According to a E3 GameSpot interview,
...EA LA is bringing back the classic live-action full-motion video (FMV) cinematic sequences from the previous games. The first trailer we watched leaned heavily on FMV and told the story presumably from the perspective of the game's main character, a biochemist-turned-GDI operative who witnessed the transformation of planet Earth after the mysterious substance known as tiberium, which "isn't of this world" (suggesting that Tiberium is an alien substance from somewhere in outer space) made its mysterious appearance. According to the trailer, tiberium acts like an ecological cancer, turning everything it touches into more tiberium. The series' classic "good guy" faction, the Global Defense Initiative (or "GDI"), was apparently founded in secret to keep the existence of the threat under wraps until the true nature of tiberium could be determined.
According to the trailer, the cover-up didn't quite work out, thanks to the meddling of C&C's classic "bad guy" faction, the Brotherhood of Nod. Led by the evil mastermind Kane, Nod discovered tiberium's other potential as a powerful energy alternative and attempted to discredit the GDI by exposing the cover-up in the year 1995 (the year in which the original Command & Conquer game was released). This sequence of events polarized the world so that the world's inhabitants aligned themselves with either GDI or Nod--a standoff that was a threat to global stability until, as the narrator of the trailer explained against a wide shot of Earth from outer space, "they came."
Verdu suggests that not all levels will take place in the desert; the game will feature three types of "zones" classified by tiberium encroachment. Blue zones will be pristine areas free of the alien substance's corrupting influence; yellow zones will be areas where tiberium has begun to corrupt the land; and red zones will be infested completely by tiberium, which apparently also has adverse effects on local weather (and can conjure up fierce ion storms in addition to killing off the local flora and fauna).
So far, Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars looks like it is going to be awesomely detailed and the campaign well thought, and with the return of "full-motion video (FMV) cinematic sequences."
Last edited by Phe0n1x on Sunday, May 14, 2006 at 10:26:54 AM.
