Later it has been re-released in a heavily censored version: the threat of an Iraq war) and to cynical - for example sending out suicide attackers, carpet bombing and raiding UN convoys. The BPjM, Germany's banning office, said that C&C: Generals is too close to real-world events (i.e. This means that it is forbidden to sell the game to minors or to advertise it in any form.

Games with game altering copy protectionĬommand & Conquer: Generals was first temporarily (February 28, 2003) and later definitely (March 06, 2003) put on the German index.

Everything is paid for in advance instead of having credits slowly drain as the object is constructed. Upgrades are available for the first time in the series as well, bringing improvements to units and structures.

For the first time in the series, each factory-type structure (barracks, war factory, airfield.) has its own build queue, in the same fashion as in Blizzard's RTS titles before it, instead of having a shared one like in the previous C&C games. The sidebar is replaced with the bottom bar, and support powers are 'purchased' with leveling up as a general, which is done through participating in combat. First off, construction yards are absent, as structures are built by dozers for the USA and China, and workers for the GLA. The core gameplay differs somewhat from other games in the series, a move done in order to modernize the formula. It uses a full 3D environment powered by the SAGE engine, a modified version of the W3D engine previously seen in C&C: Renegade. Generals is the first game in the Command & Conquer series not to include FMV or pre-rendered cutscenes between missions, and was also the first C&C game without the Westwood Studios label (although the development studio was initially called Westwood Pacific before being merged into EA Pacific).

Generals features real world (renamed or slightly altered) weapons combined with quasi-high-tech ones, new control schemes and a fast-paced multiplayer. A new chapter in the Command & Conquer universe, set somewhere in the 2020s, pits three sides for global domination: the United States of America, the People's Republic of China and the Global Liberation Army (GLA).

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