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Enough is enough.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 72 / 117
Date: February 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is 2003, and I for one have completely had it with Westwood's ridiculously bad AI. We took this kind of unit stupidity in 1992 with Dune 2 when the RTS genre was new, but when is Westwood finally going to wake up, smell the coffee, and realize that they can't just keep putting new graphics on the same game, give a minor gameplay tweak here and there, ignore the AI and corresponding strategy elements, and expect us to dutifully keep swallowing it and shelling out the bucks?

What was the original C&C's gameplay like? Click click click click, build build build build, then click to attack (or defend) with your hundreds of units. Repeat. And repeat. Until someone edges out a win because they clicked slightly faster, or the tiberium is done and a victory is squeaked in via attrition. Now fast forward to 2003 and C&C: Generals. What's the gameplay like? Click click click click, build build build build, then click to attack (or defend) with your hundreds of units. Repeat. And repeat. Etc ad nauseum.

This isn't strategy. In fact the so-called "Real-Time Strategy" has never been about strategy at all...it's just a marketing term to give a very rote, very brain-numbing kind of gameplay more of a cerebral spin. Well a lot of us tolerated that lack of strategy and AI, with the hope that as the genre matured, Westwood would have enough vision (if not common sense) to finally put in a worthy AI and make these games a truly fun, strategic challenge to play. Well they never did, and with what we're seeing, it doesn't look like they ever will...all they do is spend all of their resources - ALL of them - on graphics. The computer "opponents" and units are all as stupid as ever, and once you learn the units and the rote action, gameplay is also just as coma-inducing. :P

Save your money and your time. You haven't just seen this before, it's practically all you've seen if you've followed Westwood games, and anyone expecting this game to finally start using the immense amount of potential computer intelligence available to us with modern PCs, will be very disappointed indeed. "C&C: Generals"? More like Mindless Clickfest 2003. Pass.

very disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: April 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a C&C fan but was very disappointed by the latest release, C&C Generals.
A lot of problems are still there, you would imagine them being fixed by now. The AI is still just stupid & predictable, units dont respond when fired at, pathfinding sucks. There is no storyline. Missions are repetitive, too easy, too few in number and all of them boil down to 'blow up the enemy base'. The AI still cheats, it keeps building faster than you even without any income, it knows exactly where any of your buildings is located without ever entering your base or using a spydrone. Multiplayer is still plagued by the tankrush. It is too bad the navy has been eliminated.

even though the graphics are superb and it is a lot of fun to nuke the enemy base it takes more than that to make a great game.
Needles to say the game is not playable on the recommended system, you need something far more powerful.

Buy it used, it is not worth the full price.

Worst command and conquer yet

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 18
Date: February 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I guess I'm showing my age but I've been playing command and conquer since the first version and this is by far the worst, the graphics are impressive but cpu intensive, you can't escape any of the video sequences and last but not least the ai which in all of the command and conquer games was always tough to beat in normal mode was easily beaten.

Serious bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: March 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The good : Game has decent graphics, not as stunning as Age of Mythology, but in line with Warcraft III.

The bad : The game interface is still much the same as C&C's of past. Left click everthing. Right click twice to release unit/group. Very annoying.

The ugly : First installed on my "high-end" gaming machine: Win XP Pro on an Athlon XP 1800+, 512M DDR RAM, with an Asus GeForce4 TI 4200 w/ 128M. After playing through training mission and 2 missions in the first campaign, system started locking up (not just the game, it took the whole system down). Latest patch from game co and updated drivers from nVidia, still no luck. Runs then crashes. Then, uninstalled from that machine and put on my sons PC: Win XP Pro on an Athlon XP 1800+, 512M DDR RAM, with an ATI Radeon 8500 w/ 64M RAM. Game at least runs, however, the response is extremely slow, video is choppy, and the cursor is extremely erratic (does not paint well).

Conclusion : Although the game appears to be fun, there are way too many bugs and annoyances to warrant anything other than 1 star.

Too many bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 16
Date: March 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After 4 patches, I still can't play online, even though all my other online games work (including Blizzard's and even Westwood's previous ones). The EA message board is flaming with similar (and other) problems. Avoid this one.

More details re problem: I can connect to the EA server, download patches, and see games. I can even join games. But the games never start.

It seems the game has trouble with NAT and firewalls, but it is worse than that, as I can't connect even if I try a direct connection through my cable modem, or even if I use my dial-up modem!

TOO MANY ISSUES, TOO LITTLE SUPPORT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: April 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game, it worked for a week. I began receiving fatal error messages. Attempted to contact customer support, no glory. Checked on EA's website, all they offer is a forum where techs post replies to problems. They told me that my chipset is not supported. The box does not list my chipset as not being supported. The game scanned my PC and said it met all system requirements. Don't waste your money.

Looks great, if I could only play it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: October 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This looks like a great game, but alas I cannot bare to play it. I've tried it on 3 top of the line machines (well over the recommended requirements), and the gameplay still comes out slow & choppy. I'd think twice about buying this obviously buggy game.

What have they done?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible. I got the game in time as I had pre ordered it from amazon, but this game is actually horrible, the worst ive played in the command and conquer series. The camera angle is terrible and the units move so [darn] slow. They need to work way more harder if they want to see these games.
I do not recommend this game to anyone at all

Bad coding, bad Idea

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 33
Date: November 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I saw this game at my friend's, the first thing that offended me was the war against Islam and being so racist calling people defending their country terrorists (but that's up to what Westwood think right?).

My friend has a very high end machine (P4 2.4, 512DDR Ram, 64Mb ATI VGA, etc.) and it could play the most demanding games like WCIII or the poorly coded GTA3 and the awesome Vice City.

This game totally sucked at his machine, GTA3 was way better (I think GTA3 didn't work fine on low end machines cause it was originally coded for PSX, but Rockstar games did an awesome job on Vice City).

Well, if you own a super computer with a high end (128+) VGA card, and you're not offended by the racism and wrong political views of the game then buy it.
Otherwise, I recommend that you find another RTS game..

I'm sure not waiting for any other RTS games from WestWood studios, I guess RA2 will be the last game I got from them.

The worst C&C release ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Once again EA has produce a game that lots of people will buy because of the brand but the game play is absolutely appalling. The only thing that is good about the entire thing is the 3D graphics which everyone agrees but only work with the most powerful machines.

The AI of the units are bad - they never responds themselves when attacked, the story line is bad - China didn't invade the US, the movies in between the levels are gone - no more US President fleeing to Canada jokes, the sexy secretaries are also missing - No more real life Tanya either, the music is also extremely bad - it's too soft, this should be the background music for SimCity... NOT C&C.

The passion for C&C is noticeably missing from the programmer. The entire package is rough round the edges. I still remember in the previous releases of C&C we have a person devoted to build the installation program so that it takes you directly to the C&C experience once you have put the disc into the drive... This is no more.

To build any building, it's now required to use workers or its equivalent and click on a spot to build it. The old C&C build mechanism is gone and the more complex and annoying building method that is stolen from Warcraft and Ages of Empire is used instead.

All this add up to slow games as people build and build and build rather than concentrate on the more interesting and innovative part which is the fighting!

I would love to see EA being brought down and some real innovative / committed game company to succeed.

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