Command and Conquer Generals

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Product Features

• You are the commanding general in this strategic realtime game of modern day warfare
• 3 sides to choose from: USA, China, or the GLA terrorist group
• Tons of modern warfare vehicles, equipment and weapons
• Each side has unique characters, weapons, and vehicles
• For 1 player, or multi-player over Internet

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000EWNVA
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: April 12, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,053 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Mac | Edition: Standard

From the Manufacturer

In a time of modern war, recent military aggressions around the globe have many nations worried. Between the United States, China, and the Global Liberation Army, tensions run high. Their leaders profess no interest in escalating the situation, but words ring hollow when satellite photos tell a different story.

UNITED STATES: America's military leader must use the world's most advanced military to root out an elusive foe. Eradicating the cell-based GLA will take courage, conviction, and the will to see a prolonged campaign through to the end.

GLOBAL LIBERATION ARMY: Facing superior firepower, the GLA embraces bio-terrorism, sabotage, and suicide bombings to further its political agenda. But leading a chaotic group of freedom fighters against two global superpowers will take some doing.

CHINA: No longer just a red-communist step-child, China's modern army is well financed, with a strong nationalistic bent. Parading technology like Dragon Tanks and nuclear missiles, China's military goes beyond simple troop numbers.

Features:

• Wage real-time war in more ways than ever with a modern and near-future arsenal.
• Command the powerful U.S. forces, the vast Chinese war machine, or the resourceful Global Liberation Army.
• Battle it out in unprecedented detail on full 3D environments.
• All-new units and tactics with maximum destructive capability, including Aurora Strike Bombers, Dragon Tanks, and much more.
• Team up with eight friends or go head to-head in massive online multiplayer battles.

Product Description

Command & Conquer: Generals brings Real-time strategy fans the excitement and combat action they crave, in this fast-paced, intense new adventure!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Solid RTS, but wrong title., August 11, 2004

By	Trevor C. Cook (Ramstein, Germany) - See all my reviews

Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

Command & Conquer: Generals is a lot of things. It's pretty. It's reasonably well balanced. It's fairly easy to pick up. It's not, however, Command & Conquer, as Westwood Studios did not develop the game.

The interface is totally different. All of the familiarities of the C&C series, the FMV movies, GDI, NOD, Tiberian ore, even the harvesting process, are completely absent this time around. There's no storyline in this game, so the campaigns are, in a word, boring; you get a simple briefing, maybe a short cinema done with the in-game engine, but nothing to the level of the old C&C games. Disappointing.

As stated before, the interface is new. Some aspects of it, such as queuing unit production, a-la WarCraft, are welcome. However, the adoption of construction units, and the removal of the constant production sidebar (meaning you could produce units without having to click on specific buildings) is a massive loss, and completely robs this game of the interface that defined C&C. The music is also disappointing. C&C games were known for their outstanding soundtracks. This game lacks one. Each side has maybe two themes that randomly start playing; otherwise you play without music. "Realistic" maybe, but not C&C. The USA themes themselves are quality, Hans Zimmer-esque work. But the China and GLA themes are so cliche and stereotyped (not to mention the China theme rips some progressions note-for-note from the music of Battle Realms) that they're uninteresting. A massive loss, that one.

The game, however, plays well-enough. AI is all-right; it's occasionally kind of cheap, but then again, it's occasionally just idiotic.. The sides are all fairly balanced. China is weak against air units, but incredibly strong on the ground. USA is very strong in the air, but average on the turf. GLA are very fast and weak on the ground, but have excellent anti-air units and defenses. In all, it balances out and allows for some interesting play. Units, however, are uninspired. EA tried to go for a "realistic" game, and so you won't find cool units like Tesla Tanks or Orca choppers this time round. Also, units themselves are incredibly weak. Human units are completely useless after about five minutes into the game, and vehicles are ridiculously fragile when compared to past C&C games.

The graphics, however, are outstanding. Particle effects are all around; explosions and fire look amazing. Unit explosions are great; aircraft, when destroyed, fly out of control into the ground, tanks blow apart, etc. Overall, the visuals are good, though the Mac version seems plagued with some tearing and occasional polygon glitches. Collision detection is also way off; units often just pass straight through buildings. Still, to get these lush, totally 3D polygonal graphics to run well requires a massive rig. The game runs on my 15" PowerBook G4 1GHz w/ 512MB RAM, though seemingly in slow-motion. Performance on my father's dual 1.8GHz G5 w/ 1GB of RAM is good, though even that slows down during massive explosions or battles.

If you've got the machine to run it, I recommend Generals as a solid real-time-strategy game, especially if you're not familiar with its history. I do enjoy playing it. Fans of C&C, however, should be warned not to purchase the game by the C&C name alone. This is NOT Command & Conquer.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Warning, January 29, 2005

By	David Barron "Mac Gamer" (Jacksonville, FL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

You won't see this in the advertising...anywhere...but at the moment (and probably permanently) Mac Generals and PC Generals cannot play together online. So, if you are getting this game to play with your PC using friends on your Mac, just forget about it.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not your daddy's Red Alert, May 26, 2005

By	Billy Blaze "william_k" (Cincinnati, OH USA) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

Pretty much an entirely new story line and a different universe in this one, so if you're looking for GDI vs NOD action it isn't here. That being said, this is the best looking RTS I've seen, and the gameplay is good and the resource gathering mechanisms are rather simple (i.e. you don't need 9 different elements to build a tank).

One thing to note is that if you're like me and want to beat up on the computer in skirmish mode (custom game configuration where you can take on between 1 and 7 computer controlled opponents) it will slow down if you crank up the number of opponents and the skill level at which they play (I'm on 2x2.3Ghz G5, Radeon X800, 2.5G RAM). The one good thing that can be said about this is that while it does slow down in the heat of battle things keep moving fairly smoothly whereas with my PC version the game begins to stutter and get very frustrating.

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