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Ex-Westwood devs announce Command & Conquer: Renegade spiritual successor, Earthbreakers

Video game enthusiasts have long mourned the loss of the Westwood Studios, which arguably invented the real-time strategy genre by creating Dune II back in1992. The Las Vegas-based studio was bought by Electronic Arts in 1998, and closed down just five years later after two ambitious projects...

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What most people don't know is that after Westwood Studios closed, a group of former Westwood employees opened up an independent Las Vegas-based studio, Petroglyph Games, in 2003. They've been releasing games ever since, with varying degrees of success, and have even worked with Electronic Arts to release remastered versions of some of their old games.

Now, it looks like Petroglyph is hoping to recapture some of their former glory by creating Earthbreakers, a hybrid of the first-person-shooter and real-time strategy genres that looks to capture the spirit of Command & Conquer: Renegade.

The game will involve working as a team to harvest resources and build a base as you fight against opposing forces in a race to create better equipment and defenses and destroy the enemy headquarters.

What's more, Frank Klepacki, the iconic video game composer who created the scores for dozens of Westwood Studios' old games, has confirmed that he will be creating music for Earthbreakers.

It remains to be seen whether fans of the old Command & Conquer games will jump at the opportunity to play Earthbreakers when it releases in 2020. The game can be wishlisted on Steam now.

 

[LOLCats]

Derp... ya thats what the fans want... Command and Conquer: Fortnite.

 

[Spukc]

Ooof

OOOOOF

*roblox death sound*

 

[MiguelItUp]

Lmao, they're totally missing the mark. Godspeed for them though.

 

[KyoZz]

When Petroglyph was opened, I was like a child, thinking that EA haven't been able to destroy this great team. But since then every games they've been showing has been a deception, and even if I'm happy for them to be still alive this game doesn't look like it's gonna be good.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

It doesn't have the name, or the gameplay people want from a team with that pedigree.

So.... why?

 

[Nickolaidas]

Oh my God.

Did THAT suck.

 

[TeamGhobad]

its not C&C without KANE!

 

[The_Mike]

Uhm. What?

I don't recall anyone want something like this. Looks like Renegade and Fortnite had a baby.

Gl selling this violence to 8 yo, cus that's what the graphics is aiming for with that Fortnite anesthetics.

 

[Wolfgang Jr]

Wow. Wonder why Westwood died in the ass.

 

[Spukc]

damn this thread makes me kinda angry

 

[EviLore]

 

[zcaa0g]

This "art style" needs to die. It comes more off as lacking the technical art capability than it does a "art direction".

 

[Von Hugh]

Motherfucker.

I forgot that C&C: Renegade even existed. That was probably one of the first PC games I bought back in the day.

But, yeah, that art style. How about you make your own instead of just copying Fortnite.

 

[Ornlu]

This "art style" needs to die. It comes more off as lacking the technical art capability than it does a "art direction".

I dunno; if you do it right you can end up with a nice looking game that still runs on budget PCs. If the goal is creating a game that gets worldwide popularity, it needs to be able to play on damn near everything. Consoles in the US, European PCs, PCs in Asian bang cafes, probably mobile, etc.

Also, cutesy art/cell shading doesn't usually look like complete ass in a couple years, if you're trying to milk it for a while.

 

[eot]

Half the appeal of C&C: Renegade was that it was set in the C&C universe. Without that this is just another Battlefield like game (I'm guessing)

 

[Stilton Disco]

So this studio is made up of all the arseholes that EA hired that made the shit C&C games then?

 

[demigod]

They clearly forgot the reason why C&C got popular. But go ahead and try to chase that Fortnite money, setting themselves up for fail.

 

[Hudo]

Man... I wish those guys all the luck but I am still sad about the cancelled Renegade game set in the Red Alert universe (or timeline, depending on how you see the ending of Red Alert).
I was also excited for Tiberium, which got cancelled as well. I could've lived with a mediocre game if I just could go into those red zones and experience bit of this post-apocalyptic, tiberium-infested flair...

While I still am grateful that those remasters are happening, I still can't get over EA fucking the franchise into oblivion.