generals universe known as "Project Camacho". Here's the quoted paragraph that appears on page 4 of the article.

 

EALA had another big project on the table: a real-time strategy/first-person shooter hybrid set in the Command & Conquer Generals universe known as "Project Camacho," named after the president from Idiocracy. And for financial reasons, then EALA general manager Mike Verdu -- who took over for Young as studio head, while former Westwood head Louis Castle (pictured with Spielberg, above) took over Young's Blueprint group -- had to choose between the two, so he cancelled Project Camacho and moved most of its team onto LMNO.

An RTS/FPS set in the Generals universe is something I thought they would never do. It feels like a "way out there" concept. You can see this paragraph right here. If your interested, you can read the full Story Behind LMNO and it's cancellation. The article covers a lot of what has happened internally at EALA over the past couple of years. So I guess we can add this "Project Camacho" to list of other cancelled C&C games like Renegade 2, Continuum, Tiberian Incursion (2002) and of course Tiberium (2009).

 

 

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To be honest a Generals based FPS, perhaps with RTS hybgrid elements, seems to make a lot of sense if you look at what FPS Gamers have aimed for in the past few years. Modern Day Warfare is one of the thriving settings of FPS and the bit of Sci-Fi that the Generals universe has to offer mixed with the experience of doing RTS-elements would be a great basis to overshadow the competitors.

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The whole article is very interesting. Its at least good to know that someone within EA had the balls to try something new. It should have been released IMHO.

 

This Camacho thing might be something like Battle Zone interms of game mechanics.

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An EA artist has something posted on his portfolio as 'Project Camacho - Rifleman', always wondered what it was :)

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Here you go, not that exciting I guess -

 

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Rifleman_render_med_THUMB.jpg

 

Note the font on the thumbnail, could be the logo / typeface they were going to use?

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