It's been six years since the last Command & Conquer but a recent announcement by EA reveals that the IP is far from dead. Command & Conquer: Rivals will be a mobile-exclusive RTS, set in the classic GDI vs Nod era.
During the EA Play conference announced Rivals during its press conference Saturday morning, for the kick off the company’s third EA Play and the unofficial kick off of E3 week. It'll be the first C&C game since Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances - which released in 2012.
It’s clear that it has taken quite of a bit of inspiration from the recent spat of mobile multiplayer games like Clash Royale - as the game's creative director admitted during the conference:
Clash Royale was very inspiring for us. It paved the way for real time matchmaking on the phone and bringing it to the mainstream.
Players face off to control a multiple areas on a map before a missile is launched. They use Harvester units to mine the Tiberium currency in order to develop and deploy more sophisticated units to send to these areas. Whomever has the least control on the map gets targeted by the missile - if you're hit by the missile twice, you lose.
Check out the gameplay overview below:
So what do you think? Are you a fan of the Command & Conquer series?