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Command & Conquer: Renegade Returns as Unreal Engine 3-Powered 'Renegade X'

The Command & Conquer series is best known for popularizing the real time strategy genre, but 2002's Command & Conquer: Renegade saw the series take a leap into the world of the first person shooter. Based in the latter days of the First Tiberium War depicted in the original Command & Conquer, the game sees GDI command Captain Nick "Havoc" Parker sent in to rescue three GDI Tiberium research scientists from the nefarious Brotherhood of Nod. The game also included an excellent multiplayer mode, where players were separated into GDI and Nod teams and then tasked with destroying each other's bases with vehicles, advanced character classes and other equipment.

It's this multiplayer mode in particular which inspired the development of Renegade X, initially a mod for Unreal Tournament 3​ and now an upcoming standalone project using the Unreal Development Kit.

Renegade X aims to bring back the multiplayer experience of Command & Conquer: Renegade with the improved graphics that the Unreal Engine offers. Like the original, players will be able to fight as GDI or Nod and take on the opposing team with a variety of vehicles, characters and superweapons. Since beginning the project, however, the team has decided that it wants its game to become a standalone product -- more of a successor to Westwood's 2002 classic rather than a remake. As such, the team has incorporated some innovations from contemporary FPS games as well as the gameplay of the original. The team has also created an all new single player campaign known as Black Dawn, seen in the video above.

The currently available beta is about a year old and still uses Unreal Tournament 3 as its base. The team is currently working hard on the standalone Unreal Development Kit version, however, but is keen to "show what is finished rather than what is in progress" -- hence the lack of new downloadable beta versions.

The team doesn't yet have an anticipated release date for the standalone edition, but you can stay up to date with its progress via the official website, and download the year-old Unreal Tournament 3 beta here.

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/223430/command-conquer-renegade-returns-as-unreal-engine-3-powered-renegade-x/

[Havoc89]

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[Killa]

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