Has being Kane been a fun experience for you?
Oh, you know, indoor work, no heavy lifting. Actually, it’s pretty cool. The fans are the best-enthusiastic and loyal. And us video game characters make up a pretty exclusive club-Duke Nukem and I go out drinking every once and a while, and I’ve been dating Lara Croft for a couple of months.

Got ask about the hair. Tiberium Poisoning?
No, NOD barbers. You tell them 'a little off the top' and this is what you get. But that’s NOD-always with the overkill.

When can you expect a Kane action figure?
Just as soon as our testers finish painting the goatees on all those leftover Jean-Luc Picard dolls.

• The WW guy also tells that they're aiming for an "summer-release"
• Some missions will be introduced by scripted sequences (Seems to me like those from SC with characters telling something and that stuff)
• The "asphalt" you can build in your base not only prevents the Devils-Tongue from popping up in your base but also makes it possible to build on patches of land hit by an meteor shower. If you haven't built such asphalt you would not be able to build there anymore, because from now on there would be a crater.
• Waypoints: To set WP's you'll have to click on the icon in the sidebar first and then you can start to set as many as WP's as you wish. After that you can, if you want to, make the WP's a loop by clicking on the first WP again. No unit will start using the WPs until you command one/some units to go to the starting (the first) WP. They'll remain on the map until they're deleted, of course.

"Westwood Studios have decided to release Tiberian Sun simultaneously accross the globe, Friday 27 August. The title will be backed heavily by advertising on TV and radio. Tiberian Sun was originally pencilled in for a 1998 release."

The good news for Command & Conquer fans is that all the pieces in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun are nearly in place. The bad news is that despite this, the release of Tiberian Sun is still some time away.

Westwood Studios dropped by the Gamecenter offices this week and gave us a chance to play around with the long-awaited Command & Conquer sequel. (Check out our new Game Grabs)

From all appearances, the game looks complete. All the units and missions were in place, the full-motion videos were incorporated into the gameplay, and there was no placeholder artwork to be seen anywhere. But looks can be deceiving. Even though the game looked finished, it was obvious that it needs to undergo serious bug testing.

• The stealth generator is very buggy at the current moment.
• You can move the construction yard and redeploy it.
• There is rally points like if you start building a building or unit, you can tell it where you want it before its done building.
• The Mrls won't sink when they are over water when an ion storm hits; they float on water.
• You have a 30 sec notice before an ion storm hits.
• The firestorm defense is like a really big wall type force field that can be turned on and off. It has no roof; planes can't fly over it, but they can crash into it. The satelite weapons that Nod doesnt have, or missiles could attack inside the base. People like to turn it on as the enemy gets really close and watch them all get burnt up.

Opinion 1
"Just a word about TS, a friend of mine won tickets to E3 and scoped out Ts for me. Lets just say he was dissapointed to say the least. He said the graphics were not all impressive and the terrian system was annoying. You see TS uses slopes and you can't build on a hill so in some cases you are very limited on how you can place buildings. Lets just hope it turns out better than it is now."
Opinion 2
"I think that having deformable terrain with limited building space was probably an intentional design. You can't just have and all-out war inside your base without doing excessive collateral damage to the environment. That's what WW has been saying all along - more strategy all the way around (including building placement). WW seems to be encouraging smaller, more-carefully-defended, more-difficult-to-penetrate base building/defendingtechniques. You can't just "build 24 power plants in a huge field", you'll have to build 7 plants where you can find room, upgrade each one, then defend them carefully over the course of battle. It forces you to pay more attention to tactical matters that's very different from the "tank rush" mentality. It's more like chess than a click-fest. My gut tells me that the guy "who won tickets to E3" was unimpressed because he favors the "brute force / tank rush" tactics which won't work now. (I could be wrong. I'm not a prophet.) The point is: I say "AMEN!" to Westwood's approach! More strategy, Less slap-boxing! "

• It looked good and playable when I saw it in LA two weeks ago, so they're obviously holding back for play tweaking.
• We will have the reviewable version [of TS] in the first week of August.
• Jacob is McNeill's brother and he also works for Nod.

Just thought you may want my opinion ...

