C&C Zero Hour Retro Review + A great surprise for all Generals fans.
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
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Glad you enjoyed the video, reading the comments so many of you have fond memories of this game, also a few other great RTS games I recognise from the comments, shame we will probably never get another like this due to the utter state of gaming today.
Of all the RTS games I ever played, Zero Hour and Dawn of War Soulstorm were the nuts. I used to have LANs with mates and we would just play those two games all weekend. When Dawn of War came out we have a 2 week LAN. First we played Quake for about 4 hours and the rest of the two weeks was pure DOW. We slept in shifts so there was always at least 2 people awake at all times.
Unfortunately feels true about the state of games, the odds of c&c seeing the light of day as westwood created or as it evolved early ea is low.
Does this mod includes Zero Hour? Might be why you can't find hackers.
I used to love Dark Reign, a random big box purchase from pc world back in the day. Pity its all mobile phones and coffee machines in there now. Miss buying games purely from the box art and being excited to take it home. PSX was like that too
Thanks for making this video. I've got the disc version of C&C The First Decade but unfortunately I can't get it to run on win10.
Because of your video (and some comments below) I downloaded the game off Origin (same first decade pack) and it works. Thanks again.
btw, great channel.
Mack, why don't you do a retro WAB you have never played . Bioshock I , II , Gothic II, Dead Space , etc ?
This game is still alive! There is a big single player and multiplayer community. Friendly games, tournaments and leagues. Challenges sponsors and even the world series. Many mods, and they are still being made and updated. And lastly many many streamers as well!
Yay! Good to see you here Jundiyy!!!
@@aorusxtremem1_sam183 Thank you :)
@@Jundiyy jundiy+++++++
@@mars7031 +++++ ty!
Nice one Jundiyy
Many many fond memories of playing this. They don’t make RTS’s like this anymore and that’s a shame in my book.
Truly a gem man
SupCom/Supreme Commander (FA) is quite enjoyable too. Spiritual successor to total annihilation. Don't get SupCom 2 though, was consolized/eSported or whatever .. no fun imo
hopefully company of heroes 3 is good(when it comes out)
Yeah all the gooduns are olduns
The game is still alive and playable online, there are tutorials on how to play with us
My most played game as a kid. Big time nostalgia hit from this video. Thanks, Mack!
"forgot how many things I remembered about this game" is probably the best way to describe the video
Sunk many hours into this game loved it
What a classic. Red Alert and Battle For Middle Earth are two more great oldies
I don't know if you ever heard of Shockwave but it is such a beautiful, great mod for zero hour that adds a handful more generals, almost all of the buildings, units, everything are new, have new futuristic models and functions, it's nuts.
That and Rise of the Reds are excellent mods!
The Shockwave mod was one of my favourites.
Does it fix the out-of-memory errors?
I still crash my game due to the unit/particle count, but thankfully it crashes at the end of the skirmish match :9
Not tried that
Yeah this game is an all time classic. One of the best RTS ever made.
I've always seen my dad playing this game since I was a kid. He's still playing it to this day so it has to be special.
This came out when the war on ter ror and Iraq war were starting and even though they were deadly turbulent times the world still made some sense and PC gaming was unfiltered and more fun than it is now.
Anyway top game and excellent soundtrack personally I liked doing comp stomps though GLA always felt OP.
Seriously, Dr. Thraxx has the best responses and sentences in the entire game.
Gla quotes are just funny to hear how they try to sound to be serious
Thank you for the new shoes, etc still hilarious after all this time 😂😂😂
I'm so happy that you covered this and give the mod more exposure.
One of the best if not THE best RTS ever made. I was absolutely gutted when Generals 2 was cancelled. I'd love a remake of this game and pay top money for it.
Until that happens the Evolutions mod will keep me happy :)
I still play this game on revora servers to this day. Every day. This is without a doubt my favourite game of all time. I've played thousands of hours on this since 2003
Ohhh maaan so many good memories playing this when I was younger. Started playing C&C at 11 years old I think with C&C Renegade. Wasn't my first RTS though, that title goes to Age of Empires 2.
Just hit 27 a couple months ago, time flies by. Thanks for this Mack.
"Can I have some new shoes?"
Honestly one of my favourite games.
Look I know your not a fan of mods but for the original there is a mod called Rise of the Reds. Adds Russia and the EU fully voice acted. (But still zero hours so all the flaws that has).
"I will work"
Upgrade to Sandals 10% faster walk
"Thank you!"
