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- Platform: Windows XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 16 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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- Unprecedented Multi-decade Campaign- Kane returns as the centerpiece of an epic new single-player campaign. Experience a new story that spans 20 years - from the rebirth of the Brotherhood of Nod after the Second Tiberium War through the dramatic events of the Third Tiberium War and beyond.
- Take Command of a Whole New Army- With the introduction of new units, structures, and abilities to each of the three factions, the Tiberium Wars will never be the same.
- Specialized Sub-factions- Play to your strengths with six unique sub-factions, each equipped with their own exclusive units, powers, and upgrades. Utilize the sub-faction of your choice to fully take advantage and compliment your play style. Devastate the battlefield with the immense firepower of all-new customizable Epic-units.
- Live-Action Videos - Witness the rise of the Brotherhood first hand through intense live action video sequences starring Joe Kucan, Natasha Hendstridge, and Carl Lumbly.
- Global Conquest Mode- - Fight the Third Tiberium are your way. Position your forces on a strategic level and then wage conflict in the fast, fluid, furious, tactical gameplay that Command & Conquer pioneered. Map out your strategies on the planetary level and wage all-out war on the ground.
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In the name of Kane! The Command & Conquer series continues to thrive with Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath. As the expansion pack to the critically-acclaimed and fan favorite, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, this Real-time Strategy (RTS) game returns to the Tiberium Universe with Kane at the center of an epic new single player campaign spanning 20 years - from the rebirth of the Brotherhood of Nod after the Second Tiberium War through the dramatic events of the Third Tiberium War and beyond. This story will be told through a new set of high-definition, live action video sequences starring a celebrity cast including Joe Kucan, playing the megalomaniac leader of the Brotherhood of Nod, alongside new talent Natasha Henstridge and Carl Lumbly. With your help, Commander, the Dark Messiah may rise again!
Product Description
- Unprecedented Multi-Decade Campaign: Kane returns as the centrepiece of an epic new single-player campaign. Experience a new story that spans 20 years - from the rebirth of the Brotherhood of Nod after the Second Tiberium War through the dramatic events of the Third Tiberium War and beyond.
- Take Command of a Whole New Army: With the introduction of new units, structures, and abilities to each of the three factions, the Tiberium Wars will never be the same.
- Specialised Sub-Factions: Play to your strengths with six unique sub-factions, each equipped with their own exclusive units, powers, and upgrades. Utilise the sub-faction of your choice to fully take advantage and compliment your play style. Devastate the battlefield with the immense firepower of all-new customisable Epic-units.
- Live-Action Videos: Witness the rise of the Brotherhood first hand through intense live action video sequences starring Joe Kucan, Natasha Hendstridge, and Carl Lumbly.
- Global Conquest Mode: Fight the Third Tiberium War your way. Position your forces on a strategic level and then wage conflict in the fast, fluid, furious, tactical gameplay that Command & Conquer pioneered. Map out your strategies on the planetary level and wage all-out war on the ground.
Requires Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars To Play - NOT Included
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56 of 63 people found the following review helpful
I generally do not like expansions. They used to be additions only very successful games got to have. Nowadays they are mostly the...other half of the game the publisher withheld when selling us half the original for £30! C&C:KANE's WRATH is a rare exception that brings new dimensions to an already great game!
Story-wise, although an expansion, this is somewhat of a prequel to C&C3-TIBERIUM WARS, as it is set on the history of NOD, starting off just after the 2nd Tiberium War and continuing well past the 3rd.
There is a big campaign comprising of 13 single player missions, new units and upgrades and a new (a la RISE OF NATIONS) Global Conquest mode, that can turn C&C3 into a Turn-Based game! What make this REALLY interesting are the six subfactions, each with its special units, strengths and weaknesses. Not to worry, all GDI, NOD and Scrin get their own off-shooting factions.
