Command and Conquer Generals

Kevin Tomaya writes: "GameSpot has posted a really in-depth story about a brand new Command and Conquer game that is in all 3D. It's called C&C Generals and has the US and China fighting against a terrorist organization. The article is like that Metal Gear Solid 2 story they did last year. It takes you through the whole genesis of the project and introduces the development team."

Comments

Westwood is unreliable

[CrazyJim0]

Dune 2 was fun. Everyone wrote in for multiplayer and regnerating spice. C&C was fun.
Red alert was blah. C&C2 was a bug filled imbalance fest that it seemed like nobody tried on.

You'd think the games would get better over time. But they have Hasbro syndrome, where they try and sell off the name. I bet C&C 3d is going to suck royal balls.

Great Game

[Bender Unit 22]

I have been playing it since it came out, and was once in the top 50 of all players, but since I do have a life, it was hard to maintain.(that and the problems with the ranking system causing it to be reset at least once)

No Linux.
Right now there is, in my view, a major showstopper and that is the lack of a linux version of the server.
Right now you either has to install the full game or obtain a special server version from Westwood. But still on Windows. If they want this to catch on, they really need to port the server to Linux.

Little Information.
The information for setting up a server is hard to come by. Granted, this is a new game, but if there is one thing that they should know by now by watching other popular games is that if it must survive they need a good batch of fast access servers available on the net. Making it Windows only and no really helpful information for people who wants to set up a server does not help them. In the real world, game admins does not have unlimited time to figure out how to setup a dedicated server that runs well. When your day is booked full with users screaming, the ones that screams for a c&c server will be but further down the queue because the time needed to satisfy them could(and will) be used to help 4 times as many.
There has also been some people running these server claiming that it uses a lot of bandwidth, a lot more than your everyday FPS, but I can't confirm this since the no Linux issue has prevented me from setting up servers for public use. I am sorry but there is no way that we are intalling Windows servers. The game servers many places does, for some reason, not get the attention and money they should so getting the hardware and software is a matter of begging for it, collecting bits and parts And with a non-exising budget the begging credits won't be used for Windows licences :-)

Re:Inspiration

[Stonehand]

No, the United States does not recognize Taiwan as a separate nation. US policy on the matter has, in fact, been rather odd for quite some time.

a) The US considers Taiwan as part of China. Very, very few countries recognize Taiwan as a country, partly because China is quite willing to leverage its economic power to punish nations which would otherwise do so.
b) The US maintains diplomatic relations with Beijing not Taipei.
c) The US does NOT advocate Taiwanese independence.
d) Yet, the US also not only warns against the PRC using military force versus what the US says is part of the PRC, but under US law is obligated to provide the means to *defend* one piece of the PRC against the rest.

It's quite bizarre, but it's aimed at trying to push eventual reconcilliation and, presumably, unification under a democratic government. Thus, we diplomatically ignore the practical reality that neither side rules the other.