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can get tiring........

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

good, solid, game. but the AI isn't anything speicial. eventually you get tired of seeing the same battle happen over and over and over again. The campaign is not that great either. if youre looking for a good campaign get red alert 2 and yuris revenge.

good but should be better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off: Can't skip cutscenes. Sometimes they are up to 2 mins long. Jeez.

The interface is lacking a bit; it's tough to pick one unit out of the crowd (like say a sniper). When selecting a large group of different units there is no way to tell how many of each unit you have. So selecting just the tanks is difficult or impossible. Rise of Nations has a far superior interface.

On the upside, it's pretty. Many cool units on every side. Skirmish mode is fun. Great superweapons.

HA! Not as good as the old one

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game would be far better if the resources lasted more than an hour. I like to take my time playing a game, build up your forces and attack, but use a strategy. This game requires you to move quick, build your tanks up as fast as possible and attack because when you are done you will not have any more resourses coming in. The AI is horible, it focuses so much on attacking you first thing in the game that before you are done building up your base they have run out of money. NO joke all you have to do is wait for the AI to attack and then send some troops to their base, knowing that they don't have the money to build more troops. I give this 3 stars because the multiplayer seems to be the only reason I play the game.

Great Strategy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I like to switch every few months between Sci-Fi, and RL. Between SF 1st person games to birds-eye viewing an army invading an enemy base.

I have to say that the Generals series has fulfilled gaming needs ;)

The various generals allow you to become great in specific fields such as infantry, tanks, air force, nuclear power, and much more.

I won't go into too many details so you can try it for yourself but I will say that, while I miss the old C&C games (they don't play on XP :..(), Generals and Zero Hour have the most impressive graphics and some of the most detailed game play you will see.

The explosions are real, the sound is undeniably great. US Rangers fast roping from a Chinook, Stealth Fighters bombing specific enemy targets, Chinese armored divisions crossing key bridges, and GLA demolition trucks lurking in 'abandoned' cities, awaiting to kamikazie on an enemy convoy.

All in all, it has everything a strategic gamer likes.

Buy the Deluxe edition because I, for one, enjoy playing both campaings. It's also fun once in a while to go back to Generals instead of Zero Hour to see what it was like to win the battlefield without Chinese Helix choppers flying cover.

Though it has high system requirements, it is well worth it. If you buy it and it's laggy then it's a problem with your computer's specifications and not with the game.

Oh, forgot one Con. The online multiplayer gets pretty laggy. I mean I played with a friend online (2v2comps) and it was getting pretty laggy, though maybe it's just my computer (even though it's brand new).

This doesn't go with the C&C series.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 29
Date: July 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's a pretty good game but it takes place no where in the C&C series. I have every C&C game except for Covert Ops, Counter-strike, and Retaliation. Generals doesn't seem to fit in between C&C and Red Alert. It is years above Red Alert and a few years behind Command & Conquer, which doesn't make sense because the tiberian meteor was supposed to hit earth sometime then. And what happened to the Allies, Soviets, GDI, and Nod? GDI was formed before the meteor so instead of USA, China, and GLA it should be GDI against some other side maybe even GLA. It's a pretty good game as I said above but you would need a very, very fast computer to play without annoyance. I gave it two stars for a cool war game. I would have given it more stars if it was in the C&C storyline.

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: February 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the best online RTS game I have ever played and I've played all of the warcrafts and star craft you MUST BUY THIS GAME it rocks

the best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 23
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has the best grapics in the world I love c&c. I don't know what would happen if C&C was never invented.

stargazed28

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: April 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game does not live up to westwood studio quality at all!
EA can keep it. constantly lagging, not good story lines, and no james earl jones. but it looks cool! but, looks aren't everything.

Disappointing gameplay

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: July 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off, my introduction to the Command & Conquer world was Red Alert 2 and its expansion, Yuri's Revenge. I've been playing real-time strategy (RTS) games since Warcraft 2. What I loved about Red Alert 2: simplified resource gathering; good mix of military units, but not so many types of units to be overwhelming (like in Medieval: Total War); good pathfinding by units: you click on where you want units to go and can trust that the game AI will figure out how to get them there; waypoints: the ability to set units on a predetermined path; good unit selection options (all units on screen, all units on map, all combat units); good unit production queuing system. Can you tell Red Alert 2 is one of my favorite games ever, RTS or otherwise?

Unfortunately, the Generals game interface has lost many of the features that made Red Alert 2 so effortless and enjoyable to play. For example, once you group units together in a task force (eg. ctrl-1, you create "Task Force 1"), there's no way to tell how many units, or even what type of units you have in that task force. Pathfinding has taken a big step backwards. If you have two groups of units crossing paths (especially tanks), you can expect massive traffic jams, especially if the groups have numerous units. Resource gathering is quite slow, especially for the US, and there's really no way to speed it up. In Red Alert 2, you could always build more ore gatherers, and ore fields would still offer a trickle of ore once the bulk of the ore was harvested. In Generals, if you're playing the US, only one helicopter (maybe two) can be tasked on a supply drop at a time, and once the supplies are gone, they're gone.

What's good about the game? The overall concept -- the technologically advanced USA vs. the mass unit swarming Chinese army vs. the (Al Qaeda inspired?) terrorist Global Liberation Army (GLA). The three sided rock-paper-scissors concept is still a strong one (witness Starcraft). Pretty cool unit abilities -- I especially like the ability to capture an enemy's building, and US vehicles' ability to create drones. I also like the idea that as you destroy more enemy units, you unlock different Generals abilities. However, the concept can't cover up the poor gameplay interface. All in all, a big step back for Westwood.

Very racist, bloated, and not made by Westwood

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 39
Date: October 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Warning! This game is extremely racist! If you are a fan of Westwood's other games, like Dune 2, Dune 2000, Emperor, etc. and like playing the Noble Atreides so you can side with the Fremen, you will really not like this game!
If you hate arabs, and to a lesser extent, asians, then you might like this game.
This game isn't actually made by Westwood, and it shows. Not just in the racism, but many things about this game feel different.
Also the system requirements for this game are ridiculous. It requires loads of hard disk space and a very fast machine. Definately not a game for those with old computers.
I loved all the other Command & Conquer games, but this one I uninstalled fairly quickly.

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