EA confirms Command & Conquer FPS Tiberium
by Jason Dobson 
on Dec 18th 2007 9:58AM
Electronics Arts has wasted little time in lifting the veil from off
last week's rumor surrounding
Tiberium, a new game set in the long-running
Command & Conquer universe that will once again try to put a FPS spin on the series' RTS roots. With versions in development at EA Los Angeles for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC,
Tiberium's shoot-em-up style follows 2002's
Command & Conquer: Renegade, a critical and commercial mess of a game that attempted to inject first and third-person elements into the series, while largely failing at both.
EA describes
Tiberium's gameplay as a "blend of first-person shooting and tactical squad combat," allowing players to control multiple ground and air units in addition to the game's central character, Forward Battle Commander Ricardo Vega. All of this makes the game sound like it plans to follow more in the footsteps of the likes of
Ghost Recon and its ilk rather than
Tiberium's ill-conceived predecessor, though we are still understandably gun shy. Mama didn't raise no fool, and we'll wait for the game's fall 2008 release before getting
too excited.
