No Single Player Campaign in Command & Conquer: Generals 2

By Brian P Rubin | 21 August 2012 | 9 Comments

When we reported that EA and BioWare’s forthcoming Command & Conquer: Generals 2 would be free-to-play upon launch, our own Adam Kovic lamented his belief that there’d be no single-player campaign in the game. Turns out his fears were completely founded: yesterday, John Van Caneghem, the general manager of the BioWare studio heading the project, explained to PC Gamer that the game will be multiplayer-only at launch.

According to the post, “cooperative and competitive” combat will be the foundation on which the game is built, while a story-based, single-player mode could be added later, though “it is something we haven’t announced yet how we’re going to do it.”

Van Caneghem elaborated on why they’re focusing on the online experience at the start:

“As a live service I think the exciting part is you can try things. You can see what the community wants, you can give it a shot, you can put it up for a weekend and see how it goes, develop towards what the fans like.”

Of course, if fans like single-player campaigns in their real-time-strategy games, well, I guess they’re S.O.L., huh?

PC Gamer via Joystiq

9 Comments

Posted by Danny Gamboa on 21 August 12 at 9:58am

Seriously ? This is stupid considering I can’t build skills and enjoy the in depth story now. EA only has me excited for Army of Two III, MoH, and Sim City.
- Posted by johnxfire on 22 August 12 at 2:07am
  
  I am still very, very worried about SimCity. Very worried.
Posted by Galo on 21 August 12 at 10:09am

C&C will never be an esport. Red Alert 3 proved that. I have no idea what’s going through EA’s mind.
- Posted by Ring on 21 August 12 at 11:26am
  
  They think WestWood is still making their games?
Posted by Screamo Luvr on 21 August 12 at 11:35am

At this point why even title it like a sequel? It should just be called something alone the lines of C&C Generals: Online or something….
Posted by johnxfire on 22 August 12 at 2:05am

How the hell is that going to work? An F2P game with singleplayer? What?

What the hell is going through their heads?
Posted by JohnStephen on 22 August 12 at 8:40am

Dear EA,
I don’t care what crappy games you make. I don’t care if we have to pay more money for a F2P than a retail game. I dont care about any of this, except for one thing:
Leave Command & Conquer out of this. Please stop doing this to the C&C franchise, haven’t you killed it enough?
If you excuse me, I’ll be playing C&C: Tiberian Sun and mourning over the long and painful death of a great series. I never thought I’d say this, but I hope this game finally kills the franchise.
Yours sincerely,
The Command & Conquer fans.
Posted by silentwaldo on 22 August 12 at 8:59am

Thank God for mods.
Posted by Willthekilla5 on 23 August 12 at 3:03pm

C&C was one of my first games i ever played
Sad to see it this way…….