Tag: Strategy

Command & Conquer 4 – What the hell?

Having never played the final game in the Command & Conquer series before, I thought it was about time. To finally experience the ending for myself, and see how the legacy of Kane finishes. I know about the controversy, of course. How disappointed fans were of this release – but, really, how bad can it truly be? Well, as I soon learned, very bad indeed. The suffering starts even way before actually playing the game. To play Command & Conquer 4 you must first login to their servers, and nine times out of ten, the EA servers just refuse to connect. Luckily, or should I say, unluckily, I managed to log on…

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Menace – Dev Diary Number 5 (Squad Leaders)

It’s once again time for a dev diary for Menace. Unfortunately, this is probably the weakest of the lot, since it does not say much new at all. We knew there would be officers with different backgrounds already, and that these agents would lead the squads from a leader position. The characters will be pre-written, as to have a stronger personality writing, and story connection – compared to say anything randomly created. This is all fair and good, but if there aren’t a ton of agents for release, it’s going to be slim pickings when it comes to repeated playthroughs, or missions wipes.

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Menace – Dev Diary Number 4 (Weapons)

Whoopee, a new Menace developer diary! This one goes more in-depth on the weapons that you will be using throughout the campaign. Sadly, the post didn’t really provide much new information, or anything super interesting. It did however reaffirm my thoughts that the game will be much more abstracted than I initially thought.

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Menace – Dev Diary Number 3 (Combat)

Oh yeah, time for a new developer diary for Menace. So, what do we learn this time? Well, this one goes into probably the most important part of the game: the tactical combat. The devs go over the biomes that we will visit and destroy. What kind of missions there are. And apparently, they will be more involved than just kill everything, even when some missions will still have that objective. It has me questioning what the standard missions will be, but my bet is on standard kill sorties, despite what the devs say. Imagine running rescue tasks as default. It would quickly undermine the novelty of those types of objectives. 

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