Mon, Oct 18, 2010 | 14:40 BST
Visceral making C&C game
Visceral Games is creating a Command & Conquer title, the studio’s confirmed to Gamasutra.
The game is “pretty far out”, said Visceral Games label general manager Nick Earl.
Earl is head of action and strategy games at EA under the new label, and is looking to leverage brands out of its successful studios.
“Regardless of which particular geography, everyone feels like they’re part of one group. Think about the DICE brand as becoming a strong FPS brand with games like Battlefield, Bad Company 2, and with BioWare being a strong brand for RPGs – we’re trying to do that inside the action space, where EA has not had a strong position for some time,” he said.
The last big C&C title was EALA’s Command and Conquer 4 for PC.
What genre the Visceral C&C will cover is unknown, but EA has planned action titles from the series in the past, the last one being first-person shooter Tiberium.
Announced back at the start of 2008 for PS3, 360 and PC and in development at EALA, the shooter was then cancelled in September of that year for not being up to scratch.
“The game was not on track to meet the high quality standards set by the team and by the EA Games Label. A lower-quality game is not in the best interest of the consumers and would not succeed in this market,” EA said in a statement at the time.
Earlier this year, Visceral released Dante’s Inferno for PS3, 360 and PSP. It’s currently finishing up on Dead Space 2, which will release on January 28, 2011 in the UK for PS3, 360 and PC.
18 comments
#1
Epic Fool
18/10/10, 2:08 pm
*sigh*
#2
Blerk
18/10/10, 2:10 pm
That…. seems like a somewhat odd combination.
#3
Freek
18/10/10, 2:14 pm
So they’re trying for another action C&C game? Well, it’s only failed twice. Third time’s a charm!
#4
Erthazus
18/10/10, 2:18 pm
Visceral?
Wow… If that game will have the quality of Dead Space
Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…
…
They made Dante’s Inferno
#5
McLovin85
18/10/10, 2:21 pm
Red Alert 2 and Generals were the last C&C games that I truly loved. After that it’s all gone very down hill which is a shame.
However, if they manage to make it a decent game and intergrate the Move/Kinect into it very well then I might be tempted.
#6
Gekidami
18/10/10, 2:22 pm
EA killed the series with Tiberian Twilight, cant they just let it rest in piece now? Unless this is Red Alert related…
#7
Erthazus
18/10/10, 2:23 pm
Red Alert 3 was also a FAIL.
#8
drewbles82
18/10/10, 2:28 pm
Red alert 2 was the last decent one they did, i use 2 play that for hrs. Renegade is still my fav and I would love them to bring something very similar to consoles. I know you can get the free version ren alert but this would be amazing on consoles.
#9
macronia
18/10/10, 2:30 pm
well all i can say ,, Good luck try not to disappoint us again
#10
back_up
18/10/10, 2:34 pm
Ea is garbage co.
Do Visceral Games know anything about RTS games
#11
Suikoden Fan
18/10/10, 2:51 pm
i thought they said c and c 4 was the last game in the series?
#12
Gekidami
18/10/10, 3:08 pm
@10
I dont think this’ll be a RTS…
#13
LOLshock94
18/10/10, 3:12 pm
yeah it actually says nothing about a RTS maybe theyre bring the fps version who knows
#14
Gekidami
18/10/10, 3:22 pm
It’ll be an ‘action game’. Nick Earl says in the first quote that they’re the action guys.
#15
themadjock
18/10/10, 4:52 pm
I was a FB fan of C&C4 only to read the FAIL comments posted after EVERY post.. quite hilarious. Last good one in my opinion was C&C3. Visceral make good games I just hope they know what they are getting into.
#16
Yoshi
18/10/10, 5:08 pm
I NEEDS Command And Conquer Generals 2!!!!!
#17
lucascane
18/10/10, 5:29 pm
IMO, C&C3 was not bad.
#18
AHA-Lambda
18/10/10, 6:07 pm
Is this even an RTS?!
BTW guys didnt visceral have a job post earlier in the year about an action sequel game to a big IP? Everyone thought Dante’s inferno 2 but they said nope, this may be it yea?