The game plays nothing like a Command and Conquer game. I have come to expect certain things from a C&C game, and all of them were neglected in this game. There is no base building, no real micro managing, no economy or reason to protect one's base. The entire game just becomes a unit spam with 1 large army that moves from node to node. Once your army begins to be countered, you just kill all of them and spawn the counter for the counter. Losing your MCV has absolutely no effect in the game play either, since it can be respawned soon after.… Expand

Yet another disappointment from EA where they believe you don't buy their product, you only rent it. Their 'play online' only (even in single player) is a complete rip off. Whatever you do, don't buy this game! Don't reward EA's bad behavior by giving them your hard earned money. If it sells poorly enough, hopefully they'll get the message.

One of the most boring RTS games I've ever played. It's downright disgraceful that they could go from C&C3 (a pretty damn good game) to this piece of crap. There's no base building, no resource management, the units are boring, and there's almost no strategy beyond pointing your units at the enemy. Seriously, how do you mess up Command and Conquer SO badly? On top of all that, they've made the unit designs look worse. The sleek and dangerous looking stealth tank from C&C3 is now a blocky, over-sized mess. As I've said, no more base building. Instead, you have one mobile command center that produces all of your units. Now if the units and their strategies were more sophisticated, this might have worked. But no. Instead all you have to do is produce a mix of units (which takes about 1 minute) and send them after the enemy. This is even more boring than it sounds. If you want a good RTS, look elsewhere.… Expand

This game somehow tried to force Fawn of War's gameplay mechanic of capturing points and holding them in a tug of war (which even Dawn of war has an annihilation game mode where there are no tug of war and you just kill the other guy) i wouldn't even torrent this game. i'm saying that if this game was FREE i would turn it down. and then on top of it the Draconian DRM which means you have to be connected to the internet at all times to play it only means you are renting this game. when a pirated version works better than the legit one, you have a problem.… Expand

I have played C & C since 1995 when it first came out. I was 35 Years old then and I thought it was a better invention than the wheel or the discovery of fire by man - even I played it on my antique DX 100Mz desktop computer Ie. 10% of 1 GHz process power with 8mb RAM!!!! But C & C 1 was the Best, Counterstrike, Red Alert 1, Red Alert 2, Tiberian Sun, C & C 3 excellent, Kanes Wrath Great! and Red Alert 3 BUT C & C 4 is BAD!!!!! Very Disappointing!!! No More Resources; Population, soldier Limits, Constant Internet Connection - Its BAD!!!! Disappointing and Graphics Terrible!!! Bad Work EA C & C 4 I wont play it. Just Commiserate the last 15 years since 1995. You went out with a WHIMPER! not a Bang!!!… Expand

I can't say it's the worst game I've played. The multilayer is an enjoyable factor, but could be tweaked to make it better. Besides the fact that the whole thing is different, I say it's an OK game. Nothing I would be willing to jump out and pay $50 for. I would buy it at the max of $20. Even then I wouldn't be all over it. I was really happy when I got into the beta, and regretted coming out of it. I recommend you all wait 'til StarCraft 2 comes out.… Expand

well done EA, you've just successfully wrecked the most famous RTS franchise in PC gaming history. Moronic gameplay (that has nothing in common with the rest of the series) stolen from various other currently popular games coupled with a ridiculous DRM system that demands players always be online even when playing singleplayer are two huge, enormous, unforgiveable mistakes, they couldn't have done a better job of destroying this game if they'd actually tried. EA could get better results if they hired monkeys, C&C4 is an utter disgrace and when they pull the servers down after about 6 months all those poor souls who payed out good money for this rubbish won't be able to play it even if they wanted to.… Expand

Everybody else pretty much summed it up, but this is seriously the only time I've ever played a game and thought to myself "wow, I really need to post about this on metacritic just so people don't get suckered into this assfest. If you read nothing else at all about C&C 4, read this: My first thought going in was "It's C&C, how can it be THAT bad? The peer reviews must be stupid"...but, they are absolutely right. This game is not worth anything above 10 dollars. Do. Not. Buy. It.… Expand

An unfortunate shadow of its former self , no buildings , no real tiberium . Starting afresh may of worked for an off shoot of the tiberium canon but to change everything so significantly for the finale of an amazing trilogy is a slap in the face for all tiberium fans worldwide. I can only hope EA realise this and realise their next game with the old mechanics rather than use their loyal fan base a guinea pigs on a game very likely to fail.… Expand

I can't give this game a low enough score to justify its existence... it's just pure rubbish through and through. From the disastrous new system they came up with to the economics, the unit caps and the play style it ISNT Command & Conquer and it ISNT worth your time or money. The unit cap is so low that even the pc version feels like a limiting console release from 4 years ago, they did it better in C&C3 than they did in 4 which surely says to me that EA seem to learn nothing from the community and decide to just completely ignore it except when it serves their purposes. The only thing that made me buy this game was to finally see a conclusion to the Tiberium universe's story and even then I'm having to grin and bare each and every mission just to get to the next cutscene. AVOID if at all possible.… Expand

This is the WORST game I've ever played. I don't care if this game is different from old C&C; I'm ok with changing the formula. The problem with C&C4 is that the new gameplay design they came up with doesn't work at all. The result is a game that lacks any merit, I kid you not. This is the 1st game I played that has zero merits. Some of the worsts games I've played before had at least some sort of saving grace, some sort of merit. C&C4 does not. It just isn't fun at all.… Expand

This is not a command and conquer style rts game.I enjoyed c&c 3 and all the other c&c games so why does this look like a completely different game its supposed to be the final part in the tiberium series so why does it look and play so different.i wish id had the oportunity to play the free beta then i would not have wasted my money on this trash.i have always been loyal to c&c and i have bought every game from the very beginning but i feel so let down........Electronic Arts please give me my money back.… Expand

When i heard about C + C 4 i was really excited to see what it holds! When i saw the trailier it made it gave false hope and even the trailers made the game look ok. Anyway! after playing through the first 3 missions.. i hounestly cant bring myself to even play the game anymore.. one of my most fav games.. gone down the drain in something i was expecting to be the best game of 2010!

Not a bad game but nothing really that new when you consider the competition. Whatever aspect of the game you consider, there is always a game out there that does it better. Personally, i'd stick with RA3. The big reason for the low score is EA's woeful decision to once again inconvenience their paying customers for the actions of pirates. You have to log on to EA servers which is problematic and much like the nightmare that is trying to play Assassin's Creed 2. An average game that can't be played if a) you have a problem with your connection b) EA have a problem with their servers c) Server traffic is busy at peak times. I'd pay £10 for it but not £29.… Expand

I played every C&C game out there. I loved Red Alert and Red Alert 2 for game play was amazing! Generals i continue to play to this date for it has what the other C&Cs had and quite enjoyed building bases where ever I wanted. C&C3 i enjoyed and had amazing graphics to go with the game and the fine addition of the Scrin to the game i liked and is my favorite team (GDI mammoth tanks are cool though). I started to get dissapointed in EA starting C&C Red Alert 3, I thought the graphics were way too cartoony and everything was sized wrong and just out of wack. The gameplay of having coop for missions i didnt find interesting at all for where the stragey in that? You can have a weak player with a strong player and he never learn a thing. C&C is a game of skill and cunning not a game of follow the leader. Then came C&C4 now that was a total let down. Having to be online when espically i live in the county where high-speed net is slow so game is slow for me. Supreme Commander 2 a game that game out pretty much at the same time has far better graphics then this crap. The textures in C&C4 are off and i could make most of these wannabe tanks in seconds on Maya. As a C&C fan and as a animator i say the graphics really sucked but were slightly better then RA3 (that is all i can give the credits for it). I got better graphics playing Final Fantasy Crisis Core on my PSP then C&C4. What a let down that is. Story line for campaigns was too short and pointless. Anyone who gives this above a 4 either hasn't played to many video games or done any animation. The game wasn't worth it and i seen free RTS game look better and have a better game flow. Level caps are fine for some games but C&C was renown for not having the caps and just letting the players pick their style of gameplay. The new pick your command unit play thing limits the players to their playing styles and prevents them from expressing. They should have kept it with the orginal game play or gone down the road of Generals game play. All i can say is that i hope they make C&C Generals 2 but without changing the gameplay. All they should do is update the graphics to be more current and add new units but keep the old. They should add new countries and Generals to the series such as Britian, Russia, and Canada for a change. Make it more like Red Alert style Generals where each country has something unique. Combine what worked in the previous games not combine different style of popular games.… Expand

