Both Generals and Zero Hour were met with highly positive reviews.
An expansion pack, entitled Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour, was additionally released for PC in 2003, and for Mac OS in 2004. Generals utilizes SAGE (Strategy Action Game Engine), an extended version of the Command & Conquer: Renegade 's 3D engine. In the game, the player can choose from three different factions: the United States, China and the Global Liberation Army (GLA). The Mac OS X version was re-released by Aspyr for the Mac App Store on April 12, 2004. The Windows version of Generals was developed by EA Pacific and published by EA Games, the Mac OS X version was developed by i5works and published by Aspyr Media. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X in 20. Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy video game and the seventh installment in the Command & Conquer series.