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Its ability to upgrade to gatling gun, bunker or speaker tower ensures that a pack of 10 to 20 Overlords will drive over anything the defense can throw at them. A low number of overpowered units usually do a lot better than a high number of cannon fodder. Things really went downhill when EA took over Westwood studios. it's like they ripped the backbone out of the game. Red Alert 3 is an even bigger failure and so is Tiberium twilight. You just couldn't destroy the enemy base with super weapons.

NOD's cluster missile was best used against power plants and concentrations of buildings, but if you waited for 2 chemical missiles, you stood a decent chance of destroying the Construction yard, weapons factory or a refinery - the three strongest buildings. The ion cannon would best be used against power plants, base defenses or unit concentrations just before your force rolled in. Tiberian Sun style super-weapons were the best. Where's the tactics and strategy in that? You could basically build a large defense force, wait for enemies to attack so you could score points, then use the super powers and general's powers to wipe the enemy out. The generals powers were overpowered and there was no cap on number of super-weapons. Chinese gun turrets were worthless against tanks and only excelled against infantry. GLA missiles and Patriots were only able to shoot air threats down after bombs were away and performed horribly against infantry. Generals crushed that into one turret and it was worthless in all three roles. Usually C&C featured a small ground turret and a large ground turret, as well as a SAM site. You couldn't do a Zerg rush with the GLA. GLA also had no special super powers in the beginning of the game. The stingers just caused enough damage to scratch your tanks, but no amount of GLA resistance could hold up to a serious ground assault. GLA was a nuisance when you wanted to destroy them. The cutscenes were rendered in game, the voice acting sucked, the number of units and tactics available was limited and the game was incorrectly balanced.Ĭhinese had insane ground offensive capabilities, US had the air force, but why bother with stealth Comanche, if they can be detected by the low tech GLA stinger site. The cutscenes look like well produced movies, not just some person talking to the always silent commander behind the screen:Īll Generals was was a test of the in-dev engine. Tiberian sun also had by far the best cinematics and voice acting of any game I have ever played: Such was the case with stealth units in Generals. In future C&C games, many units have stealth, but also almost every defensive building and many units have ability to discover stealth units - making stealth meaningless. Detecting stealth units was difficult - only one unit could cover a large area to reliably detect stealth units. Something that's gone from future C&C games.Īnother awesome feature of Tiberian Sun was the use of the Stealth Tank. NOD also featured two underground vehicles: An APC and a flame tank. Not just cratering that you see in the later engines that doesn't affect unit movements, I'm talking about the ground changing when struck by high powered weapons. I remember well how effective the NOD artillery was at digging giant holes in the ground. Tiberian Sun featured DYNAMIC terrain, a feature deleted from the later C&C engine. And I'm talking about units that don't have silly capabilities like the Red Alert 3 SHRINK RAY. Both sides have lots of different units and different tactics.

When the old Command & Conquer and Red Alert first came out, they were revolutionary in at least several areas of gameplay, but Tiberian Sun and Firestorm set the standard for what a C&C game should be.

Warzone 2100 infantry series#

Generals is where Command & Conquer series got a bullet to its head.