PC Gamer Interviews Jon Van Caneghem

[Plok 327]

Earlier today, PC Gamer published an interview they had with BioWare Victory general manager, John Van Caneghem, discussing future plans about the new Command & Conquer game. Here is an excerpt:

 

 

Generals 2 will the first in a series of online, high fidelity C&C games that will span all iterations of the series’ long history. “We decided to choose Generals as the first set of games we build under the universe, but we’ll be expanding after that, like Tiberium and Red Alert as well as some others as well. But Generals 2 was the first one, and it was one of the biggest sellers, as well as the fanbase has been asking for it for some time.

 

Click here to read the full interview. The game is still referred to as "Generals 2", though it is still only a part of the new C&C Free2Play service.

[Guest Stevie_K]

but we’ll be expanding after that, like Tiberium and Red Alert as well as some others as well.

 

^ I'd like this part in particular to be explained further.

[Golan 6]

Nothing of value in there. Really, he says practically nothing at all.

I find some of it quite alarming, actually. He speaks of "build a zillion units" when the more tactical approach was definitely one of Gen1's biggest strengths. He mentions "Tiberium and Red Alert as well as some others as well" which means they must already be working on a crapload of content to sell, one of the major problems of their earlier quantity over quality strategies. The “I don’t think we’re making a list of the features yet (...)" pretty much reads like they have no idea yet what actually to do for eSports.

[Alex06 39]

There, fixed it up a bit.

 

The new C&C is a service, whereas "Generals 2" is a universe that will be offered within the actual service, which is the actual game. The previous information was incorrect; The name of the game hasn't actually changed, nor has Generals 2 been really cancelled.

[Guest Stevie_K]

@Golan

 

At this time I find it meaningless to predict failure. Tactics and being able to produce a zillion units are equally Generals' strength if you ask me.

[Luk3us 63]

So we could see Red Alert Play for Free and Tiberium Play for free too?

 

Well lets see how their first outing goes first.