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The story was about a renegade Soviet commander who launches an assault on U.S. soil to restore pride to his family (He was a Romanov) after their defeat in RA2.

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• Von allen eingestellten C&C-Spielen hätte wohl Renegade 2 das größe Erfolgspotential gehabt, so Mike Legg am 26.04.2019:

  The pre-production version of the sequel to Command & Conquer: Renegade, which was set in the Red Alert universe, was looking like it would be a really cool game. I'm not sure how successful it would of been, but the team was very passionate about it!

• Es gab Versuche, Westwood vom Einsatz der Unreal Engine zu überzeugen, berichtet Joseph B. Hewitt IV am 27.07.2014 in einem AMA:

  I do remember that at one point the Unreal guys came down and did a big presentation and tried to get us to use their engine for the second one (first one was still being developed) but I heard that the programmers wanted to keep working on and using the 3D engine they had developed.

• Eine Mitschuld an der Einstellung von Renegade 2 hatten wohl interne Spieltests, erinnerte sich Joe Bostic am 01.03.2013:

  Renegade 2 was actually playable and was showing great progress. I think it had great potential, but for one unfortunate event. Every so often, corporate executives would fly down to Westwood to examine the games we were working on. They would give directives on changes to the game and even decide if a game should be cancelled or not. On one such visit the executives played multiplayer game of Renegade 2 as one team and our game testers were playing the other team. Our testers thought it would be real funny to insta-kill the executives at every opportunity. The result was quite unpleasant for the execs and shortly thereafter the project was cancelled. <sigh> There is a good lesson to be learned here.

  Und weiterhin über das Spiel allgemein:

  Actually Renegade 2 was all about incorporating Red Alert into the game. It was quite fun. You could fly a zepellin around and drop bombs on the battlefield, for example. If EA hadn't cancelled Renegade 2, you would have been able to play a Red Alert as an FPS.

• Die Einstellung von Renegade 2 war auch der erste Nagel in Westwoods Sarg, als Eric Gooch am 14.11.2011 über seine Mitarbeit reflektierte:

  The thing that chaps my hide is that I *was* involved in the production of Renegade II, and I wish you could have seen how it was shaping up. There was a playtest area across from my office, and I would watch them play as development continued. I remember watching these battles where players in Kirov airships were dropping bombs on Apocalypse tanks on newly created environment art. It looked very cool. When EA pulled the plug on Renegade II, I think that was the first nail in the coffin. I believe that was the first time a project had been cancelled at Westwood, and it was pretty devastating to the team that had put so much work into it.

  Ähnlich äußerte er sich auch am 13.10.2018:

  Renegade 2 was looking great too. I remember watching testers play it, and you could fly a Kirov airship and drop bombs on Apocalypse tanks. It had some nice environment art going on too. Alas, it was cancelled. I think it had been the first Westwood game that had been cancelled during production. People were pretty depressed about it.

• Am 11.12.2007 verbreiteten sich schließlich erste Fotos von der Januar 2008 Ausgabe des Game Informer Magazins und enthüllte den inzwischen auch eingestellten C&C Shooter: Tiberium.
• Adam Isgreen enthüllte am 05.10.2007 u.a. den Untertitel namens "Battlegrounds":

  Ren 2 (Battlegrounds):
  
  Renegade 2 was finished with pre-pro, we had created an "X slice" demo and were awaiting the final "go" approval when it was canceled. I was in the meeting with Bing et al. when it was, since I was the one presenting the game to them. There are more factors than just "EA was mean!!" in that decision however -- Battlefield was on the horizon (unbeknownst to us @ WW), and DOOM 3 was scheduled to hit that year (didn't hit for 2 more, lol). EA was in the position at the time that they (EA) didn't want anything to be "#3", and let's be honest, Renegade's graphics were never top-notch. The WW execs and EA execs decided to kill going forward with the game because of those two other products coming into the marketplace at around the same time.
  
  IMO, neither would have impacted it, but at the time, that was the decision and the grounds for it. Everyone on the team was crushed. We all loved it dearly. I couldn't say anything about the decision for several days until an official announcement went out, which was hell since everyone was very excited about the game and its potential.

• Am 04.03.2007 machte sich das Gerücht breit, ein neuer C&C Shooter könnte auf Basis der CryENGINE 2 produziert werden:

  In a recent internal meeting at EALA on February 23rd, 2007, it was announced to the project team leaders of all EALA projects that the Crysis engine would be moving in-house in the very near future. Speculation began to arise internally about a Command and Conquer Renegade sequel seeing that the EALA studio is primarily known for RTS titles and Crysis is a next generation FPS engine. After discussing this with an EALA employee who wishes to not be named, it was stated that there is an extremely high chance that Electronic Arts’ LA studio will be developing a new FPS Command and Conquer title for the PC. It is not known if the title will be a true sequel to Renegade or a new stand alone IP however EA is very serious about exploring the options of the Crysis engine with current IPs. Stay tuned as we get more information.