My hands have splinters
I have a diploma
Honest
Gla postal service
Been waiting 20 years for someone to bring this beast of a game back to life. Time to get my nostalgia on! :D Thanks for bringing this classic remake to our attention.
Still to this day I'd say this is the best RTS on the market. Nearly 20 years later!
What a game, I loved how the technicals would get airborne when going over bumps and the explosions were so satisfying
This game is part of my childhood and I am absolutely nostalgic about it. Had so much fun with it doing LAN parties with my friends back in the day.
Too bad the franchise has been abandoned by the developers and too bad that the game and any discussions around it have been censored due to political considerations.
It hasnt been abandoned by the devs. The devs themselves have gotten fucked over by EA :(
Wow thanks Mac! This is awesome. This was my absolute favorite strategy game back in the day. Loved getting modded maps that were way bigger and more interesting than the built in ones. In the spirit of retro games, would love to see your take on Supreme Commander. They have a community edition too called Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever that runs on modern PCs.
Great memories. I remember waking up early, 5am to play this game before having to leave for school. They don't make games like this anymore.
Good ol cnc community, we got mods,more mods ,and even more mods
I'm a Red Alert 2 guy primarily,but any part of community getting the spotlight always warms my heart
Loved this game back in the day, hopefully more retro reviews from you in the future as I'm not getting that much out of many modern games 👍
X-Wing Alliance with Total Makeover
Good old days, a warm house, tracksuit on and white socks. Lan parties all weekend, the house was a mess but we had it right. Greetings from the Netherlands.
I love this game. I still watch streams and replays every day. I hope someone steps up to remake a great game like this without having to line the game with mini transactions.
Game is still alive. I cast pro games every day
Clicked the video, 1 second in and i got struck by a huge surge of nostalgia, thanks for making my morning mack.
There are also amazing mods for this game, one of them is "shockwave" which overhauls the game, adds new generals units and a lot more, i spent many hours on that mod.
The moding community for general is really great.
Really liking your retro game reviews mate. I still remember trying to hook up multiplayer with my mate over dial up on the original C&C game.... What a crack up that is now looking back.
Memories! Why can’t they just release an HD version of this? Knowing EA they’d spam micro transactions. Want a new unit? Pay..
Well they didn't do that to the Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert remaster so...
Also you can't release this kind of game today. Twitter will have a stroke if you do.
I want them to remake red alert 2. Then i can retire from gaming.
@@ftw4twcs
Pretty sure Red Alert 2 had high resolutions though, or at least some 'unlocker' for it.
C&C was 320x240 orso, or 640x480 at most.
A remaster of the two games would've been better than that mobile game ea had
EA already did most of the work making generals 2 (cancelled because... You guessed it! Microtx)
Pretty dumb that they didn't pivot to a remaster though.
Zero hour was one of the best games ever. I once had a 7 hour eternal battle with a friend where we stalemated each other. We ended up calling a draw because we both needed to go for a piss :D
Epic!
Lmao 🤣 reminds me of the Generals LAN party we had used to go till 5am 😆 China tank and nuke spam!
lol
I used to play SupCom in coop often with a friend. Usually 3-4h sessions, often we had such long automated build cueues, we could easily go take a break for 15min while all the builders were building more resources, defences etc with still plenty to do when we came back. :)
@@CommDante that's crazy lol 😆
This is great timing, I was looking to buy a command and conquer game last night, I’ll make sure to buy this using your link on greenman gaming!!!
This brings back some great memories. I had high hopes on the direction of where the RTS scene was going. Well, sadly you can see how that ended up. Mods from Mod DB significantly extended the game's lifespan even while official servers got completely shut off. I fondly recall playing C&C: Shockwave over Hamachi back in the day, when Xfire was still a relevant platform.
You could register for a closed beta of Generals and they sent you a multiplayer version via DVD. I remember having 4 friends pretty much living at my place during that time; we were completely blown away by the game... One of my all time favourites.
I agree! I haven't even watched your review yet and I agree! WHY could they not have just continued down the Generals path and added and refined it? They had to mess everything up. CHINA WILL GROW LARGER! Just the sheer amount of tactics you could use, it was nuts. Great review!
I love this game so much. I still play with friends regularly and even watch a YT channel that casts pro matches.
Best rts game ever.
I still play it today, It has a pretty big and active community and many beautiful custom maps
Command and Conquer was the first RTS I ever played. Loved it!!!
