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cs_california's Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour (PC)
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| [January 17, 2007 04:21:31 PM]
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Compared to other Command & Conquer games this has a different type of gameplay compaired to the earlier Command & Conquer games made by Westwood Studios. It seems like Electronics Arts copied Blizzard Entertainment's Starcraft or Warcraft III. But unlike Starcraft, there are no limits to units, the upgrades build faster, and the Superweapons are much stronger. There is also the concept of an self sufficient economy after a certain point of the game the player has the technology to support his economy with his own buildings instead of collecting minerals, like in the past rts games. Unlike previous games of C&C, EA has removed the construction yard and the famous FMV's before the missions. Electronic arts has eliminated the damage probability aspects of the game causing the use of indiviual units strategically almost useless. Furthermore, the storyline is very simple and there is a poor conflict. Some of the games concepts are also fictious to real life such as China does not use red guards but use PLA soldiers. The infantry is also not as diverse since every team has rocket soldiers and gunners. The game should have more better FMVs and cutscenes. You should also be able to skip them. The cutscenes can't be skiped and you must sit through them every time you restart. The game exhibits complexity in the sense that you have to defend your base and keep up an stable economy while eliminating the opposing force. The storyline is short and easily explainable and not that entertaining. EALA also eliminated the role of characters in the game making the story very vague and simple. Over the gameplay is Fun. The missions pretty much write the story.
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| [January 10, 2007 08:26:33 PM]
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So far I have played this game for about five hours. I figured out that the infantry are almost completely useless in the later parts of the game. Furthermore while testing on the online play many consider the factions to be unbalanced. The gameplay starts to get dull when you notice that one of the simplest strategy to use is rush with a mass of units and overwhelm the enemy forces. But in previous command & conquer games this strategy is reder almost useless by gurilla warfare tactics, but, that is not the case in Command & Conquer Generals. Also the units also exhibit an strange way of guarding. When unattended, the units do not guard against enemies near by and do not retaliate to attacking units. This causes me to check around the map more often which gets annoying when I am commanding an certian taskforce to complete a particular goal.
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cs_california's Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour (PC)
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Current Status: Finished playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 9 January, 2007
GameLog closed on: Friday 11 January, 2008 |
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