When EA announced Command & Conquer: Rivals for mobile devices, it didn’t exactly get the warmest reception. It’s been eight years since the last proper entry in the series and that game, Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, didn’t exactly set the PC world on fire. During the late ’90s, Command & Conquer was one of just a few PC games I played with any sort of regularity and I recall many late nights spent at war with friends in Red Alert – Retaliation. But since the property was purchased by EA, and the developer dissolved, I haven’t had much reason to return to the franchise. With this new app, the sentiment remains the same.
Available now for Android, Command & Conquer: Rivals is an online multiplayer strategy game where two players face off for control of checkpoints on a hexagonal battlefield. The checkpoints control the nuclear warhead. As players occupy these points, the meter on the missile fills, firing on whichever color player isn’t currently in control. If too many checkpoints are in contention, they glow yellow and the missile launch is called off until one player’s troops are eliminated. First player to strike their opponent with two missiles wins.
Source: Destructoid Command & Conquer: Rivals is no substitute for the real thing