Crysis CryEngine 2 + EALA = Command & Conquer: Renegade sequel?

Prepare to jump hoops and dehydrate yet again, Crysis and Command & Conquer fans, because we’ve got a present for ‘ya. Media Feet Underground says that Electronic Arts is bringing the Crysis game engine CryEngine 2 into Electronic Arts Los Angeles (EALA) studios – current home to the Command & Conquer franchise (and part of the original Westwood Studios development team).

Let’s do the math, shall we?

(An FPS engine that makes jaws drop and eyes explode) + (one of the seminal real-time strategy titles in gaming) = Command & Conquer: Renegade 2?

For those unfamiliar with the first Renegade (and if you know your C&C, how could you?), it was an FPS set in the C&C Tiberian universe where you play the role of the ever-popular Global Defense Initiative (GDI) Commando, the blow-crap-first-ask-NO-questions Nick “Havoc” Parker. Renegade was well known for FPS battles that played out a bit like C&C RTS battles, with base structures to defend and produce units and weapons, tanks and other vehicles to rush and bombard with, and so forth.

On the one hand, it’s not as big a hit as, say, Half-Life. On the other hand, it still holds a special place in the hearts of C&C players. Its 3D engine became the basis for the SAGE engine used in Generals, Battle for Middle Earth, and now C&C3: Tiberium Wars. Fans of the game have made mods based on the Red Alert continuity.

And now… Crytek‘s Crysis engine powering an EALA title? While Westwood Studios had once decided not to go with a Renegade sequel, EALA might have different ideas – hey, we’ve called EA stubborn on more thanone occasion. And don’t forget Crytek’s trying to make CryEngine 2 as moddable as possible – cripes, the madness in the C&C fan and mod community if EALA decides to make a Renegade sequel with CryEngine 2.

Again, all speculation. In the gaming world, 2 + 2 sometimes equals “should’ve taken a left at Albuquerque” when it comes to rumors. But I, for one, would be quite interested in either a Renegade sequel, or at least another FPS set in the C&C universe (playing as Tanya Adams, as portrayed by the lovely Kari Wuhrer, perhaps?).

Prepare to jump hoops and dehydrate yet again, Crysis and Command & Conquer fans, because we’ve got a present for ‘ya. Media Feet Underground says that Electronic Arts is bringing the Crysis game engine CryEngine 2 into Electronic Arts Los Angeles (EALA) studios – current home to the Command & Conquer franchise (and part of the original Westwood Studios development team).

Let’s do the math, shall we?

(An FPS engine that makes jaws drop and eyes explode) + (one of the seminal real-time strategy titles in gaming) = Command & Conquer: Renegade 2?

For those unfamiliar with the first Renegade (and if you know your C&C, how could you?), it was an FPS set in the C&C Tiberian universe where you play the role of the ever-popular Global Defense Initiative (GDI) Commando, the blow-crap-first-ask-NO-questions Nick “Havoc” Parker. Renegade was well known for FPS battles that played out a bit like C&C RTS battles, with base structures to defend and produce units and weapons, tanks and other vehicles to rush and bombard with, and so forth.

On the one hand, it’s not as big a hit as, say, Half-Life. On the other hand, it still holds a special place in the hearts of C&C players. Its 3D engine became the basis for the SAGE engine used in Generals, Battle for Middle Earth, and now C&C3: Tiberium Wars. Fans of the game have made mods based on the Red Alert continuity.

And now… Crytek‘s Crysis engine powering an EALA title? While Westwood Studios had once decided not to go with a Renegade sequel, EALA might have different ideas – hey, we’ve called EA stubborn on more thanone occasion. And don’t forget Crytek’s trying to make CryEngine 2 as moddable as possible – cripes, the madness in the C&C fan and mod community if EALA decides to make a Renegade sequel with CryEngine 2.

Again, all speculation. In the gaming world, 2 + 2 sometimes equals “should’ve taken a left at Albuquerque” when it comes to rumors. But I, for one, would be quite interested in either a Renegade sequel, or at least another FPS set in the C&C universe (playing as Tanya Adams, as portrayed by the lovely Kari Wuhrer, perhaps?).