"Cultures endlessly repeat the narratives of their founding as a way of justifying their occupation of space. What is interesting about Nintendo® is that it allows people to enact through play an older narrative that can no longer be enacted in reality--a constant struggle for possession of desirable spaces, the ever shifting and unstable frontier between controlled and uncontrolled space, the need to venture onto unmapped terrain and to confront its primitive inhabitants."

"Command & Conquer has never been about rendering the emotions of a real war. It’s about the fantasy of war, the romanticism of how fun it should be. In the C&C world you don’t really get much in the way of violence. It’s a wargame, but there really isn’t a sense of gore – it’s more a sense of adventure, of conflict and resolution. One of the things you’ll notice in Renegade is that the [enemy] soldiers are wearing full facemasks. We’re making a very strong effort to dehumanize the enemy. We want them to be really, really evil rat-bastards that you want dead. We don’t want you to think about their wife and kids"