Summary
"Havoc to the rescue !"-"Yeah, but the ladies first!"
The Good
The main character is awesome.
The engine cut scenes are simply brilliant and add to the fun of the game.
The gameplay features a good variety of missions and settings.
The vehicles are a nice bonus.
The whole ambiance is pretty faithful to C&C.
The Bad
The graphics are a bit dated.
The enemies are repetitive.
The Bottom Line
"Not another FPS, please !" Yes, but this one comes with a *very* cool main character, named "Havoc", and You can blow up the Fist of NOD from the inside :D
The best thing first: the game has the most entertaining cut scenes I have ever seen in any game.
Havoc is such a cliche that the ironic approach Westwood took simply hits the nail on the head. Perfect.
The gameplay isn't worse than Unreal2 or any other "simple" shooter, and while it can become repetitive, the whole "Commando"-style presentation with primary objective/secondary objective is refreshing. Add to that the vehicles You can use, and You got a pretty good FPS, not quite the quality of No One Lives Forever, but better than some newer games like Unreal 2.
The graphics are a bit outdated, but the look of the C&C universe is well captured, and the new ideas and implementations of the well known items like Tiberium freighters, mutants, buggies, copters and tanks is well done.
For the current budget price, You can't go wrong.