Omg, omg, omg!!! My second favourite rts of all time!!! Mac....how about one-on-one in good old red alert remastered? 😀
Zero hour was the best RTS game EVER made! The Evolution mod is incredible. I still listen to the soundtrack on Spotify regularly, it gives me goosebumps.
So good to see you review this game Mack, it's very dear to my heart. PS: give laser general a go with their OP Comanche helicopters!
Missed this video as I was away for a couple days. Thanks for the mod suggestion. Although I personally loved Tiberium Wars, too, generals always had a stable place in my heart and we played it back then during LAN-Parties. :)
Have a good one Mack.
I concur. This is is the C&C game I come back to time and time again. Usually about 3 years or so in between. Mac, if it makes you feel better, I didn't know about Evolution.
My friends and me were just talking about zero hour today. Thanks for showing the way 🙌🏻
Yes! I'm 39 years old now and I consider this to be the best RTS ever made. It's in my top 5 games ever made and will be until the day I die.
Contra is my favourite Zero Hour mod. It has many new Generals. I love to play it against 7 enemies all in the same team, all on Insane difficulty. It gets very intensive if you play against Tank General. It feels like some Tower Defence since you are constantly getting attacked in waves
Love C&C. Wish they would bring out a new version without messing around with the gameplay mechanics too much.
One of the best games ever made, I still remember being in high school and playing multilayer. Chinese tank general "China will grow larger" how right he was
Overlord tanks are overpowered if you group just four of them two with gatling and two with towers
@@kobra6660 hahaha the USA can use sonic bombers and the gla just needs to hijack or bombtruck the overlords. It's all about cost effective trades and maxed out overlords are a prime target
@@sim2er I used to be pro at generals I could do some damage with four overlords and a lotus I miss playing with other people
This was my childhood game that I could never take a break off playing this game. I kept replaying the missions and had not got a single loss of interest of the game. As I grew up I started to understand how to play the game even more, therefore I discovered multiplayer which gave me more interest to the game. What makes this game so fun to play is how realistic it is, and how slow it is. Unlike other games, this game is far more superior when it comes to gameplay imo ofc. I was deeply in hope that this game would rise up because it is very underrated and very fun to play. I was hoping if a famous experienced player who plays other rts games plays the game and review it. I really hope this game rises up because I wanna see tournaments with actual casters and crowds just like the other games.
C&C Yuri's Revenge and C&C Generals Zero Hour are two of the greatest RTS's ever made
Command and conquer, and red alert were my first RTS games. Great memories. Never played Generals, but might try to pick it up
Amazing to see you talk about Command and Conquer Evolution! Sadly, one of the developers, Gunship Mark II, lives in the Ukraine and disappeared on the 28th of February when he claimed the Russians hit his cities power grid. His main Discord hasn't heard from him since and they are suspecting the worst :(
The glow, the glow! The wonderful glow!! Can you not see it general?
Probably you should've finished your chemical university ;-)
Oh man this was and still is one of my favourite games of all time, my dad got my onto this game when it came out ( I was born in 1995).
I still play is regularly and play it with mods now, I just want them to remake this like they did with the older games, the mods are good but I need a 2022 version
Command & Conquer was some of my best gaming memories - still play them from time to time.
"I'll build anywhere!"
"Sorry, I can't build there....."
- USA Dozer
ahhhhhh... no rush ...no nukes....fantastic...the golden age of gaming...gone forever.
The last great C&C game. Red Alert opened the RTS door for me and I fell in love as soon as the 'Hell March' started. Nothing came close to it, until Generals. Sunk a stupid amount of time into it.
Totally agree about these C&C games, they've got such a magic to them. And what the mod community did with both Rise Of The Reds and Generals Evolution is absolutely amazing 👍😄😊
The moment I heard that particle uplink activate, I paused and rushed to buy the game and then I heard the nuke and scud storm drop and started salivating waiting for it to download. Zero Hour was and still is one of my fav games of all time. Can’t wait to have basically a remastered nostalgic experience
This was hands down the best C&C game
actually this is the first C&C I played... My relative from the UK brought this game for holiday with him and when he visited us, he installed this to my PC back then :D
The way the trees shake when you nuke them is a pretty nice touch
I bought the ultimate collection on origin a couple of weeks ago and installed all the unofficial patches on most of them. It's great fun playing all of them again.
Great game! Me and my friends used to play this in high school ~15 years after it came out. Still play it every once in a while! Best rts game
this is the right way of doing things. please more retro for the next 20 years
Best RTS ever. "I like the big guns". "CAN I HAVE SOME SHOES".. Man gotta love it.
