#Command And Conquer Generals Pc Series Grew Out#

But it may be time to wipe it. It brings to the main game a new faction Russia with new units, special powers, abilities and upgrades.By PETER ELEY (Herald Rating * * * * ) Red Alert 2 has survived on our hard drive for the past three years. Description: The End Of Days is a c&c Generals Zero Hour mod.

Command And Conquer Generals Pc Series Grew Out

Generals will be familiar territory to anyone who bought the excellent Red Alert expansion, Yuri's Revenge. C&C Renegade wasn't too hot, but Generals will stifle any critics who thought the franchise might have run out of ammunition. The series grew out of the first real-time strategy game, Dune2, and has run to about 20 titles, of mixed quality. Red Alert is, of course, also a Command and Conquer game.

The missions follow the tried and tested C&C mix of expansive strategic battles and smaller, individual missions, and can be played from any of the three sides. Play as the US and the first mission is to neutralise the GLA Scud site in Baghdad, for example. The game puts them at odds in the near future in scenarios that resemble present conflicts. Generals takes that further, and the three factions, the US, China and the Global Liberation Army have widely differing structures, units and superweapons.

Effective use of these is crucial, and a few sessions will be needed to work it all properly. A departure from earlier C&C games is the Generals structure, which sees sides earn bigger and better weapons and abilities as they gain experience points from battles. Computer opponents soon work out your weak spots, and will attack quickly and in force. Players need to work out strategic options, which positions to defend and make good use of territory, particularly high ground. The graphics are striking with superb detail, and the unit structure seems better balanced. Unlike Red Alert, there's no random map mode, which gave that game endless playability.

There is a lack of naval units. It's hard to fault the game apart from on a couple of points. Some advanced ones fly at supersonic speed and have stealth cloaking devices which make it tough for anti-aircraft defences. Planes have more firepower and better armour than those in Red Alert.

My nVidia 32mb only just coped despite tonnes of system ram and a fast processor. Note that the game requires an up-to-date graphics card. And some of the special abilities you earn as a general seem to give you quite an unfair edge in skirmish mode on low difficulty settings.