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Command & Conquer: Renegade 2 (also known under the subtitle Battlegrounds) was to be another first-person shooter game using an updated version of the "Westwood 3D" engine.
Storyline
Renegade 2 had two build versions. The first version was drafted as a connection to Tiberian Dawn from Red Alert 2. It focused on a scavenger culture emerging from the ashes of the collapsed Soviet Union, which would eventually become the Brotherhood of Nod.
However, this was scrapped in favour of a Red Alert 2-based FPS that took place in the post-Yuri's Revenge world. The storyline was about a rogue Soviet commander from the Romanov dynasty attacking America to avenge the honour of Alexander Romanov. The game would begin with an assault on the Marin Headlands, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Kirov airships would be bombing the city, while a squid attacked an Allied carrier in the background.
The game was also to feature a Giant Ants bonus level.[1]
Units
Most units designed were based on Red Alert 2 ideas. However, the Allied Light Tank and Soviet Hind Gunship, both cut units from Red Alert 2, were to make a return.
Cancellation
By the time of its cancellation, the Renegade 2 team was already finished with pre-production, with an X-slice presentation finished and the team awaiting final approval from EA executives. However, with the then recent release of the highly-acclaimed Battlefield 1942, it was cancelled in late 2003, due to the possibility of the game taking purchases from Battlefield 1942.[2]
Apart from a partially finished Marin Headlands map and several models released to the community, not much was done with the game. While no buildings were finished, a destructible prototype of a Soviet barracks was done, completely physics driven.[3]
Chuck Carter also created a prototype level featuring the Scavenger refinery, which was to showcase that Renegade's engine could handle much higher polycounts than it did in the original game and introduce the Scavengers.[4]
Gallery
General
Screenshot, showing the new interface and three light tanks rolling down the hill
Night time at the Marin Headlands
Entering the base
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Connecting RA2 to TD
Concepts for the Scavengers' insignia
Concept for a Scavenger infantryman
Another concept of a Soviet infantryman
Vulture render
Alternate texture
Cameo
Mammoth tank render
Kirov Airship render
Scavenger refinery, Mammoth tank in the background
Scavenger refinery, Mammoth tank in the background
Render, top view
Render, original size, before revamping for gameplay
Render, bridge leading to the refinery
Render, refinery side
Render
Render of the emerging Hand of Nod.
Render, entrance
Render, entrance
RA2-based
A concept for a Conscript
US Navy SEAL concept
A different Navy SEAL concept
A concept for a Soviet Heavy trooper
A concept for a Soviet cyborg (?)
A Soviet Flame trooper
A concept for the Apocalypse tank
Render of the tank
Texture file for the tank
Placeholder cameo
Render of an Allied Grizzly tank
Unused Units
Buggy
Soviet Demolition Truck
Soviet Scud Launcher
Unnamed Vehicle
See also
References
- ↑ Petroglyph Forums: Would Petroglyph Ever Make A Game Like C&C Renegade?, post #21 (archived)
- ↑ Petroglyph Forums: Some Questions (about C&C/WW) (archived)
- ↑ Petroglyph Forums: Would Petroglyph Ever Make A Game Like C&C Renegade?, post #28 (archived)
- ↑ Renegade 2 Model Tests at Chuck Carter's site (archived)
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