C&C Generals Shockwave mod

[Laughing Mechanicus]

This is a mod for C&C Generals Zero Hour I have been watching in development for some time and over Christmas a very stable, near complete version was released. I have been playing it often since then and was really impressed by its scope and professionalism, so I thought I would post some info about it here so people could try it.

The basic premise of the mod is to be like an expansion pack for Zero Hour. It takes the base game and adds great deal of new content, but all of it retains the same style, both visually and gameplay wise, as the original product. It also fixes quite a few bugs from the original game and adds useful features. In addition to all the new things added to the existing generals it also adds 3 entirely new ones- a salvage general for the GLA, a special weapons general for China and an armour general for the USA.

Most of the new content revolves around making all the different Generals far more unique than they were in vanilla Zero Hour, and they all play very differently from each other now. For example the GLA Toxin General now has a unique, more heavily armed version of the Toxin tractor and the Chinese Tank General can build a tank bunker instead of the normal infantry bunker. Indeed I think most of the units each general has have been made in some way unique from their 'vanilla' version, or even totally replaced with something more suitable for their general. Aside from that each general also has far more unique abilities, upgrades and structures.

The three new Generals are very well fleshed out, and each has their own totally unique super weapon. The Temple of Gaia for the Chinese Special Weapons General houses a giant cannon that shoots a gigantic ground-penetrating, earthquake-causing artillery shells.

There are also some cool homages to other games/pop-culture in some of the unit choices. For example the Chinese Nuke General gets a special heavy tank called a Devastator, which very closesly resembles the Devastators from the Westwood Dune RTS games. The USA Armour General gets Mammoth Tanks similar to how they appear in C&C3. One of the best is for the Chinese Special Weapons General, as she gets the Firefox as her special aircraft.

Anyway, if you enjoyed Generals and Zero Hour this is really worth re-installing them for. The whole mod is like a big toybox full of new units, but still perfectly maintains the feel of the base game. You can see a whole bunch of descriptions of the new units at their ModDB profile or you can get the mod itself at shockwavemod.com.

Has anyone else tried it? And if so, what do you think?

[Gildor]

I still play Zero Hour occasionally. I've tried it, and I was quite impressed. I loved the new toys, new Generals, and improvements; the mod really makes the game more fun to play. If you've got ZH, this is something to look at.

[Ritterin Sophia]

Does it work with The First Decade ZH?

[Laughing Mechanicus]

Does it work with The First Decade ZH?

Yes, that is what I use - you just have to make sure to specify the First Decade Zero Hour directory when you install Shockwave, instead of leaving it at the default.