[Adam Betts]

http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=8460

This kind of game is very graphic-intensive but the system requirement at Asypr site is way lower than I've expected.

System Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.2.6 or later
• PowerMac 1GHz or faster
• 733 MHz or faster recommended
• 256MB RAM
• 8X CD-ROM drive
• AGP 3D Graphics Acceleration required (minimum of 32MB ATI Radeon or NVidia GeForce 2 series card)

Possible? Or is this another bull created by Asypr and i5works (see SimCity 4's System Requirement)?

[alphaone]

Yippee!


The sad thing is that by the time this comes out (January Aspyr says) I'll probably have my gaming PC fully built

[King Bob On The Cob]

THE LORD HAS ANSWERED MY PRAYERS!

I really need a modern RTS game and trying to **** with Red-Alert ain't working too well.
Too bad Tiberian Sun won't come (My favorite game of all time)

Oh and it's only what, 6 months late?
Better than 2 years like with Command and Conquer original

[videian28]

will be very interesting to see what is actually needed to play this game

looks damn good

[PacHead]

Excellent news !

Now if only somebody announces Rise of Nations for mac soon also, then I will be very happy indeed.

[k2director]

Yea, I got excited about this one too. Just hope it runs decently on OS X (ie, not like Warcraft).

[superfula]

Warcraft 3 runs just fine for me

Ah such a pretty game. Will have to get it when it gets here....IF my machine can handle it. Seeing that SimCity4 doesn't run well on ANY enduser machine out now, I find it hard to believe the same for this. At least Generals ran fine on pcs above 1gig or so.

[davecom]

Originally posted by PacHead:
Excellent news !

Now if only somebody announces Rise of Nations for mac soon also, then I will be very happy indeed.

:) :p ;) :eek: :D :err: :thumbsup:

I second that.

[KeyLimePi]

'Scuse the kinda stupid question, but is this a sort of Starcraft-like strategy game?

[Adam Betts]

Originally posted by KeyLimePi:
'Scuse the kinda stupid question, but is this a sort of Starcraft-like strategy game?

Yes but it's more of RPS.

C&C was inspired by original Warcraft

[ambush]

Oh god, I remember playing the *original* CC.

Such a nice game. Ah!

[nforcer]

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
Yes but it's more of RPS.

C&C was inspired by original Warcraft

Actually, I believe Dune or whatever it was called came out first, and then C&C came out, and it was either C&C or Dune that inspired Warcraft. I thought WC2 came out the same year C&C came out, so it had to be Dune that inspired both games, I think.

I'm not certain about the above, but I do now that employees from Blizzard have gone on the record saying that C&C or Dune did "inspire" them.

Edit: Thinking about it more, it's entirely possible that there was cross-inspiration going on between both companies, making the "WC inspired C&C" statement correct. But I believe I am correct in my assertion that Westwood was the first to introduce an RTS game, and then Blizzard followed up with their own.

[k2director]

And don't forget an even earlier inspiration:

Ancient Art of War from Broderbund.

Man I loved playing that game on my 68K Mac.

[Gul Banana]

Dune 2 was the first RTS. Warcraft was the second. Command & Conquer was the third - just.

[haifischjunge]

dune was a adventure, dune 2 was the first real rts game.

next one was warcraft, then c&c and warcraft 2 (warcraft 2 was a lot better then c&c)

beside of this, is real a great news to have a hope for c6c generals for the mac. hope this will be "gold" version with the first expansion pack included.

the last game i would need for our lan parties would be counterstrike.

[OwlBoy]

Wow. That is so detailed!

-Owl

[willed]

Ah, I remember the original C&C was the first game I got for my Performa! Good times...

[neoTony]

Originally posted by haifischjunge:
dune was a adventure, dune 2 was the first real rts game.

next one was warcraft, then c&c and warcraft 2 (warcraft 2 was a lot better then c&c)

I thought megalomania on the amiga was the first... actually - there was something even older than that... Populous. Heh. Now there's oldschool shiat for ya!

[11011001]

Dune was amazing..

but, ya, I am excited about this. I have played it a lot on the PC side, and am looking forward to playing this on my PB.

The graphics btw looking stunning.

[billybob128]

wat about red alert cause we all know that that is the best game of all time.

now i would pay for a copy of that but if not generals will do

[dantley]

Yay, unfortunatley for me I already own the PC version plus the expansion pack.

[Macpilot]

I ordered this game from the Apple store last year.

My order status as of today says it will "ship on or before 2/2/04". When I ordered it, the store said it would be shipping in January.

Has anybody received their copy yet?

I am dying to play this game, and hope it will play well on a 1ghz Powerbook 17". The 1Ghz minimum requirement scares me!

I still have my original C&C from my first Mac, a Performa. I loved that game. Have not tried playing it in Classic.

[tahoe3]

Dune 2 was the first RTS. Warcraft was the second. Command & Conquer was the third - just.

Dune 2 was the first of the modern day rts as we know it. You could also argue that Populous which was on the Amiga a few years prior to Dune 2 could well be the very first rts since many concepts used in Dune 2 was used in Populous. It just so happened that the term rts hadn't been coined up yet. Just a thought....

[Lateralus]

I cannot wait for C&C: Generals. I am a RTS fanatic, and until recently there had been a dearth of them on the Mac. But with Age of Mythology (Which I also love) and C&C... things are looking up.

I must admit that I have never gotten into the original C&C series. I didn't get my first computer until around 2000, and by that time C&C was looking very dated graphically. And since graphics were all that concerned me at the time, I never gave the series the chance it deserved.

Oh well, here is my chance for penance... BRING ON GENERALS!