Command & Conquer: Renegade

The game can be played as either a first-person or third-person shooter to the player's preference. The player wields multiple weapons, some of which have unique effectiveness on certain enemies, and has the ability to plant C4 charges on targets and set up beacons to launch an ion cannon beam. Weapons have both re-loadable magazines and extra ammo capacities. There are no melee weapons in the game, only a pistol with infinite ammo.

The player is also able to drive and use the weapons of both GDI and Nod vehicles. Armour can be picked up to protect the player from damage.

Renegade's story takes place during the final days of the First Tiberium War originally depicted in Command & Conquer. GDI's top three Tiberium research specialists have been abducted by the Brotherhood of Nod. The player assumes the role of GDI commando Captain Nick "Havoc" Parker, who is assigned to rescue these experts. He conducts missions which take him all over the world in various countries and climates, both indoor and outdoor, and his actions greatly affect the current state of the war. As the game progresses it is revealed that the specialists have been forced into biochemistry research for the Brotherhood's top secret "Project Re-Genesis", an attempt to create genetically enhanced super-soldiers with the aid of Tiberium.

The game engine, called the "Renegade engine" or "Westwood 3D", was developed in-house by Westwood. It is designed to support real world physics and allow seamless movement from indoor to outdoor environments. The "Westwood 3D" engine was re-used as the base of the SAGE video game engine used in Command & Conquer: Generals, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.

When the game missed its shipping date, Westwood made a comedic video titled Havoc Takes on Westwood, in which Havoc, the game's main character and hero, goes to Westwood Studios to make sure the game does not miss its shipping date again. Even after the video was made, the shipping date was missed once again.

In the United States, Renegade sold 250,000 copies and earned $7.8 million by August 2006, after its release in February 2002. It was the country's 79th best-selling computer game between January 2000 and August 2006. Command & Conquer: Renegade received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Greg Kasavin of GameSpot said that "the game does have some noticeable problems, though C&C fans may find themselves having too much fun to care", but he also criticizes the game, stating that "Westwood has never made a shooter before, and you can tell". The publication later named Renegade a runner-up for its February 2002 "Game of the Month" award. IGN's Steve Butts commented on the game's repetitiveness, writing: "I guess I wanted something a lot less scripted and a lot less cramped from the single player game...As it is, it's a lot like running through a hall until you get to a building, clearing the building and then running through a hallway until you get to the next building". Furthermore, he criticizes the AI, saying: "More than just about anything else it's the dreadful AI that ruins the potential enjoyment of the game. Enemies possess very little sophistication and their main tactic seems to consist of running right towards you trying to empty their ammo clips as fast as possible".

Renegade X is a standalone game created by an independent volunteer development studio, Totem Arts. The studio released the open beta, freeware version of the game on February 26, 2014. Totem Arts continues to release updates and additions for Renegade X.

EA open-sourced the game in February 2025.