Command & Conquer: Renegade

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Product Features

• Take on the agents of the Brotherhood Of Nod using your firepower stealth, and guts
• Dish out heavy damage at the ground level in first or third-person view
• Explore incredible landmarks as you drive around in all kinds of amazing C&C vehicles
• Get even more intense with a variety of hardcore multiplayer games!

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005N7YM
• Item Weight: 7.7 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 27, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,143 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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Product Description

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Command & Conquer: Renegade is a fast-paced, 3-D action game set in the gripping Command & Conquer universe. For the first time, you can experience a Command & Conquer game up close and personal as you fight it out on the ground among the structures, vehicles, and weapons made famous in the original. You assume the role of Havoc, an elite GDI commando who fights and explores from a first- or third-person viewpoint.

Battling through exotic indoor and outdoor environments, you're free to use both brute force and stealth in your mission objectives against the evil Brotherhood of Nod. No longer are you playing with just a top-down view of the battlefield. Now the action goes on around you and in full 3-D. Explore on, around, and inside all the popular structures and units from the original Command & Conquer. What's it like inside the ominous Hand of Nod? Now you'll know.

Fast, lethal, and effective, Havoc is an elite force of one who gets the job done, whatever it takes. Put yourself in the driver's seat of nearly every popular vehicle from the Command & Conquer series. Use powerful vehicles to your tactical advantage in hostile territory. If you need more firepower or horsepower, hijacking a Nod Flame Tank might be the key to mission success.Create your own tactics. How you tackle the multiple objectives within each of the 11 diverse missions is up to you. Seek out the perfect sniping spot for a stealthy assault, or drive a 75-ton tank straight through the frontlines. Use the environment for a critical edge in combat. Remember, you are a renegade. You make the rules. And show your stuff in multiplayer mode. Engage in chaotic deathmatches or cooperative team-based modes, such as C&C mode. Call up a friend to help battle through a challenging single-player mission. Prove you're the best through Westwood Online's tournaments and ladders system.

Product Description
Command & Conquer: Renegade places you in the world of Havoc, a wisecracking GDI commando as he accomplishes his missions at the ground level of Command & Conquer's military action!

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35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars C&C fans (like me) will like it - others may expect better, April 5, 2002

By	Derek G (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews

I can still remember the final battle of the original Command and Conquer from back in the '90's. What I thought would take a few hours ended up taking an entire evening. Defeating those wicked NOD guys was the most mind-numbing experience ever - I could still feel my brain pounding long after the final cutscene played. Getting up for work the next day was almost as difficult!

So, of course when Westwood announced they were going to make a first-person shooter based on C&C, I had to get it. I can tell you C&C Renegade is a worthy first attempt yet it does fall short compared to the current crop of shooters out now.

PROS:
1. Graphics - I'm surprised at other reviewer's complaints. Not the best in terms of detail or graphic quality, but still very good for a game of this size and scope.
2. Action - Very engaging. It's not a one-man show - you're usually thrown into the heat of battle with explosions all around you. Plus you get to drive a lot of the vehicles too.
3. C&C Theme - all the goodies, GDI Cannons, Tiberium Harvesters, Obelisks, etc... The sound effects are very reminiscent of the early games, it even keeps track of the number of NOD soldiers you squish in your mammoth tank.
4. Cutscenes - very cool. Just when I think Westwood is slacking towards the later levels they throw in a nice epic movie to watch between levels.
5. Music - Awesome!! (as always) C&C games still have the best soundtracks.

NEUTRAL:
1. Level Design - Yeah, it's Westwood's first foray into level design and it shows. But quite frankly it shows just how accustomed gamers have gotten to having everything linear; we expect to follow a straight line to the goal and never have to backtrack once! At least in this game you can pretend this would be more like a real world assault. Besides, we're doing everything from beach assaults to desert sieges to sneak attacks in cities, submarines and snow covered mountain bases. What's wrong with that?
2. Voice Acting - Decent. Our hero Major Havoc sounds more like Duke Nukem. "You're going up against a whole squadron by yourself?" "Yeah, doesn't seem fair does it? Maybe I'll shoot left-handed." Am I the only one who gets a little creeped out by the way they move their lips?
3. Weapons - All nicely balanced with the exception of the grenade launcher. This worthless weapon makes huge explosions that seem to leave the enemy unfazed most of the time. Is this thing on?