I gave this a 3 because i like the storyline it gets you really involved, Yet its totally been derailed, This is not a CNC game and EA have ruined the CNC franchise... The games GUI is poor. Really really Buggy. Theres only one game mode, gets boring after a while.. i got bored of it in the BETA lol.. The story is REALLY REALLY SHORT!. it has a population cap. It was the wrong turn for EA and i hope they scrap all this carbage and recreate from scratch with after Tiberian Sun in mind.. games like that shook the PC market. and now EA are just giving no time and effort into these games.. Command and Conquer 3 has better graphics then this. I advise you not to waste you money on it, go and pirate it as it has already been cracked. Show EA that its a worthless game.… Expand

CQ4 Cannot be as bad as this, surely? Mandatory online registration (even as single player, having paid your money) to play a game that has NOTHING to do with the CQ franchise (except the pointless 'movies'). EA have reduced a strategic army-building-with-resources-and-defence to a run around the map with a squad (twelve units max, six typical... and this is CQ?) to some pointless sites, which you can neither defend nor retain--- because of course you're not allowed to build in CQ4 - or gather resources - or acquire an army - or combine defence, offence and air... or do anything like either a 'pseudo-real' army (combined ops with multiple units) or the original CQ franchise. Never has a game so destroyed a franchise - just as well it was the final one in the 'series'. EA has just lost my vote for RA3 (cartoon nonsense) and CQ4 (pointless squad rush - without the 'rational' gameplay of DOW). Sad.… Expand

"I want my money back" is all i can say. This is an abysmal massacre of the command & conquer series. The missions are ridiculously irriatating and boring, no real strategy involved, just hurry up and capture the objective before the enemy sends in another mass of units!! Horrendous acting in the cutscenes doesnt help. Storyline is so cheesy I want to hurl. Even the map display before some levels doesnt make sense (the 'pacific' TCN node Nod mission is in the Indian ocean. Only having the ability to command a handful of units, not being able to establish a real 'base' and fighting AI that doesnt have to worry about command points and pumps out endless streams of units is just dumb. Should have to sign into online lobby just to play single player mode. Pathetic game..very dissapointed in this ending to the series.… Expand

Like a lot of other angry people, I was one of the original fans when it comes to Command and Conquer. I grew up on it. I was about in 5th grade when the original came out. I just feel an overwhelming need to scream this from my nearest mountain top: This game is garbage! This series basically gave a face to the entire RTS genre and then dissapeared into what would be the you and me equivalent of a brain fart. First of all, massive online multiplayer experiences are exactly what a gamer is running away from when he plays an RTS game. An RTS is a game that lets you snack whilst playing. A game that lets you half pay attention to a Family Guy episode, and half pay attention to it. You can dissapear into thought while playing an RTS. Mainly, you scheme, plan, hoard, and amass an army that will, when unleashed, dominate. This is a frustrating instinct to have going into CnC4, but not by any means an unreasonable one. They bred us to be like this. Then, in the last $%#^@ inning, they switch the batting order? No.... they start playing soccer? The game is called Tiberium Twighlight, but theres no........ Tiberium? wait, isn't this the game with the Tiberium? You have an MCV... a good old MCV, ah, wait.... is it getting up? and.... walking into battle? Who at EA actually had the power and inclination to sit down, focus on the series, and say to his inferiors, "you know what this base-building, unit-generating, strategy-forming game needs? No bases, meaningless and endless units, and no strategy beyond click click click, with no economy, troop limits (my favorite! who doesn't like troop limits?) and no INCENTIVE to keep playing because your presence on the map can never get any bigger than the paltry limit so why would you command or conquer anything?" If they told Romulus after he brained Remus that, yea, he could start the Roman Empire, but it would never be any bigger than 100 command points, would have no structures, would be born out of this awkwardly gigantic crawling headquarters that is made more vaulnerable by the fact that you have to bring it with you (like an Ipad!), the music would suck, the graphics wouldn;t be any better than the last game, nobody would ever have to economize anything, ever, Kane would somehow not have aged at all in 15 years, you'd sometimes have to play as a class of units that basically just repairs stuff, and the lame single player story mode includes YOU (the player) having a GIRLFRIEND, well, then I reckon Romulus would have just dropped that blood-soaked rock and sauntered off, disinterested. This I sadly do, too. This game sucks.… Expand

Alright, let's start from the beginning. Every single concept in this game from the units and graphics down to the HUD display on this game are just a series of asbolute atrocities. For starters, the graphics and unit models in this game are appaling to look at. This game looks like it was designed to be played on Windows 98. Second off, EA has somehow arrived at the conclusion that C&C fans are tired of mining resources, micromanaging, base building, and overall just having fun while playing a game. EA blatantly tries to steal the Dawn of War II playstyle (1 building that produces units) and then bungles that by forgetting one of the key components that every RTS should contain, resource management. There is 0 resource gathering. None. Zippo. You and your opponent just take turns spamming out as many units as you can (about 10 on the field at a time, maximum) and then just walk them over to the enemy base and let them shoot poorly animated projectiles until they die. More importantly, the Nod and GDI tech trees are almost identical. The only real difference in the two sides is the unit colors, because almost every vehicle or soldier on one side has a perfectly corresponding counterpart on the other. Words cannot describe what an atrocity this game is. The live acting cut scenes (every true C&C fan has been wetting their pants watching the trailers with Kane ever since this game's launch date was announced) are pretty much the only thing that return unscathed. The bottom line I'm trying to make here is that this game is bad. Not redeemable, not fawed, not a "game with potential limited by some design errors", just B-A-D. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not a fan of RTS games and should be shot for suggesting this abortion of a title to you. All of this is not even taking into account the fact that the game has EA's classic paranoid DRM policy that requires you to be online while you play the game. That's right, if you don't have an internet connection, you aren't playing this game. Period. Anyone remember how well that worked out for Mercenaries 2, another title EA managed to crap all over with their anti pirating ideas? If this game was offered to me for half the price I would still turn it down. Anyone who supports what EA has done to this franchise is delusional, and more importantly, part of the problem that allows games like this to be created.… Expand

The all time worst game I have ever played, this has nothing to do with my love of the C&C series and how this title bastardized it. Overall from a just a gameplay perspective this product fails on every level, it feels like no talent at all was involved with the development of this game. EA if you want to become a contender again, start hiring some real talent and get some testers who know what the hell they are doing, this should of never left the development stage, and quite frankly I would be very embarrassed if I had any involvement with this game.… Expand

