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.

I knew going to a Blue Man Group was going to be entertaining, but the “How to be a Megastar 2.0″ show was even better than I had expected. It’s definitely something that everyone should go see at least once. I’m hoping now to be able to see the show in Las Vegas…. it is suppose to be even better than the ‘road show’.

Loud… bright… energetic…. entertaining… AMAZING. I don’t know how else to really describe it. It’s a show unlike anything you will ever see.