EA is working on the remaster of Command & Conquer

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/12/2018 02:19 PM | source: vg247.com | 56 comment(s)

Can you believe it's been nearly 25 years since the original was released? EA will be developing a remaster of the strategy game Command & Conquer, in honor of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the game.

It made the announcement in a very low-key manner: via a post on Reddit. in which EA producer Jim Vessella said: “As most of you may know, we recently announced Command & Conquer: Rivals, a mobile game set in the Command & Conquer universe. Following the reveal of Rivals, we heard you loud and clear: the Command & Conquer community also wants to see the franchise return to PC. And as a fan of C&C for over 20 years, I couldn’t agree more. With that in mind we’ve been exploring some exciting ideas regarding remastering the classic PC games, and already have the ball rolling on our first effort to celebrate the upcoming 25th Year Anniversary.”

Command & Conquer’s 25th anniversary is of course due in 2020, so whatever first effort Vessella is referring to likely won’t be shown to the public soon. Vessella assured fans, however, that EA “will be talking to fans in a variety of ways” over the next few weeks. Initially announced as a AAA sequel to Generals, EA decided to retool it into a free-to-play game during development. The company wasn’t satisfied with the results and completely shut down development in 2013.

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schmidtbag
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#5595750 Posted on: 10/12/2018 06:10 PM

EA should be forced to sell the IPs they don´t use anymore to studios who care and are interested in making great games out of them.

Yeah, and then after the IP rakes in a bunch of cash for actually being well-made, EA buys it back and ruins it again.

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#5595768 Posted on: 10/12/2018 06:59 PM

So they're going to remaster C&C just like they did with SimCity? I think I'll pass on this one.

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#5595769 Posted on: 10/12/2018 07:00 PM

Can you believe it's been nearly 25 years since the original was released? EA will be developing a remaster of the strategy game Command & Conquer, in honor of the upcoming 25th anniversary of...

EA is working on the remaster of Command & Conquer

No, i really can't, i can still remember playing this in Dos on my 386 25mhz with adlib card on my massive 15in crt screen as if it were just a few years ago, not 25. lol

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#5595773 Posted on: 10/12/2018 07:21 PM

While I've got nothing but love for RA's 1 and 2 and the original Tiberium series (although I was more of a Red Alert guy), I thoroughly enjoyed Generals and Tiberium Wars. RA 3 was whatever and 4 was an abomination, but Generals and TW were actually very good RTS's IMO (so EA was 2 for 4 with full C&C games).

I get the hate for EA though because instead of attempting to rebound from C&C 4 they went mobile and some shitty browser game. I'm hoping it will be a proper remaster

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#5595825 Posted on: 10/12/2018 09:56 PM

Yeah, and then after the IP rakes in a bunch of cash for actually being well-made, EA buys it back and ruins it again.

No need to be mean like that... You almost sound like a top executive from EA...

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