On the opposite ends of the spectrum, there is Reaper-17 (a Scrin sub-faction): with hard-hitting and powerful offensive options; and then there is Traveler-59 (also a Scrin offshoot): a much more devious faction that relies on mind control of humans (remember how much fun Yuri's Revenge? was). In between, GDI's (retro) Steel Talons and (futuristic) ZoCom and NOD's (mind-benders) Black Hand and (cyborgs galore) Mark of Kane.
Production of the new epic-units can tip the battlefield scales dramatically. Most are not only devastating but are pretty hard to take down too. GDI gets the MARV [Mammoth Armed Reclamation Vehicle], a souped-up triple-barreled tank; NOD gets the Redeemer, an augmented killer avatar; whereas, Scrin get the Eradicator Hexapod, a impressive six-legged mech.
Revamped units, such as the Shard Walker or the Reaper Tripod, or back-to-the-drawing-board units, such as the Prodigy or the Ravager all add to a renewed experience. Moreover, as a long-time C&C fan, I particularly enjoyed the reappearance of good-ol' units such as Titans and Wolverines on the side of GDI!
The graphics are beautiful, the physics detailed and the explosions and beam-weapons spectacular! Don't forget to turn on the volume on those speakers, because this is a total immersion experience.
As with the original: it misses the 5th star for fun because one cannot hold a battle formation while moving. As most units move at different paces (and although the AI has improved they keep bumping on each other), this results in the more agile, yet vulnerable, units having to face the enemy first - a short-lived sight... May be the next C&C (say, RED ALERT 3) could have some TOTAL WAR infused into it, with battle formations options.
Finally, be advised that this is an expansion and, yes, you do need the original C&C3: TIBERIUM WARS to play it. If you do not have it, take note that there is a pack available, including both original game and expansion (the prices fluctuate so make sure to get the best deal).
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
Story-wise, although an expansion, this is somewhat of a prequel to C&C3-TIBERIUM WARS, as it is set on the history of NOD, starting off just after the 2nd Tiberium War and continuing well past the 3rd.
There is a big campaign comprising of 13 single player missions, new units and upgrades and a new (a la RISE OF NATIONS) Global Conquest mode, that can turn C&C3 into a Turn-Based game! What make this REALLY interesting are the six subfactions, each with its special units, strengths and weaknesses. Not to worry, all GDI, NOD and Scrin get their own off-shooting factions.
On the opposite ends of the spectrum, there is Reaper-17 (a Scrin sub-faction): with hard-hitting and powerful offensive options; and then there is Traveler-59 (also a Scrin offshoot): a much more devious faction that relies on mind control of humans (remember how much fun Yuri's Revenge? was). In between, GDI's (retro) Steel Talons and (futuristic) ZoCom and NOD's (mind-benders) Black Hand and (cyborgs galore) Mark of Kane.
Production of the new epic-units can tip the battlefield scales dramatically. Most are not only devastating but are pretty hard to take down too. GDI gets the MARV [Mammoth Armed Reclamation Vehicle], a souped-up triple-barreled tank; NOD gets the Redeemer, an augmented killer avatar; whereas, Scrin get the Eradicator Hexapod, a impressive six-legged mech.
Revamped units, such as the Shard Walker or the Reaper Tripod, or back-to-the-drawing-board units, such as the Prodigy or the Ravager all add to a renewed experience. Moreover, as a long-time C&C fan, I particularly enjoyed the reappearance of good-ol' units such as Titans and Wolverines on the side of GDI!
The graphics are beautiful, the physics detailed and the explosions and beam-weapons spectacular! Don't forget to turn on the volume on those speakers, because this is a total immersion experience.
As with the original: it misses the 5th star for fun because one cannot hold a battle formation while moving. As most units move at different paces (and although the AI has improved they keep bumping on each other), this results in the more agile, yet vulnerable, units having to face the enemy first - a short-lived sight... May be the next C&C (say, RED ALERT 3) could have some TOTAL WAR infused into it, with battle formations options.
