C&C has been dead for years, and frankly I've stopped caring about the crap they're churning out.

The last good C&C game was Red Alert 2.  Generals completely lost the spirit of C&C and was nothing more than a generic run-of-the-mill RTS, and they've been forgettable shadows of their predecessors ever since.

you lie, i wasted 100 bucks on that game

Bah, what a great news. EA is killing this franchise.

The only C&C that was really good was he original imo, later ones all disappointed me. They missed the 'oooh and aaah' factor that the first one had.

C&C is just not about strategy, which is a major flaw in a strategy game. This has become a franchise that I could not care less about.

I would say that CnC3 had more strategy than Warcraft 3, which was much more about brute force and micro than strategic decisions.

It just had an awful, awful, awful matching system and in the end there was no way reasonable way to actually play the game.

I have to disagree.  I disliked Red Alert 2, as it was way too corny.  C&C 3 was actually pretty good in comparison.  Tiberian Dawn was the best one for me though, and the Covert Operations expansion was awesome.  Red Alert 1 was pretty good too.  I hope C&C 4 is good, but I will see.  After wasting my money on C&C 2 and Red Alert 2, I am more cautious of buying these games.  I just lvoed the original C&C and Red Alert so much, I figured the sequels would be good too.  I was wrong.

I could wish for EA not to screw it up, but I have lost faith in them.

Seems they are rushing it with a bunch of new gimmicks to try and grab some of the people they have already lost by departing from true C&C.

Still, as much as I know I will detest their gamespy matchmaking system, and the silly new gimmicks... I will be getting it cause I loved the franchise since the first game and need to see how it ends >.<

I have a questionable love/hate relationship with EA now.

I absolutely loved the first two C&Cs and still boot them up. Next three were also great, even if Generals was basically a new series.

C&C3 though... Story is pretty good, even with their rendition of the Scrin. +1 for Kane still being a Magnificent Bastard. Acting was half-way decent. Music might as well have not been there at all. Gameplay was absolutely horrendous. As GDI or Nod, you spammed T1 tanks or T3 heavies. As Scrin, you spammed T3 heavies or T4 Motherships.

Red Alert 3 has been a bit of a surprise though. Gameplay isn't bad, although it's still just as fast paced. Story is less than stellar, though.

Edit: Amusing and not so amusing things in the article.

I recently dusted off and finally beat C&C red alert allies campain, my only C&C game (and my first rts)... finally got past that dam bunker mission rofl.... talk about mirco-management... (course... last time I tried was.. what... 9-10 years ago? ya, thats about right... heh.)