Amazon Maximum Age: 240 months
Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633145694
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Format: CD-ROM
Weight: 31 hundredths-pounds
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 110 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 50 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 540 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows 98
Platform: Windows 2000
Platform: Windows Me
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2003-02-11
Studio: Electronic Arts
Feature:
- The U.S. and China have been fighting to rule the world -- but now a new group called the Global Liberation Army(GLA) is gunning for the both of them. Step into this three-way power struggle and take command as a General, to lead your side to victory.
- Command U.S., Chinese or GLA troops, each with their own unique abilities, weapons and strategies
- Use your tactical skills to lead the Chinese with their nuclear and fire-based weapons, or the U.S. with their advanced technology&air superiority, or the GLA with their guerilla tactics&scavenging skills
- As you play and win in these multi-level campaigns, you'll earn General Points you can use to break out the Super Weapons - Nukes&Particle Beams are waiting for you to deploy them
- Unique new missions and campaign goals combined with all-new multiplayer modes bring up the challenge, as you fight for the right to Command&Conquer!
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:
 Unabashedly fun. A great time, but annoying as crap in some respects, 2008-11-14
This game is a blast to play. It's extremely un-PC. First off, it isn't war game that tries to teach you the horrors or war, it's a war game that is fun as heck to play, and honestly, can make war seem pretty awesome.
Other un-PC aspects are the applicability of the conflicts to modern times. The three factions are the U.S.A., China, and a terrorist organization that is obviously modeled mostly on Al-Qaeda. It's not the the fearsome possibilities of conflicts between these organizations that's un-PC, or even their use of weapons of mass destruction, but the way in which the non-USA players are depicted. Sensitive types would call it racist. The Chinese forces have Chinese accents that are used for subtle humorous effect and that say stereotypical Chinese things like how much money there is to make. Another thing that's I think irks some people is that it, more than most war games, is unabashedly fun. Some war games, like most war movies, feel like they're preaching of the horrors of war while they entertain you with war. Not this game. It has no qualms about making its conflicts really fun.
Speaking of fun, some people criticize this game for being mindless. I don't care if it's mindless. I don't play games to exercise my mind, but to have fun. So I personally don't care, but if you like strategy games that are more mental, perhaps you should try TBS games or even another RTS game.
Something should be said for its nuclear explosions. Nukes were used in this game and in a few of it's contemporaries like Rise of Nations, and in Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. Of the three, this has by-far the coolest nukes. They look vastly cooler than in the other games, and RoN puts a limit on how many nukes you can use.
Finally, the control scheme is really stupid. They use a different control scheme than is common in most RTS games. One button is used to do most tasks, and this makes it extremely frustrating at times. I constantly clicked on a unit to tell it to go somewhere, then tried to click on another unit, and the first unit would go to the second unit instead of the cursor now selecting the second unit. That was really annoying.
So cool game. Really fun. Not for people offended by stereotypes.
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