10 Obscure Video Game Spin-Offs You Totally Forgot Existed

7. Command & Conquer: Renegade

Quite possibly the most famous strategy video games series of all time, Command & Conquer will always be fondly remembered by veteran gamers growing up in the 90s... Cha-Ching! What it definitely won't be remembered for is Renegade, the first-person shooter released in 2002 that marked the series' foray into a genre dominated at the time by the likes of Unreal Tournament and Quake 3. Built on Westwood's own in-house engine that supported some excellent (for the time) gameplay and physics, Renegade took players all over the world (well, generic battlefields all over the world), as you rampaged across vast levels on foot or in tanks, carrying out an array of military-grunt objectives. The multiplayer was also solid, with a Command and Conquer Mode which borrowed gameplay elements - such as harvesting - from the strategy games, while being a deceptively tactical online shooter. While it wasn't a huge hit at the time, it was popular enough that fans made Renegade X in 2009, a remake of the game in Unreal Engine 3. It's worth checking out, even though it's considerably faster and less tactical than the original.