It's funny, it was Command and Conquer 3 which actually gave me hope that maybe somebody in EA games actually has a clue. I suspect the others found these people however and burned them at the stake, after which they made this poor excuse for a game. How do you even classify it? Certainly not as an RTS. Even less so as a Command and Conquer game. If you changed the names of everything and hid the faces of the characters, then gave the game to a fan of the series I'd bet they wouldn't realize they were playing a Command and Conquer game.… Expand

It is astounding that a sequel can have worse graphics, worse animation, worse visual interface and worse gameplay mechanic. Tiberian Twilight feels like and looks like a game made 3 years before Tiberium Wars. The new gameplay mechanic becomes increasingly tedious and unsatisfying, it just screams "dumbed down". Also I don't understand the awful visual baggage of green outlying of selected units, it makes the entire game even look uglier. Tiberian Twilight fails at the basic level of lacking high production values, and it tops it of with failed gameplay mechanic. A truly bizarre sequel.… Expand

I'll start this review off with a delve into the story of the game. For me, the story of the C&C (Tiberian Universe) has been one of the more involving and high draw factors for the series. Given that the acting tends to be on the soap opera side of the spectrum it would take a significant amount of effort from the developers to actually make me want to skip the cut scenes. Enter Command And Conquer 4, stage left. In the previous title(s) C&C3 (and the expansion Kane's Wrath) the story arc builds towards a climax hinted at coming into it's full glory in the next (read: this) title. To be honest, NONE of the back story in the previous title(s) has ANYTHING to do with this game. At all. Where they could have picked up an actually interesting plot line and fleshed it out, building on and improving where it was leading towards, all that was accomplished was what seems like an afterthought to an already afterthought game. To say that this title makes the characters from the previous EA C&C amazingly enthralling and exciting is just an example of how horribly bad the writers did on this title. They dump you into the middle of a series of events that are NEVER EXPLAINED, offer you questions that shouldn't have even been introduced in the first place, and COMPLETELY REMOVE any tie-in to the previous title. This game was marketed, presented, and wrapped with a single message given to us, the gamers and loyal fans of the series: This is the endgame for the Tiberian story line. We did not need much in terms of story. Nor did we demand anything but at least meeting the bar set by the last title in the series RELEASED BY EA GAMES. This game is not a Command And Conquer title as I view them, and I can not rate it above a 0 for the absolute failure on EA's part to even remotely represent the spirit of the franchise. Come on EA.… Expand

This game has NOTHING to do with C&C. It would be a halfway decent game if it cost 10

I was a beta tester for this game, before the preorder's and open beta... I got in because I was one of the people who chose the subtitle. Well let me now state that my favorite part of this game IS the subtitle, as there is not much else to really like. C&C4 is a glorified capture the flag and does nothing for anyone who actually liked C&C to begin with. I played C&C from the start, and I say now with total certainty that this is no way to end it.This game is a horrible, shallow attempt at cloning concepts popular from DOW2 and similar titles. I will never legally purchase this game, not even if it was in the $5 bargin bin. I will always beleive the way C&C should have ended is with a time travel experiment to stop the tiberium in the first place, and thus stopping the scrin AND forming the Red Alert Universe. Which was the orignal ending planned. It is a shame that EA feels like it had to ruin such an awesome series with such a poorly done attempt to gain the users of DOW2.… Expand

I bought this game knowing the bad reviews, but though i would have fun with the multilayer. Man was I wrong. There is not alot good to say about this game. The single player is boring. The multiplayer is just as boring. It boils down to pumping out a bunch of units and moving them to a node. They die, and you repeat. No strategy, no tiberium, no bases, no fun. Whatever you do, do not buy this game. I just lost 50 bucks and will never get it back.… Expand

Wow, just wow. I got into the hype on C&C4 watching the game trailers. I sat there day after day watching the website count down to the release. I had the game preordered the minute I could apply on line. RTS is my favorite gaming genre and I have played every C&C title since the original. Ever since EA took over the franchise from Westwood studios, all the games in this series have been lacking. Each ones seems to miss the original elements that made these RTS, C&C, C&C:Red Alert, different from the others. Generals was terrible, RA3 and C&C3 seemed like EA hit copy + paste and re-skinned the units. Westwood took time on their games. Each one was new in multiple ways, from gameplay to graphics, story, etc. Even though the games changed they held the core values of what it was to be an RTS in the style that Westwood created. EA makes sports games, they copy + paste all of their work. Why they tried to make an RTS is beyond me. They lack the talent and technical skills to pull it off successfully. What's done is done, it's a terrible game and we are left with nothing new to play. I just hope the "developers" of this monstrosity realize that they failed and their game really, really "sucks".… Expand

A shamelessly exploitative game, EA have made no effort to accommodate for what was already a significant fan-base, it wouldn't surprise me if the direction they've taken C&C4 succeeds in alienating more people than it attracts. I can understand that the format was getting old (even though I personally still enjoyed it) and that some went so far as to consider it 'dated9; - I could even understand it if they had changed the 'old' format in a way which was original and corresponded with the rest of the series. However, the way in which they have so blatantly ripped off Dawn of War and other RTS 'rivals' is unbelievable. I don't even really think that those sort of games are rivals, most of the people I know into strategy games play both, and for different reasons! To make things worse, the only redeeming features that this game actually has are the ones robbed from these other games, which leaves not much to praise in C&C4. I'm sorry Ea, but you've murdered and raped (in that order) a wonderful game. Be ashamed of yourselves.… Expand

This doest even deserve a score.. if possible i'd give it a -10 for alienating almost every hardcore C & C fan, EA has gone too far regarding "change" in games Like all the other fans out there i feel like this is a terrible Dawn of War ripoff and doesnt even deserve the name " Command and Conquer " No basebuilding, No micromanaging, graphics ETC ETC i can go on for ages about what went wrong the Second EA took over the franchise and Stabbed the hard working crew of westwood in the back, i wouldnt even get this game if it was FREE ! Yes, u heard me ! Its a spawn of evil That EA " The Hit & Miss Crew " Gave birth to whilst snorting tiberium. They should have asked the dedicated gamers about their opinions about this, id say that this is even worse than Infinity Ward's Stab in the back with the "Consoleported Golden turd" I'm hurt and i wont ever support any of EA's oncoming titles AGAIN !… Expand

This game is NOT command and conquer. When westwood created the original back in 1995, they revolutionised RTS. They layed the base core of what all RTS games needed. Tiberiun sun expanded on this, and EA again expanded further, whislt also angering its community with shoddy balancing and too many changes of what was considered the norm. Having to seemingly not listen to the community, despite saying they have, they then release Kanes Wrath, which was essentially, what C&C should have been in terms of gameplay. Having once again displeased the community again with lack of patches and securom causing ALOT of system formats due to major issues with it, they now release C&C 4, which is nothing like the previous games. Just because the game references tiberium and uses it in a majorly poor way, has Kane, and has old units (that look totally different), does not make a game deserve the Command and Conquer title. This game should have been scrapped at the start and make how the people wanted it. EA, a company so narrow minded it seems, that they only care about the money, not what the people actually want. I do feel sorry for Joe Kucan who is basically the star of the whole series being sent out in such a poor, poor way.… Expand

I've played every C&C game ever made and was brought into the RTS world by Command & Conquer on the Sega and, as most others probably were, was glad beyond believe that the fourth and final installment in the long lasting Tiberium series was coming, but when I finally got the game... well simply enough this isn't C&C, It's a horrid waste of money and time with practically nothing in common with past installments and answers almost none of the questions we were told it would answer and as such this "Epic conclusion of the Tiberium saga" as EA calls it, doesn't deserve to be honored with the title of C&C 4.… Expand