Finally, be advised that this is an expansion and, yes, you do need the original C&C3: TIBERIUM WARS to play it. If you do not have it, take note that there is a pack available, including both original game and expansion (the prices fluctuate so make sure to get the best deal).
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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After my dissapointment with C&C4 I went back to when C&C was great and bought this expansion pack. First off if you own C&C3 Tib Wars by digital download like I do Kane's Wrath won't complete install. This happened to me twice with 2 different brand new sealed in cellophane copies of this game from 2 different sellers including this one. Game will stop when progress bar is full and DVD/CD drive will start ticking this has happened with 4 new and old DVD drives I have, it's not your hardware it's the game. I contacted EA support about this and they had never heard of this problem but resolved it by me giving them the game's installation code and they added the game to my EA download account for free. Download installed fine. Seems that you need either both games on disc or both games as downloads for this to install correctly.
Gane itself is good. Some great new units but unfortunately they are not all available at the same time during the mission. Graphically beautiful especially if you can run it on max. settings (game doesn't auto-config to max. settings no matter if you have a top notch rig, has to be done in options). Jo whats-his-name gives his usual over the top performance as Kane and the usual babes clad in leather are around. Interesting story which begins before C&C3 (end of C&C Tiberian Sun) and continues parallel to the C&C3 story. Missions are challenging and have surprises. There are a few missions when you thinkyou've got it beat and are ready for the final push and suddenly a spanner is thrown into the works and all your hard work is suddenly lost.
Great game and a must have for C&C fans.
Gane itself is good. Some great new units but unfortunately they are not all available at the same time during the mission. Graphically beautiful especially if you can run it on max. settings (game doesn't auto-config to max. settings no matter if you have a top notch rig, has to be done in options). Jo whats-his-name gives his usual over the top performance as Kane and the usual babes clad in leather are around. Interesting story which begins before C&C3 (end of C&C Tiberian Sun) and continues parallel to the C&C3 story. Missions are challenging and have surprises. There are a few missions when you thinkyou've got it beat and are ready for the final push and suddenly a spanner is thrown into the works and all your hard work is suddenly lost.
Great game and a must have for C&C fans.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
There's not too much to be said about the interface, controls, graphics or units here; Kane's Wrath operates much the same as C&C 3, and its graphics are equally top notch. The expansion pack does add a few new buildings and units here are there however, including a couple of new sub-factions for GDI, Nod and the Scrin, and a superweapon unit each which are fun to play sparingly in campaign mode, though a little dominant in skirmish mode. The acting cast has admittedly been considerably pared down for Kane's Wrath, but then again, the same has been true of every C&C expansion pack - whilst the main games can and do attract some big name actors, the expansion packs are often left with a skeleton crew. Only Joe Kucan as Kane makes a returning appearance, the only other two roles worth mentioning here and the two new characters of Brother Marcion (Carl Lumbly) and Abbess Alexa Kovacs (Natasha Henstridge).
In campaign mode you play as the Brotherhood of Nod through thirteen missions, a pretty lengthy campaign for an expansion pack, however, Nod's campaign is the only campaign. There is no campaign for GDI or the Scrin, as there was in C&C 3. This is unusual and I can understand why some fans of the series are a little disgruntled about this - given a choice, I'd like to have played a GDI and Scrin campaign here in addition to the excellent Nod campaign, but the Nod campaign is still fun, challenging and retains all the classic C&C elements, so I'm not complaining too much about it. The other downside of only having a Nod campaign is that whilst new units are introduced to all factions, you can only play with the new GDI and Scrin units if you choose their faction in skirmish mode - in the campaign you come up against these units but you never get to play with them.
Kane's Wrath is also unexpectedly not a sequel to the events of C&C 3, as most expansion packs are. Rather, the campaigning spans several eras, with the first act filling in the gaps between the end of Tiberian Sun and C&C 3, the second act providing extra material concurrent with the main game, and the final act set some five years after C&C 3. It fills in a few of the gaps in the C&C saga, but of course leaves the big questions unanswered about who or what Kane is and what his final goal is. However, despite these niggles with the plot, smaller cast and only having a Nod campaign to play with, I still found Kane's Wrath to be an enjoyable game. It kept all the essential, classic C&C elements - plenty of base-building, tiberium harvesting, and armies clashing here, not to mention the mysterious and enigmatic Kane up to his usual unfathomable plotting, and I gleaned many fun hours playing through it.