CONS:
1. Load Times - Ugh. Over 2 min to load a level! If you're killed or even if you restart the same level it takes just as long! It's so annoying you'll end up playing the easier difficulty settings just to avoid dying. Minus one star for this annoyance.
2. Enemy AI - Atrocious! As much as I'd like to be biased I have to admit this is one of the worst ever. I can round a corner, see someone crouched behind a box, pump about ten rounds into him and while I stop to reload, he goes back to crouching behind the box... uhhh hello? I'll pick off someone with my sniper rifle and the guy next to him will just stand there and wait for his turn. I smirk when I'm warned of "elite" enemy forces approaching as these high-caliber opponents basically run into my line of fire and take maybe a few more hits to kill. Doom had better AI. Minus one star for this (and that's being nice!)
3. System Requirements - Considering a game like Wolfenstein runs on my system without a hitch, I'm disappointed I have to minimize all the detail settings using my (fairly new) Geforce 2 Pro and even then the frame rates choppy. You're gonna need a 1.4 gig system and a GF3 at the very least to run this game smoothly.

To sum it up - C&C fans (with sufficient hardware) will find enough to overlook the rather major annoyances in the game. Hardcore action fans, however, will find plenty to nitpick about but may realize that, in spite of it all, it's still a really fun game to play.

Hope my review helped!

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a must buy for FPS and C&C Fans around the Globe., February 19, 2002

By A Customer

C&C fans will recognize the weapons, structures, characters, and vehicles from the original C&C. FPS(First Person Shooter) fans will love the creative weapon designs and revel in the use of numerous vehicles. The Single player is complex, interesting, and fun. The missions can be approached in different ways and all missions and secondary missions to give you the feel that you are part of something bigger, like a world in the C&C RTS (Real Time Strategy) games. The multiplayer puts you on the ground of a C&C universe. The GDI vs. The Nod, you pick your character, your vehicle and your attack approach (sniping, blowing things up, stealthing), its all up to you. This game has a single player game and a multiplayer game that are worth your time and money. So don't waste your money on a crude, undeveloped game when you could be playing the most innovative game to date, Command and Conquer: Renegade.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Could be better., March 28, 2002

By	B. GOODWIN "dragon678" (LIMA, OHIO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Being a large C&C fan, it was great seeing the buildings, the vehicles, and the NOD forces from this perspective. All in all, the game was fun to play and have faster paced action tha MOHAA. But this game misses on a few things:

1. The AI is the worst of any recent FPS game I have played.
2. The on-line game play is very laggy and with everyone just building vehicles, it was boring
3. The cut scenes, though pretty well done, looked like they were painted on
4. The end bosses (there were only 3 or 4 thank god) were terrible. You can't out run or out manuever them. All you can do is stand there in front of them and keep shooting till they die.

Here is what was good other than what I have already mentioned:
1. The graphics were better than some of the reviews were saying (If your graphics aren't very good, its time for a better video card)
2. The music is awesome
3. Nick Havoc is a very cool character
4. The weapons were pretty cool. Got to use every weapon more than once. Some games like RTCW & MOHAA, you were able to get through the game only using about half of the weapons available.
5. Driving many vehicles. You get to use many different vehicles and fight other vehicles

Overall, I liked this game alot, but compared to RTCW & MOHAA, something was missing.
A little hint while playing the game. If you find some of your other weapons running low on ammo (and you will because on different levels, enemies only use certain weapons), use your little pistol and aim for the head. You would be surprised at how quickly some enemies will die with one pistol shot to the head.
I would recommend this game unless you are looking for good on-line game, then I would tell you to look elsewhere. Happy hunting.