Rather than open with a press launch or trailer, EA have chosen to quietly announce an official Command & Conquer remaster on Reddit. In a post from EA producer Jim Vessella, he says the studio have plans for the collection’s fast-approaching 25th anniversary. While it sounds prefer it’s only one game being up to date for now, Vessella’s assertion means that extra could also be deliberate.
He has additionally been answering just a few questions within the Reddit thread, and has confirmed that there shall be no microtransactions hooked up, which is all the time good to listen to. Below, a mostly-unrelated (however official) video of Command & Conquer: Red Alert three to remind us all simply how foolish this game of troopers may get.
Update: EA additionally made this announcement on the OpenRA forums, one other main old-school C&C fan-hub.
“we’ve been exploring some exciting ideas regarding remastering the classic PC games, and already have the ball rolling on our first effort”
The first few C&C games are overdue for a lick of paint, to be sincere. As charming as they’re, the music is over-compressed, the FMV is grainy and the UI is just one step additional advanced than style prototype Dune 2: Battle For Arrakis. Some followers have already taken up the gauntlet, and the spectacular Tiberium Dawn Redux mod for C&C Generals offers the previous technique gem a 3D lick of paint, but it surely doesn’t fairly have the identical really feel. There appears to be some debate within the Reddit thread as as to if the remaster needs to be 3D, and the way a lot of the unique UI needs to be re-used.
Of course, there’s no assurance that any of it will survive lengthy sufficient to make it to shops, digital or in any other case. The collection has had a tough few years, together with plans to reboot the franchise as a free-to-play game ending up on the scrapheap regardless of seen growth progress. Series followers had been additionally not finest happy at EA’s latest announcement to convey the collection again within the type of a light-weight aggressive cell game. Still, fingers crossed – if they’ll convey us Kane’s polished baldness in HD, I’ll be blissful.