Way to kill the C&C universe EA, if you wanted to milk money guess this was the way huh. The must always be online game play is as much a joke as UBISOFT's one for Silent Hunter 5. The constant Crashing, the extremely poor graphics on units, the lack of the Staple items of the Command and Conquer universe such as Base Building, Tiberium Harvesting etc. All add up to give this an Epic Fail. Thanks for nothing and thanks for ruining a great franchise with over 15 years in it.… Expand

Gave this a 2 because of the colours Seriously, if your a C&C fanboy and loves to gather resources and enjoy watching your ranks of buzzers/ mammoth tanks / NOD troopers smash the opposition, DONT BUY THIS 50 points to spend on units, each unit is average 4 points. Gain EXP just so you can get the next unit even in a LAN environment, just not worth it. Why should i be punished for buying a game? this is not a RPG its an RTS.… Expand

Again, EA has proven it doesn't have a clue what good gameplay is and that they are run by bean counters and marketing morons. The gameplay is pathetic. Each campaign takes at *most* 5 hours to play through and is 7 missions long (after the 3 tutorial missions). Gameplay is as far away from C&C as it could possibly be. It is Real Time Tactical, not RTS. They took gameplay points from multiple games and mashed them together without realizing what makes it work for those other games. The units are almost all rehashed from the rest of the series (event the Mammoth Mk II from Tiberian Sun). There are no actors that you can recognize in the game outside of Joe Kucan. This game smacks of least effort possible and feels like less than a quarter of a full game. Don't waste your money on this game.… Expand

This game is horrible. The requirement to connect to the internet is a worthless requirement, that prevents this game from being played on the go. Also the story line has a predictable ending. We have known for almost a decade that Kane was going to ascend. EA had Kane ascend, but they didn't give a view of the alien world. And in the game play the Scrin are non-existent. We had heard rumors that the Scrin would reappear and attack earth again, but of course EA decided not to include this.… Expand

Horrible bastardisation of the old beloved franchise, they ripped out everything good and dear from the older C&C games and just added horrible gameplay mixed with almost no base building and constant aggrevating combat. Even as an RTS it literally forces you to grind for hours for you to get the units you want, twice, as NOD and GDI have seperate experience bars. Terrible, Terrible, Terrible.

WOW way to kill C&C EA! Are you too ***** cheap to have a collectors edition and color manual... maybe a paper cover for the DVD case. The game-play is terrible and not a part of the RTS genre. Its more of a sub-play mode that focus on tactics and small groups of units. It's ALWAYS fast paste with simple tactics and no real strategy. The combat looks like toy cars fighting one another. A lot of the units feel the same, they have no individual kick. What happened to tiberium covering the world, why is tiberium chunks collected from platforms? EA took ideas from other games with no understanding as to how they work within their game mechanics and created this crap of game with C&C art. If I where to compare this game play as more like a Demigods game to supreme commander. The Missions are weak because of a lack of good story telling, EA really... 30 sec mission and character introductions? The leveling system is stupid for single player, missions are not designed around new abilities gained by the player because you can unlock units from multi-player and use them in any mission. Cant EA design missions that will teach us how to use each base type and unit formation? Both the managers and designers should be fired for this disgrace of a game! Maybe then they'll have some time to play a real RTS like Star Craft 2. I wish Blizzard had the IP for C&C. They would had talent and business sense to make a great game that sells because its great. NOT WORTH BUYING, I hope all the good designers in EA wont support this poor equal brand anymore and leave Electronic Junk!!! and let the manager and share holders who call the shots, drowning in this sinking ship. Stop buying and destroying good IP!… Expand

even though i thought this game was being treated too harshly by the people giving it very low scores i have to agree with everything they say. as far as the game goes the new gameplay could have been an interesting experience (it's not an awefull concept) but the execution just isn't right it doesn't feel like a c&c game. de video's are horrible (even though before they weren't the best ) i feel myself cringing at the horrible acting. as for the persistent internet connection just screws up the game for me because my internet connection just times out every once in a while and i lose all of the stuf i just worked my butt of to get. it's just not worth the money.… Expand

What is this? Another EA Mainstream game I see. Another EA FAILED game. Just like the battlefield series with BF:Hero's, EA is slamming C@C into the ground...No longer is there good RTS game play, good RTS base building...But more of a FPS/RTS mix. Is this even C@C anymore? Or is is some sick twisted hybrid game that came straight out of the laboratory from EA. This game flat out sucks, no true single player action, and no exciting game play.… Expand

C&C game check. fun.... nope.. command point system: not as much fun as resource management.. crawler stance choice (IE offense, defense , support) fails to be anything but annoying solo game play: what a joke its bad enough to force us to log in to ea to play solo .. but the campaign almost forces you to play mulit player,,, epic fail end result last EA rts i buy with out a hard look..

This game is Command and Conquer by name only and should be AVOIDED like the plague by anybody looking to buy a typical Command and Conquer game. EA took a mish-mash of styles from other games, bundled them all into this game (poorly) and slapped the Command and Conquer badge on it. In the process losing the entire formula that makes a typical C&C game. * Want base building? - You're not finding it here! * Want resource harvesting? - Again, no such luck. * Want to be treated like a loyal customer rather than a potential pirate? - Nope, flat out of luck. The game requires that you log into EA's servers before it lets you even play single player. EA have basically used and abused the C&C brand to try and push their attempt at something new. The end result, a failure of a game that lets down the C&C fans, and isn't strong enough to stand on it's own right. Very disappointing for the final game in the franchise.… Expand

Though the game does get rid of fighting for ore/tibirum, i think it is a major setback for C&C. A lot of the strategy of the game is taken away when you can only build no more then 20 units, and don't have to worry about resources. Also, the stupid crawler/mcvs are overpowered and add a lot of pointless BS requirements to missions. I actually think the single player is broken becuase the missions really only have 1-2 ways of completing them successful, not multiple paths to victory like in old C&C games. In addition, taking away the ability to build both offensive units, defensive units, support units and buildings at the same time make the actual planning and strategy of the game on a super low level. This game is a serious disappointment, I want Westwood studios back.… Expand

Okay so I have played C&C since the beging so I am well and truly a fan, I have played all of the saga with the expansions. Since EA took over with Generals and Zero Hour (which was okay but had no cut-scenes) they have done nothing but ruin the game, When they released C&C3 and Kanes Wrath I thought WOW they have actually hit themselves over the head and made it feel more original , which did well I was not so keen on RA3 really it was okay but not as good as RA2. With C&C4 however i don't have a clue what they were thinking although a brave move I feel they have failed terribly this game totally ruins the concept of C&C possibly one of the best RTS Sagas of all time I'm very dissapointed with my purchase, But I am going to try and get used to it and see if I can enjoy it in anyway. Now for die hard C7C fan out there I would recommend not bothering honestly your missing nothing, As for EA they seriously need to rethink what they are doing bring back the old WestWood team and let them show you how its done.… Expand

I am shocked at how bad this is. its unreal, im completely stunned. The GUI is awful, the friend system is archaic. the campaign is so mundane, there is no strategy involved, its just a ground and pound. no base, no structures no planning, just move your crawler around spamming unit production and win, its impossible to lose unless you just straight out ignore the prompts. the Co-Op was pointless, there is no point to team work, this has to be the worst CnC game ever. i really really am sad i loved the others and i wish i could have my money back. I hate you EA games, your the devil.… Expand

Not entirely sure what the game designers were thinking when they decided to do away with tiberium, especially when the entire series is based around tiberium crystals and base-building as is hinted at in all the titles of the series. It's almost a given that the people who made this game lack the talent, skill and imagination of the old Westwood Studios. Unfortunately the team who made this game will go onto make further games potentially ruining another landmark RTS. The game designers especially should be prevented from writing any further games yet this won't happen and they themselves will carry on believing that they're good at their job. Not entirely sure why the mainstream reviewers have rated it so highly I think it may be because the previous titles held so much acclaim.… Expand

This game is absolutely rubbish - Very poor game play, rubbish graphics, looks and feels like a kindergarten version of the C&C games. Very sorry I bough it, I have bought every one of the C&C and Red Alert games since 1995 but I will not be buying any more of this family of games. Not what I expected from EA!!!

