Wow, I don’t get this review. I wonder if EA is a paid advertiser. Anyway, read the reviews on Amazon.com, they will tell you every thing you need to know!

As stated right IN the review, everyone has an opinion. If you don’t like the gameplay and the new mechanics it’s your right. Hinting that we were paid to run this review is offensive (and obviously wrong since there are no EA ads on the site). The gameplay in Tiberian Twilight is comparable to several other RTS games available, just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s bad. If you want to micromanage resource collection and base building you can go play StarCraft II and take 4 hours for a level. I’ll play 4 or 5 matches in that time.

OK, I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. However, what is really offensive is the way you disparage the things we all loved about the original game. You talk of resource collecting and base building as if it is a dirty word. Is it beneath you to worry about such trivial things like collecting resources and building bases necessary to play a campaign? My complaint with this game is they call it Command and Conquer. Now you point out (sarcastically) we should go play Star Craft if we want to waste our time "Micromanaging resource collection", but that’s what we loved about C&C. I have an idea, let’s see what people who actually had to buy the game rate it. Take a quick look at the customer reviews at Amazon or anyone of the other major sites. I know Amazon has 117 reviews of C&C 4 and 109 give it 1 star. I guess the 109 people don’t understand what a good game is. Cheers.

You didn’t hurt my feelings.

What you do, is call into question our integrity with a baseless accusation that we are paid to write reviews. That, I have a problem with. Several companies refuse to even send us games any longer because of our review scores on their titles. When asked I simply said "make better games, we’ll give you better scores."

In regards to the game itself, many people are burying it because of the DRM which I find laughable since all it requires really is an internet connection while playing. Most of the time our computers are online anyway right?

As for resource collecting, in my humble opinion, it has  been something that did nothing really help the game. If the point of the match were to collect resources and keep the other players from doing so, I would be more than happy to do it.

However, in C&C you work for a global organization. Is it so poor that you need to gather resources for them? It was illogical. Plus, most matches are not supposed to be about resource collection, but about obtaining particular objectives usually in the destroy the enemy vein. Why should we be forced to sit and collect resources for an hour so we can go fight for 10 minutes?

Finally, as I’ve now stated 3 times, everyone has a right to their opinion. I have mine, you have yours. If I don’t like the resource collecting, it’s my right. You like it, that’s yours. My comment about micromanaging resource collection was in reference to my wording in the article. Obviously, not everyone loves that facet of the game. I would rather play Tom Clancy’s EndWar which has none of that than have to sit through an hour of base build up only to see it all destroyed or have my troops overrun someone in ten minutes of battle.