4K strategy
Remember how upset Command & Conquer fans were last year when EA announced that Mobile game? About where I was when Capcom announced Breath of Fire 6 for smartphones: absolutely pissed. Well, those same C&C fans have something to be happy about now.
EA is partnering with Petroglyph Games to remaster Command & Conquer: Tibetan Dawn and Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Petroglyph, of course, being the studio many of the people who originally worked on these games now work at. The game’s original composer, Frank Klepacki, is also going to be working on the games. EA has also tapped Lemon Sky Studios to bump the pixel graphics up to 4K. You can find their previous upscaling work in Blizzard’s StarCraft remaster.
That said, these remasters do owe their existence to Command & Conquer: Rivals, the mobile game mentioned earlier, in a roundabout way. According to a post on Reddit by EA Producer Jim Vessella:
Fellow Command & Conquer fans,
My name is Jim Vessella, and I’m a Producer at Electronic Arts. Ten years ago I had the pleasure of being on the production team for Command & Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3, along with being the Lead Producer on Kane’s Wrath. During those years, some of my favorite moments were interacting with our passionate community, whether at our onsite Community Summits, on the forums, or while attending various events such as Gamescom.
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.
We are eager to hear your feedback to help influence our current thoughts for PC and what comes next. Over the next few weeks we’ll be talking to fans in a variety of ways. In the meantime, please share your thoughts here on the subreddit.
As a long time C&C fan and developer, I am just as passionate about the C&C franchise as you are, and look forward to hearing your thoughts as they help us shape the future of C&C at EA!
Thanks!
Jim Vessella
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There aren’t any hard dates on when the games will launch, yet. But the safe money would be on 2020; the franchise’s 25th anniversary.
Source: PC Mag
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