Command & Conquer 4K remaster coming

Quartz · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:18

VincentHanna said:
First footage

Starts off as the old graphics and switches to remastered, which you can toggle apparently:

I'm not impressed.

Kelt · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:21

Nor me.

iamtheoneneo · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:25

Haha they have done the minimal level of remaster possible.

Amazing

VincentHanna · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:30

To be fair, that's what a remaster is.

Otherwise it would be a remake.

TNA · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:31

VincentHanna said:
First footage

Starts off as the old graphics and switches to remastered, which you can toggle apparently:

When does it switch over to the remastered?

something daft already!! · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:32

Lol pointless. Hopefully it's going to be free.

VincentHanna · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:35

In a blog post, producer Jim Vessella said the remaster has been developed in the classic 2D visual style, which keeps it authentic to the original. This is a remaster, not a remake after all.

"When we recovered the source code to C&C Tiberian Dawn and C&C Red Alert, this gave us a viable avenue to accurately match the core gameplay, feel, and signature look of the legacy titles," Vessella explained.

"We felt the 2D style was the best way to bring all these elements together, and ultimately achieve the authenticity we were looking for."

The developers at Lemon Sky have re-concepted, re-modeled and re-animated every gameplay asset from scratch, Vessella said. You can see this in the remastered Construction Yard and Tesla Tank.

The upshot of this approach is the game has real-time switching of legacy / remastered graphics in campaign missions. So, at any time during a campaign mission you can tap a single key to switch between the original assets at 320 x 200, and the remastered assets up to 3840 x 2160 resolution.

You can also zoom the camera, "with an effective zoom distance between the DOS and C&C Gold camera heights."

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:41

If anyone wants to play the original games https://cncnet.org/ you must own the original though for every game above RA2.

Marsman · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:43

Not sure what some of you guys were expecting. They've cleaned up the graphics. As Vincenthana said; anything more is not a remaster, it would be a remake. Then you'd get people moan that it isn't the same game any more...

VincentHanna · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:47

The Youtube video looked a bit poor on my S9+ Phone.

On my work PC, when I set the quality to 4K, and watched it fullscreen it did look decent enough to me.

snips86x · 24 Oct 2019 at 13:52

Cannot like this enough!!!

Mak3R · 24 Oct 2019 at 14:00

Unit lost Unit lost unit lost unit lost. I'd forgotten how that became verry annoying haha.

shadowbane · 24 Oct 2019 at 14:09

Mak3R said:
Unit lost Unit lost unit lost unit lost. I'd forgotten how that became verry annoying haha.

where? scroll scroll scroll WHERE!!!!!!

elh_2009 · 24 Oct 2019 at 15:24

Looks good enough for me, as long as it's not full price I'll be getting it

ShiWarrior · 24 Oct 2019 at 15:59

looks good
so what exactly have they done to make it look better? increased the pixel count >

MonkeyBasher · 24 Oct 2019 at 16:28

Not sure what you guys were expecting tbh. There is a clearly a difference in the graphics at the 5 second mark.
It makes the game playable at massive resolutions on a newer hardware which is the point of a remaster.

This is EA you know it will be £45

Panos · 24 Oct 2019 at 16:30

DisrupTor75 said:
Yeah it's a brilliant game and a worthy sucsessor to TA. It's only downfall was performance slowdowns when lots of units were on the map but still, both games are well worth a reboot/remake.

Supreme Commander, both of them, were great games. However for all it's faults, Red Alert 3 is always my favourite of all RTS all.
Because Tim Curry was fun

(yeah, Ivana Miličević the main reason

)

ic1male · 24 Oct 2019 at 16:53

Marsman said:
Not sure what some of you guys were expecting. They've cleaned up the graphics. As Vincenthana said; anything more is not a remaster, it would be a remake. Then you'd get people moan that it isn't the same game any more...

I disagree. A remaster would be tarting up all the graphics making them look way better but this just looks like a minimal effort job. A remake would be altering the code and gameplay and making it different.

something daft already!! · 24 Oct 2019 at 16:54

ic1male said:
I disagree. A remaster would be tarting up all the graphics making them look way better but this just looks like a minimal effort job. A remake would be altering the code and gameplay and making it different.

Agreed, this looks like almost no effort was put in.

Poneros · 24 Oct 2019 at 17:15

So many professional artists and programmers around here. Who knew it would take no effort at all, and they could've done this from the get-go. And not even 8K! :rolleyes: