Forget global warming - the greatest threat to planet Earth and the survival of mankind is a green radioactive extraterrestrial crystal that is spreading like a cancer across the entire surface of the globe. Or maybe Deal Or No Deal. Anyway, this new form of matter happens to also be a rather excellent resource for a globe starved of oil, and three factions - two human, one alien - are now at war over control of it.
Welcome to the brutal, sci-fi world of Tiberium, a new squad-based shooter set in the C&C universe of the GDI (Global Defence Initiative - good), Brotherhood of Nod (led by evil baldy/beardy Kane - bad) and the Scrin (mysterious aliens - very bad).
It's always unfortunate when great projects are put on hold or cancelled, and when digging through the batch of discarded ideas, one can find some real gaming gems in the cancelled games list. MyGaming look at the top 5 cancelled games that should've been made.
Eight Days' premise sounded interesting! But all the per-rendered videos did look a little generic.
From Strategyinformer.com: "Return of the Dawn is a TS 2 C&C1 (Tiberian Dawn) total conversion, aiming to combine the fun gameplay of the original with the more advanced features and graphical capabilities of the Tiberian Sun engine. Version 2.8 is now available.http://static.strategyinformer.com/r/screenshots/00335392.jpg"
Edge writes: "When Electronic Arts canceled the Command & Conquer-themed shooter Tiberium, some praised the company's hard line on quality.
But Mike Hickey with Janco Partners questions how an admitted low-quality game got so far into development.
"Continued lack of management execution and/or product quality damages new management's credibility and dampens our excitement for the Company's shares," Hickey said in a Tuesday research note."
