It was announced earlier that Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars would be coming to the Xbox 360 to become the 2nd realtime strategy game on the platform. During the initial press release not much details were released, but more and more information is being revealed and now we know what the third race is who will be battling GDI and NOD for tiberium: Aliens!

These aliens officially don’t have a name yet, but it’s likely that they’ll be the same aliens as we saw in Command & Conquer: Firestorm, an expansion pack for Tiberian sun, C&C 3’s predecessor. The Scrin, as they were called will be trying to take their part of the tiberium ore which is plaguing the earth with its poisonous properties. What they’re going to do with it? Who knows, probably something bad, but we’ll have to wait for their evil schemes to be revealed.

The earlier released Lord of the Ring: Battle For Middle Earth 2 turned out to be quite a success with the new innovative controls, and EA thought they could bring Command & Conquer 3 to this console as well. That was not such a big surprise since the game is using the same engine. The PC version of the game will be coming out late March, but a date for the console version hasn’t been officially set. If EA is going down the same road as with the Lord of the Rings game it’ll probably be out a couple of months later.

Scrin Spaceship from C&C: TS Firestorm

Tiberium, a self-replicating alien substance that has infected the Earth, is spreading like a radioactive ice age. The GDI is fighting to contain Tiberium, but The Brotherhood of NOD has other plans for Earth. Earlier EA hinted at a 3rd race, which has now been identified as an Alien species, attacking Earth to take their part of the Tiberium. You’ll be able to command the new race halfway through the campaign mode, although shorter than the other 2 sides (15 missions, compared to 35 for the GDI/NOD).

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