Command & Conquer Remastered Collection

Moderate overall intensity
Highest flag: Substances — depicted
HistoricalSci-fiStrategy

What's in it

Violence realistic
Moderate

Real-time military warfare where infantry, tanks, aircraft, and buildings are destroyed with explosions; small-sprite soldiers leave brief blood when killed, and live-action cutscenes show soldiers being shot or bases blown up without graphic gore.

Substances depicted
Moderate

The live-action video briefings between missions show military and civilian characters smoking on screen. There are no drugs in the game and the player never uses or trades any substance.

Dark themes mild
Low

The story centers on global war waged by a shadowy paramilitary cult led by Kane, touching on terrorism, mass-casualty superweapons, and a toxic alien substance that mutates people.

Language mild
Low

Occasional mild language in the campy live-action full-motion-video cutscenes between missions.

Who can reach your kid

Chat with strangersUser-created content

What it is

This is a 4K remaster of the two original 1990s Command & Conquer real-time strategy games plus their expansions, totaling around 100 missions. Players build bases, harvest resources, and command armies of tanks, infantry, and aircraft to defeat opposing forces in a fictional global conflict (and, in Red Alert, an alternate-history WWII). Combat is depicted from a distant top-down view with small units that fire on each other, producing minor blood effects and explosions rather than gore. Between missions, live-action full-motion-video cutscenes advance a war story involving a paramilitary cult, superweapons, and a mutating alien mineral, with occasional mild language. It includes rebuilt online multiplayer with in-game text chat and a map editor plus mod support (user-created content).

How it's framed

The game frames its warfare as strategic military conflict between rival factions, with the player cast as a battlefield commander pursuing mission objectives; the campaign presents its cult antagonist and superweapons through pulpy, cinematic 1990s live-action storytelling rather than realistic atrocity.

Details

Developer
Petroglyph
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Released
Jun 5, 2020
Metacritic 82critic score (third-party) · out of 100

Similar games

We built this because we needed it

Balanced Play pools your kids' game time into one budget across Steam, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and more. We're taking 100 founding families — free for life.

Claim a founding spot →

Free for life for the first 100. No card, no spam.