EA announces they're bringing Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath to the mobile platform!
With the releases of Red Alert 3 for IOS and Tiberian Twilight (C&C:4) for Android, it has been rumored that EA plans to announce a mobile RTS game in development. With the news that they're recruiting new staff for their mobile development team, this appeared all but certain:
EA Mobile is seeking an exceptionally skilled and enthusiastic Combat Designer. In this role you must own the creation and gameplay balance of all content and systems pertaining to combat. The ideal candidate has a proven track record designing and balancing various combat units, special attacks, powers, and combat structures. You have a thorough knowledge of game design theory and tools pipelines, telemetry and data analysis and interpretation. You possess strong leadership skills and production sensibilities. You have the talent to produce and implement the highest quality work. You want to take risks, to invent, and are driven to make the best games in the industry.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing combat systems for Real-time Strategy or RPG games.
- Multiple shipped titles, ideally on Mobile platforms.
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Source: Careers.EA.comWell, the time to rejoice is now, Commanders. EA has finally announced that they're working on bringing
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath to mobile devices! This is part of a larger vision to re-focus efforts on the real-time strategy genre, particularly by pairing the genre with the exploding popularity of the mobile gaming market. Here is a quote from their website:
Command & Conquer 3 Goes Mobile!
EA Mobile is proud to announce that we're bringing back some classic RTS...to your phones and tablets! Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and the standalone expansion, Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath, will bring the wrath of Kane closer to your fingertips than ever before. These genre classics will feature the over-the-top, nail-biting action you know and love, as well as bring along an exclusive never before seen storyline. Will you choose to fight for the zealous and fanatical Brotherhood of Nod rebellion in an attempt at world domination, or will you choose to align with the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) to restore global peace? Or perhaps the complete and total harvest of Earth's Tiberium deposits, being conducted by the Scrin, is more your style? The fate of human civilization lies in your hands alone. Good luck Commanders!
- Choose to fight as the GDI, Nod, or Scrin, each with their own unique storyline and units!
- Attack your enemies & defend your bases: Battle through multiple objectives and missions on your way to victory!
- Play over 40 levels over four different campaigns: Fight in Skirmish Mode on 15 different Maps, each with its own unique battlefields.
- Command your units across a variety of maps, with different environmental and weather conditions, adding another layer of strategic depth!
- Create custom unit groups and control them on the battlefield with ease.
- Cutting edge graphics brought to the mobile platform.
Source: EA MobileDevelopment is currently underway, and the release is rumored to be during Q4 of 2016. For more information about the early development of C&C3: TW & KW for mobile, be sure to check out the original announcement on
EA Mobile's website.
