A spectacular combination of computer-generated graphics and full-motion video scenes, the five-minute presentation came across as more of a movie trailer than a game demo, and yes my friend, it rocked!

An intense background storyline, featuring James Earl Jones as General Solomon and "Alien" star Michael Biehn as Commander Michael McNeil, set the stage for the Second Tiberium War. It's 2010, and warfare has been cranked up a couple of dozen notches. The familiar Obelisk now fires at aerial units. Laser fences replace concrete walls. Tanks burrow into the ground and Infantry carry jetpacks. The future is bright indeed.

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Tiberian Sun Delayed...Again

While playing the latest build of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, a Westwood official broke the bad news to us. The game has been pushed back, once again, until August. Tiberian Sun was previously scheduled to ship sometime in June.

The Westwood representative claimed that more quality assurance and testing is required before Tiberian Sun could be released. Additionally, Westwood feels that unit balancing isn't quite up to par with its standards, and is busily working at remedying the problems.

Westwood also affirmed that Erik Yeo's recent and sudden departure has nothing to do with the latest delay, and that Brett Sperry was, remains and will be the driving force behind the Command & Conquer series.

I'm sure that now everyone is sick of Westwood's so called release dates. Is there something seriously wrong with the game? Are they hiding something from us? Why can't they just hurry up and release the bloody thing? Westwood should start being honest with us and give us a realistic date. The game is approaching one year late! How long does it take to balance a few units? I think I'd prefer a game with a few small bugs in it than no game at all!

I think that this must have something to do with Erik's departure. They lost their lead designer and they say this has nothing at all with any delays! Of course, they wouldn't admit that they can't make a good game without Erik's help. I'm sure they can, but it's just gonna take a little longer!

There will be a lot of people mad at Westwood after this news. I am one of them! But don't give up on the game. It will be released, it's just a question of when. And from all the screenshots, it looks as though it will be awesome! There have been many complications and set-backs in the production of this game but they should be honest with us, give out realistic dates, and tell us the real reasons behind it's delays!

Oh well, I guess we'll just have to wait a little longer! If you have any comments about this news, please email me and you might get posted on this site.

Q. What's with the Tiberian/Tiberium thing?
A. Someone on the team who once went through school and didn't sleep through English class determined that "Tiberium" was a noun. So, since the sun really isn't made out of Tiberium we needed an adjective in order to make it work, thus "Tiberian."

Q. Was there any concern that the gameplay may become too complicated for its own good?
A. This has been a nagging item for the development team from the start. One of our goals with C&C has been to keep the mechanics of the game simple and easy to learn, but with a lot of depth. We've spent a significant amount of time on this with Tiberian Sun in order to make sure that the game is still as fun as the original, while providing the improvements fans demand.

Q. Was there anything that got left out of the game that you can tell us about?
A. From the design side, we've had to trim back or alter a couple of units. The scavenger was originally planned to be a NOD unit that would piece together parts from destroyed vehicles in order to come up with new ones. If you had him, you could piece together a GDI Distruptor and a NOD stealth tank to make a sonic tank that could cload. We wound up cutting the unit because of balancing and interface issues.

Q. How many units do you expect to ship?
A. If we don't sell at least one million we'll all be looking for new jobs. [Ed. -- Can't just find a green money crate? Wait ... you mean that doesn't happen in real life? Damn ...]

Q. Does Tanya make a reappearance?
A. Tanya doesn't reappear in Tiberian Sun. GDI's policies don't jibe with Tanya's "kill everything that annoys her" philosophy, so they parted ways. I believe she's running guns in South America with Juan Valdez.

The Scavenger and the Mammoth Tank do not exist in the Tiberian Sun World. Yet for some weird reason, they do. This is partly caused to the reappearance of the Vortex. But what is interesting about it is how it dealt with the Philadelphia Project, and why the GDI Orbital Command Center is named after that. In other words, the power of the Chronosphere turned out to be too powerful, since it sucked up a scientist and a Mammoth Tank, as well as some other objects. That was in the 40's. So now in the year 2015 (plus or minus a couple of years) they reappear, after being in suspended animation for over 70 years. Now here is the info about them and the theories...

The Scavenger is an "Engineer-type" of guy who is the victim of a chronosphere test accident. He reappears in the future with the knowledge of many things, as well as the skill to build. He is a very skilled scientist, and may have a roll in Nod...but I doubt he will be a playable unit. More of a character like McNeil or Solomon

The Mammoth tank is more or less the same. It could've been chronosphered and did not reappear. So instead it time-traveled.

• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• Tiberium - Loads of information on this chemical.
• Story - There is now an explanation of the whole Command and Conquer storyline here.
• Game - Generally updated with improved layout and more information on game features.
• Technical Info - Massive update with much more information on voxels!
• GDI and NOD - More, clearer information on the two sides.

Hunter Seeker Drone: The Hunter Seeker Drone is a clean up utility. When the droid is built, his icon is added to the unit menu bar. The word ready flashes in the icon. When the player clicks on the droid's icon the word ready changes to launching. Then the droid takes of in search of a target. It picks its target at random and can only attach to vehicles. Infantry and buildings are spared. It falls under the category of hovering vehicle, so it has the terrain modifiers associated with hover units. It does not reveal terrain as it moves. After launching, the droid's icon reads 'searching'. Once it finds its target, it attaches itself and explodes, normally doing enough damage to kill whatever it was attached to. The drone can be shot down before it latched onto its target but is extremely difficult due to its high speed. The explosion is enough to destroy or cripple many vehicles and kill several infantrymen.