MaW’s Blog

Hurrah! Valentine’s day, that bastion of commerce and soppiness and pink things, has passed without incident. I didn’t see a single heart-shaped anything, which was fantastic.

Instead, I went to the PCV lecture, understood it all (gasp!) and played Command and Conquer: Generals quite a bit. It’s an excellent game, and doesn’t seem to suffer from the general drag and boredom which marked so many games of Tiberian Sun. Hopefully they’ve moved away from that for good now. The SAGE engine is very nice, anyway, although what does bug me is that when they talk about 3D RTS games from Westwood, nobody ever talks about Emperor: Battle For Dune which was fully 3D and feels very much like a prototype of SAGE, and although SAGE may very well be a complete rewrite, it would be nice to know what’s really going on with that. Emperor is a very good game as well.