C&C: Renegade Preview - preview/review
(hx) 11:16 PM CEST - May,02 2001
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   Firingsquad has written a new preview of Command & Conquer: Renegade, the upcoming game from Westwood Studios. Renegade's graphics are clean and polished - while the in-house engine probably won't give id or Epic a run for their money in terms of technical details or sheer beauty, it does what it needs to do and runs pretty fast. The vehicles each have their own feel due to torque, power, inertia, and mass. The engine also allows for smooth, instantaneous transitions from indoor to outdoor environments. Textures are crisp and detailed, and the character models exhibit excellent animation. You'll also see environmental effects, like weather, and advanced lighting and shadows that cast over the models.
Westwood has even incorporated location based damage in the game. Head shots do more damage than body shots, which do more damage than shots to the extremities, etc. Shots to different areas will result in different reactive animations. In terms of sophistication, it's well beyond Unreal Tournament's system, and probably a bit better than Counter-Strike, but not quite at the level of Soldier of Fortune. [more] |
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