Marvelous transfer from top-down strategy to experiential close-up FPS!

User Rating: 8.4 | Command & Conquer: Renegade PC
This experience for C&C fans such as myself is like Charlie in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. The experience is overwhelming. I could say I'm moved to tears when I walked my commando Major to the entrance to the refinery. Man! I'm actually going inside the Tiberium refinery to disable the facility instead of just blandly clicking it with the mouse and see pixel explosions!

Everything you knew from the original C&C was brought larger-than-life to Renegade, from Nod buggys to GDI Mammoth tanks (with the same armaments!), from Power Plants to Obelisks of Light! Details are true to the core and you feel like you're in a movie for C&C.

The gameplay is balanced between players who are accustomed to the C&C culture and usual FPS players, so you won't find much awkwardness for such a genre makeover. The weapons Major used are familiar to both C&C strategy fans as well as FPS gamers so both types of players can get really comfortable with the game easily. However, it's quite a difficult game for first time FPS players who may be the hardcore C&C strategy fans. But again, it doesn't pose a threat since C&C fans are usually elite commandos of videogaming anyway!

KingLim