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Westwood started out with great games. Each one as good as the other. Then EA took them over, fired like 90% of the original team and took over the franchise. C&C3 was good and true to the franchise but EALA, the DEVELOPER of the game really messed up with C&C4. So yeah, if a franchise gets messed up because you fire the original team working on it, damn right I'm gonna blame EA.
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Actually Westwood still lives on as Petroglyph. After Westwood disappeared, a bunch of the ex-employees got together and made a new company, and are making games. They made a futuristic RTS called Universe at War: Earth Assault which I only tried the demo of. Though I couldn't play it very well cos my comp sucked at the time.
It has an interesting gameplay though somewhat confusing. I guess you have to be an experienced RTS player to get it right from the start. It contains lots of massive robots which is cool.
Anyway I actually haven't played any c&c games past red alert 3 and Generals.
Anyway I actually dislike new RTS games cos the graphics are too good and tend to become confusing. I liked old-style RTS cos they are symmetric and have that outline kinds of thing. it was easy to tell where my units were.
Nowadays there's just so much to keep in mind when playing RTS games... You can rotate the map, zoom in and out, you have to remember a lot of short keys and blah.
Anyway. I'm happy that petroglyph lives on.