{"id":23627,"date":"2012-03-09T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T10:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=23627"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:51:54","slug":"gdc-2012-heroes-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gdc-2012-heroes-generals\/","title":{"rendered":"GDC 2012: Heroes & Generals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> With Heroes & Generals<\/strong>, developer Reto-Moto is bringing a World War II free-to-play massive multiplayer online game (MMORPG) first person shooter to PC. Reto-Moto is probably not known in the United States. \u00a0The founders were originally part of IO Interactive, who created Hitman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The game has been seen in video blogs, and I saw the game in alpha in my demo, but PR manager Kenneth Ellegaard Andersen really showed me the work and diligence that the company is putting into the game. The videos Reto-Moto has released online are nothing compared to what they have planned for the future of the game.<\/p>\n

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Heroes & Generals is a mixture of strategy<\/strong> and shooter<\/strong>. You can play as a general<\/strong>, overseeing the entire war and selecting battlefields as you attempt to conquer the entire map.\u00a0 Or you can play as a soldier<\/strong> who is on the ground; experiencing the battle through FPS action.<\/p>\n

Currently, Heroes & Generals features German and US factions.\u00a0 Reto-Moto plans on adding more factions in the future.<\/p>\n

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The general<\/strong> has an overhead area map.\u00a0 On the map they can select where to start conflicts with the opposing faction.\u00a0 When selecting a battle site, they have a set number of spawn slots and a kill counter.\u00a0 The spawn slots show what kinds of soldiers can be deployed.\u00a0 The kill counter is the amount of lives that the general has for his soldiers.\u00a0 To win a battle, it\u2019s like a conquest map where you have to zero the opposing team\u2019s kill count.<\/p>\n

On the alpha, Andersen showed how the general screen worked by starting a battle.\u00a0 It\u2019s currently a simple interface, but there are a many options that general can use.\u00a0 Different classes of soldiers can be deployed and that can change the amount of spawn slots.\u00a0 In the early demo, there is a lot of development work still to come, but the ideas he presented are very interesting for strategy fans.<\/p>\n

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For the soldier<\/strong>, a casual player can simply select a mission and jump into combat as one of the available classes.\u00a0 Depending on what the general has deployed, you can spawn as a Half-track driver, paratrooper, or tank commander among other unreleased classes.\u00a0 Andersen also said that you can create teams and clans to play with the same people.\u00a0 He also said there was a German team in the closed alpha that have been working as a clan and decimating the other players.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t able to see any player versus player gameplay, but the in-game demo showed me a lot of how the game will play.<\/p>\n

Gritty details<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The game is browser based<\/strong> with a downloaded plug-in.\u00a0 Andersen was playing the alpha through Chrome<\/a>.\u00a0 Heroes & Generals will have DirectX9 and DirectX11 support.<\/p>\n

As a free-to-play title, it costs nothing to download, but Reto-Moto will be offering a premium subscription<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can earn money in-game while playing.\u00a0 One element that I found really interesting is that individual players can upgrade their character to their specifications, but a general can also upgrade a team that is sent into battle.\u00a0 Players can then choose if they want to keep their character or use the upgrade offered by the general.<\/p>\n

Going mobile<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Reto-Moto is also in development of an iOS\/Android<\/a> app called Heroes & Generals Mobile Command<\/strong> where you play as the general.\u00a0 This is tied into the game, so decisions made in the app will affect the game.\u00a0 They also plan on releasing other apps that could possibly control a weapon factory or a tank factory, building tanks on your device that can be deployed in game.<\/p>\n

Andersen was very excited about the potential of the game and their closed alpha contains a lot of WWII history fans who are working with the developers on parts of the game.\u00a0 He stressed that working with the community<\/strong> was one of the biggest interests in the development of Heroes & Generals.<\/p>\n

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From the demonstration, Heroes & Generals has a lot of potential in the free-to-play genre.\u00a0 If Reto-Moto can deliver on their plans for the core game, it looks like it will be a lot of fun.\u00a0 The addition of the mobile apps will really connect players to a persistent war.<\/p>\n

Heroes & Generals is still in a closed alpha, but a closed beta is planned in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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