When Westwood says "simultaneous release date" read it as "balls". I had this when I was running Dune-2000.com. I live in the UK and I was told Dune2k would be released on the same day world wide, but the UK release was about 1 month behind the US. You may want to advise your non-US readers to order from the US to get the game before other people in their country!

This is what the preview over at StrategyXtreme said. "Another thing that was very interesting was the map editor. Ted showed me how much easier it is now to create a map. He showed me how easy it was to add terrain, tiberium and the water on the maps. Rather than the piece by piece work that used to be in the original C&C. So, idefinitely won't bespending so many hours on one map. Which is a really good thing becauseI don't have that much time to spare on editing. " Maybe there will be a map editor after all. I doubt that they are talking about the RMG.

I have connections with WW-Underground and they have call connections through Westwood and Tiberian Sun will be released At the end of July or early august. The reason that Tiberian Sun is being delayed is because that they have kept thinking of new ideas right before they released it. For example, before the last time they released it, they thought of a kewl item called the unit garage which lets you choose the units you start out with before the game starts. Don't beat up on Westwood, they are only trying to make the game better for you and me which we will all be thankful for in the end.

Many AI bugs were present in the build I played. There were bugs when I tried to move units, there were bugs when I tried to attack air units, and graphics that should have been there weren't. Westwood has always been one of the kings of the PC real time strategy development community. However in recent times, their titles regarding the legendary original Command and Conquer have been slowing. Maybe it had to do with Dune 2000. It could have been that other programmers were needed for other projects, but as it stands, it doesn't look like C&C2 will be making it to the stores at their predicted date of late June. The projected release has been pushed back from late June to late summer. In all honesty, most of the public may even have to wait longer for this gem. Even after its completion, it will take another 3-4 weeks before it goes gold. You can pray that I'm wrong, but only time will tell. I can tell you that C&C and Red Alert fans will not be disappointed once this game hits the shelves.

Tucked away a story above the show floor in a blue-paneled meeting suite discretely labeled "Westwood Studios" thanks to a silver-embossed name plate on the door, Westwood co-founder Louis Castle gave us the first glimpse of the game. Truth be told, Commando has been the subject of countless rumors on the Internet since Westwood first hinted at its existence over a year ago in PC Gamer. Since then, Westwood has been decidedly mum on details, which has led to fans speculating just about everything and everything. (One of my favorite rumors was that Westwood had decided to rename the game C&C: Tanya after the Tanya character from C&C, in order to capitalize on the Lara Croft factor).

In the first scene, you can see some mechs, and a destroyed railway, beside a NOD base, which is defended by an obelisk.

You then see a short clip of some Hover MRSLs attacking a civilian building. The explosions and smoke effects look superb!

But the next bit is by far the most interesting. It is a water scene with some cliffs to the North, and patches of land dotted around. Anyway, the first thing you see is what looks like a fish jump over a small island, and splash back into the water, creating some nice ripples. Could this be one of the indigenous Tiberium-mutated creatures Westwood have mentioned? You will also notice some other movements under the water (which is slightly transparent) but I have no clue what they are - can't wait to find out though!

There are also some infantry or Mechs which are wading (yes, that's right, wading) through the water. They also create ripples in the liquid. They then fire some kind of energy weapons towards the small fish-thing, and kill it. Interesting and, as I said already, very weird, but cool!

If you can offer any insight about any of this, or you wish to make a command, please e-mail me!

You can download the video for yourself and take a look. It only lasts a few seconds, and is pretty bad quality, and at nearly 10Mb does take a while to download. But it's worth it to see the game we've all been waiting for! It's probably best viewed at double size so you can see all the detail (and in slow-motion).

Download Clip Now! [9Mb .MOV]

• Download Clip 1 [2Mb .ZIP]
• Download Clip 2 [9Mb .MOV]

Presto: is the Mammoth Mark 2 buildable? Aaron: Yes, but you can only have one at a time. If you loose that one, you can build another but they are so expensive you probably only want to build one the entire mission.

Presto: What is the Montauk and Kodiak? Aaron: The Montauk is the train NOD uses to keep tabs on the battle, the Kodiak is more so a big flying vehicle that GDI uses to keep tabs on the battle field.

"Late summer, Aug, Sept, no later, maybe a little earlier."

"The E3 news reports are out, and everyone agrees that Tiberian Sun is going to be HOT this summer!"