In a flash, the installer reconnects, receives and decrypts the appropriate encryption keys, and then executes the "Bootstrap.EVA" file.
Panic! Has my PC been hacked? Has the game broken? No, friend, all is well.
Yes, I can feel that mid-90s nostalgia settling in now, it's warm and fuzzy and reminds me of better times.īut then your connection to the EVA server is lost. It begins with that classic EVA boot-up logo with pixels the size of actual fists. Aww, look at all those lovely fuzzy pixels. Now, six months might seem like a long time to spend on a 2.24 minute sequence, but I'd be lying if it wasn't one of the most effective introductions I've ever witnessed. So much so that I believe all remastered games going forward should be made to have intro sequences like this as a rule, because man alive does it make me pumped to dive in and get playing.Ĭommand & Conquer Remastered Collection's new EVA sequence is actually the work of long-time community member Luke "CCHyper" Feenan, who spent six months creating this bit of installation magic, which you can watch again and again in the first game's Bonus Gallery once you've viewed it for the first time. Maybe it's the hardware nerd in me that gets overly moved by logos morphing from a piddly 320x200 all the way up to an impossibly sharp 3840x2160, or lines of code pretending to seek out obsolete sound cards before pulling the ultimate power move and selecting High Definition Audio, but as Steve Hogarty noted in his Command & Conquer Remastered Collection review, it's damn effective. But watching Command & Conquer Remastered Collection's newly re-tooled EVA opening sequence had me pumping my fists and bellowing with excitement like I'd been down there in the fan trenches all along. I was far too young to even comprehend Command & Conquer when it first came out in 1995, and to my great shame it's never been something I've sought out in the intervening years. You know you're onto a winner when your heart swells ten times its normal size out of pure excitement from the boot-up sequence for the remaster of a game you never played.
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