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| Maker: |
Westwood
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| Title: |
C&C Generals |
| Availability: |
Now |
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| Date: |
3-25-03 |
| Price: |
$49.99 |
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The single player missions consist of standard C&C fare: survive for
x minutes, destroy x targets, eliminate enemy at x location, etc, with a
few twists and surprises along the way. Don't get me wrong, they're very
well done and the majority of them are fun to play, but single player ultimately
serves as little more than training for multiplayer. Each side has a total
of seven missions, each prefaced with an in-game cutscene to familiarize
the player with the scenario and objectives. For the most part, the missions
are disconnected and do not further an all-encompassing storyline, like
in previous C&Cs. In terms of difficulty, most strategy veterans will
breeze right through single player on normal. That's not to say there aren't
some tricky parts, but again, if you've played C&C, you know what to
expect here, and should probably crank up the difficulty if you want a challenge. |
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To test the multiplayer component of Generals, I brought my machine over
a buddy's house and set up a small network. (We're both grizzled Command
and Conquer veterans, although I'm probably the more grizzled of the two.)
With me playing as the US, him as China, and a hard AI as the GLA, we started
a game. The three sides play off each other beautifully, and the player
who is able to more efficiently utilize their side's advantage and exploit
the enemy's disadvantage will earn the ever-welcome "Victory"
screen. (Although that screen is the same dumb picture of a mountain range
for every side.) Fortunately, the lag that sometimes crippled RA2 during
LAN games is nowhere to be found. |
- Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me, Windwos 2000, or Windows XP (Windows
NT and Windows 95 not supported)
- 800 MHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
- 128 MB of RAM
- 8x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
- 1.8 GB free hard disk plus space for saved games (additional space required
for Windows swap-file and DirectX 8.1 Installation)
- 32 MB video card using Nvidia GeForce2, ATI Radeon 7500 AGP video card,
or more recent chipset with DirectX 8.1 compatibable driver
- DirectX 8.1 compatible 16-bit sound card
- Keybord
- Mouse
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| -CPU AMD
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| 2600+ and below |  |
| 2700+ and above |  |
| AMD MP |  |
| Opteron |  |
| Athlon 64 |  |
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| -CPU Intel
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| P4/XE 2.4 & up |  |
| P4/XE 2.2 & down |  |
| Celeron |  |
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| -Memory DDR |  |
| -Memory pc133 |  |
-Hard Drive IDE (60G and lower) |  |
-Hard Drive IDE (80G and higher) |  |
| -CD/DVD/CDRWs |  |
| -nVidia video cards |  |
| ATI video cards |  |
| -LCD monitors: 15in |  |
| -LCD monitors: 17in |  |
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AMD Motherboards
XP:nForce2,VIA KT600
Opteron: nForce3, AMD8000
64: nForce3, AMD8000, K8T
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Intel Motherboards
Latest Chipset: 875P
w/Graphics: 865G
VIA: P4X
ATI: 9100 IGP
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