EA has announced that Command & Conquer: Generals 2 free to play. In 2013, the pc version of this strategy game under the title of ‘Command & Conquer’ is released; in a later stage also appear, Red Alert and Tiberium games.
At the Gamescom trade fair has publisher Electronic Arts, a sharp change of course announced for the Command & Conquer series, the entire franchise is free to play. It is still in the developing Command & Conquer: Generals 2 is the first title that’s free to play: this game is stripped of his subtitle, and will be on a yet unknown date in 2013 for the pc appear. Interested gamers can now register for a beta test.
The game was originally called ‘Generals 2’ would be called, will also as a basis for other games. Jon van Caneghem, who as vice-president of EA for the games series is responsible, says that after the Generals also of the Red Alert and Tiberium games free-to-playversies will appear. All new games will be on the Frostbite 2 engine will be based.
In February 2011 alluded Of Caneghem to the change in strategy for the famous spellenserie. The C&C games went probably not enough new players: in 2010, appeared in Command & Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight was, for example, but lukewarm received.