History VideoGame / CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars

* GameplayAndStorySegregration: In-game, Tiberium doesn't spread all over the place but only inside a limited radius around a vein. This goes not only against the mechanics of the previous games, but also against the very premise of the series, a planet-consuming mineral engulfing the landscapes.

* AwesomeYetImpractical: The Titan and Wolverine Mechs and PoweredArmor, which is why GDI went back to tanks and jeeps in this game.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: The Xbox port has a command point limit. The only example in the whole series until the console version of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: The Xbox port has a command point limit. The only example in the whole series until ''Command and Conquer 4''.
* ArtifactTitle: InUniverse. Plasma cannons can be modified to shoot tiberium bullets. They're still called plasma cannons.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: GDI Harvesters, although equipped with machine guns, will abandon all offensive commands when faced with even a small deposit of shiny tiberium crystals

** ''[[http://www.moddb.com/mods/cc-3-the-forgotten The Forgotten]]'' brings back the tiberium-mutated faction from ''Tiberian Sun'', complete with its own fleshed-out campaign and full-motion video cutscenes.

* InformedEquipment: Averted. Guns get bulkier, reinforced barrels from weapon upgrades, tiberium enhanced SuperSoldiers start exhaling green gas, tanks get bulldozer blades, etc.

** The player character, [[spoiler: if he decides to use the liquid tiberium bomb at the end of the game]].

* {{Expy}}: Scrin Tripods are basically Martian Walking Machines.

** Their mothership is based off of the ships from ''Film/IndependanceDay''

Set seventeen years after [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun its predecessor, Tiberian Sun]] in a starkly stratified world. GDI has succeeded in containing Tiberium in areas dubbed Blue Zones, which are bastions of civilization and relative paradises compared to the rest of the planet. Yellow Zones are lawless wastelands where daily life is a struggle and Nod is seen as the last hope of the common man. Red Zones, meanwhile, have been wholly xenoformed by Tiberium and are stormwracked hells lethal to humans. Kane reemerges once more to launch a surprise attack on a complacent GDI, whose retaliation has an unintended side effect - an alien race called the Scrin suddenly invades, seeking to harvest Earth's Tiberium bounty. The aliens are narrowly driven off, while Kane succeeds in his plan to acquire their technology.

* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: During the recapture of Cologne, a GDI soldier comments that while he doesn't miss Nod one bit, the Brotherhood militants are at least humans, unlike the city's alien occupiers.

** ''[[http://www.moddb.com/mods/mideast-crisis-2 Mideast Crisis 2]]'', a sequel to a CommandAndConquerGenerals mod involving a near-future conflict in the Middle East.

* ContinuityNod: GDI's mechas from ''Tiberian Sun'' make a return in the expansion, now fielded by one of the subfactions. This is justified by the timeline, as ''Kane's Wrath'' first act is chronologically a prequel to ''Tiberian Wars''.

''C&C 3: Tiberium Wars'' ([[JustForFun/SyndicateQuestersUnitedAgainstDeviousness EA]] LA, 2007) is the third installment of the VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries.

''C&C 3: Tiberium Wars'' (EA LA, 2007) is the third installment of the VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries.

* PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower:
** GDI just prior to ''Tiberium Wars''. They have dozens, if not hundreds, of ion cannons orbiting the Earth, ready to blow any baddies off the face of the planet. And that's not counting their nigh-indestructible railgun-armed Mammoth tanks.
** Also, this is one of Nod's {{Badass Creed}}s since the series started...

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Every single infantry unit keeps using the same quotes no matter how many men they loose, ''except'' for the sniper team. If the sniper dies, the spotter has an entire [[http://youtu.be/pzMeaSDXoMM?t=56s unique set of quotes.]]
** There's also the militia rifle and rocket squads, where if upgraded they'll gain the confessor unit. If everyone in the squad but the confessor is dead, the unit uses the Black Hand unit's quotes instead.

* BittersweetEnding: If GDI deploys the Liquid Tiberium bomb they end up repelling the Scrin but twenty five million people are killed by the chain reaction.
* BugWar: The Scrin are the bug race of the three factions in the game, since their army is made of robotic/biological insectoid units. They came here not to consume us but to turn the planet to a source of [[GreenRocks Tiberium]], which is vital for them. It is the [[BodyHorror Tiberium]] itself that would have consumed us. They didn't see Kane coming, though...

* ThirdIs3D: ''Tiberium Wars'' makes the VideoGame3DLeap for the RTS saga, evolving the GameEngine ([=Westwood3D aka SAGE=]) created for ''EmperorBattleForDune''.

* ContinuityNod: GDI's mechas from ''TiberianSun'' make a return in the expansion, now fielded by one of the subfactions. This is justified by the timeline, as ''Kane's Wrath'' first act is chronologically a prequel to ''Tiberian Wars''.

'''''C&C 3: Tiberium Wars''''' (EA LA, 2007) is the third installment of the VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries.

* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: During the recapture of Cologne from the Scrin, a GDI soldier comments that while he doesn't miss Nod one bit, the Brotherhood militants are at least humans.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The game that ultimately became Tiberium Wars was originally started by Creator/WestwoodStudios before EA dissolved it. The original plans included The Forgotten (humans mutated by Tiberium) and CABAL (the BigBad from Tiberian Sun) as playable factions, and was directly connected to the Videogame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries, in that there were plans for a mission to take place at Area 52 which would have included a Chrono Sphere and Yuri in Stasis. As a result of the attack, Yuri would have been sent back in time and was to be the cause of ''RedAlert2''.