This is how you remaster an old game. My god, what an amazing job. It's published by EA and developed by Petroglyph Games, which is a studio created by former Westwood Studio devs.
This collection features the first Command & Conquer, Red Alert and all of the expansion packs plus the console only content fully remastered in one package.
When the game first starts up it takes you through the old dos setup screens. The visuals upgrade along the way. You get to the sound card setup screen and the game scrolls past all of the old ISA sound cards to "High Definition Sound" at the bottom. It's really well done and gives a taste of what's in store.
You start the first mission and the game is zoomed in using the old graphics. Everything's large and blocky. The game prompts you to press the space bar which switches everything out for their remastered counterparts in real time. The remastered artwork captures the style of the original perfectly. You can switch between the two on the fly and zoom in and out with the mouse scroll wheel. There are QoL improvements such as unit queuing and using right click to zoom around the map. You can disable that if you want the original experience or mix and match as you please.
The audio is godike. All of the music has been remastered by Frank Klepacki and bonus tracks are also featured. You can, if you want, select the original low quality recordings for the music, voices and sfx.
EA has released the source code with the launch of the game and a mod sub menu is present out of the box. There's a ton of people playing online but I'm far to chicken **** to try it.
There's also lots of behind the scene bonus content which looks like it unlocks as you progress through each game.
The game is £17.99 on Steam and Origin and is currently the number one best seller. If you like RTS games you should pick this up immediately.
Sometimes I'm playing through a mission and I just want to stop and listen to the music. They put so much love and care into this, I'm frankly amazed it came from EA. Incredible.
This collection features the first Command & Conquer, Red Alert and all of the expansion packs plus the console only content fully remastered in one package.
When the game first starts up it takes you through the old dos setup screens. The visuals upgrade along the way. You get to the sound card setup screen and the game scrolls past all of the old ISA sound cards to "High Definition Sound" at the bottom. It's really well done and gives a taste of what's in store.
You start the first mission and the game is zoomed in using the old graphics. Everything's large and blocky. The game prompts you to press the space bar which switches everything out for their remastered counterparts in real time. The remastered artwork captures the style of the original perfectly. You can switch between the two on the fly and zoom in and out with the mouse scroll wheel. There are QoL improvements such as unit queuing and using right click to zoom around the map. You can disable that if you want the original experience or mix and match as you please.
The audio is godike. All of the music has been remastered by Frank Klepacki and bonus tracks are also featured. You can, if you want, select the original low quality recordings for the music, voices and sfx.
EA has released the source code with the launch of the game and a mod sub menu is present out of the box. There's a ton of people playing online but I'm far to chicken **** to try it.
There's also lots of behind the scene bonus content which looks like it unlocks as you progress through each game.
The game is £17.99 on Steam and Origin and is currently the number one best seller. If you like RTS games you should pick this up immediately.
Sometimes I'm playing through a mission and I just want to stop and listen to the music. They put so much love and care into this, I'm frankly amazed it came from EA. Incredible.
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