• Die Screenshots von einer einstürzenden Kaserne der Alliierten sind echt. Sie entstammen einem Physiktest, Phlakaton-PG am 12.01.2007 erklärte dazu:

  I did manage to poot out a barracks with the Red Alert soldier on top and it had a destruction animation built in. I used physics to drive the anim and it turned out pretty slick. Chunks of concrete bouncing on the ground. I also made some basewalls with destruct anims in those as well. Too bad too.
  
  That would have been a serious multiplay game!

• Adam Isgreen am 08.01.2007, wie weit Renegade 2 fortgeschritten war:

  We didn't get to model building for any of the Renegade 2 levels or models aside from a few that all of you have had access to (Prisim tank, etc.) for quite a while. The only partial level built was the Marin Headlands one we used in the internal demo.

  Am selben Tag bestätigte er auch nochmal die Riesenameisen:

  Renegade 2 was going to kick so much ass... sigh.
  
  We even had the giant ants back in the bonus level.

• Adam Isgreen am 12.09.2005:

  Renegade 2 was a Red-Alert 2 inspired version of Renegade that embraced the C&C multiplayer game mode as the core game play. You could build defenses on build pads, destroy and rebuild buildings, and directly or indirectly command units. The story was about a renegade Soviet commander who launches an assault on U.S. soil to restore pride to his family (He was a Romanov) after their defeat in RA2.
  
  There was to be some humor in the missions - you had an Idaho mission that you could knock over a giant fake potato that was the town's symbol and roll it down a hill at enemies.
  "1941" inspired boardwalk scenario with giant ferris wheel.
  The giant ants were back in yet another secret mission.
  There was an entire sub-game with spies stealing enemy tech and dogs detecting them.
  Yes, you could play as a dog. The catch was you couldn't communicate / type to your friends, but you could bark.
  The first mission was to take place at the Marin Headlands with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Kirovs were bombing the city, while a giant squid took down an Allied Carrier in the bay right behind your base. Epic coolness!

• Harvard Bonin am 03.09.2003 in einem Chat über einen weiteren C&C FPS Titel:

  <Cabal> <moe> <KotPaine> Will we ever see another FPS title in the C&C genre? Personally I love Renegade, and I think I think many fans clamor for another FPS...
  <Harvard[EA]>; yeah, what he said!
  <Harvard[EA]>; Maybe, not plans now that I'm aware of. I think its important for us to remember the heart and soul of C&C is in the RTS world
  
  <Harvard[EA]>; Let's make that great and go from there
  
  <Harvard[EA]>; next

• In dem Demo Reel 2003 von Daniel Miller sind diverse C&C Animationen, Render und Concept Arts zu sehen. Von Renegade 2 sind folgende Sachen enthalten:
  • Prism Tank Concept Art in Farbe
  • Apocalypse Tank Concept Art in Farbe
• Chuck Carter schrieb auf seiner Seite über den Prototypen:

  These images are from the successful prototype for Renegade2. I designed and built the level to prove a concept - that the W3D engine could handle a larger amount of polygons than was previously attempted - Renegade 1 was designed around an out dated minimum spec. I wanted to show that by using well designed low poly geometry and limited textures, you could still get a richly detailed environment. In the final demo, the polys were still reduced even further with no real loss of detail.
  These models are the first in a series of tests - built and rendered in Lightwave. The finals were exported into Max with UVs and placed into the W3D engine. The level was finally based around a scavenger culture that eventually turns into the organization known to Command and Conquer fans as Nod.
  Also - I personally believe that where possible, a real time game should include geometry that enhances the experience of moving through a believable environment - a virtual playground so to speak.
  You can view an ingame animation in "Motion Graphics" and see screen shots in "GameArt".

  Weiterhin kommentierte er die Scavenger Raffinerie:

  The scavenger refinery was depicted as a collection of discarded junk and metal. I designed this as a sort of junk cathedral that is also a refinery to be used to make raw materials for the emerging Nod forces.

  Und über die Urspünge der Hand von Nod:

  The idea for the origin of the Hand of Nod came from the old Soviet empire and all the torn down statues - what if the hammer had broken off on each end, leaving a section in the hand? I thought - this might be cool so I just put it in and left it.

