Command & Conquer 3 coming to Xbox 360 @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on November 16, 2006

News: The battle versus Kane continues on Xbox Live.

After weeks of speculation, EA has confirmed that Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars will be coming to the Xbox 360 alongside the PC release sometime in 2007. The 360 version is being developed by EA LA, the team behind EA's last RTS, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II.

УThe Command & Conquer series finally makes its return to the console after seven years,Ф said Mike Verdu, Executive Producer at EALA. УC&C 3 will help expand the RTS genre on the Xbox 360, building off of the foundation laid by the development of The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II. EA is evolving the console controls so that strategy gaming plays and feels native to the platform.Ф

УC&C 3 is a perfect fit for the Xbox 360,У said Mike Glosecki, Senior Producer at EALA. УXbox 360 players will enjoy the action-packed online play and watching the epic Sci-Fi story of the game unfold as they play through the single player campaign.Ф

Like the previous C&C games, Tiberium Wars will feature an all-star cast including Battlestar Galactica alums Tricia Helfer and Grace Park, Lost's Josh Holloway, Billy Dee Williams and video game voiceover king Michael Ironside. They'll help propel C&C3's storyline forward, which EA has kindly supplied for us:

The year is 2047 and the stakes could not be higher. TiberiumЧa self-replicating alien substance that has infected the EarthЧis spreading like a radioactive ice age. The Global Defense Initiative, a high-tech alliance of the world's most advanced nations, is fighting to contain Tiberium, but Kane, the megalomaniacal leader of The Brotherhood of Nod has other plans for Earth. Kane's secret society turned superpower is bent on using Tiberium to take control and transform humanity into his twisted vision of the future. All-out war rages over Tiberium and the fate of the planet rests in the balance.

We'll have more on both version of C&C3 soon.