EA released a single player demo for C&C3 last week. There isn’t a whole lot to it, but the demo is still worth grabbing. You get to play 3 GDI missions as well as 1 skirmish, again as GDI.

From my time playing it over the weekend, it appeared that EA has done a remarkable job bringing the C&C universe back. Matter of fact, this game felt almost like it was something that Westwood Studios created rather than EA.

It’s much faster than the crap they called C&C2 and RA2. It builds on C&C: Generals (which I really enjoyed), but is much more akin to the original Command & Conquer.

The big news here isn’t that Kane lives… heck, everyone expects that. And for a war that has gone on for ~50 years, the guy doesn’t look that much older. No, the big news is the arrival of the Scrin. A Zerg looking new factions that has come to Earth seeking the Tiberium. Though you don’t get to see them in action in the demo, there is a brief cinematic trailer that shows them…. should make things rather interesting. If nothing else, it opens up a new direction for EA to take the C&C game. Who wants to bet that C&C4 takes us from Earth and on a bug hunt?

Oh yeah… they picked some great people to star in C&C3. Josh Holloway (Sawyer, Lost), Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Cameron, House M.D.), Tricia Helfer (Six, Battlestar Galactica), and Grace Park (Boomer / Athena, Battlestar Galactica) all have roles in C&C3. And of course, we cannot forget Joseph Kucan who returns once again as Kane. <-- I wish this guy did more work. He's a pretty good bad guy.