Far too small scale to be considered a real-time strategy game, this game makes a compelling case for a new genre, "Real-Time Tactical". If you are happy deploying no more than twelve vehicles at a time, then this is the game for you. The story line is weak and leaves alot to be desired, but the options given to the player to choose their future is very reminiscent of the early C&C titles. The handful of excellent features (such as the arsenal tab before every mission) are far outweighed by the tiny scope of the battles, the poor balance for the units, and the silly limitations placed upon the player by both command points and "crawlers". It is a sad end to the C&C series.… Expand

Worst RTS i've ever played, no real strategy as your simply have to keep up or try to overwhelm your opponent by pumping out units faster. no base defense to speak of, extremely boring, sad end for one of my favorite franchises. utter failure.

It is not C&C in any way whatsoever. In fact it is a game aimed at 8 year olds who do not like losing as you cannot lose.. I hate EA and am going to boycott all their games due to their lack of interest (respect) in the people who played and loved the original C&C game.

This is one of those games where i wish i had never spent my money on. wasted 49 dollars on a game that had a bad story line, bad game play system (onless your a fan of it which im not) and a horible ending. it lacked the excitement and rush that you felt when you played the game. the log on system is also an issue, be expecting proplems if the server is down. graphic wise it was nice some items but nothing amazing, in fact some things didnt make sence like the nukes looked like small explosions instead of BIG BRIGHT explosions ill tell you this, i dont know what got into the people who made this game but it was just FINE as it was before this change. Im a fan of the c&c games and this is just a sad thing to see.… Expand

A shamelessly exploitative game, EA have made no effort to accommodate for what was already a significant fan-base, it wouldn't surprise me if the direction they've taken C&C4 succeeds in alienating more people than it attracts. I can understand that the format was getting old (even though I personally still enjoyed it) and that some went so far as to consider it 'dated9; - I could even understand it if they had changed the 'old' format in a way which was original and corresponded with the rest of the series. However, the way in which they have so blatantly ripped off Dawn of War and other RTS 'rivals' is unbelievable. I don't even really think that those sort of games are rivals, most of the people I know into strategy games play both, and for different reasons! To make things worse, the only redeeming features that this game actually has are the ones robbed from these other games, which leaves not much to praise in C&C4. I'm sorry Ea, but you've murdered and raped (in that order) a wonderful game. Be ashamed of yourselves.… Expand

Great way to end my 2nd favourite franchise ever EA. Remove Base building, Tiberium harvesting and resource managment all toghther. I could stand C&C3 but now they ripped of DAwn of War 2 and made it with 10 times the epic fail. IF I could I would give it a -1.

EA ... Seriously? The game has been paired down so badly, it's no longer fun. C&C 3's gameplay had refinement and attention to detail and effort. This feels like Red Alert 3, rubbish. A small list of problems: - Animations *The Walker animations (you spin on the spot? but yet the mastedon correctly walks around) *Oversized and ugly air planes.... *Fat units. - The pacing of the combat feels too rushed..... everything fires at a thousand miles an hour or too slowly I've a long time fan of the C&C series, but this feels like it was made for small kids, the only saving grace is at least the acting and the cut scenes are better. Please get the management and original team who made C&C 3 back and sort this game out with a patch.… Expand

The game as a RTS is a terrible game, it requires very little strategy to play. I invested about 5 or 6 hours into playing this game and honestly want my money back. The game is nothing a C&C game should be, As a new franchise it could be quite respectable. However, the game is not a new franchise, it was advertised as a C&C4 game and it failed miserably. The game has no economy, very simplistic strategy and no lasting consequences to poor decisions. The extent of the strategy in this game is how fast can you change your queue of units to build the unit that counters the units used to counter your units. Since there is no cost for building units, there is no value on any unit you build. The game is a C&C game, and therefore there are certain elements people expect from the game, out of which non are present. The storyline is also a huge dissapointment, the missions are bland and simple and the storyline is just terrible. Kane has no evil left in him pretty much, he has just gone soft with age i guess.… Expand

This is the worst CNC I have ever played. The only reason I'm giving it a 1 is because the graphics look good. This new game mode of capturing and holding would be great if it were just an option, but for an entire game based on this, it's awful. I can't believe I wasted my money buying this! I'm glad I only payed half price. I wish I could have gotten the beta to connect to someone so I wouldn't have bothered buying it. This isn't CNC, it's some cheap knock off and I can't believe they would end the CNC series this way, should have stopped at CNC3.… Expand

Well, after 3 crashes it finally loaded and ran. This is a Command & Conquer game??????? You can call this C&C 4 if you want but it looks more like a game that should be on the $9.99 bargain rack at Wal-Mart. I ignored my first rule on buying PC games; never buy untill reading the reviews from users. That was a mistake and now I'm out $50. HEY EA, if it aint broke don't fix it. Moving a hulking unit around to puke out a very limited number of units is not an RTS game. What were you thinking, we need money but we don't want to spend any to get it? How about a refund or give me a game worth $50.… Expand

Was not at all worth the money, and it is not at all deserving of the score it received. Critics, your opinions suck and are more often than not, wrong. I can't even bloody zoom in or out in this game, you can't build bases, you cant send your individual units into cover, you send an army straight at an enemy and sit there for a bit just watching them shoot eachother... The most notable mess-up I noticed was at the very beginning, after I started thinking "This kinda sucks, when does base building and army massing and good graphics come in?"; Escorting Kane to wherever-it-was and being faced with three Obelisks of Light and thinking "I only have nine tanks... what the hell am I going to do?". Not only did I make it, I didn't lose a single bloody tank, whereas in the others, a single Obelisk is able to batter an army around. WHY EA didn't feel the need to Beta test this game to see how people would react is beyond me. It's a simple bloody thing to show someone something and ask for their opinion. At the very least they could have asked the makers of Dawn of War 2 for a bloody hint since they tried fairly hard to have the same form of gameplay. Worst waste of $50.00, and I mourn the loss of what was supposed to be an epic games triumphant conclusion, but hey, at least EA got their money, why should they care?… Expand

Nothing like what the c&c should be...its quite pathetic how ea just manages to screw up one game after another, they should have ended this game like it was meant to end, fix the problems from the old style, fix the lan, fix the desyncing and just leave wat they had alone and just build on it, not come at it with a completely different design and interface, its a absolute disgrace to the series, it should have been canceled instead of releasing a complete and utter failure. and EA manages to screw up every game they pretty much touch, which screams either new management or new programmers, either way, EA needs to change the way they make and package their games together, because with all the new games coming out, this game, and bad company 2 and a few others, are terrible compared to Cod mwf2 and supcom 2 and starcraft 2. and wat could really be their excuse? low budget? yea right, a company that size with a trilogy that successful, gimme a break, id say i definitly feel cheated out of my money for c&c 4, and it just seems like with ea this happens more and more and more, no money put into the game, and the game still sells for 50 bones, just utter bull crap.… Expand

