Command & Conquer: Renegade

Only two other games, "Half-life" and "Deus Ex" have given me the same Buzz as completing Renegade has.

As the novelty wears off the C&C setting begins to dissolve, you're left with a decent FPS that quickly becomes as easy to put down as it was to pick up. [Apr 2002, p.84]

The detail and immersion of these environments is such a pleasant surprise that it may take even a seasoned player a while to realize that the single-player missions are rather linear, and that the artificial intelligence of the enemy troops is a little...lacking.

Fix the physics on the engine, scale it for lower-end machines, tweak the netcode on the multiplayer side and overhaul the AI and Renegade is the game that every C&C fan wants it to be. It's a good game, just not a great one.

All round AI is lacking. Enemy AI is laughable at times – walking toward you backwards or standing still while you spray them with the flamethrower.

The epitomy of a game whose long development period has caused it to be already dated on release. It's at once very new <I>and</I> very old.

The AI is about...wait...did I just call it artificial intelligence?! What I meant to say was artificial silliness just cracked me up on a couple of occasions, as I've witnessed NOD soldiers walk towards me with their backs turned, while I just kept filling their butts full of chain gun lead.

Single player was okay, I played through it a few times; however, the multiplayer is amazing, if you get a good team together the strategy the game requires to win just makes it so much fun. Even being on the losing team is fun as you struggle to defend your base. If that's not for you, Renegade was easily modifiable and you could blow all sorts of time into changing the game play. In all I love the game, and I still play it even now.

На момент выхода было интересно взглянуть на мир NOD и GDI с совсем другой перспективы, на этом достоинства этой игры заканчивались.

It was ok. Single player is shorter and features a very poor map that gets you lost all the time. Multiplayer was a ton of fun though and very addicting. Almost more then a few bugs and glitches. Overall it was multiplayer that saved its game and gave us a decent experiance overall.

La licence "Command & Conquer" a tenté de se diversifier avec ce FPS "Renegade" développé par les mêmes responsables des jeux de stratégie en temps réel surexploités, Westwood Studios... Ainsi, dans des environnements assez grands (Halo est passé un peu par là, je suppose, l'année d'avant... et a dû influencer pas mal de gens) on contrôle donc un gros con et accessoirement surtout, un gros con de Rambo de pacotille. Tellement gros con qu'il est même un prototype de Dwayne "Canard WC" Johnson qui fronce fort les sourcils, fait ses yeux en billes de Loto et vient tout nettoyer : le calcaire ennemi n'a qu'à bien se tenir, y compris dans les endroits les plus inaccessibles ! (hein ? ah bon ?....). Donc, on tire sur tout ce qui est rouge (enfoirés de communistes) et on fait le grand ménage... même qu'on peut piloter des tanks et tout ça... mais il faut récupérer des clés de couleur pour ouvrir des portes de couleur... comme dans un vieux Doom pourri ! t'es sérieux, là, Command & Conquer ? Quoi qu'il en soit, au sein de cette débilité générale qui n'en apparaît que plus flagrante ici (c'était déjà une habitude dans les C&C où on cliquait sur ses "mammouths") on se lasse un peu trop vite, je crois ! de toute façon, en termes de FPS, le jeu reste très dilettante et les "missions" sont carrément beaufs et bêtes à la fois. Techniquement, ça date de 2002 (eh oui...) mais ça tourne sans protester directement en 1080 sur Win7-64, ce qui n'est pas si commun dans le monde du PC ! d'où les deux points quand même pour cette connerie EA trop opportune et un peu trop mal dégrossie.

It is fun to see the battleground from the point of view of the GDI soldier. Although the single-player campaign is sometimes too easy it is still very enjoyable. Multiplayer was great at the time, not sure what it is like now.