Why did EA make Generals? What happened to Westwood?
A few years ago, EA bought Westwood. Westwood then created its own subsidiary, basically a second branch directly under their control, called Westwood Pacific in Irvine, CA. These are the people who created Red Alert 2, Yuri’s Revenge, and Generals. During the early development stages of Generals, EA took Westwood Pacific and put it under their control instead, renaming it to EA Pacific. EA Pacific then published Generals. EA Games is simple the brand name that Generals was published under. EA has a few different brand names – EA Games, EA Sports, etc. Now just recently, EA decided it would be a good idea to close up the Westwood and EA Pacific studios and consolidate them into one large EA LA studio.
