Command & Conquer Renegade

"Say guh'bye to 007!"

So pretty much this game pretty much owns. You've got all the elements of a basic shooting game, with a bunch of little extras. You can spend hours and hours on this game and still never get bored. It's got a very fair rating of T, for Teen, because it's full of shooting but not like Halo when you punch someone and blood sprays across the screen. There is some blood in it, like when you blow someone up you see a bit of stuff. But not too bad. There's nothing that will give you problems. There are also a few bikini like things in here, so watch out. Language is pretty much clean in this, so there's not a lot of swearing and stuff in it. Unless you play on line play. IF YOU PLAY ON LINE, THERE WILL BE PROFANITY!!! HEADS UP! So yeah, other than that....it's cool...Well here we go!

Graphics 9/10
The graphics in this game are totally sweet. Everybody is actually proportional (for a change) and they have decent animations. The guns all look like real guns, and the grenades and stuff look like grenades. This isn't like some of those other games where every gun is the same shape and just a different color, and land mines look like overcooked pancakes. There are almost no glitches in this game, so you don't really need to panic over those kind of things. They do a great job of simulating sniping and things and like the kick when you shoot a gun. They also do a good job of having things actually in the air. You can see snowflakes and stuff like that! And you can shoot snowflakes and stuff like that! It won't do much to shoot them though. You can shoot all the little poles and things in the game and it makes different kinds of marks depending on what you're shooting at. So--9/10....Good stuff good stuff.

Sound 7/10
There's nothing amazing about the sound. They just make a bunch of little sound effects when you shoot your little guns and blow up you little atom bombs. They have a whole host of people doing the voices for all the little individual characters. There is a little lip-sync problem so that when someone is talking their mouth doesn't move according to what they're saying. But oh well....since when has there been a game that doesn't have any of that? I mean seriously....This is the twenty-first century right? The music in the background is also all right. It's pretty much just fill in music that they probably just found online or something. It's not horrible, but they obviously didn't spend a ton of time writing it. Another cool little thing is that when you're playing you can hear your little team mates screaming when they get shot. Aw....how cute! Anyway there's nothing spectacular about the sound but it's not terrible either. So--7/10. Pretty good stuff.

Game play 10/10
This is a really good game all the way through. You've got an entire campaign single player to go through and whip up on NOD and save the day, slay the dragon and save the princess, you know the drill. They've also got a GREAT online system. They have dozens upon dozens of different levels and styles of play, you can make your own levels and debug them and then have everybody play with you on your own creepy map. You can make stationary helicopters that don't even move their blades, but those are all glitches. There are online rankings for the whole hard-core dedicated players. You can do a bunch of campaign-like levels with a team and you can meet a bunch of friends online! Hallelujah! You can choose from a wide variety of guns and things to satisfy all your violence needs, and if you're not a violent person, (some pacifist...you just bought a shooting game...) You can be an engineer and go around healing people and tanks and stuff. So yeah...10/10 Dang good stuff!

Game Time 10/10
There's really no time limit to anything in this game. You can spend as long as you want doing all the campaign levels on different difficulties, and you can spend years trying to get to be the number one player online. Getting to really master this game takes a long time therefore you will spend a lot of time playing without getting bored. There is an end to the amount of time that you can spend doing the campaign levels, though it is crazy long due to the amount of difficulties and the amount of levels. You can beat it on one difficulty then go back and redo the level to try and get a perfect score on it because that's tons more fun than just rushing through it for bragging rights. Only nerds do that. Video games aren't exactly the best way to pick up girls. So yeah....10/10 Dang good stuff! Again!

Replay Value 8/10
Like I said before there's a lot that you can do over again in this game. You can rush through it for bragging rights like nerds, but it would give you CRAZY bragging rights to keep playing online levels over and over and over and over....etc....to get to be the best player in the whole wide world. But you'd have to play the game a whole bunch and get crazy good to be ranked that high. But you can like play all the campaign levels over again and they don't get boring all that fast. So if I were you I'd play it as much as I could until I get bored. Which will take a heck of a long time. You can also keep playing the online version with dozens of different friends. Coax them into buying the game, show them how to play online, and you can play with or against them on all the levels, and then repeat it with a different friend. You can do that with online people as well as your friends in real life. Meet someone you like on Renegade, add them to your friends list, (yes you do have a friend list) and send them a message when you want to blow stuff up with them. 8/10. Boom!

In Conclusion!
This game is dang good stuff. You can play it for hours and days and months and years and you will never get bored. The online play is crazy stuff. That's the main reason that I love this game. If you aren't good at the online play, then there's an online play practice where you play on an online level against a bunch of random computers who aren't all that great. Or smart. Or cool. Or gorgeous. But it's still pretty much fun. There is a bit of language in the regular mode, like just a little bit. Not a bunch of the stuff you'd see on the street. But if you play online, you will definitely run into some profanity. Nobody can avoid it, unless you're always playing by yourself online, but why would anyone do that? I mean come on...that's why you play online!
Once again, this is Sebbisismo! Hope you liked my review! It's crazy stuff! CRAZY!!

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 04/04/08

Game Release: Command & Conquer Renegade (US, 02/27/02)