The game follows a storyline that is much closer to real life than its predecessors. Not only this, but the premise of the game itself drew heavy criticism from Tiberium and Red Alert fans, as not only did Generals not look like a C&C game, it didn't feel like one either. Generals is the first Command and Conquer game to go fully 3 dimensional, whereas all the games up to this one were 2D isometric. Getting back to Generals, lots of people who were fans of Command and Conquer didn't even like the game back then, seeing as how it is so drastically different from its predecessors. After all, in Red Alert 2, the Russians gain access to ridiculous weapons like armored blimps and giant squids that are mind-controlled to attack enemy warships.
You can tell the actors involved had a lot of fun with them, and the games aren't really meant to be taken seriously. These two games have surprisingly depressing and dark storylines, but both the Red Alert and Tiberium games were always rooted in fiction. A powerful military organization called the GDI (Global Defense Initiative) fights the Brotherhood of Nod in the depressing environment of a dying planet earth, and Nod, under their leader, Kane, tries to use the spread of Tiberium to their advantage to basically destroy the world. The Tiberian games focused on an entirely separate timeline from Red Alert, set in the near future (2030s) where a highly dangerous and toxic chemical substance called Tiberium crash lands on earth and starts spreading rapidly. Previous installments such as Red Alerts 1 and 2 and Tiberian Sun had a varied, but well established formula: the Red Alert subseries of Command and Conquer focused on an alternate timeline where Einstein travels back in time and kills Hitler before he even has a chance to rise to power, therefore getting rid of world war 2 up until a certain point, where the USSR suddenly becomes aggressive and decides to take over europe. Whereas the previous C&C games got almost universal praise among fans, Generals was seen as something of a mixed bag. As for the base game itself (with no add ons), the first thing Command and Conquer fans probably noticed about Generals when playing it for the first time in 2003 is how radically different it is from previous games in this series. I consider those things to be completely separate games in their own right.
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Because of this, I will not be talking about mods such as Shockwave or Rise of the Reds in this review. People in the community make modifications for it in order to alter the way it plays, add new teams and vehicles, among other things. Probably the best aspect about Generals is the huge amount of community content available for the game.
For the past 15 or so years, this game has been a huge source of enjoyment for me, due to its huge amount various units, buildings, usable strategies, and playable factions. If I had to choose just one video game to play for the rest of my life and I wasn't allowed to play anything else, I would choose Generals.
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