
The game has been banned in China (where are the other episodes of the series were landed successfully) probably because in one of the episodes of the Chinese countryside Square Tian’anmen is hit by a nuclear attack Moreover, the same Chinese faction in the campaign is a rather indiscriminate use of tactical nuclear weapons. In the tradition of Command & Conquer, Generals is a game very politically correct, and presents (albeit with increasingly self-mocking tone, and the border with comic typical of the series) current political elements presented without many moral qualms. THE’ ELG does not have aviation and using poorly technological tools combined with techniques and tools suited to guerrilla warfare and terrorism, including weapons for germ warfare based on ‘ anthrax. China uses more technologically backward means but very effective, and has in its favor a foot large, armored vehicles very powerful, and a number of related technologies propaganda that, in the futuristic scenario of the game, is entrusted to the wave propagation control mental. The United States has a technology state of the art (2020, thus partly futuristic) heavily based on ‘ Aviation and on the arms laser. Įach of the factions has peculiar characteristics that make it completely different from the others (even from the point of view of the type of request strategic guide to the player).

The story told in campaigns default of the game sees the US and China united in the fight against the attacks terrorist dell’ELG, and thus has many similarities with the political situation of early 2000 and the war against terrorism. The three factions fighting are the United States, the China and the ‘ Liberation Army Global (ELG, Global Liberation Army, or GLA English in the original), a generic organization Middle East. Generals is, like the other episodes of the series Command & Conquer, a video game environment of political fiction, this time set in the period between 20. Generals is based on the 3d engine SAGE (Strategy Action Game Engine) (extension of the engine previously used in the video game Command & Conquer: Renegade ), which gives the game a graphic quality well above that of the previous episodes of the series, and comparable to RTS that of a few others of the same period (the same engine has been increasingly used by EA Games to make the Lord of the Rings: the Battle for Middle-earth ).

The extension of the game was released the same year and is called Command and Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour. It was released in 2003 for Windows and for Mac OS X, and began a new series in the universe Command and Conquer. Command and Conquer: Generals is a video game in real-time strategy developed and published by Electronic Arts.