I seriously don't know where to start. OK, I'm a die-hard fan of CC. I own every single CC game ever released, even the Red Alert counterparts, and all the expansions. Now, I wish my die-hard self would had died before CC4. Let's start by saying that I have spent triple the amount of time in the in game chat than playing the actual game. Half of that time has been helping the players with problems, be it graphical issues, connection issues, etc. This list goes on and on about issues. Second, the first couple days after release I would hop online every couple hours. I amassed some statistics that I will be compiling into a youtube video. ( I may use this for a Statistic project for a class in college) The first day of release, 89% of all messages into the chatbox were negative comments about the game. That total is the average of 5 different "General Chat" lobbies. Most of which had dozens of negative comments the second I joined. One room I asked who wanted their money back and 11 responded YES I want my money back, remember, that is one room, one incident. EA tried to fix something that wasn't broken. The result, yes, they broke it. They modified the game out of corporate greed thinking that original fans of CC will like and at the same time they could draw in fans of World in Conflict, Dawn of War II, etc. The result, CC fans are absolutely furious, as well as no additional fans being drawn in.… Expand

EA has trashed the venerable C&C series with this insulting entry, C&C 4. No base-building/resource gathering, A disgusting lack of depth to the single-player campaign,and,last but not least,the inability to even play unless you log-in to EA's servers in the name of protecting against piracy.Well, the fans,and gamers in general should not be forced into paying-the-price for piracy. Data-mining in disguise and a slap-in-the-face to gamers. The game gets a 1 for no other reason than it has a "place" in the c&c lineage,even though it is a dishonorable place. Save Your Money.… Expand

Total rubbish. I must say, congratulations EA for destroying the worlds foremost gaming franchise. We knew it would come one day, but never in such a large kick to the face. This game has nothing to do with any other C&C release. The mechanics are a total guess work, with next to no relationship to any other branch of the C&C world. Being a C&C player from release day 1, i await each release on the edge of my seat. I am aware that there are different "branches" of C&C, with Red Alert often being the most confusing, but still within it's design scope. This release and "final" chapter to the Tiberium series is just pure vomit. Tiberium Sun is the single best release for the Tiberium range. I bought Tiberium Twilight at 1:37pm AEST on Steam. I deleted it from Steam at 4:44pm AEST. Thank you EA you have destroyed and crippled the worlds most important founding gaming franchise. Signing Off Wimmig_AUS SGL AUSTRALIA C&C FOUNDING MEMBER.… Expand

Solely judging by the gameplay trailers, I Refused to purchase this game. That coupled with my friend's utter lack of satisfaction with the game led me to write this review. Mind you, I was introduced to C&C back around the Red Alert era and I was instantly a fan. It was the, straight up, perfect balance between base building and offensive strategy. Every other game tries to make that one original masterpiece better by adding new things to it but it fails to notice the simplicity in mind when the game was made. If a game has too few components, lacking the basics, it soon becomes the lowest piece of garbage on the market. And if a game has several brilliant concepts and excellent ideas to it but not enough refining, *cough*Stormrise*cough*, then it fails as well. Now, when you take a game that sticks to the standard and tradition style of gameplay that it always had done in the past, a.k.a. unit production, build tabs, researching upgrades, and totally switch it over, you have to understand that there WILL be massive drawbacks. I usually end these on a good note, but just from my short 5 minutes of playing the game I have to say that I hate what EA has done to this franchise. You sorry people have twisted the masterpiece that Westwood held onto for so long and forever destroyed Command & Conquer. I refuse to even say that there ever was a C&C4. It's like what they did to the Alien series. Alien 3 was the final movie. It was to be a trilogy. Then some director says, 'Hey, what would happen if we did this...' and makes some mock up piece of crap movie that, while has some decent moments, shouldn't have ever been made. In conclusion, C&C4 has proven to be the worst example of what EA can truly do to a game. Battle for Middle Earth was fantastic and the second was even better. Then they came out with C&C3 and I was enthralled. However, this game was as much of a put down to me as Ubisoft's Dark Messiah: Might and Magic and SEGA's Stormrise. EA has stooped to a level lower than I can describe. I will always judge EA's games as the worst thing and come to expect the worst out of them. This is unforgivable, as this series is more popular than all of Blizzard's games combined. Never have I wanted to see Westwood back in business more.… Expand

Again, EA prooved us that their influences on magnifiscent games like C & C and others is horrible, good way to destroy the series EA, awsome director and team, congradulation! Its too much expensive, maybe 9.99 would have been a bit too much, but not 49.99. The game is dangerous for those who got eyes problems, the scenario is horrible, the EA support contact is less than pathetic and the servers are simply not servers... Again, congradulation to EA and their team.… Expand

Congratulations EA on CnC's Big finale, a total Letdown. I can't believe that you ended a great franchise with a such boring story and the gameplay totally sucks, its like a copy of company of heroes and Dawn of War II. Sure the animations are awesome, but other than that everything is a complete disappointment. I am a CnC Fan and seeing this game makes me really sad to know that a great franchise had a really bad ending. It's just Disappointing.… Expand

This was Command and Conquer? Felt like I was playing some other game the entire time. So I have a unit collect these... Crystals to upgrade my units? No Tiberium to harvest? Where did it all go? Thought the world was nearly un-inhabitable with all of it. The Story-Line needed a LOT of work. It was like a 6year old wrote a short story and there it was. The combat system needs work. And what was this idea of a Command Point system? I can understand a unit cap, but what? My army is small man! Where is the Command in that? Moveable MCV? Ok, I can understand in Skirmish but.. Really? Just move it anywhere i want? Deploy zones? What am I playing, A board game? Must start here! Sigh. I expect a LOT more out of the final game for the Tiberium Series. A LOT more. This was very weak. Wish I could take my game back but all I would get is in-store credit for a used game that is already registered. Sorry EA, but your Fail Truck has arrived. Replay all the C&C Games that involved Tiberium and you will see all that you Failed in.… Expand

Worst, game, ever... The gameplay is horrible, mainly because Ea tried to change the type of style. Instead of changing it to Command and Conquer, they changed it to Dawn Of War. I loved the command and conquer series, but ea made command and conquer 4 bad. It has no base building, nor resource collecting. The storyline is just horrible. Multilayer is full of stupidity, mainly because its just unfair for beginner gamers of CnC4. This game has no strategic ideals, nor anything else. This game isn't worth it. If you are a Classic CnC fan, do not buy this. Its a waste of money.… Expand

I had been a fan of the C&C series from the beginning before it was even on Win95 (I think I still have the Pre-Win 95 disk kicking around somewhere) back when Westwood was still around. I don't say that to brag but so that anyone reading this understands where I am coming from. Hell i even have C&C Renegade. The FPS that could have been more all though it was fun. I say all that to say if you are a C&C fan stay away from this game, it is seriously not up to par with the rest of the series. and for everyone who defends this game as a C&C game should actually go back and play some of the older games to see what C&C is.… Expand

Why oh why change a winning game into a mainstream game this is happening with alot of games now. think they have changed it to appeal to young kids. It is alot less fun and exiting than Command & Conquer 3 and such a waste of money to buy. Stick to what you know and make a proper RTS game not a KRTS (kids real time strategy).

