What a so legendary saga within real-time strategy has been practically in a catatonic state since the risky Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight 2010, not counting its failures spin-offs for browsers and mobiles (Tiberium Alliances and Rivals, respectively), in addition to the cancellation of that Command & Conquer 2013, It hurts a lot knowing the enormous legacy it has left, where he competed against giants like StarCraft or Age of Empires.
EA has taken a long time to realize what their fans wanted and at least we will have a snack in the form of a remastering very soon to warm up the atmosphere, trusting in their return in style. Because this Command & Conquer Remastered Collection will improve what is seen in the historical Command & Conquer from 1995 and Red Alert from 1996. So let's see your collection in detail.
Welcome back, Commander
Logically, and unfortunately, the original team of Westwood Studios is not behind this 4K collection, but there are several of the members responsible for those games, partly because they are involved Petroglyph Games, a studio founded in 2003 and with real-time strategy as his great passion. Along with them, is the help of Lemon Sky Studios for the visual section, where Command & Conquer Remastered Collection stands out.
Having elapsed 25 long years from the first Command & Conquer for MS-DOS, it is more than obvious the quality jump that we will experience with this total renewal of its graphics. Thanks to the new modeling of the units and buildings, covered by more detailed animations, it will give a greater sense of depth. And the funny thing is that in the campaign we can toggle between both styles, in case we get the retro vein and we want to see what it looked like in the past.
This collection has had the invaluable help of the community from the moment its development was announced. Through a dedicated forum, its managers have taken note of the suggestions for improve the formula of the originals, but without losing its essence. Basically something akin to fantastic free project OpenRA, except that in that case the visual section has not been retouched except for the resolution, implementing more improvements in the control.
Without such a strong visual impact as in the recent Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, this 2020 collection on the first two Command & Conquer (Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert) it will benefit in the same way in everything related to the interface, adding production queues, shortcuts for the sidebar and a lot of improvements that did have later installments of the saga.
And it is that as we emphasize in two separate reviews on both classics, as much as they remain among my favorites, they have not aged as well as we would like precisely to those deficiencies in terms of interface and control. The good news is that Command & Conquer Remastered Collection will alleviate these problems., among others, how to optimize the selection of units. Both for the mouse and the keyboard, there will be multiple options to configure in the menu. Yes, you can even customize the hot keys with different hotkeys.
Two unforgettable Command & Conquer in the 90s
Entering fully into the content, this collection will include literally everything seen about the first Command & Conquer and the subsequent Red Alert. This encompasses their expansions (The Covert Operations, Counterstrike, and The Aftermath), and even missions created specifically for 32-bit consoles, including, for example, those of the giant ants of the Red Alert: Retaliation from PSOne.
Speaking in gross numbers, we have over 100 missions for the campaign, among GDI, Nod, Allies, and Soviets; and over 250 maps for skirmishes. And here we will finally have the possibility to dispute skirmishes against AI inside the first Command & Conquer, something that only Red Alert had in its day.
Both the campaign and the multiplayer have undergone a facelift, the first being more accessible through a mission selector, and with more options for the second with the on-line– Custom game rooms, rankings, replays, and observer mode. Everything is to relive his stage of glory in Internet cafes.
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection It will not be the typical remastering, in case it was not clear at this point. And it is that Petroglyph Games has put a lot of care to satisfy its fans with all the content expected for a collection of these characteristics. The best of the whole lot? Your level editor.
Yes, in case the more than 250 maps were not enough, not counting the hundred missions of the campaign, we can create all the battle scenarios we want to Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert to cane them in skirmishes.
To this we must add the call Jukebox Music Player, place from which we can create our mix of songs about the great compositions of the maestro Frank Klepacki. What does Hell March sound like in a loop? Why not?
Besides, the cinematics in FMV have been smoothed and adapted to 4K resolution, and we can also apply zoom of camera in the games, something that the originals did not have. Which by the way, the collection will be localized with texts in Spanish, but voices in English, French and German. And there will be support for quick and automatic saving. Everything is to make missions accessible in your campaign.
Release date, price and PC requirements
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection It will be released exclusively for PC (Origin and Steam) the next June 5, 2020, but it will not have a special launch in physical format except for the reserves (sold out) that Limited Run Games announced a few months ago, where two special editions were put on sale.
In the most expensive, from $ 149.99, the enthusiasm for this 25th anniversary was evident with an edition with a lot of winks to the first two games.
The rest of the mortals will have to settle for the digital batch:
And what about your PC requirements?
Minima
- Operating system: Windows 8.1 or 10
- Processor (AMD): Athlon 64 x2 4600 2.4 GHz or higher
- Processor (Intel): Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4 GHz or higher
- RAM: 4GB
- Graphics Card (AMD): Radeon HD 5570 or equivalent
- Graphics Card (NVIDIA): GT 420 or equivalent
- DirectX 11
- Storage: 32 GB
Recommended
- Operating system: Windows 8.1 or 10
- Processor (AMD): Ryzen 7 1700
- Processor (Intel): i5 4690K
- RAM: 4GB
- Graphics Card (AMD): Radeon HD 7850 or equivalent
- Graphics Card (NVIDIA): GeForce GTX 660 or equivalent
- DirectX 11
- Storage: 32 GB
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