No campaign in new C&C

The free-to-play Command & Conquer (once known as Generals 2) will not feature a single player campaign when it launches next year, Bioware Victory's John van Caneghem told PC Gamer.

The Frostbite 2 powered real time strategy offering will feature co-operative and multiplayer skirmish maps at launch and new modes will be added based on feedback from players. A story driver campaign could be a possibility down the road, but not at launch.

Van Caneghem also shed some light over the confusion surrounding the title - Command & Conquer will serve as a headline for a series of games that will span all C&C universes with Generals 2 being the first.

"We decided to choose Generals as the first set of games we build under the universe, but we'll be expanding after that, like Tiberium and Red Alert as well as some others as well. But Generals 2 was the first one, and it was one of the biggest sellers, as well as the fanbase has been asking for it for some time."

Bioware Victory are also adding in e-sport features:

"I don't think we're making a list of the features yet, but I think you can basically make a list of the assumed ones that you'd need to be an e-sports game, and it's definitely part of the plan," van Caneghem told PC Gamer.