![]() It won’t ever match a mouse and keyboard for speed and accuracy, but it works once you get used to it. “Yeah, in my bizarre monologue at the beginning.” Did you already cover the controller?” He asked. Over Xbox Live – which works like a charm for any other game I own – that kinda thing is just inexcusable.” “I must have tried to actually connect to an online game more than 50 times and not once would the game ever complete the connection. I gave up at that point, but I tried again this morning.” I spent two hours last night trying to connect to an online multiplayer match, and every single time I was greeted with a timeout or a ‘couldn’t create a match’ message. “It simply doesn’t work most of the time. See, the multiplayer in Kane’s Wrath is broken.” It’s fantastic that you always have a competent opponent to play against, but the reason why it’s so fantastic is somewhat depressing. “And that’s a good thing, Señor Cavalli?” “As I was saying: Did I mention how competent the computer-controlled opponents are? They’re almost too good.” “Che, did I also mention how competent the computer -“ EA’s uncharacteristically generous re-release is really ruining my anti-capitalist rant.” Shirt Che seemed sad: “I still wish they had included the original Command & Conquer 3 content in the package. Plus, the expansion campaign is pretty enjoyable,” I promised the raging shirt. Yeah, it’s not as cheap as it should be, but when you take into account the huge number of bonus missions EA has thrown in and the convenience of not having to waste space on your Xbox 360’s hard drive by downloading an expansion, it’s not a terrible deal. Whichever one of us was imagining him was somehow not right. They’ve declared intifada on the fanbase!” “They’re starving their brothers in the street! Instead of releasing a downloadable expansion for a game people already bought, they’ve ported the meager expansion pack, slapped a $60 price tag on it and are reselling it to gullible fans. “So it adds new modes above and beyond those found in the PC version of the game, but keeps all the old content of the original Command & Conquer 3?” It adds new modes like the Kane’s Challenge maps.” “ Kane’s Wrath isn’t just a console port of the PC expansion pack. I had to admit, the shirt was pretty savvy on EA’s marketing ploys, but he apparently missed the memo on this one. This game, Kane’s Wrath, is just that game with an added expansion pack tacked on that Electronic Arts is reselling to the fanbase - those who Marx called ‘proletariat’ - for another $60 each.” It was released for the Xbox 360 almost a year ago. Che Guevara shirt … talking to me … Great. Startled, I managed to mutter: “Huh? Who said that? Oh. “You know this is just a cash-in, right?” Che asked. Che Guevara was speaking to me from beyond the grave, and he had a serious bone to pick with “the corporate fat cats.” I didn’t think I’d ever be cliche enough to actually own a Che Guevara shirt, but they give them away for free with every tattoo in this city, so I probably have a whole closet full of them by now.Īnyway, that’s not important. That’s when the shirt started contradicting me. “Fans would be confused if it diverged too much, and by adding a few new units here and there (including the awesome new, super-expensive, super-deadly epic units) and new factions that are basically just offshoots of old factions with new innate powers, EA has really done an excellent job treading the fine line between pissing off old fans with too much innovation and ignoring possible new fans by leaving the game too stagnant!” I marvelled, fully realizing how strange it was that I was sitting alone in my living room narrating my thoughts to myself like some kind of Stan Lee supervillain. ![]() It’s not wildly different from past Command & Conquer games, but that’s the key to it, I think.” “And once that was accomplished it was just a simple matter of porting the PC game directly to the Xbox 360 hardware. After all, it can’t be easy to shrink all 108 possible keys of a keyboard into an Xbox 360 controller,” I added. And they’ve really done the best they could. “The controls are a bit complex but as this is a strategy game, that’s forgivable. “Wow, Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath is actually pretty enjoyable,” I uncharacteristically monologued to myself.
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