What C&C is, is a character-drive roleplaying experience where the CK (thats the word for DM), allowing epic adventuring with an easy-to-use and modify system. It's backwards compatible with previous versions of D&D, and uses some of the things you've gotten to know from the newest version.
You really should check out this review, which does an excellent job of stating what the game is:
http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=review&reviewid=2082201