The Future of PC War: Where is Command & Conquer Going?

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The Bitbag has recently posted a new article called The Future of PC War: Where is Command and Conquer Going? It takes a very quick look back at the history of the franchise, reviews the cancellation of the last game, and then attempts to explain the current status of our favourite franchise. A sample can be read below.

 

 

The last that we’ve heard from a Command and Conquer title was when Victory Games announced continuations and reboots for the games. However, as of this writing, Victory Games has succumbed to the pressure of reviving a hugely successful franchise that has since gone to slumber. And as a result, Victory Games was forced to cancel the projects they were working on that was C & C related and not short after, they themselves packed camp.

 

What was the issue with this? Was it because of the RTS that Westwood Studios successfully sold, even if it was a red flag to most other studios? This red flag is the resource gathering introduced in games like Red Alert and the Tiberian series, and of course, in the popular Blizzard series StarCraft. Other studios just didn’t see the sense of it, or didn’t know how to make it work; hence, it is pointed out as one of the reasons why Red Alert and similar titles in C & C’s fold just didn’t survive.

 

Follow this link to read the full article.