Man I used to play the sht out of it this game is pure gold there was also a huge mod that expanded on the game even more forgot it's name maaan imma go back to this one
Holly sht the red alert combination just blew me away
Best strategy game in the history. Amazing little details made this game crazy
This game is from 2003 and people still playing this, making cup and tournament for this game and many new players joining this community these days.
Imagine i play this game like 18 years still love it and playing !!!
Best rts of all the time
Zero hour was one of my all time favorite games. I played the general with the lasers over and over again. Lasers everywhere.
I like how it's the most accurate depiction of a war on terror instead of the usual two factions fighting over and over and I still play it time to time
I loved Gerals and also generals zero hour, amazing games. Generals is the platinum standard for RTS.
Very cool idea to do RETRO reviews! back in the day these games didnt have VIDEO reviews. YOu are a genius MAC!
I just bought c n c remastered on sale last week. Forgot how much fun these old rts games are. Loving it.
I absolutely loved this game! Played it a lot when I was a kid, funny enough, I tried buying it a few days ago, but couldn't find any shop that has it.
This brings me back to the purepwnage webisodes. They were always playing this and hyping it up back when I didn't even know it existed.
Grew up playing Generals Zero Hour. Wonderful game, So many hours spent playing that. Will try that mod, never heard of it. Thanks!!
I love your retro stuff. Me and my mates had hosted Lan parties at my mates basement staying up all night playing this game.
It is indeed one of the best games ever made. The only reason I did not play it enough is that everyone around me was playing Starcraft really passionately, which is also an excellent game.
Used to play this at the IT centre with friends/family, it was awesome.
This game is one the best to exist i still play it to this day , i first played it in 2011 and now it's 2022 still very fun
Try this mod a few months back and it's just amazing what a few dedicate people can do, unlike what a multi million dollar company is incapable of doing.
One if not the best rts game ever made.
I remember that EA was busy with CC Generals Zero hour to use the frostbite engine. It did look amazing.
EA: Nah, we cancel it!
Me: ^$^&&%& @$@$@$ *(&*&*^& #%&*(&(# ##%&&%(() !!#%#%$&%&*((% $%^$^$
I'm so happy this staple of my childhood is still going strong, keep on going Generals community :)
You should check Movie Battles mod for Jedi Academy. It has everything a Star Wars fan could ever want, and something that major studios will never be able to do. The mod is still being updated.
This was my favorite game as a kid I can’t believe you’re reviewing it in 2022 😂
5 days ago I got this urge to play my favorite rts of all time c&c generals. Didnt find any updates that showed the game was compatible with modern system so I gave up. And then you show up today with a retro review and a solution for me, what are the odds?
I played huge amounts of Red Alert. Loved it.
My favorite rts of all time. I still go back and play this.
Thanks for the review Mack! This is a real gem. The Mammoth tank is the coolest rts-tank ever!
C&C Red Alert was my game. Absolutely loved it. Great video Mack
GLA was my faction, loved the arsenal and the voice lines!
Omg thanks for the Heads Up on Evolution... I had no idea. Awesome!!
I really enjoyed Moon Project, that was a good one too. You got to design your weapons and vehicles and everything. Navy actually mattered. Itnwas a sequel or maybe a tweener for Earth 2050.
This is why I have subscribed your channel.Westwood Studios forever.Thank you and have a nice day
My favorite RTS of that era would be Empire Earth
I love Empire Earth. I thought I was the only person left alive who still played it.
Remember getting Empire Earth for my birthday as a child, great times it was
I remember reading that Red Alert 3 was a nightmare to mod compared to the other C&C games, pretty much all the big mods for it died coz it was so hard, so probs to the developer of this mod for sticking it out
It's still pretty active in MP. There's tournaments and sponsored matches going all the time.
I really like generals zero hour as you know generals zero hour is still alive to this day there are many tournaments(world series the biggest tournament each year), many pro and expert players, many active youtubers like dominator, legionnaire generals, marakar, boycah, ect, there also has many mods are still active to this day
I miss Westwood Studios. So many great games they made, especially Command and Conquer series.
Great game! played the heck out of this with my brother. Such fond memories. Wish they made games like this again
Mack blowing everything up. Mack having fun.
Hands down, one of the greatest games of all time!
Red Alert 2 it's a Westwood Studio at his peak of craft it's a masterpiece of the game no other command and conquer game can match this