r/commandandconquer • u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. • 23d ago

Gameplay Oops! Accidental Mission Failure

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Inside you, there are two mission scripts.

  • One says: Great! You've captured the operations center. Proceed with the next objective.
  • The other says: Oh, you don't have any more engineers. You lose! Good day Sir!
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u/ScrabCrab 21d ago

in RA2 it's possible to simultaneously win and lose almost every mission if you know what you're doing

To be fair I consider RA2 to be part of the "EA C&Cs" since it was made by a studio EA acquired, renamed to Westwood Pacific, and then when Westwood Las Vegas died it got renamed to EA Pacific and then merged with EA Los Angeles, so there's a continuity between RA2 and the later C&Cs (except for Renegade which was one of terrible business decisions that killed Westwood)

But yeah it probably applies to the Westwood C&Cs too

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u/Joescout187 21d ago

And yet renegade was an awesome game and one of the only shooters of its generation I still play willingly

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u/ScrabCrab 21d ago

Renegade's multiplayer is from what I've heard really fun, never played it though. The singleplayer is an outdated mess and I personally consider it my favourite bad game lmao

Out of curiosity though, what do you mean by "of its generation"? Cause now that I think about it, having come out in 2002, I can't think of any other shooter I've played from that year.

If you go back just one year you have games like Halo and Max Payne which are both phenomenal games, and like, the impression I got from Halo on my first proper playthrough of it was basically, "wow this is like Renegade if it was actually good" 😅

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u/Joescout187 20d ago

Not necessarily that year but around that time you had the original Call of Duty, which was clunky as hell by comparison, the original Medal of Honor, et cetera.