In my opinion the quality of the command and conquer has gone down with ever increasing speed since the moment EA annexed Westwood. I had some fun with generals but dune, c&c and red alert became worthless games after the first, original, westwood editions.
The strange thing is that the westwood founders left to start Petroglyph wich in my opinion also makes worthless games. Star Wars: Empire At War had a multiplayer that didn't work at all. (I tried, i even edited the init files, it just couldn't be mended) Universe at War: Earth Assault was just plain awefull and after that i stopped playing their games as well.
My question is if any of the nostagic people reading this post might know where the good games have gone. There must be some indy desinger somewhere in this world making games like the original command and conquer games. Games that do work. There has to be?