The most important words of the review: DO NOT BUY! This is not a Command and Conquer game, this is some other game pretending that it is a C&C game. Sure, the campy cut scenes are nice and all, but if I wanted to only watch the cut scenes, I would have just found the videos for it online. For the game itself, not worth the money. I pre-ordered this game--after playing every other C&C game, I will not trust a C&C game until after it comes out, and probably has some discounts again.… Expand

You know, I can live with the whole "mobile base" thing that they have going on. I don't entirely mind the RPS combat... but I can't stand how boring this game is. I've never been so bored in my entire life while playing a video game. The story was awful, absolutely terrible. The acting was was easily the worst in the series (as was the story). I've gotta say, this game probably destroyed the franchise... I know I won't pick up another C&C after this and judging from the reviews I don't expect anyone else to either.… Expand

Why did this get released? How can a big company like EA let something like this happen?
There has to be someone in charge of giving the final "O.K." to release a certain product in a certain condition in a company like EA but judged by this game there simply isnt. Even then basic common sense should tell anyone that such garbage needs to get deleted instead of released.

EA just totally ruined command and conquer. This game is one of the most disappointing strategy games i ever played. The game play is total **** You can make good game without base management (DoW II), but in this case its total garbage and Command and Conquer is 50% about base building. In compare to tiberian sun of even tiberian wars this game is total WtF.

It's a shame to watch a gaming company use a beloved franchise as a test tube for a new concept in gaming. If you want to create a new idea for the existing story (Renegade) go right ahead, but be honest about it. Suggesting that this is a direct sequel to C&C is laughable. The acting is ludicrous and the story leaves giant holes in the plot. The complete lack of effort in making a true end to the series was lost and cannot be rebuilt. The game itself has positive elements, albeit experimental ones, but in the end it could have been a success as a separate gaming series. The kick in the face is that after all the waiting and great previous stories, we are left with a blemish on the name of an otherwise exemplary series.… Expand

Managed to fail at everything the previous games were loved for. Besides being a mediocre looking game, it's mechanics are mostly disappointing. Looks like someone made a bad game, then slapped C&C on the front cover so that it would sell. Never have I felt as cheated off my money as I feel now. Ruined what should have been great. This is Command and Conquer in nothing but name.

This game is terrible, no base building, poor graphics and boring gameplay. Such a shame as it ruined the end of the series. Do not waste your money, i wouldn't even waste bandwidth downloading a pirate of this.. I played the first few linear campaign maps, then a few skirmishes, felt so cheated that i returned the game for a refund, Ai seem to have no intelligence at all, that with additional to numerous bugs makes this EA's worst game to date.… Expand

Command and... Failure? The last three C&C games I played, all involved you, GDI or NOD, building your little base, and spamming out units to delightfully smash against each other until eventually you reached their base, destroyed it, and started another game. Oh, and you had to harvest these strange mutagenic crystals called tiberium for monies beacuse the countries could do cool things with them. It worked right? C&C 4 didn't think so. A complete changeup to the system, you now build this MCV (Crawler) through which you can unlimitedly spam units until you reach a unit cap, thus equalling an effective stalemate unless you're vastly superior to the other person, have team mates, or your enemy spends half the time picking their nose. It's boring and unimaginative, Whopee, Rocks Paper Scissors units. No tiberium harvesting, no base, spamtastic, stalemates, not very fun. I don't know *why* this game is even labeled as command and conquer. The story is also sub-par compared to the other C&C games, and tries way to hard to take itself seriously. There's no cute cheesy sci-fi fun. It's all gruff, boring, and blocky.… Expand

The one who decided starting a game at lowest settings 800*600 should have been sacked last year. A lot of the fire the game have for "less than adequate" graphics comes from this ****** up setting?!?! That aside, this isn't c&c at all. This game is like the movie Batman and Robin, a game that should never have existed at all. The next game should begin with Kane waking up from the nightmare of c&c 4.… Expand

This game should have been sold as a Total Annihilation game. It is not C&C. It's not worth $49.95 and definitely not worth

This is the worse game EVER!!! I thought red alert 3 was garage i stand corrected muliplayer sucks you play caputuring these control nods and first team to get to 2500 points wins... theres no room name changing theres no teams nod and gdi together.. there is no merging.. doesnt make any sense then game is about merging together as one but on muliplayer your seperated this is garbage i wish i can sell my digtial copy for 5 bucks too many bugs dont buy stay away another game EA messed up i hate EA.… Expand

This is not command and conquer. this is a dawn of war II ripoff that died in its development, then killed a little more when they decided that one of its main gameplay types was going to be multiplayer. I have no qualms with normal rts multiplayer; in fact i quite enjoy it. however, when the system is based on spawning in an rts game with no resource management or base building, then i have a problem. I admit, dawn of war II had no base building, but its multiplayer was supposed to be smaller, and it still had resource gathering and micromanaging. this had nothing, no strategic depth, or even a workable game. In the 5 hours ive been playing, i got to level 2 about 7 times. way to go, EA. youve completely destroyed an amazing franchise.… Expand

The game itself would not have been that bad if it were a new IP or an offshoot of the C&C Brand (Like a multi-player only side-game) but C&C 4 was supposed to be the grand fanale of the traditional RTS, not some knock off. They should have kept the original formula and polished every speck of dust off of it. Personally I always like the C&C format of RTS, so I was serverly disappointed when I realized that the C&C franchise died with a whimper.… Expand

As both an RTS fan and a huge C&C fan I have to ask what exactly the hell EA were doing when they released this, but of course the answer is once again rushing a product out of the door in an effort to make more money. The gameplay is so vastly different from any other C&C game it might as well not be related at all. The idea of "counter" units takes a fairly basic element of previous games and dumbs it down to a level where all tactics are removed. And the story? all i can say is what story? Kane seems to have undergone a personality transplant, ignoring every goal he's ever worked for in the past in an effort to "ascend", although what this ascension is nobody knows as the endings make absolutely no sense at all. Honestly if this is how EA are going to treat such a long running and massively popular series I don't think I'll ever buy another of their games.… Expand

The best I can say about Command and Conquer 4 is at least it didn't kick my dog, it never started on fire, and at no point did it attempt a hostile takeover of my employer's business.

I haven't actually bought this game and I never will! I do know all about it and as a long time C&C fan, I just wanted to rant some more. EA took a long running franchise that worked, and worked extremely well, and threw it right in the toilet. They should have marketed this as a completely different game, and they may have been able to turn a good profit from it, but it is NOT and NEVER will be C&C! Hang your head in shame EA!… Expand

Spoiler Alert: This is a turd of a product, not worthy of the C&C name. - This game is even worse than Red Alert 3. It is one of the many casualties of EA. May it rot in peace.

It is not even RTS style like previous C&C games when I tried its betas. EA killed the series. C&C3 and its KW addon were the last good C&C games. Even the cutscenes were bad. :(

I don't know if I even want to finish this. This was a giant waste of my 5$ off of a steam deal. It feels like something some no-name developer puts out, but with decent graphics. There's no resource management. All it is is rock/paper/scissors, but with 3 or 4 different people putting their hands in. As everyone else has stated, this is not C&C. It doesn't deserve to be anywhere near the same shelf as the C&C franchise. This is one of those games that you find in a bargain bin at Menards or Fleet Farm.… Expand

i wish i could have been positive about Tiberium Twilight, but i can't.
the C&C series have always been a traditional RTS(simple build,train,command,conquer), but 4 breaks that formula in a bad way.
its okay if they want to try something else but they shouldn't use a well known series as a base for that.
the story is also far below par. people who know a bit of the Tiberium universe will probably find allot of loose ends in it.… Expand

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I have been a huge fan of Command and Conquer for many years, and own all the games. However, when they started to announce this game and it was discovered that base building had been removed I said "pass"

I didn't buy the game till it was on sale on Steam for 5 dollars the other week, and I still think I paid to much. It is not even a C&C game. No bases and all about micro. For the last game in the series it was massively disappointing. Why after years of success would they alter the design so drastically. I have about 3 hours of play, and have no desire to play any more. If you were an uber micro person that always built minimal bases anyway you may enjoy the game. But if you are a macro player that just plays casually in Skirmish and used the game as your "offline" option, then this is not for you. Stick with C&C3… Expand

It was brave of them to take an established money making franchise and flip the whole thing like a pancake. Not many companies have the balls to do that. Too bad the end result was a game that had nothing to do with C&C gameplay and made for a completely undesirable game

Basic theme of my review: You loved CnC 1 / 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5? Don't waste your 4$ on this game like I unfortunately did.

