"Command & Conquer (previously known as C&C: Generals 2) is an upcoming real-time strategy video game in the Command & Conquer series, developed by Victory Games for the Microsoft Windows platform. The game will use the Frostbite 2 engine and will also introduce downloadable content to the series. It is the first game in the series to be developed by Victory Games, making them the series' third developer after Westwood Studios and EA Los Angeles. Command & Conquer will be available exclusively on Electronic Arts' Origin distribution service. The game was announced as Command & Conquer: Generals 2 and would be a direct sequel to 2003's Command & Conquer: Generals. It was re-purposed as the first in a series of free-to-play games set in the Command & Conquer universe. It is currently planned to be released in 2013." ~ Copied from wikipedia.
So, thoughts? I've been a fan of the C&C series since the original game, called Command & Conquer. I've played and bought every game in the series, with the exception of some of the more recent Tiberium games.
I enjoyed Red Alert 3 and C&C 3, but felt like they had far too much in common with games like starcraft. While starcraft is a fun game in its own way, the C&C series was never a ten minute match style of games, at least in my opinion. I enjoyed building up my base and focusing on troop concentration, rather than spending a frantic five minutes building a pathetic base of tiny structures followed by ten minutes of spamming the counter to whatever my opponent was using. RA3 was slightly slower-paced, but I felt it strayed too far from what I enjoyed about the previous games.
My opinions of the latest C&C are pretty low, at least judging by what I've read so far. Free-to-play often means pay-to-win, origin is a hideous, disgusting piece of software (again, my own opinion), and any relation to EA means $400 of 'optional' DLC that makes the game playable. Plus, the name is confusing and unnecessary. Why not just call it Generals 2 instead of 'King Command and Conquer of EA the second'?