EA UK's Twitter feed touts banner headline officially revealing long-rumored next installment in EALA RTS series.
This morning, the UK office of Electronic Arts posted a banner headline via its private Twitter feed,
which is open only to members of the games press. The 105-character
tweet speaks for itself: "EA_UK_PR New release: EA LOS ANGELES
ANNOUNCES THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMAND & CONQUER 4
http://bit.ly/LOk6R." The compressed link, however, does not speak for
anything, leading merely to the Electronic Arts press site where the
most recent announcement is for the forthcoming Fight Night Round 4
downloadable content.
When contacted by GameSpot, EA reps declined to comment on the
apparently preemptive tweet. However, the existence of C&C4 has
been an open secret for weeks, following another apparent leak out of the UK. in June, British market research firm 2CV,
which lists C&C publisher Electronic Arts among its clients, posted
a customer survey that outlined the game in detail and featured a
picture of C&C series villain Kane on the front underneath the EA
logo.
The survey revealed that C&C4 will incorporate a class system akin
to a role-playing game and "MMORPG-like player progression." The modes
will be persistent in both the game's single-player and multiplayer
modes, which include full campaign co-op and five-on-five competitive
online play. The game will also apparently feature what the survey
calls "the first mobile base in RTS games," the crawler.
For more details on all the C&C games leading up to C&C4, check out the video retrospective below.
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