In campaign mode you play as the Brotherhood of Nod through thirteen missions, a pretty lengthy campaign for an expansion pack, however, Nod's campaign is the only campaign. There is no campaign for GDI or the Scrin, as there was in C&C 3. This is unusual and I can understand why some fans of the series are a little disgruntled about this - given a choice, I'd like to have played a GDI and Scrin campaign here in addition to the excellent Nod campaign, but the Nod campaign is still fun, challenging and retains all the classic C&C elements, so I'm not complaining too much about it. The other downside of only having a Nod campaign is that whilst new units are introduced to all factions, you can only play with the new GDI and Scrin units if you choose their faction in skirmish mode - in the campaign you come up against these units but you never get to play with them.
Kane's Wrath is also unexpectedly not a sequel to the events of C&C 3, as most expansion packs are. Rather, the campaigning spans several eras, with the first act filling in the gaps between the end of Tiberian Sun and C&C 3, the second act providing extra material concurrent with the main game, and the final act set some five years after C&C 3. It fills in a few of the gaps in the C&C saga, but of course leaves the big questions unanswered about who or what Kane is and what his final goal is. However, despite these niggles with the plot, smaller cast and only having a Nod campaign to play with, I still found Kane's Wrath to be an enjoyable game. It kept all the essential, classic C&C elements - plenty of base-building, tiberium harvesting, and armies clashing here, not to mention the mysterious and enigmatic Kane up to his usual unfathomable plotting, and I gleaned many fun hours playing through it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
nice, but pls pay attention that this is a DLC, not a full game
nice, but pls pay attention that this is a DLC, not a full game.
This game is amazing. The graphic, sound, and all the units in the game are just purely amazing.
This game is amazing. The graphic, sound, and all the units in the game are just purely amazing.
Published 25 days ago by Frank
c and c
good except missing instruction manual with code for the game. the game is great fun though. well worth a playing with friends too
Published 5 months ago by Ian C. R. Davidson
C&C 3: Kane's Wrath
On the skirmishes there are extra vehicles and units.
The best feature is the Global Conquest which is a "war" and you can choose to auto-resolve or play each battle in a... Read more
The best feature is the Global Conquest which is a "war" and you can choose to auto-resolve or play each battle in a... Read more
Published 7 months ago by B. Weaver
Fun for non serious Sci-Fi type commanders
Never really been a fan of C & C, however since playing this and C & C 3 for which this is an add on I must say I am quite happy. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Alan
Game
Great game keeps the player thinking for each mission thats been set out to be completed in a special manner
it would be excellent if EA download manager allowed users... Read more
it would be excellent if EA download manager allowed users... Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2010 by Ms. L. R. E. Wolfries
Great Game
Great game and cinematics, as expected from CnC. New units are very good, especially huge Epic Units which makes the game quite different. Looking forward to CnC4 now...
Published on 7 Mar 2010 by M. Reghenzani
Hardly play this, original is better
If you're board of the original Tiberium Wars then this may add some life back into your C&C game play. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2010 by Mr. Rp Bignell
Brilliant
I love this game. the new upgrades and units make it a great deal better than c+c3. shame there arent more skirmish maps avaliable but i could probably find some online if i... Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2009 by Mr. Luke H. P. Wiel
I did not recieve the game
Well, the game didnt arrive so i do not have anything to say about it really. Am gonna order it from someone me thinks. I hope you dont feel i wasted your time!
Published on 1 Dec 2009 by Iain Small
Very good only one downside
This game is a great game to play, only problem with it is that it gets a little repetitive.
Published on 21 Jun 2009 by Mr. Wayne Gilliland
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