As a C&C fan from the age of five, this game makes my inner child cry.
DEFCON 2: When I opened the box, I found several sexy models freshly printed out onto the sleek paper poster resting on top of the manual. I was stunned. I'm not a homosexual, and I love my porn, but is this how you sell a game? Come on. Even the secretary for the Allies had her **** flashing from her blouse. Yeah, I know. RA2 had it's sex appeal with that smoking hot leather suit wearing Russian assistant and Tanya's ginormous boobs, but is it necessary to flash that more than the fancy units, graphics, and big explosions? I think not.
DEFCON 3: When I played as the Japanese, I discovered the basic infantry had the ability to pull out a lightsaber in a banzai charge which sliced through enemy infantry like they were made of cookie dough. Ooookay, the Japanese did the same thing in WWII, except most of them were slaughtered. Not a good tactic in this sci-fi day-and-age what with the guns, grenades, bombs, and laser weapons. Another thing was the ninjas. What the hell? That's like combining a crazy ivan with a spy. You make a Navy Seal invisible, and you make him Japanese.
DEFCON 4: Co-op missions make an appearance in this RTS. Worst. Idea. Ever. Seriously, I don't have time to babysit my strategical inept friend while I fend off waves of prism tan-Oh wait, the killed off Einstein in this game. No prism tanks. Nope. No lasers. That's right. Slowly draining the awesome juice from the older games and turning it into a trendy suck fest. But back on topic, co-op is a bad idea for some games. You can't do it with everything. It only works in skirmishes because the only objective is to kill everything. Now you have to hold your fellow commander's hand and guide him to the objective in the safest and most efficient way possible so that he doesn't send his army straight through a giant hostile defense grid and get completely slaughtered. Maybe if you have someone of equal skill, then it's a good idea. But good luck if you're the only "1337" gamer around. Especially when the game is on a console. BAD IDEA.
DEFCON 5: Guess what EA really did wrong this time? They reformed a lot of the gameplay. No more ore fields. Now you have these fancy machines that spin the miner around on a dial and feed it your revenue. If you were used to fast gameplay in the older C&C games, this one slows it down in favor for the fancy bloom and AA just so it can look as best as it can. BULL. FREAKING. GO-GABBA-GABBA'S. I don't know about everyone out there, but I could care less about graphics as long as it runs smooth and I can see things fine. PLENTY of games are made today using sprites, and they do fine. Why do all game developers have to feel that they are obligated to make games as realistic as possible for them to sell? I would buy Starcraft again any day instead of a fancy game like Crysis. You know why? BECAUSE IT'S FUN. Crysis is alright in gameplay, but they put so much energy into those graphics that it drained out the fun. If they balanced out the effort, then it would have been solid gold, if it weren't for the fact that you need a couple thousand dollars to make a rig that can run it at it's full potential smoothly. Face it, C&C is dead. EA has taken over and ruined the franchise. Generals was probably the last good game in the C&C series, and that could be disputed considering how different Generals was, but that's not the POINT.
Fact of the matter is, EA is more focused on a business perspective to gaming. It's all flash and no bang. First you see it, then when you play it the sound is clear...It's a cat being bathed in boiled irradiated water. EA puts so much work into making these games look appealing but they're rotten on the inside. In the old days they used to sell pigs in bags, don't ask why, but some people would try to scam others by putting cats instead of pigs in the bag. The thing is, once the cat's out of the bag, it's already the buyer's cat. No refund. Nope. Instead, all you get is a germ pile ridden with disease that fails to live up to it's predecessor. EA is milking all the franchises they can, C&C and Spore are good examples.
Think smart, don't trust EA. They're snakes, all of them are.