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Message: [QUOTE="Somnia, post: 57090, member: 26523"] God, I can't imagine how much space I could fill just whining about all the cancelled projects that have broken my heart over the years. The first one to break my heart was the Command & Conquer spin-off, Tiberium. [ATTACH]18787[/ATTACH] I didn't really keep up with games that much as a kid despite loving them so much. I watched G4 sporadically but aside from that my only real source of video game news would be old video game magazines that my grandma would pick up from garage sales. One such issue would be the January 2008 issue of Game Informer that featured Tiberium - an FPS spin-off of the then-relevant Command & Conquer franchise - on the cover. [ATTACH]18788[/ATTACH] I was a massive C&C fan, having replayed the campaigns endlessly and getting pretty solid at the multiplayer for Generals and a previous C&C spin-off called Command & Conquer Renegades. Much like Tiberium, Renegades was an FPS that attempted to mimic an RTS by way of letting you control AI companions or call in reinforcements/vehicles via a resource system. A full campaign and multiplayer suite were planned before the game was ultimately cancelled due to not meeting internal quality standards. This issue of Game Informer was the first I had ever heard of the game upon my grandma giving it to me in 2009. I poured over it endlessly and having seen the 2008 release date in the magazine, assuming it was already out. Again, my only real source of games were these older issues of GI, the odd G4 episode of Electric Playground or X-Play that I'd catch or physically seeing it on store shelves. So, when I walked into Gamestop a month or so later to ask for a copy of Tiberium only to find out it had been canned, I was utterly devastated. I saw it on the cover of a magazine, they had gameplay screenshots! The story was finished, they had all these CG cutscenes finished for the game. How in the world could it just... Disappear? The concept of cancelling games did not exist to 14 year old me, I had somehow remained naive all that time. Eventually I'd go on to discover that another C&C spin-off shooter, this time one set in the Red Alert universe billed as a Renegade 2, was also cancelled years prior. I'd also find out that a zombie based survival FPS for the Xbox made with the help of George Romero that I had read about in another old issue of GI was also canned. The list has only grown larger since then. Squad-based shooters, FPS in general and RTS are such important genres to me and it is truly a shame we have had so few attempts to meaningfully meld them together. This game was attempting to go further than almost any game had at combining them all and it is a shame that EA didn't see the product as worthy of being released. Considering how late into development it was cancelled I'm inclined to believe they had plenty of reason to axe the project. Normally if something is axed for pettier reasons it happens before it is *allegedly* 90% finished and is a few months from launch. [/QUOTE]

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