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Summary: Your computer needs a Generals ability to play this!!!!
Review: Woo hoo!!! I originally bought this game and played on my P4 - 1.6Ghz, 512 MB Ram, 32 MB Video Memory and was quite disappointed. The game was quite slow and I had to go to the lowest graphical settings to be able to get the game to bearable playing standards. Then I went out and bought a ATI Radeon 9200 128MB video card. It was like I bought a whole new machine. I can feel my eyes getting fatter with all the eye candy. And I was able to go to all high resolutions.
The game itself is fairly decent fair (if you've played one C&C, you've played them all). Of course, besides the graphics, there are some other differences to this game with other C&C titles. But I think with any of them, the multiplayer is where having different titles makes to break the monotony of playing the same game over and over again. Just compare watching the nuke between Red Alert 2 and Generals. WOW!!!!
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Summary: Great continuation of the legacy
Review: I own and have extensively played the whole Command and Conquer series save Cover Operations Mission disc for the original. Generals is quite simply an excellent game that has continued to keep me interested in the series well beyond most gaming series. The graphics are above average, especially given my beafy system, and the sound effects to go with the game are on the same level as the original Red Alert. The interface, even though it moved from side bar to the bottom, is just as easy to navigate if not easier than before.
Unit variety amongst the three sides makes for an excellent balance in the game while forcing you to devise new strategies to combat the different sides depending on which side you play on. Unlike most games of the genre, unit variety is not the same unit with a different color and look to it. The units are unique enough to allow different combinations and highlight the major differences technologically and strategically that each side has.
My only complaint is the lack of a navy. The animation of the water is superb, some of the best I have seen, but there is no navy to complement the presence of the water. The expansion, which is on its way to my house, still has not addressed this hole in the game; hopefully future versions of the series do not make the same mistake by eliminating the navy. All in all, a superb game that is a better complete work than most of its competitors and offers tremendous replayability that is hard to rival.
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Summary: Con on a Classic
Review: First I bought the game (it's command and conquer generals!).The only thing that it has is the build boxes and maps the same. My 100$ video card could not handle it so I went out and spent 400$ on the top of the line video card. I started playing it and there are no movie scenes with actors that people know and like. So I have to sit through a senerio boot up for 3-5min staring at my computer screen. Next time I'll wait until it's under priced and see it on my friends computer.
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Summary: Best Bang for the Buck
Review: This is an excellent game. Networking and Solo play are great. Bottom line is you need a good Video card 4X agp is good 8x agp would be better. This game will feed off everything you got. If you got the right stuff i recommend it.
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Summary: Graphics don't make the game, but in this case, they do.
Review: This game is one of the best games I've had the luck to play.But when I first got the game, my computer could run it all on low graphics, without too much loss in the gameplay department,
but after awhile, the graphics started getting deppressingly sad: if you can't even enjoy nucular explosions then whats the point? So I just stopped playing altogether because the graphics made me blue. One summer later, I downloaded an NVidia chip upgrade for my machine, and now the game looks great!
The great graphics add SO dang much to this game it's amazing!
Just playing with the 3D shadows turned on adds an extra 300 degrees to the game. Only buy this game if you're computer is a good 5 times better then the minimum system requirements. My PC is only six months old and I have to play at an 800x600x16 resolution.
But at least I get to enjoy the shadows.
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Summary: bad tech support
Review: while the game it self is enjoyable, if you can play it, the game is plague with bugs, and saddled with ea horriable tech support. They released a patch that was supose to fix probelms with the fx geforce, delayed the patch for two weeks for testing and QA/QA Testing, yet some how over half the items that were supose to be fixed in the patch, including the geforce fx fix were not fixed. I open a ticket with ea after the patch. Before contacting them i had uninstalled and reinstalled the game, and stated so in my ticket, however not only can ea word not be trusted, it appears tech support can not read, cause they had me uninstall the game again, dispite me stating that this had just been done, before contacting them. When the probelm could not be solved after the second uninstall, they told me I was infored that it appears there are still probelms with this graphics cards series, despite the fact that they claimed to fix, and they let me know if they ever fixed. Of course i had come to the conclustion before contacting them. so if we want a buggy, no support game, go ahead and buy it.
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Summary: Excellent skirmishes! Cool game.
Review: This game is extremely exciting and fun, especially the incredible little skirmish battles. It features:Many maps to choose from, both Soviet and Allied sides, and just plain fun. Sometimes I battle Allied against Allied, and Soviet against Soviet. Some of te best fun you'll ever have on the computor!
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Summary: Good game, but severely taxes your system
Review: Right off the bat: this is a good game. Just like all C&C games before it, the core gameplay is the same, with some differences. For starters, you can now upgrade units with enhanced technology (like upgrading weapons in Warcraft). Many units have their own individual upgrades that enhance abilities as well. There are 3 sides: China, USA, and a world Liberation Army, which are Middle Eastern terrorists. The sides in this game are far more realistic now than they have been in past C&C games, and that makes for interesting warfare during the game. Battles can span anywhere from 15 minutes to 3 hours, and they are often very fun and challenging. Each side is fundamentally different and it will take some time getting used to all sides, as well as trying to master them. Each side has its own campaign to get through with a story to go along with it. Unlike previous C&C games, there are no cinematics between missions. Everything is told to you as you play. Despite the fact that this is a good game, there is one problem with it that just takes the quality of it down completely: the severely high requirements it has for gameplay. I am running a top of the line system, as of August 2003 barely a year old, and Generals runs so slowly you would think that its running on a 486. I don't know why the game runs so poorly, considering the high end technology I have in my computer. Having played the game on other computers I have noticed the same thing. It just demands far too much. Unfortunately sacrifices must be made, and to run the game efficiently you will have to scale the graphics down so much that they will look severely outdated, almost looking like the old C&C games from way back in the day. The fact that this game runs so slowly on a P4, 2.0 gig with 1.2 gig ram and a GeForce 5 video card is mind-boggling. This also makes for extremely slow on-line play. Unfortunately this rather good game is marred by its tremendous system requirements. Had it not been designed ahead of its time, it would have ran more smoothly and would have been an overall better game experience. Regardless, I enjoy the game and any C&C fan will too.
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Summary: do you favor realism or excitement?
Review: To be totally honest, this game looks great, has some good music, and has units that are both familiar and new, keeping it interesting. If only it didn't take as long as a real war... Unless your PC is fully loaded and ultra-fast, this game is likely to keep you twiddling your thumbs for a good deal of the time. When a skirmish actually occurs between units, the level of detail in the violence is fun (i.e., people getting tossed across the screen, explosions..) but they are slow. Gone is the fast and fun gameplay of Red Alert 2, which was largely 2D but much more exciting. There is an utter lack of story, and no cinematic fun between missions like in Red Alert 2. There is a vague and impressive but pretentious opening cinematic. Those looking for a realistic RTS in full 3D mode and have a computer that can support quick gameplay will probably not miss the cinematics, but the freshness and originality of RA 2 is gone, and this seems more like a (sucessful) technical excercise
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Summary: your mom
Review: your mom...................... could beat this........... your mom is easy
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