While they remain mostly unchanged from the Origin version, it does include some updates to the map editors to make them work in 2024.
See here for some comments from the producer that made it happen:
https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1b92iqv/comment/ktt0qyk/
Red Alert 2 was the only game where I watched the cutscenes.
Fuck that game was good. I’d argue at the time it was a perfect game.
RA2 definitely had some quality cut scenes, but Kane with the Brotherhood of Nod and whoever that suit from the GDI was were both pretty awesome too. That was my first jump from soley video game graphics to something more immersive. Online play though, RA2 was the best, especially p2p with my friends on nurple maps.
Not to be confused with the Remastered Collection.
Damn, I might have to pick this up. Had lots of fun with these games as a kid.
They are all marked as Singleplayer. Is that just a mistake or did they strip out any multiplayer functionality?
Also: will this require Origin?
If online play is your jam then there is always https://cncnet.org/ It shows there are 493 people playing Yuri’s Revenge as I type this.
Not all the games are free to play. Some of them require you to copy some files from a paid version. So this sale is still relevant. Check out the FAQ at the url above.
My brother and I started playing Mental Omega instead. It’s a rewrite based off Yuri. It has new units, structures, abilities, and AI/balancing tweaks. http://mentalomega.com/
Unlike RA2 you can no longer just deploy 100 GI’s and mow down everything that comes at them. That never really made sense when a tank rolls by. In Mental Omega the tank will kill them all. Cause they’re just guys with rifles against a heavy armor tank…
Yuri’s Revenge had dolphins with laser beams strapped to them as a commandable unit and you’re worried about the logistics of small arms destroying a tank?
Seeing as a fair chunk of those games used IPX and GameSpy I am not shocked by the lack of multiplayer.
Also: will this require Origin?
Caved and got the bundle.
I installed Red Alert 2, it doesn’t need Origin. But at least on my Linux install the main menu is just a black screen. :(There are community projects that make those games run like a charm on modern systems. Tiberian sun and red alert 2 run perfectly on my steam deck. Check out pcgamningwiki
Thanks. Didn’t bother to go look for it myself, as it is already well past midnight over here. But I’ll check it out after some sleep.
Store page does not list Origin as a dependency, but I can’t know for certain
I was literally thinking about how I wanted to play something like command and conquer today . Just went I bought this , hopefully it works well on Linux.
Give me a Dune 2000 remake. I love that game.
Emperor: Battle for Dune was also fun.
Edit: And now that I think about it, Dune 2000 is a the remake, of Dune 2, specifically.
Man, Dune 2 was so innovative at the time. And I didn’t appreciate it enough (I was pretty young). I actually liked Dune 1 better at the time.
It’s also weird to me that you can draw a (almost) direct line from Dune 2 to World of Warcraft.
Dune 2 is generally considered the first RTS game.
So is this using the newly lowered prices everybody was buzzing about yesterday?
Entire pack is priced under $20, with a 50% discount. So less than $10.
They lowered the prices of the the games already available, but today they added everything before c&c 3 and red alert 3 to steam.
I guess this is nice for nostalgic value, but where is new, modern real time strategy games like this? It’s been a very long time since anything new existed.
There’s still some stuff going on, but it’s quite dead yeah. In the broader scope of RTS games you still have stuff like Age of Empires 4 and Beyond all Reason, both of which I find a lot of fun. But neither are really much like C&C. What is like C&C is Tempest Rising, which is currently under development. I played the demo and it did feel very C&C like, which is good, but time will tell how polished it will be on release.
Worth noting: Beyond All Reason is FOSS and a really good Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander type of game.
You can also try Zero-K for something with less flashy graphics and more unit customization, also FOSS.
Oh, and before I forget, 0 A.D. if you’re more into an Age of Empires type of RTS, another great FOSS RTS.
Oh awesome, I haven’t checked the other 2 out yet. Thanks for the suggestions!
Not OP, but I hadn’t heard of Tempest Rising before! I’ll have to keep an eye on that, thanks for mentioning it!
They all cashed out on MMOs, The Warcraft series completely died off when WoW went online.
I mean, there was StarCraft 2 after it. And the Warcraft 3 remake thing. But yeah, they mostly lost interest (in anything that wasn’t just an absolute fucking printing press for money like WoW was)
The “Warcraft 3 remake thing” was a complete and utter failure by blizzard, and destroyed a game that had flourished for over a decade. Fuck blizzard. Look what they did to my boy
Company of Heroes 3?
The RTS genre got drowned by cellphone apps doing the same thing.
The games don’t have high technical requirements, so it’s a perfect match for phone/tablet apps.
However they’re also quite easy to program, and easy to make graphics for, so the market is swamped with clones of clones of stock code and stock graphics, so no developer can approach it seriously anymore.
The best games in the genre are good because they have carefully balanced gameplay, but that takes time to discover for the players, so even if someone made the perfect game, it’d never be discovered amongst the shovel-ware.
OpenRA is better
OpenRA is a game engine and the games built on it are mostly fan C&C like games that are skinned to look like the early actual C&C games. The engine can’t even play the original missions and mp maps.
Indeed, but someone has recreated the original Red Alert and that’s really all I need.
What does open ra stand for?
Red Alert
Possibly Red Alert? A popular branch of the CoC games.
I think you meant “CaC” rather than CoC, which could be a very, very different game altogether in certain, ahem, furrier circles
Ha! I didn’t even realize that. It’s been decades since I’ve played that but I do play Clash of Clans as well as work with Certificates of Conformance daily. CoC just looked so normal.
I don’t like a few of the changes they make to gameplay. In particular, I don’t like being able to build more than one structure at a time. I know RA2 started it, but I didn’t like it in RA2, either. Being able to build a power-hungry defensive structure and the power plant to run it at the same time takes out some of the strategy, in my opinion.
OpenRA is only 3 games
Custom maps abound! Combined arms is great too.
Is better than Red Alert? But is it better than Renegade?
