Combined with good MultiPlayer

I will let you discover more of the singleplayer details, and talk about multiplayer. Apparently, when talking about multiplayer and balance, a lot of people talk about “rock, paper, scissors”, maybe because it's an easy to understand the comparison for everyone. But I really find it more appropriate to compare it to chess, because it involves some complexity after all. Oh well, I guess it's because not so may people know chess... So - the “rock, paper, scissors” part of the game: So far, it obeys the same rules from previous C&C games:

GDI is a modern army with money and technology available, and it has more “universal” units, making it easy to play for a beginner. That by no means signifies that the other 2 factions are more powerful, or - for what it matters - any less.

NOD has what it does best: stealth, camouflage and subtlety. NOD units may not so powerful or resilient as GDI ones, but they are cheaper and can perform better if the right mixture of units is picked. I forgot to tell you, but in C&C 3 you have to combine unit types as there isn't one really good that does all. Except maybe the mammoth tank from GDI, but even that has limitations: it's slow and not cheap to build.

The Scrin are a new addition to the C&C universe. The aliens that are avid for tiberium were awake by a blast of liquid tiberium deposit. Everything Scrin is based on the precious mineral: buildings and units. The Scrin excel in numbers and infantry, and have low cost units. Their air units also do wonders, but they lack the “surgical precision” high-tech NOD and GDI aircraft have. 

Multiplayer maps are balanced and they are cleverly made so that the player has to go out of the base, expand and take control of more resources, and not “turtle up”, because the resources are limited. The skirmish AI is decent, and it has along the standard 3 difficulty levels different “personality settings”:

Balanced - the default setting
Rusher - builds as many low level units as fast as possible and tries to catch you off-guard at the beginning
Turtle - barricades itself into the base with a really strong defense
Guerrilla - attempts to use guerrilla tactics against you like sabotage or capture buildings
Steamroller - builds as many tanks as possible as fast as possible (also known as tank rush)

Multiplayer also supports online or local area play.