Command & Conquer 3 - Xbox 360 Q&A

TVG speaks to Raj Joshi, Producer of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars on Xbox 360...

With the PC release of the long-awaited third instalment in the Command & Conquer's Tiberium series just a matter of days away, TVG decided to look further ahead - to the Xbox 360 version of the game, which is coming later in 2007. Speaking at a recent event in London's Covent Garden, we caught up with Raj Joshi, Producer of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars on Xbox 360 - Joshi has previously worked on a number of titles for EA, including the Xbox 360 version of 2006's Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth II.

Command & Conquer 3 is the second RTS to be developed for Xbox 360 by EA; what lessons have been learnt from the first title - Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth II?

There were a couple of things; intuitive controls - in Battle for Middle-Earth II it was a big struggle to think how you consolidate the controls down to a console interface. The [analogue] sticks are a no brainer; moving the camera around and zooming them in are things that people are used to, but how do you maximise the four buttons on top, and the four auxiliary buttons?

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