The player selects buildings to bring up build orders and purchase upgrades, and can select individual units to activate their special abilities. The game's interface is similar to that of real-time strategy games such as Age of Empires or StarCraft.
All sides share some similarities, such as training infantry at a barracks, building armored vehicles at a factory, possessing "high tech" buildings needed for more advanced units, possessing a means to acquire additional resources and possessing a unique superweapon.
The player may control the United States of America, the People's Republic of China, or the Global Liberation Army, and each side has its unique characteristics and abilities. Various unit types can be constructed, ranging from infantry to vehicles and air units. The Generals story is continued in the expansion pack Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour which leads to the US retaking Baikonur, the GLA attacking the US West Coast, causing a retreat of US forces from Europe, followed by the GLA invasion of Europe, and finally China defeating the GLA and seizing the opportunity to rise as a superpower.Ĭommand and Conquer Generals operates like most other real-time strategy games, in that the player must construct a base, acquire resources, build various combat and support units, and defeat their opponent(s). At this point the American campaign begins in which the USA engages the GLA across several locales, including Baghdad and the Caspian Sea, before defeating a rogue Chinese general supporting the terrorists and tracking them back to their base of operations in Astana, Kazakhstan. The GLA campaign then begins, with the organization trying to recover from its recent setback at the hands of the Chinese by raising funds and instigating attacks against their American and Chinese antagonists, eventually culminating in the overtaking of the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the firing of a Soyuz rocket bearing a biological MIRV at an unnamed city. In this order, China retaliates after a devastating GLA nuclear attack on Beijing, destroys the Three Gorges Dam, uses China's nuclear arsenal and eventually completely crushes the GLA cell masterminding all Pacific rim operations. The storyline follows the order of China first, then the GLA, then the USA. The player can play any of the three sides in any order, with each side's campaign consisting of seven missions.
The three factions are thus engaged in a war similar to that of the real-life War on Terror. The United States and China are depicted as allies in the series, and frequently co-operate with each other throughout the storyline against the Global Liberation Army, which is depicted as an omnipresent, borderless organization with unclear goals beyond opposition to and expulsion of both China and the United States. In Generals, the United States and China are the world's two superpowers, and are the targets of the Global Liberation Army, a large, well-organized terrorist organization, fighting as a fanatical irregular force. Generals takes place in the near future, with players given a choice of three factions to play.
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