EA is working on the remaster of Command & Conquer

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/12/2018 01:19 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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lucidus
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#5595616 Posted on: 10/12/2018 01:23 PM

"Kane lives!" -Andrew Wilson

Oh no

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#5595623 Posted on: 10/12/2018 01:42 PM

"Unit ready"

EA standing at the ATM...

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#5595626 Posted on: 10/12/2018 01:45 PM

Don't get your hopes up, EA has gone full mobile.

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#5595651 Posted on: 10/12/2018 02:39 PM

I'm cautiously optimistic. At the very least, I'm hoping I can run Red Alert 2 without needing a million patches. EA has also promised no microtransactions (we'll see if they keep that promise).

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#5595652 Posted on: 10/12/2018 02:39 PM

Another series destroyed by EA... Just like Sim City, Crysis, Dead Space and so on... 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.

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#5595653 Posted on: 10/12/2018 02:40 PM

Considering they've butchered pretty much every other franchise i loved and CNC 4 was a complete and utter failure this is going to be a disaster no doubt as well

The sooner this company goes bankrupt the better

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#5595658 Posted on: 10/12/2018 02:54 PM

EA accesses MCV build tool sidebar
Clicks C&C Tiberium Dawn Remaster
Building
On Hold
Cancel
RIP

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#5595677 Posted on: 10/12/2018 03:23 PM

The only Dev studio I would trust to do a HD Remaster the Command & Conquer series is Petroglyph Games. That studio is home to most of the original C&C team as well as Frank Klepacki who made all the music for those games.

EA has no frakking clue how to make a Command & Conquer game and the ones who did have long since left the company. The remaining staff are so far out of touch from the series that they shouldn’t even attempt a remake.

EA should sell the franchise rights to Petroglyph or simply not bother.

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#5595684 Posted on: 10/12/2018 03:29 PM

EA rarely fails to disappoint these days. The Titanfall games were a nice surprise and I'll still begrudgingly buy any battlefield game (for the sake of nostalgia...). That said, I can think of few other exceptions in roughly the past decade. Most recent EA games (and most AAA games...) have this shallow (cheap?) feel about them, similar to mobile games, where you can very obviously see all the places that content is behind a paywall or users are getting baited into additional purchases. None of this gives me any hope for a future C&C game that is worth buying.

To anyone interested, there are still some active mod development for C&C generals, in particular one called "Contra" (https://www.moddb.com/mods/contra).