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Prerelease:Command & Conquer: Generals

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This page details prerelease information and/or media for Command & Conquer: Generals.

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This article is a work in progress.
...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

Concept Art

Concept art for the game, drawn by TJ Frame and Phil Robb. Apparently Command & Conquer: Generals was originally a vastly different game and shared little with the final product. It should be noted that most of the ideas depicted by the concept art below never made it past the concept stage and that they are from very early development stages of the game.

USA

Concept art for the USA.

  • Airfield

  • Aurora

  • Ditto

  • Battle Drone

  • Battle Lab

  • Comanche

  • Command Center

  • Construction Dozer

  • Crusader

  • Detention Camp

  • Fusion Reactor

  • General

  • Guardian Drone

  • Leopard Tank

  • Mammoth Tank

  • Medic Drone

  • Military Police

  • Navy Seal

  • Patriot Missile System

  • POW Truck

  • Railgun

  • Ranger

  • Raptor

  • Scout Drone

  • SDI Uplink

  • Sentry Drone

  • Sniper Drone

  • Starlifter

  • Strategy Center

  • Supply Depot

  • Supply Truck

  • Tomahawk Missile Launcher

  • Weapons Factroy

China

Concept art for China.

  • Airfield

  • Barracks

  • Conscript

  • Inferno Cannon

  • Nuke Cannon

  • Overlord

  • POW Truck

  • Supply Depot

  • Tank Hunter

GLA

Concept art for the GLA, for the Cause!

  • Airfield

  • Barracks

  • Brute

  • Command Center

  • POW Truck

  • Quad Cannon

  • Rebels

  • Rocket Buggy

  • Scorpion APC

  • Scout Bike

  • Supply Center

  • Supply Truck

  • Technical

  • Ditto

  • Toxin Tractor, by TJ Frame

  • Toxin Tractor, by Phil Robb

  • Underground Generator

  • War Factory

African Warlords

Concept art for an outlandish faction, even by C&C standards. They were to be united by a former European general in WW1-era clothes, armed with traditional weapons (such as spears and bows) and WW2-era weapons left from colonial times, riding on wild animals, and even use some creatures made with black market bio-technologies. Placeholder selection images and models for the African Warlords can be found in the prototype. Probably evolved into the GLA in the final game.

  • AA Tower

  • Base Camp

  • Colonel Kurtz

  • Elephant Entourage

  • Genetic Horror

  • Lion Crew

  • Oil Refinery

Europa Alliance

Concept art for a European faction. The concept art below, text and data for a Weapons Factory and a Power Plant found in the prototype are the only evidence of this faction's existence. They were scrapped and their vacant spot was replaced by the GLA as development of the game went forward.

  • Head Quarters

  • Weapons Factory

Khan/Asian Empire

Concept art for the Khan or The Asian Empire. Unlike the African Warlords or Europa Alliance, The Asian Empire/The Khan made it past the concept stage and are present in the earliest screenshots. Some of the concept art below is referenced in placeholder models from the prototype. This faction probably evolved into China in the final game.

  • Flame Tank

  • Flame Tower

  • Head Quarters

  • Mercenary

  • Power Plant

  • Raiding Buggy

  • Weapons Factory

Russia

While it's far fetched, the possibility that a Russian faction was considered to be added to this game can't be ruled out. A "Spetnaz" unit is mentioned in placeholder selection images in the prototype.

  • General

  • Tzar Land Ship

  • Ditto

Unknown

Vague concept art, it's hard to tell for which faction(s) these were designed.

  • Dromedary

  • Sniper On Camel

Cover

Concept art for the game's cover.

  • GensPrerelease CoversConcept.jpg

Screenshots

Iron Dragon

Undoubtedly the first released screenshots, of the Iron Dragon mission. Had they continued with this art direction, C&C: Generals would've turned to be a far different game from what we have today. The Asian Empire/The Khan is fighting the USA in this mission with an arsenal that was mostly scrapped or given to the GLA in the final game. While some of the buildings and cars seen here are same as they are in the final game, almost everything else below was changed or downright removed.

  • A B52 carpet-bombing a bridge, on which cut Mammoth Tanks are driving. The water here has nice shaders not found in the final game

  • The bomber, whose model is nowhere to be found in the prototype, has reached a gas station

  • Early Raptor firing

  • A dog-fighting between Raptors

  • Mammoth Tanks razing downing a building

  • Footman infantry units, they have a model and a full animation set found in the Zero Hour expansion pack

  • The Asian Empire/The Khan faction base, afternoon

  • Ditto, late afternoon

  • Ditto, evening

  • Never seen before screenshot, showing Leopard tanks destroying the Khan base.

Unknown

Screenshot of an unknown location, showing the original Chinese Scorpion tanks and Buggies, firing at USA Leopard tanks.

  • GensPrerelease ScreenshotA05.jpg

StyleMap3

Prerelease screenshot of a map named "StyleMap3". We see USA Leopard tanks strolling through a European town. There's also Chinese Scorpion tanks and the Tomahawk Missile Launcher with old golden skin. The Statue in the center of the town was cut from the final game but its model can be found in Zero Hour. The map can still be found in the prototype files.

  • GensPrerelease ScreenshotA06.jpg

EA_Pretty

Prerelease screenshot of a map named "EA_Pretty". It shows an untextured USA Barracks, Walls and Tomahawk Missile Launcher with the gold skin, the cut Guardian Control Center, an early Patriot Missile System model and Chinese Scorpion tanks and Buggies and Rangers with an old texture. The map can also be found in the prototype files.

  • GensPrerelease ScreenshotRare04.jpg

Cliff

Screenshot of a map named "Cliff". Other than the old textures for the Rangers and Rebels, and the old SFX effects there is not much to say here.

  • GensPrerelease ScreenshotRare03.jpg
  • GensPrerelease ScreenshotRare02.jpg

Model Renders

Cover art renders

  • Paladin Tank

  • A render for the cover, showing Paladin Tanks, Overlord Tanks and an unidentified tank and aircraft

  • Ditto, different positioning of tanks and different aircraft

  • Ditto, With Technicals instead of Paladin Tanks

USA

Model renders of some USA buildings and a tank, they match the models found in the prototype.

  • USA Barracks

  • USA Command Center

  • USA Strategy Center

  • USA Supply Center

  • USA Leopard Tank

  • GensPrerelease RenderUSACommandCenterNew01.jpg
  • GensPrerelease RenderUSACommandCenterNew02.jpg

Model renders of the final game USA Command Center.

China

  • China Dragon Tank

Misc

  • Collection of various in-game models.

Promotional Artwork

Promotional artwork showing the Apocalypse Tank from Red Alert 2. It's possible the Apocalypse Tank was to appear in Generals as a Chinese tank since its name can be found in Chinese placeholder selection images from the prototype.

  • With the game logo

  • Ditto, no game logo

  • A much more clear image of the Apocalypse Tank

Logos

  • Faction logos

  • GensPrerelease PromotionalLogo01.jpg
  • GensPrerelease PromotionalLogo02.jpg

Early promotional logos designs from 2002

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