The second one has to be Nod. So what if they have blue visors, the infantry is most certainly of Nod origin. The mech is sleek and dark and posseses armorments that GDI has long since evolved past. Besides seeing how much help the Mechs gave GDI during the Second Tiberium Wars, Nod would most certaily try to mimic this technolagy in an attempt to tweak the odds in their favor.

The reaper didn't have a skull. Go look at the concept art of it.

i would say to 90% the first soldier is a nod light infantry...

Carno had to open his mouth.

Edit:
Didn't anyone notice the General's U.S. symbol on that Vtol Aircraft? FFS, they doing yet another Generals ya dolts, Don't you even see it?

COMMAND & CONQUER 3: Tiberium Wars


It was the beginning of the end when the orbital space station Philadelphia was destroyed by a nuclear explosion in March 2047. The Brotherhood of NOD eliminated the command center of the GDI with one strike – this was the beginning of a merciless offensive.
Since our last visit on Tiberium-contaminated earth things have changed dramatically. Lead by the appearently not-killable Kane the fanatic sect NOD has founded an own state that has grown to a military superpower in recent years. Now NOD troops marched up worldwide to conquer the last bastions of the western civilization. The defensive battles of the GDI appear to be hopeless. But under the command of an undaunted officer the splashed remnant of armed forces form to a final rebellion to change the result of the third and crucial tiberium war.

Tiberium instead of false alert (allusion to Red Alert 3)

Not even the starting situation of the story is like a bombshell. The fact that there would be a continue of the Command & Conquer series is a big hit. After the release of the often hyped but in gameplay a bit disappointing Tiberian Sun in the year 1999, series besides the Tiberium universe were maintained like Red Alert and Generals. But the further development of the origin series, which Westwood revolutionized the RTS-genre with, stayed in the deloper studios like a course-parked Tiberium vehicle.
In the last years which were poor of Tiberium there was no lack of activities behind the scenes. At first Westwood was introduced into Electronic Arts’ studio in Los Angeles, where the developers were very busy with the Battle for Middle Earth the last time. The time between they had to bear a reduction of personnel, various developer veterans are gone to Petroglyph, developer of Empire at War. Also, previous executive producer Mark Skaggs is no longer with Electronic Arts. In December 2004, he had suggested in an e-mail newsletter, that they will work on a third Red Alert game next. But nonsense: Directed by Louis Castle, one of the veterans of old Westwood-founding-days, they go back to the origins of the series now. Now we have it: the official announcement of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (working title)!

The third power

Tiberium is a crystal with extraterrestrial origin. It’s an easy useable, potent source of raw material, but at the same time radioactively and environmentaldestroying. During the story of the series this valuable devil’s thing spread more and more and made parts of earth uninhabitable. Kane, one of the (not only of his bald head) most sparkling villains of games’ history, supports this absolutely. Like a prophet he talks about a new stage of human’s evolution and recruits fanatic followers for his Tiberium-religion, especially in the Third World. The GDI, some kind of NATO-force of the near future, wants to keep silence and order and to stop the ecological depopulation created by the crystalls. And then, there is a mysterious third one to whom Electronic Arts is stingy with more information. It seems to be an own, complete faction with an own style of playing and exclusive units, since three seperate campaigns are planned, in which you’ll experience the action with the eyes of the chosen faction.

Conquer the world!

Besides the story-based campaigns, an additional gaming-variant called “World Domination” is planned, that reminds on the modi frоm Battle for Middle Earth 2 or Empire at War. In Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars the whole world will be a dynamic battlefield on which all targets and troop shifts must be planned before on a world-map. Armies and buildings shall be durably. So, it depends on the production of the world-map which troops you can command in the next RTS-battle. Survivors stay and can be commanded in later battles. This interesting modus shall be playable alone against the computer-AI and online against other human players.

