Comment: 2Author: jawapro
Date: Mon 11/02/2008 09:48 PM
Let me say this - Renegade kicked Generals backside all the way to Mars.
Definatly not the low point in the series (which was Generals).
It was Westwoods first attempt at a shooter - but it was a pretty good one for it's era.
The single player game let you control the Commando from the original CnC and was quite a lot of fun. It had some bugs - but so do most games unless you patch them (which I never got around to doing). I did finish the game though - so the bugs werent too bad.
Multiplayer was where all the hype was though - and it wasnt bad. But it really needed a lot of players to make it work. Each side would have a base, and your team would have to work together to blow the other team's base up.
But with only the 4 or so players we had - it wasnt much chop. On some maps the base could defend itself well enough that you couldnt touch it. You really needed to storm it with more than 2 players at a time. Even driving a Mammoth tank - you'd still get wiped out if you were alone.
Other maps didnt have the base defences (or at least not as effective ones) and with only 2 people on each team, there werent enough people to both attack and defend. As soon as Nod got the flame tank into the other base - the game was basically over.
That flame tank was fantastic against buildings (and people too).
In otherwords, Renegade wasnt bad. But it wasnt brilliant either.
As someone who is a huge fan of CnC - the fact that it was within the same universe, had Westwood on the cover, and let you drive Mammoth Tanks - that was enough to make me love it.
The new game only hits one of those points (I think) so we'll see how it goes.
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