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Summary: Best RTS ever!
Review: I have been a long time fan of real-time-strats. I was playing Warcraft and Starcraft right when they came out. I liked Warcraft cause of the midieval setting. I liked Starcraft for its more "realistic" setting. Empire Earth has both of those and so much more. I found it very cool to start out with cavemen and then advance to knights, archers, infantry, tanks, aircraft, warships, nuclear missiles, and finally, giant robots. This game is not recommended for anyone who has NEVER EVER played Warcraft or Starcraft. A lot of strategy is required in this game, hence the game type, real time strat. In my opinion, the WW1 & WW2 settings are the best. If you are experienced with RTSs, you should DEFINATELY buy this game. (i dont have it yet, oddly enough)
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Summary: Dissapointing
Review: I was so excited when i got this game.. I loaded it up asap. I started playing. It was very dissapointing. I loved Age of Empires 2 and expansion, and thought EE would be very good. But as i said EE is very dissapionting. Aoe2 gives me much more excitment than EE. Personally, im thinking bout uninstalling EE, so take this into thinking, Empire Earth isnt very good as you may think it is.
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Summary: fun game
Review: great game hope the exp make's it better but that will be very hard if you like to go from pre to nano you'll like this game
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Summary: Truly a Masterpiece!
Review: Fans of the Age of Empires series will LOVE this game!I don't know about the bugs, but I am running a Pentium 2 - 300Mhz machine, which is below the minimum requirements, and I have had no problems or bugs that some of you seem to experience... As you may have read, the difficulty might be too much for beginners. If you have never played the AOE games, it might take you a while to get used to this game. But, however if you have played any other Real Time Strategy game, then you all should know and expect the same basic formula of gameplay and it should not be too difficult. In response to a previous reviewer about the rock-paper-scissors routine: if that wasn't there, then what kind of variety would there be? It would be way too easy if everything was the same, it would get boring really quick too. Anyway, if you are a true gamer, YOU NEED TO GET THIS GAME!
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Summary: Age of Whatever You Want
Review: History fans rejoice - Empire Earth takes the basic concept from Age of Empires and extends it from the dawn of time all the way to modern times and beyond. Never have I gotten such a sense of the march of technology and a true arms race against an enemy - this game has over 200 units from every era in history, including pre-historic, the Bronze Age, Middle Ages, Napoleonic, both world wars, modern times and beyond(robots and time travel). You can play through history or focus on one period in time- each "epoch" is a complete balanced game in itself, and there are 14 of them total. In fact, Empire Earth is so similiar to Age of Empires that you might wonder if the same people made both games - and you'd be right, the lead designer was the same. The interface, units, sound fxs, even resources are all very similar to the Age of games. That's a good thing, unless you are burned out on AoE. This game is entirely about combat, so don't come expecting a real-time version of Civilization 3. There are 4 campaigns, but the real fun is in the multiplayer and computer skirmishes. In these games, you can either choose a "tournament" game, in which both sides rush through hundreds of years of technology, or a more focused game with only a few eras of advancement, say from WW1 to WW2. Whatever you choose, you can set the starting era and the ending one. A great touch is that all maps are randomly generated, and they've included a wide assortment of map-types to fit your style - islands, plains, mountains, mediterrians (inland sea)... Gameplay-wise, nothing much is new here - you still must micromanage your town and economy, and send troops blindly at the enemy if you hope to win. Where EE is different from the rest is that it has SO MANY upgrades to its basic units - infantry advances from cavemen to laser shooters - and some basic types are eventually outdated, like archers and cavalry eventually are replaced with tanks and rifles. The march of time is merciless, you MUST win the arms race to win the game, so the sheer need to constantly research is something new that could not be experienced in any other game. I was surprised one game when the computer probed my lines with a "balanced" assortment with units, and after I had a hard time eliminating the catapults, it sent an army of 30 siege engines and utterly wiped me out. The computer actually learned from my tactics and changed itself accordingly. It changes it's attacks pretty regularly, actually, which is a nice change from the AI in some RTS games, which seem to be able to do all things perfectly, at once. The AI in Empire Earth attacks like a game of chess, moving one thing first, then another, attacking you but leaving itself open for counter-attack afterwards. The give and take in this game is very saticfying. The graphics are 3D, and can seem kinda bare until you witness hundreds of units on the screen at once and realize everything in this game is King-Sized. I liked the scope of the technology, but wished for more of a Civilization-type tech tree, in which one advance leads to the next. As the game is now, the player simply researches a new "Epoch", and once he/she gets there, they are granted access to build anything and everything in it. Nice, but it tends to make opponents very similiar. Otherwise, a great game.
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Summary: Horrible tech support
Review: I can't comment on the quality of the game because I was never able to run it. I have a very common configuration (Dell PII-450mhz with 128 velocity video adapter)running XP. This game is not compatible with this system. I have been attempting to contact their technical support for weeks but have received no response. I only recently learned that my particular video adapter (very common) is not compatible with this game in XP. It is amazing that they would have not worked this out prior to release. If you buy this game, I hope you don't have any technical problems because you will not receive adequate technical support.
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Summary: History lesson
Review: The game is very in dept about the wars of the past,present & future it's a game i'm glad i picked it up.
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Summary: Empire Earth
Review: Empire Earth does have great graphics and gameplay, however, in return, it has tons of wonderful problems! Empire Earth "promises" things but does not fulfill them (like the night/day cycle in games-but it only works in SOME campaign games ONLY). Furthermore, Empire Earth boasts about its several units in different ages and many buildings. But, the units and buildings are the same almost. It gets boring from time to time. Empire Earth is NOT flexible. You can't change the color of your civ in a single player game, you can only play random games, civs are weird-if you pick the French, they have a british accent(all civ have this accent). Building styles are the same for all; it doesn't change. Tech Support doesn't help. And, don't bother to go visit the Empire Earth Website because they don't update it. This game, I think, is a waste of money.
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Summary: This is the reason Microsoft didn't launch Age of Mithology
Review: After playing this game, you can forget Age of Empires! This game is awesome! You can start with a tribe in the middle of nowhere in prehistoric times, and end being a super-power of the world with cyber-warriors, airplanes, ships, nuclear submarines... anything you can imagine! And you can zoom-in and out!!
I think that after the release of Empire Earth, Age of Empires is now obsolete, and Age of Mithology couldn't challenge it... so, Microsoft delayed the release of Age of Mithology, to improve their game.
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Summary: Not much new here...
Review: I was pretty disappointed. I'd played all the other Age of Kings game etc and was hoping for something new. It's just the same thing over again, still fun to play, but I've had enough of it.
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