Command & Conquer: Renegade

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1 Game Information
2 Widescreen Support
- 2.1 Method
- 2.2 Screen change
3 Surround Gaming support
4 Known Issues
5 Condensed detailed report
6 WSGF links
7 External links

Game Information

By: Westwood Studios, Electronic Arts
Genre: Sci-Fi, FPS
Release Date: March 4, 2002
Players: 1-16
Version: Retail version. Patched to v1.037, though the patch isn't required for widescreen support.

The first (and to date, only) first-person iteration of the Command & Conquer series, Command & Conquer: Renegade puts you on the ground as GDI Commando Nick "Havok" Parker in a series of missions to stop the Brotherhood of Nod from developing an army of Tiberium-mutated super-soldiers. It features a reasonably lengthy campaign spanning a variety of locales, some fairly impressive graphics in an age of Quake 3-based shooters (the same "W3D" engine was modified to become, of all things, the SAGE engine that powers Generals and Tiberium Wars), and a multiplayer mode that in addition to being, in my opinion, one of the greatest in a shooter to date, introduced the world of PC gamers to freely-controlled vehicles in multiplayer (including flying ones). It also features an early look at EA's now long-standing tradition of terrible widescreen support.

Widescreen Support

Method

Native

Screen change

Stretched

1024x768

1280x800

Surround Gaming support

None

Known Issues

The loading screens and menu screens are, oddly, severely Vert-. While all options and critical text remains visible, this results in the loading bar getting cut off. Not that it much matters since even the largest levels load nearly instantly on a modern computer.

Condensed detailed report

MGL Classification	Stretch
Widescreen method	Native
Resolution support	Full
Singleplayer anomalies	None
Multiplayer support	Full
Aspect ratio support	None
HUD stretch	Stretch
Cut-scenes	FMVs and rendered cut-scenes
FMV correction	Stretch
Rendered cut-scene correction	Stretch
Calculated grade	D