The near-future take on familiar locales makes the intense battles feel even more thrilling, because the settings are recognizable and meaningful.

You'll be doing it all in a variety of real-world theaters, such as Washington, DC, downtown Sydney, and the eerily dry Amazon basin. You'll have to do these things, of course, but you have both primary and secondary objectives to complete, which include using engineers to capture certain buildings, amassing beam cannons to take out defenses, or teaming up with your sworn enemy to defend against alien attack. The missions themselves are incredibly varied and involve a lot more than destroying an enemy base or defending a particular structure. There are also plenty of reasons to return to the campaign once you're done, since the game rewards you with medals based on your performance and tracks a good number of statistics for you to chew on. It'll take you a couple dozen hours to get through the campaigns, and just when you think you've finished, there are a few surprise missions in store, and they are well worth the time it takes to unlock them. At this stage in the series, the mineral tiberium has propagated over most of the Earth, but it's more than just an environmental plight-it's a key to future technology. There's also a new player in the mix: the alien Scrin race. The narrative is structured well, with the Global Defense Initiative and Brotherhood of Nod campaigns telling the same story from opposing viewpoints. If you think it sounds over the top, you'd be right-but it's cheesy in the good way, and it won't take you long to get involved in the story and the characters that drive it. He and other familiar actors serve up a heap of extravagant solemnity against a backdrop of flashing lights and important-looking video screens. Yes, Joe Kucan has returned as Nod figurehead Kane, and he's as irresistibly creepy as ever. There's never been anything subtle about C&C's full-motion video, and, true to form, the campaigns are loaded with wonderfully overblown sequences filled with intrigue and suspense. No matter which of the two main campaigns you start off with, you're rewarded with a whole lot of live-action video in between missions, featuring familiar actors getting hammy in near-future command centers. Now Playing: Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars Video Review By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's

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