  Das erwähnte Ingame-Video konnte man hier downloaden. Als Kommentar dazu schrieb er:

  This animation was for the first prototype for the now cancelled Renegade2 and my 1st attempt at working with W3D. I designed and built this demo in less than 3 weeks. impressing EA enough to allow it to proceed to the next round of development.

  Download eines Zusammenschnittes hier!
• Greg Hjelstrom gab am 30.07.2002 bekannt, dass die Arbeiten an Renegade 2 eingestellt wurden:

  Ingrown, you can always sink a wall into the ground a bit to make it shorter! :-)
  
  Just to end the speculation, we were working on a sequel to Renegade which was in the RA universe and focused mostly on multiplay but it has indeed been cancelled.
  
  greg

• Während der Entwicklung wurde so manche Einheit aus RA2 bereits portiert:
  
  Diese und andere Modelle sowie verschiedene Sachen konnten bei Westwood runtergeladen werden. Das Archiv beinhaltet diverse entwickelte Sachen für Renegade 2 und da es nicht mehr erscheinen wird, wurde vieles veröffentlicht.
  Gesamter Inhalt des Archivs:
  
  Download – siehe unten.
• In einem Chat (ca. 07.05.2002) wurde es offiziell bestätigt, dass Renegade 2 entwickelt wurde:

  Hjelstrom: We just need to schedule some time to look into releasing the script system. Right now everyone is working away on Renegade 2.
  <[Westwood]TeeLo> tstststs ... so ein schlingel.
  present99> *gg*
  <[Westwood]TeeLo> swatinem: ja, es steht fest.
  present99> und? welche engine?
  Swatinem> und?
  <[Westwood]Elmar> hehe chat log danach bitte zu mir
  gers^away> bei weiteren unnötigen Zwischenrufen, werden die entsprechenden Leute ihr Sprachrecht entzogen bekommen..
  <[Westwood]TeeLo> eine dramatische weiterentwicklung der renegade enginge. und bevor ihr jetzt hier alle anfangt mir die ohren vollzuheulen von wegen unreal warfare und doom 3 .... ich sage euch, die engine erkennt ihr nicht wieder. wir haben bereits 2 spielbare level und JEDER (ich schwoere JEDER) der die dinger bisjetzt gesehen hat hat nur gesagt "i cannot believe that this is the renegade engine".
  
  <[Westwood]TeeLo> als greg mir die erste demo vor 2 monaten gezeigt hat hat er gesagt, dass ein fahrzeug in der neuen engine soviel polygone hat wie vorher ne ganze karte.
  
  present99> Swatinem> 2. An welchen RTS Titel wird die Story von Renegade2 angelehnt sein? Tiberiumkonflickt wie Renegade1 oder Tiberian Sun oder RA2?
  <[Westwood]TeeLo> swatinem: alt+k
  present99> Swatinem> 3. Wann werden die ersten Infos zu Renegade2 oder erste Bilder erscheinen?
  <[Westwood]TeeLo> in 2 bis 3 monaten.
  <[Westwood]TeeLo> (schaetze ich mal. bin ja nicht in unsererer marketing abteilung...)
  
  present99> gers^away> werden die Maps von Ren I mit denen von Ren II kompatibel sein?
  <[Westwood]TeeLo> ich vermute nicht. es wird aber recht einfach sein die maps zu konvertieren.
  
  present99> gers^away> timeshedule für Ren II ?
  <[Westwood]TeeLo> gers: steht noch nicht fest.
  
  present99> Igel|wuerthoX> Wird es in generals/ren 2 eine eingebaute voice software geben
  <[Westwood]Elmar> blade2 soll kacke sein
  present99> und lass die finger von spiderman...
  <[Westwood]Elmar> also spar dein Geld und kauf ein beer
  <[Westwood]TeeLo> wow, hat da jemand geplaudert? wir testen momentan verschiedene voice software toolkits.... ja.

• Louis Castle am 15.02.2002 über einen Nachfolger zu C&C Renegade:

  Well, we're working on Earth & Beyond, the space-based RPG, and we're also working on another Command & Conquer real-time strategy title in addition to the one that's coming out, so we're actually working on two of those right now. And also we're trying to figure out what to do with Renegade. Should we do another product and if so, what should it be like? We're thinking that's what we're doing [another Renegade game] but that depends on the sales of this one. We're anxious to see where people go and what they say about it.

Editoren / Tools:

• gmax (Version 1.2) – Ohne gmax geht gar nichts.
• Renegade Mod Tools – Die offiziellen Tools.
• RENEGADEMODART – some miscellaneous models

Offizielle Bilder: