What game should WESTWOOD make next?

**JLEACH** · 01-09-2006, 08:08

Awh I'm going with Red Alert 3. I used to play red alert 2 for hours upon hours when I was like 12. It was basically my life until I discovered Alcohol and Females, and even then I just mixed the three :)

**Samurai Waki** · 01-09-2006, 08:18

Westwood is dead, but that doesn't mean the CnC franchise will die out necessarily...like my heroes at Bethesda who recently bought out the rights to produce Fallout: 3

However, LucasArts did decide to take on some of the chief designers from WestWood for their newest project Star Wars:Empires At War

http://pc.ign.com/articles/643/643620p1.html

**Kekvit Irae** · 01-10-2006, 03:50

A shame Westwood closed its doors in March 2003. They had some really good games.

**lancelot** · 01-11-2006, 15:37

I didnt even realise westwood had closed shop...

Unfortunately, I think the new star wars game is gonna be a 'placate the masses' abomination. I hope to god it wont but to paraphrase...@I sense a great disturbance here'...

**Kralizec** · 01-11-2006, 16:01

I voted gah

I really liked Emperor: Battle for Dune, but I liked the books more. Face it, an RTS a la C&C isn't a good way to transfer Dune into the realm of video games. There was an interesting RPG-esque game in development called Dune: Generations by Cryo, but Cryo went bankrupt

On topic: I think everything that Westwood made after RA was total WAR DOT ORG. If I recall correctly, EBFD was made by another team "in cooperation" with Westwood, but they didn't make it in the credits.

**scotchedpommes** · 01-22-2006, 20:29

Original Command and Conquer was interesting. In general I preferred other
series though. Blizzard to begin with, then the Close Combat series. [Second
World War squad-based RTS.]

{Gah also.}

**Navaros** · 01-25-2006, 14:21

Originally Posted by Germaanse Strijder

I voted gah

I really liked Emperor: Battle for Dune, but I liked the books more. Face it, an RTS a la C&C isn't a good way to transfer Dune into the realm of video games. There was an interesting RPG-esque game in development called Dune: Generations by Cryo, but Cryo went bankrupt

On topic: I think everything that Westwood made after RA was total LULZ. If I recall correctly, EBFD was made by another team "in cooperation" with Westwood, but they didn't make it in the credits.

Well, Emperor was an RTS game first. Not an outlet for Dune material first.

Given that, I think they did a highly commendable job. I'd rather be playing a well-balanced RTS game with a wide variety of tactics and army configurations to choose from, along with stellar gameplay (which Emperor had in spades). Rather than a game that does a better job of promoting Dune material, yet is lacking in those areas.

Indeed Emperor was made with another foreign team's involvement, but who cares. They did a great job with it (except for pathfinding bugs, which were extremely paramount because the pathfinding programmer left the team before the work was done), that's what counts.