You’ve got loot crates aplenty, although earning them is easy enough and progress within Rivals unlocking more units and rewards for you. It all sounds good, but what about the microtransactions then? Well, of course they’re there. No single selection of units is guaranteed to give you victory, with evolution of your units being a key focus in Rivals as you learn maps, tricks and tinker with your squads. It makes for a surprisingly simple yet deep game to learn and master, with plenty of strategies available to take advantage of your particular loadout. The actual art of sending units into battle follows your usual rock-paper-scissors: Regular infantry is your cannon fodder, vehicles can wipe the floor with grunts and specialised units are meant to offer a specific flavour of flexibility on the battlefield. The nuke itself is a pendulum, with the weapon constantly shifting between players as control points are fought over. Two of these launches are needed to demolish a base and win the game for you. You choose either GDI or NOD, set up a base and battle to take control of key points in the map that will allow you to fire a nuke at your opposition. As a strategy game, C&C Rivals is simple enough to pick up. A couple of months later, and EA’s latest Command and Conquer has been spending some time on the market, earning its stripes. This was an entirely okay game, that would probably be lost in the market tides and drowned under a pile of Flappy Bird clones.
It didn’t help either that actual hands on time with the game resulted in an opinion of shrugged shoulders and apathy. People had been burned by mobile games in the past, and coupling the predatory practises of that medium with EA and their less than stellar record? A legitimate cause for concern. It was the groan heard across the world, and I don’t blame you. I was a bubble of hype, floating perilously close to a pin of reality that was about to pop me because Command and Conquer Rivals wasn’t the next step in the evolution of this real-time strategy game on PC…It was a mobile game. Oh my yes, if I was a bubble then I was filled to the brim with the most joyous of gasses. The lights dimmed, developers took to the stage and an announcement was made: A new Command and Conquer game! Set in the Tiberium universe! Featuring the forces of NOD and GDI at war once again! EA was in their usual press swing, showing off games and concept art for upcoming titles that were…well they were alright, especially if you like sports.
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