Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer: Generals spans between present day and 20 years into the future, and offers up a metaphor for today’s version of global warfare. Three very different sides are fighting for supremacy: the superpowers of the United States and China, along with an underground political terror organization, the Global Liberation Army. Each employs very different tactics in their war efforts. For example, the United States places a great deal of importance on human life, and thus has a small, but very capable ground force among its weaponry. The Chinese, on the other hand, have a massive swarming army that uses their numbers to their advantage. China also has an affinity for fire and uses it in much of its weaponry. Finally, the Global Liberation Army relies on sneaky tactics and being hard to find...thus hard to kill. Like most of this type of genre, the basic idea is to gather resources, build a base, and create offensive and defensive units and ultimately obliterate the enemy.