To develop the Command & Conquer remasters, EA has recruited Petroglyph Games. Petroglyph was originally formed in 2003 by former members of Westwood Studios when EA closed the studio. Westwood, of course, being the original developers of the Command & Conquer franchise. Petroglyph went on to create the Star Wars: Empire at War, Panzer General, Graxia, and 8-Bit Armies series. The studio is also currently working on a Conan the Barbarian-themed RTS for release in 2019.
In fact, several current Petroglyph employees were members of the original Command & Conquer development teams:
Petroglyph and EA will also be bringing back Frank Klepacki as composer and audio director for the remasters.
A second studio, Lemon Sky Studios, is also being brought onto the project specifically to update the game’s assets for 4K. Lemon Sky Studios has previously worked on projects including Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Gears of War 4, and StarCraft Remastered.
For those worried that Electronic Arts may be forgetting about Command & Conquer and Red Alert’s expansions, EA’s way ahead of you. All three expansions, The Covert Operations for Command & Conquer and both Counterstrike and The Aftermath for Red Alert, are being remastered alongside the base games. Even better, both remastered games and all three expansion packs are going to be bundled into one single package - “without microtransactions.”
EA announced its intention to remaster classic Command & Conquer titles just over a month ago in a Reddit post within the franchise’s community. “We already have the ball rolling,” is what producer Jim Vessella said at the time, though few would have believed the project would be starting development just a month later. The franchise’s 25th anniversary will be in 2020 and it looks like EA may very well have given Petroglyph enough time to celebrate the event properly.
The Command & Conquer: Tiberium Dawn and Command & Conquer: Red Alert remasters have no currently planned release window but will be released on PC.
