EA confirms C&C4 only for PC

By Robert Purchese Published 9 July, 2009

Leaks are true. Due next year.

EA has announced Command & Conquer 4 for release on PC next year. Surprise! Or perhaps not.

To clarify, however, there are no console versions planned - if what EA told vg247 holds true.

The biggest features are an RPG persistent progression system across all gameplay modes, which may or may not include online - EA doesn't specify. Even without, multiplayer still has new 5v5, objective-based challenges, which the re-deployable construction units should spice up.

Nod and GDI factions are back, and will wrap around a story that follows Kane's masterplan reveal as he travels to his enemy's headquarters. Which up-and-coming starlets will pepper the cast-list this time, however, is unknown.

A video and asset splurge is planned for 24th July on EA's BattleCast PrimeTime webcast. But, well, that might always leak ahead of time too.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Sir_TimAlot #1 3 years ago

    I've never been any good at C&C games but love to play 'em. Hope they keep Scrin and introduce a 4th faction!

  • porkman #2 3 years ago

    This sort of game works best and is best on a P.C. Xbox and Ps3 are not suited for this type of game control wise

  • JohnnyWashnGo #3 3 years ago

    It may work well on a PC but it will sell like a dog.

  • Widge #4 3 years ago

    and I agree with Porkman there. Tried C&C Red Alert on PS3 and christ... half the battle was controlling the game. Really does feel better on PC, glad I upgraded recently!

  • Kratos1986 #5 3 years ago

    You obviously don't know what your talking about JohnnyBrainCellCountSoLow

    C&C3 sold really well. In fact the limited edition special "C&C 3: Kane Edition" sold so well they had to enforce a limit of 100 thousand copies to keep it exclusive after they printed a few thousand special editions(about how many Special Editions get sold for the average game).

    The C&C franchise has over 25 million copies to its name and several million have come the last few years from Tiberium Wars plus its expansion, The First Decade(compilation pack) and Red Alert 3.

    Of course everybody knows if a game isn't popular it sucks. Thats why Wii Fit is the best game ever right?

    Shame there are are so many narrow minded morons in the world, I wonder how many people still believe the world is flat?
    Edited by 1 at 09/07/09 @ 16:29

  • collateral89 #6 3 years ago

    HA HA XBOX !!!!!!

  • UncleLou #7 3 years ago

    may work well on a PC but it will sell like a dog.

    Yeah, I am sure they're making C&C 4 PC-exclusive because C&C 3 sold bugger all on the PC, but was a smash hit on the 360.

    lulz etc.

  • Artemus #8 3 years ago

    Sounds like the devs have been playing DoW2.

  • ps3owner #9 3 years ago

    crawler ey? is that the 21st century war fare?! everything has to be in mobile units, tanks are just pointless nowadays. it's all about planes highly mobile elite troops. then when it all goes tits up we'll send in the reinforcements in the form of ground troops, since tanks are still valnurable to all these road side bombs and all... should be good ;)

  • Petrarch #10 3 years ago

    The screenshot that was floating around had a few nice looking units on it. One in particular was the unit in the bottom right corner that looked a lot like the old Mammoth Mk II - hopefully it's the Mammoth Mk IV. While it's just a guess, energy weapons seem to be the order of the day all around this time as the GDI units seemed to be firing some sort of pulse weapon.

    I'm looking forward to it - whereas Red Alert goes down the B-Movie tounge in cheek path, the Tiberian series plays it straighter but without taking itself too seriously, makes for a nice contrast between the 2.

    Plus it more than makes up for the scrapping of Tiberium which was looking good.

  • Drakron #11 3 years ago

    Forced to be Online all the time?

    No thank you.

  • Ryuken #12 3 years ago

    "Sounds like the devs have been playing DoW2.

    And Supreme Commander."

    And World in Conflict/Shattered Galaxy (class based subfactions)... and Universe At War (mobile bases with a punch)... and any MMORTS (you have to play online all the time in C&C4 apparently). No problem they copy so much, at least it won't be standard-fare stuff like C&C3 and RA3 then.

  • jambii267 #13 3 years ago

    I'm disappointed in lack of Xbox 360/PS3 versions Kane's Wrath and Red Alert 3 has almost perfect control schemes :(. I'm a sad bunny.

  • ChthonicEcho #14 3 years ago

    It may work well on a PC but it will sell like a dog.

    If by 'sell like a dog' you mean 'sell like a virgin hooker in a navy fleet', then yes, you have the right of it.

  • AphoticCosmos #15 3 years ago

    I really liked C&C3. Will pick this one up.

  • makeamazing #16 3 years ago

    Yes i enjoyed C&C3 also, and will most likely also get 4. Hope they have the same cast, it was excellent, Michael Ironside is a legend :)

  • wellzy4eva #17 3 years ago

    Firstoff, I'll state Command and Conquer are a nice set of games (Although TA is better)

    But I hate the fact that it's generated unenthusiastic (and terrible) B actors getting involved in games in badly directed cutscenes.

    Before I get hounded, I'm not exclusively naming C&C as the worse culprit, but it still spread it terribly.
    Edited by 1 at 09/07/09 @ 20:31

  • Sycopat #18 3 years ago

    C+C not coming to consoles...

    So what? Consoles have always been a terrible place for RTS games.

    And I always thought the cutscenes were supposed to be that cheesey...

  • Simian #19 3 years ago

    Love the fact there is no DRM, but I'm not too sure about having to be online just to play it. Granted, its to stop folks cheating, but I certainly hope I can play offline (with a message saying that I'm not contributing to my online profile, perhaps).

  • WinterSnowblind #20 3 years ago

    I enjoyed C&C3 but it was a little underwhelming, didn't really feel special in anyway. I hope this one can kick it up a notch, but if not, it should still be fun.

  • wonton #21 3 years ago

    I got the C&C3 deluxe edition (orig and expansion) only last month. Played about halfway through the campaign but unlike RA3 I couldn't summon the motivation to play through it; it was too old school and there wasn't anything particularly interesting for me. Shame really, I can see why others would really like it.

    Agree with HenryVIII, I really wish they would slow the game down slightly. RA1 differentiated itself from StarCraft 1 by being slower, they should continue to do so.
    Edited by 1 at 12/07/09 @ 17:38