LaunchBox OpenTTD Add Comment. Submit Cancel. Follow our tweets for the very latest store news, daily promotions and discounts! Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know all special offers, promos and more! This time, we have three missions to appreciate. The mission altogether is near forty missions so it will keep you occupied for seemingly forever. You can play as the GDI who are fundamentally the heroes of this world and who are attempting to hold the planet back from slipping into mayhem.
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The first of these is the Nato Tank Command, whereby your land-based units ship with bonuses 20 per cent cheaper production costs and immediate veteran status , but all other units are 20 per cent more expensive. The US Air Force Command which gives you a stealth bomber as your bonus weapon works in much the same way, in that your production of aircraft is 20 per cent cheaper and all air units are immediately allotted veteran status.
Finally, there's the Special Forces Command, whereby commandos will be 20 per cent cheaper and base defenses. A deadly army ranger, who can not only shut down the power to enemy bases, but can also be parachuted behind enemy lines, will be your specialist unit if you choose this path.
But this is all very well and good. New graphics. New units. What about the gameplay? Ahhh, you see, I was just coming to that part. And rest assured, we're being promised plenty of nuances in this very department. First off is the new command interface, which has been completely revamped. The age-old vertical interface of games-gone-by is to be replaced by an intuitive horizontal one which will allow information to be gathered and orders dispatched far more rapidly.
Clicking on a building will now reveal all the options available from that structure, considerably simplifying base and unit construction. And in an attempt to make units less one-dimensional, EA Pacific has decided to incorporate unit upgrades. AKs for the Angry Mob being just one such example. Resource management and building construction have also received overhauls.
Each side will start out with a bulldozer, which acts as your construction vehicle funny, but I've always been under the impression that bulldozers were meant for knocking things down. These can erect new buildings anywhere on the map, as opposed to just within your base. EA Pacific is hoping that this will open up a whole new array of tactical possibilities in Generals.
Resource collecting will revolve around pick up trucks and supply depots. Will they fall to the floor and pound the earth with scab-covered fists and shout:. The combination of the two is being called the Sage engine.
Now this is an odd one. The 3D engine is one big reason and seeing it running at E3 proved that Westwood has gained from biding their time and watching otl ler strategy games make the mistake of going there first. Mark Skaggs, executive producer on the game, ran us through a typical mission, which kicks off with a botched political assassination in a small fishing village.
A UN envoy, being escorted to Kazakhstan, is ambushed by two vehicles that explode and take out the escort vehicles, giving us the first taste of the cinematic quality of the visuals. After a hefty firefight Skaggs settles in control of a US and allied Chinese base and orders the construction of a nuke.
A bridge separates him from the enemy GLA base, and a huge dam is located upstream. Instead of leaving this to your imagination, the new engine enables you to track major events like this and witness the fallout, in this case the sight of the villagers attempting, and ultimately failing, to outrun the water. Of course, being a Westwood presentation, Skaggs gets his ultimate revenge by calling a nuclear strike and obliterating the GLA troops.
Westwood always manages to get fun into its games but the build-and-rush tactics of old are getting stale and it needs to move on. Despite their flaws, and there have been many throughout the seven-year history of the franchise, the games have always achieved immense playability through addictive gameplay, a somewhat cheesy sense of humour and an aura of toy-like wonder built into every single unit.
This time it takes place in the near future between the USA, China and the terrorist organisation of the GLA Global Liberation Army within the structure of a continuous campaign, with eight to ten missions for each side, maps and a skirmish mode.
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