11 December 2007
Ferry

Tiberium Command & Conquer FPS game announced for PC, Xbox 360 & PS3

A Command & Conquer FPS game called “Tiberium” will be coming to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, according to American games magazine Game Informer. The Tiberium game is the cover story of their January 2008 issue and the game is said to be set 11 years after the end of the third Tiberium war. You’ll play as Ricardo Vega, a formerly-retired GDI field commander. You can play in single player or 2-player online modes. EALA’s game is set for a late 2008 release.

The squad-based action first-person-shooter game is described as Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter meets Battlefield meets Rainbow Six Vegas, but instead set in the C&C Universe. You’ll be leading a R.A.I.D (Rapid Assault and Intercept Deployment) around the location of the tower in the Mediterranean Red Zone that NOD defended until it was built. There’s no mentioning of you fighting NOD, but you will be fighting new Scrin infantry (the two given were Shrikes, little knee-high robots with blasters an a self-destruct, and Archons, think Scrin versions of Elites from Halo).

The units that were announced that you could command were standard infantry squads, missile infantry squads, a different version of the Titan, and new Orcas. You’ll still get special powers, like an “Orbital Slug” that you can call upon to strike down your enemies. Ricardo Vega himself is armed with the GD-10, a transformative, four-in-one weapon capable of dealing punishment under any circumstance. — Thanks to AJsarge for the writeup

Looks like a Command & Conquer: Renegade 2 will be reincarnated as Tiberium, let’s hope GDI, NOD and Scrin will all be playable. We’ll update this article as soon as there’s more info and pictures, sadly a leaked demo reel has already been taken offline by EA. Here’s a blurry first shot saying “the fight is far from over”:

Tiberium executive producer, Chris Plummer, says about the game “Tiberium is our force, it’s our one ring to rule them all, it’s our Matrix.”

11 December 2007 17:50
Mike

Renegade 2!

11 December 2007 23:18
Isaac

RENEGADE 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

13 December 2007 09:01
Upset fan

EA, don’t screw this up more than it sounds like you already have. Renegade 2 is not only a better name, more suiting, most likely a more profitable marketing strategy, etc. but it’d be for a community that kept Westwood’s last wonderful game alive for more than 5 years without your support. Listen to your customers for once … the people making all of the modifications, expansions, etc. for Renegade: WE WANT RENEGADE STYLE, not some retarded spinoff of TibWars and other games…

13 December 2007 11:38
rat

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XdhdPSwC6zc

17 December 2007 16:17
gilligab

Sorry, but this does not sound like Renegade 2….I wish it did but it doesn’t. It is not designed for online matches (as it states only 2 players to a match)

18 December 2007 10:21
Blackwater

Finaly, renegade 2. I hope it get’s the same online gameplay as renegade! just with better graphics and other units!. Damn i’ve been waiting for a command and conquer fps for.. years!

20 December 2007 18:25
CMS

ok 1 its not Renegade 2 that is a red alert spin off an 2 its about damn time they made a fps of cc3 i got bored of schollin wanna be rts champs

21 December 2007 02:07
supadupagama

Uhm CMS, Renegade 2 was cancelled so technically it’s now placed in the Tiberium universe.

4 January 2008 08:55
Jared Harrison

If the online game is an improved version of Renegade I would even pay to play it. But if it is only another capture the flag or a Battlfield game, forget it! If improved, A Renegade 2 type game could be the greatest game ever made, up there with Starcraft.

30 January 2008 08:55
k9wolfy01

i want a massive team game much like renegade. but if it is merely co-op and campaign based?!?! what the f*ck is that? it needs some multiplayer battles that require teamwork and strategy to win. c and c aint no ghost recon sh*t. its STRATEGY. make it that way. we want more RENEGADE.