Command and Concquer: Generals (C&C: Generals) is a 3D RTS(Real Time Strategy) in which the sides of GLA(a terrorist group), China, and the USA battle. In the game, you build a base, creating different structures to let you build different units for war, and different technologies to support your war. Each of the three sides has different things to build, and therefore, completely different strategies to follow.
So, I have been playing C&C games since the original, qnd I guess I am kinda traditionalist, because I don't like anything that uses the names C&C, but doesn't use GDI and NOD for the opposing sides, and Tiberium as a money source. So, with that, I don't like the game as a C&C game, but... it DOES have other things to it. Like, its got some interesting technologies you can accquire.
I spent most of my free time today either playing it or watching it being played, tho mostly on skirmishes, and not the actual missions, so I don't know how the story is. What I do know is that most of the time the skirmishes are fun. My biggest problem with the game(besides the lack of NOD and GDI) is that it feels like when they were making the GLA units, they ran out of time, and had to ship it without everything they wanted. Maybee they needed to make it more challenging for the terrorists so they didn't look like sympathisers, but whatever it is, that makes it kinda icky to play as them, since they don't feel like they have as much variety as the others. But thats not to say that the other sides don't feel like they are missing somthing. I think USA feels like its missing somthing as well, just a lot less than GLA. And I was too buisy enjoying the fantastic nuclear technologies of the Chinese to notice them missing anything. Plus I had already gotten used to USA and GLA having too few by then to notice.
But the game has some great qualities. The graphics are pretty good, definetly portray all the details you need, and more, like when you blow up a car or somthing, the car and the PERSON IN IT go flying up way high into the air! And when you destroy a building, it releases a dust cloud, and you can't see anything in the area, which is groovily realistic. I think it really sucks that you can't change the camera angle... Well, you might be able to, but I don't know how, and I find it monumentally irritating, even tho the game usually marks things that are behind the buildings. Another grrovy thing is the garrisonment. You have the ability the garrison your troops into ANY unoccupied bulding you want to.
The game also has the function by which it is named: the general rank function. When your troops and such destroy and kill, you gain expirience points, and when you gain enough, you get a generals star. You can spend the star for a war upgrade, like getting a special technology, or get an air strike, artillary strike, a special emergency repair thing, or somthing like that. What you can get varies by which of the three sides you ally to. Also, only the first three are available till you have gotten your third star(total, not that you have to save stars to get higher ones, its just that once you get the third star, the others unlock, and you can get them for one star a piece.) And once you have the fifth, one more is unlocked, and is some sort of strong strike, which differs between sides.
lastly, each side has a big thing they can do, like in all the other C&C games. Probably you can only use them in the last couple of campain missions, but in skirmish, you just have to build the building. Altho I have played all three sides, I have only see China and USAs ultimate weapons, and I must say that they are graphically and desructively appealing! See, china does these nukes, and they basically do a whole lot of damage to one spot, and a bunch more to anything anywhere nearby. PLUS, it leaves radiation! Yeah, I didn't mention that there are things that stay behind, like radiation, and anthrax, and acid, and other chemicals, and they glow and stay on the ground, and do nasty bad things to your units(different things from different reminants). And the USA does an Ion-Cannon type ting they call a Particle Cannon, which I think is completely retarded, but thats just me. And the Ion-Cannon in this game(since I refuse to change what I call it.) can actually move! Like, when you click it, it does damage, and it stays a long time, rather than one big burst of damage. And you can leave it where it is, or you can move it! Like, you could chase someone with it like they did in Akira! Yeah, its really cool. Oh, and somthing strange about the ultimate-weapons of this game that I think shouldn't be possible is that if you build multiple of the buildings that are required for the weapon, you get multiple countdowns, and multiple beams. This means that if you are crazy enough, you could build five ion cannon, or nuke or SCUD Storm things, and launch five attacks at the same base at once! Its crazy! Heh, makes some great screenshots, but its crazy! I donno, im really tired now. I am going to bed or somthing. I like the game, but I didn't buy it, so I don't know if its a waste of the money, I just can't get a feel for that. I described the game as best I could, even if I were more awake, this is the best I can describe it, and thats about all the most noticeable attributes to it that I saw, and so if this sounds great, then I say you should get it!
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