The game originally featured a different commando ( Logan Sheppard), looking much more akin to the original Command & Conquer unit and was much less action-oriented than its final incarnation.

On the day before Independence Day in the United States in 2001, Westwood released a flash applet featuring John Trumbill's Declaration of Independence painting with GDI and Nod insignias, and cameos of Kane and Yuri hidden throughout. When the game missed its shipping date, Westwood made a humorous video titled Havoc Takes on Westwood in which Havoc, the game's main character and hero, goes to Westwood Studios to make sure the game does not miss its shipping date again. The 'Westwood 3D' engine was re-used as the base of the Strategy Action Game Engine (SAGE) first used in Generals and later in subsequent Command & Conquer and Battle for Middle-Earth games. In parallel, it was adapted for RTS use in the 2001 Emperor: Battle for Dune. It was designed to support real world physics and allow seamless movement from indoor to outdoor environments. The game engine, called W3D (or 'Westwood 3D'), was developed in-house by Westwood, although it was based on the SurRender 3D engine, which was licensed from Finnish middleware company Hybrid Graphics. The game was officially announced as Command & Conquer Renegade on Septemwith a release scheduled for Spring 2000. Gameplay is a combination of FPS and RTS elements, since team members receive money from tiberium harvesting and must purchase their own individual equipment. Some servers allow the 'endgame beacon' that causes the game to be instantly won by the team that successfully detonates a superweapon beacon on the opposing teamвЂ™s pedestal located in their Barracks or Hand of Nod. Damaging and destroying enemy units and structures earns points. The game is won when one team destroys the other's base or the time limit expires and the team with the highest score is declared the winner. Each team starts with 8 men and must purchase vehicles and advanced character classes in order to destroy the enemy base and defend their own team. The multiplayer element of this game takes the form of 'Command and Conquer Mode', in which players are divided into the two teams: GDI and Nod.

This is the only C&C game that has the first person view.

As the game progresses it is revealed that they have been forced into biochemistry research for the Brotherhood's top secret ' Project ReGenesis,' an attempt to create genetically enhanced super-soldiers.Д¬ommand & Conquer: Renegade follows the standard FPS formula, giving the player weapons and a set of objectives for each level that must be met before continuing to the next. The player takes on the role of GDI commando Nick 'Havoc' Parker, who is assigned to rescue these experts. The storyline of Renegade deals with the abduction of GDI's top three Tiberium research specialists by the Brotherhood of Nod.

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