Trivia
At the event "GameStar/GamePro Leserpreis 2004" (February 13, 2004) Command & Conquer: Generals received the trophy "Best PC Strategy Game in 2003" after the reader's voting of German gaming magazine GameStar.
Who QA'ed the Chinese words used in C&C Generals Zero Hour China Trailer? One wonders.
(visit
http://www.eagames.com/official/cc_generals/videoclips.jsp?platformID=pc&videoID=video_3_hi&mediaID=videos&resID=hi)
1) Mainland China uses SIMPLIFIED CHINESE, while EA used TRADITIONAL Chinese characters in the trailer.
2) What the heck is "Communist Destructive Potential Cold War"? (That's the Chinese words that appeared just before "Nationalism")
At least "Communist Special Nuclear Forces" makes sense (the words right before "Burning Desire")
3) "Communist Cold War World Positioning System"? (right before "strength in numbers", and right below the end title). What the heck is that?
After the temporal banning in Germany, today, on March 6th, C&C Generals has been "really" banned. The BPjM, Germany's banning office, said that C&C Generals is too close to real-world events (i.e. the threat of an Iraq war) and to cynical - for example sending out suicide attackers, carpet bombing and raiding UN convoys.
Contributed by
tarion (137) on Mar 06, 2003.
In one of the single player missions, which are begin played in the area of kazachstan, there is a dutch traffic sign! The sign is a real dutch sign with 'Breda' and 'Geertruidenberg' on it, 2 dutch cities.
http://www.cipri.com/Screenshots/CCG-Breda2.jpg
Contributed by
RobbertC (3) on Mar 03, 2003.
Temporarily banned in Germany from February 28 2003 on due to glamorizing war and the closeness to real-world events (i.e. the possible Iraq war). The final decision whether it will be banned is scheduled for March 6 2003.
Contributed by
tarion (137) on Feb 26, 2003.
