Just great to see this back. What Fun. Great story, good multiplayer as well. A "Must Own" for all RTS fans.
In the interim there have been many incarnations of C&C, and you can now buy the 10 year anniversary edition with all those games in it. I enjoyed a some of them, and not others, but there is no denying that they were mostly very successful and addictive.
C&C 3 carries on that success story. The comparison that I would make is with Starcraft, with several years of developement. The three factions are very different and each have their strengths and weaknesses. As usual the GDI is the powerful head-on combat faction, the NOD forces are guerrillas with some later powerful pieces and the Scrin are completely different.
The balance is good, the storyline video parts has good actors (Love Jennifer Morrison(House) as Lt. Kirce James).
I will write more at a later stage.