Long gone are the days where you would start off with little to now power and units and were expected to use skill and strategy to obtain resources and build up an army. No, today's version of Command and Conquer gets rid of all these silly concepts, puts you down with *one* main building whose purpose is to... let you build from a list of all your available units right from the start, mass them up at no cost to you, send them on a killing spree, and repeat. This game would have earned points for its XP system of leveling up to unlock things had it done things right, or at least attempted to steal the ideas from Starcraft 2. But no, in CnC4 you aren't given the biggest tanks for the biggest missions, you need to unlock them by grinding, because that's what the last hope for the world has to do, right?
Graphics look pretty, but then again you wouldn't be playing this series if you cared more about the graphics than the actual gameplay.
Finally, I tried the skirmish mode against a computer since there is absolutely no one on multiplayer these days, and it's the same thing as single player: boring and repetitive.… Expand

This game is mournful. As of the time of this writing, it's available from Steam for twenty dollars. I passed C&C4 by when it came out last year, wary from the reviews and videos I had seen, and only picked it up now while the RTS genre is fairly dry.

It is absolutely not worth it. If this game were being given away it would still cost too much in hard-drive space alone to justify owning it. This is the worst RTS I can remember owning in over a decade. It is a betrayal, a betrayal of the franchise, of the fans, and of EA's customers in general.

The Command and Conquer franchise has always had some common traits constant between all its games, from the original to the Red Alert series and even the short-lived Generals spin off. You build a base, you build structures along a tech-tree, you unlock more advanced units by building the corresponding buildings, you amass a force free of any arbitrary population cap, and you wage quick, brutal, and often unforgiving war. Command and Conquer 4 has none of that. Not a single defining point of the franchise is present. Not. A. One. Resource gathering is gone. Base building is replaced by a single 'crawler' mobile facility that builds all available units once its deployed. Your army is limited by an infuriatingly low population cap since actual units are produced without any sort of resource cost. The closest thing to a tech-tree is a list of upgrades you can purchase at your crawler if you capture special tiberium crystals and return them to your base, almost like a capture the flag mini-game. Since there are no bases and units (including the crawlers) are produced neigh instantly and freely, victory depends on capture points which are won over by standing near them until a sliding bar swings to your faction. The only analogue I can think of is a rather despised mechanic Blizzard has incorporated into one of its World of Warcraft multiplayer battlegrounds. Indeed, the entire affair feels more like haphazardly managing an MMO than playing an actual real time strategy game. The more I think of it, the more like an MMO this game feels. The campaign is available in single-player but its clearly balanced around a poorly implemented co-op approach, to the extent that you can't start a mission without being put into a chat-room of C&C4 players. Most disturbingly, you'll see people advertise games to grind experience in these channels, since higher tech-units are now dependent on experienced gathered from your playing account. You have to grind experience to build units. Let that sink in. It is exactly as awful as it sounds. Its myriad technical and mechanical problems aside, what I object to the most is its presentation. I was replaying C&C 3 out of nostalgia before I decided to buy this game, and I firmly believe C&C 3 had better graphics, despite coming out four years before hand. C&C4 may have higher polygon counts and better lighting, but there was a baffling aesthetic change in the transition that makes everything look like building blocks. Gone are the sleek and hard lines, the fascinating alien bio-mechanical fusion, the gleam of light off tanks, and any sort of attempt at a realistic presentation. Now every unit looks like a child cobbled it together out of building blocks. It's almost cartoonish. And you'll have plenty of time to savor that, as it takes forever for anything to kill anything else now, vastly slowing down C&C's famous fast tempo. And the story... Merciful gods the story... C&C 3 had an extensive world-building side to it. It detailed the ravages of a tiberium future. It spun a cohesive narrative and had players scrambling for hidden objectives that unlocked intelligence notes, entries on units, events, and background that gave no other reward than simply learning about the setting. And they were fascinating enough that many players spent a lot of time hunting them down (just look at the number of online intel guides for proof). C&C 4 does none of that. It actively tries to get you to forget plot points from its predecessor. It erases the setting earlier games masterfully erected. The actual story is irrelevant because you won't be able to follow it; cut-scenes and briefings are overly melodramatic yet carry no real information. You'll be wondering 'why?' at the start of almost every mission. It's like reading a comic where half the panels were blacked out.

Five thousand characters isn't enough to bemoan this wretched travesty. Command and Conquer deserved better than this. There isn't a single redeeming quality to this game. It is pathetic. EA knows this; it retails for half the price of its predecessor, despite being four years younger. I give it one point because it exists and doesn't actively give you cancer. That's really the best that can be said about it.… Expand

This is not the C&C i used to play.... i am open for changes only if they are doing something good and make the game more fun and enjoyable but i can't find any of them... also i am a big fan of the mission crossing screen and movie... C&C or i should say WESTWOOD did it very well in the past and in C&C4....what EA have create is some sort of stupid class B movie style crap... i would say even the C&C 1 movie is better than C&C4 except the increase of resolution....… Expand

A Command and Conquer game without LAN play? .... no base building? ... It's only USD$4 on steam but this crap is not even worth that... sorry EA but after this and Bad company 2.... i will never be purchasing an EA game again.... you destroy franchises.

Battlefield and Command and Conquer use to be 2 of my favorite games.... and there is a reason me and my friends still play red alert 2 and BFV over your new games...… Expand

I've been a huge fan of the C&C series since the first. I even loved the underrated Renegade spin-off. When I heard C&C 4 was coming out I was beyond happy. However I held off on buying the game until I found it really cheap because it contains lame DRM which requires you to be online at all time. After finally buying it and popping it in I was very let down to say the least.. First off it plays nothing like any of the other games in the series. Building is nearly non-existant, as is mining ore. About all you can build is units from a mobile factory which each side has. You are also restricted no only by a very strict unit cap, but which units you can build as well. You see in C&C 4 you have ranks. Your rank depends on what units you are allowed to build. This means for awhile you're going to be stuck with a few weak as heck units. This is not only in single player, but multi as well. It makes things so unbalanced and needlessly difficult it ruins the entire game. This game is horrible to say the least. I don't usually condone piracy, but with this one I can say the pirates got a better version. Not only can they play it offline, but they didn't pay a dime for this crap. Seriously, this has got to be one of the worst RTS games I have ever played and I have played a lot.… Expand

So I picked up C&C 4 tonight because it was on steam sale for $5 dollars, and I believe I overpaid for it. It really disapointed me how much I dislike C&C 4. I played it for just over an hour, and that was all I could take. It just so bad that it doesn't even resemble the C&C series that I remember fondly. Where did the resource gathering go? Why are there now 3 different types of MCV's that I seem to have to switch between just to keep up with the AI? Why does the game seem to be forcing me around the map multiple times? Why are the graphic settings set to minimal as default? Why can't I adjust said setting while in a mission? Why is it when I set the graphic settings to max, that it still looks like a game from 6 years ago? Just so much wrong here and besides the guy that plays Kane, there's nothing here that even remotely resembles the C&C I know and love. I give the game a 1 purely because the actor who played Kane was still in it.… Expand