And now to the weather map

The time of pixel and voxel of privious Tiberium-days is over, for the first time you harvest Tiberium in 3D-pomp. The next generation of the Battle for Middle Earth 2-graphics-engine will be pimped up in particle effects; explosions, fire, smoke shall embellish the scene spectacularly. There, special attention for the dynamic weather effects, which shall influence the game scenario as well. With specific technologies you can manipulate the weather itself to weaken enemy units at the correct moment. The fact that infantry doesn’t have umbrellas is not the problem. But we can imagine e.g. Ion Storms with which aircrafts could get in trouble or rainstorms at the touch of a button, which obstruct ground troops.

Combining units (... eh, part 1)

The units of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars shall exist a mixture of completely new models and typical units frоm the series. Orca-flier, Mammoth-tanks & Co. will represented by their newest model-years with advanced abilities. The creation of couples will allow completely new perspectives: By combining two units one new super-unit will be created. With the building of bases the developers set on mobility; bases can move to other location during a mission. The catchment area of Tiberium fields would count to the more desired locations, since this ressource is the basis for troop production and research of upgrades. The player who controls the Tiberium locations wins the battle – as a result of this, heavy defended front lines would be in the near of crystalls.

Combining units (... eh, part 2... probably a misprint)

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be programmed completely new with primary concentration on pathfinding and quick reaction times so that all can be played well. Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars should be playable quickly, tightly and directly; even the AI’s style is sеlесtable. So, you adjust if the computer enemy shall be a brisk “rusher” or a defense specialist staying at home. Or you trust the setting “adaptable” (in german: “anpassungsfähig”), where the AI tries to analyze your style to assume asimilar game strategy. However, for everyone who challenges the non-artificial, mental power of human enemies instead, can look forward to a multiplayer feature, with included Clan-Support, Observer-Mode or Voice-Over-IP-Support.

Back to the 90’s

Video cut scenes with real actors are a game experience, which Command & Conquer can’t cut out. This tradition seemed to disappear during the 90’s in the developer studios. But – nothing against modern art or render scenes – you only have to put you old NOD-disk of Tiberian Sun into you disk drive to have yourself remind of the charme of crazy clips before the missions started. The stand-alone series Generals tried to manage without any video clips, but for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars there’s still hope: Electronic Arts announced that were will be “new methods” to explain the story – but traditional cut scenes are planned, too. Therefore, the render art-works are matching that we took to illustrate this article and of which some partially look like screenshots frоm a video clip. The developers are silent about the fact if this also means that villain Kane will return... until now!

The third power

Tiberium is a crystal with extraterrestrial origin. It’s an easy useable, potent source of raw material, but at the same time radioactively and environmentaldestroying. During the story of the series this valuable devil’s thing spread more and more and made parts of earth uninhabitable. Kane, one of the (not only of his bald head) most sparkling villains of games’ history, supports this absolutely. Like a prophet he talks about a new stage of human’s evolution and recruits fanatic followers for his Tiberium-religion, especially in the Third World. The GDI, some kind of NATO-force of the near future, wants to keep silence and order and to stop the ecological depopulation created by the crystalls. And then, there is a mysterious third one to whom Electronic Arts is stingy with more information. It seems to be an own, complete faction with an own style of playing and exclusive units, since three seperate campaigns are planned, in which you’ll experience the action with the eyes of the chosen faction.

The time of pixel and voxel of privious Tiberium-days is over, for the first time you harvest Tiberium in 3D-pomp. The next generation of the Battle for Middle Earth 2-graphics-engine will be pimped up in particle effects; explosions, fire, smoke shall embellish the scene spectacularly. There, special attention for the dynamic weather effects, which shall influence the game scenario as well. With specific technologies you can manipulate the weather itself to weaken enemy units at the correct moment. The fact that infantry doesn’t have umbrellas is not the problem. But we can imagine e.g. Ion Storms with which aircrafts could get in trouble or rainstorms at the touch of a button, which obstruct ground troops.

I'm hoping they change the crappy logo using the old C&C logo as a base.
Like these that I made myself:





I just hope they changed into something like that. But that just my opinion.