#Command and conquer shockwave series#

The Daily Planet sends journalist Clark Kent-whose secret identity is Superman-and his colleague Lois Lane to Niagara Falls. After landing on the moon and effortlessly killing a team of astronauts exploring there, they continue toward Earth with plans to conquer the planet. The three criminals are freed and find themselves with superpowers granted by the yellow light of the Sun. Years later, the Phantom Zone is shattered near Earth by the shockwave of a hydrogen bomb, thrown from Earth by Superman. A sequel, Superman III, was released in June 1983, for which Lester returned as director.Д«efore the destruction of Krypton, the criminals General Zod, Ursa and Non are sentenced to banishment into the Phantom Zone. It grossed $190 million against a production budget of $54 million. The film received positive reviews from film critics who praised the performances from Reeve, Stamp and Hackman, the visual effects, and humor. To be officially credited as the director, Lester re-shot most of the film in which principal photography resumed in September 1979 and ended in March 1980.

Several members of the cast and crew declined to return in the wake of Donner's firing. Following the release of Superman in December 1978, Donner was controversially fired as director, and was replaced by Lester. Tensions rose between original director Richard Donner and the producers in which a decision was made to stop filming the sequel, of which 75 percent had already been completed, and finish the first film. In 1977, it was decided by the Salkinds that they would film both Superman and its sequel simultaneously, with principal photography beginning in March 1977 and ending in October 1978. Selected premiere engagements of Superman II were presented in Megasound, a high-impact surround sound system similar to Sensurround. The film was released in Australia and mainland Europe on December 4, 1980, and in other countries throughout 1981. It stars Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder, and Jack O'Halloran.

#Command and conquer shockwave series#

It is the second installment in the Superman film series and a sequel to Superman (1978). SWR productions staff have stated that they wish for the Shockwave to be thought of as what Zero Hour may have been, had Electronic Arts not cut short the development time.Superman II is a 1980 superhero film directed by Richard Lester and written by Mario Puzo and David and Leslie Newman from a story by Puzo based on the DC Comics character Superman. It is comparable to most expansion packs for RTS games in its initial setup, but without patches to the hard-coded executable. Shockwave is a partial conversion and thus aims to not change the feel and backstory of the original game. The Generals' Challenge mission featuring General Juhziz was completed and added back into the game (but General Fai's mission was not). However, General Juhziz (of the GLA) still had a partially complete challenge map.ДЄll three of these boss-generals have been modified and included in Shockwave, utilising the tactics and abilities for which they were supposedly originally intended to command.

In addition, General Fai's (of China) challenge mission was also removed. However, the boss Generals Ironside (of the USA) and Mohmar 'Deathstrike' (of the GLA) were eliminated before the game's release, although their voiceovers and portraits are contained in the game files (but lacking a challenge map). Playing the Generals' Challenge mode in unmodified versions of the game will eventually see the player stand off against a Chinese General named Leang, who commands the technology of all three factions at the end. In addition to the extra units, Zero Hour originally intended to present the player with three (not merely one) boss generals in the Generals' Challenge, and include missions featuring General Fai and General Juhziz (which were missing from the final release).

Barring very few exceptions, nearly all of the missing upgrades, units and buildings have been introduced in some form within the Shockwave modification.ДЄmong these include the Laser Comanche for Townes the Hypersonic Aurora for Granger the Advanced Particle Cannon for Alexander Fusion Reactor and Weapons-Grade Uranium shells for Tao's tanks the Demo Battle Bus for Juhziz and the toxin Scorpion for Thrax. Numerous unit voices, sounds and art references to these missing units can be found within the game's BIG files. Many of the additional units are based upon ideas that were clearly intended to be included in Zero Hour's original release. Shockwave adds a number of new units and abilities to each of the nine Zero Hour generals and their normal 'vanilla' factions. Command & Conquer: Generals - Shockwave is a modification for Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour.