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Empire Earth

Empire Earth

List Price: $19.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This game is a blast!
Review: A worthy successor to the "age of Empires" series. Challenging, yet fun. Excellent graphics and music. Much better and way more fun than Civ 3.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: not bad but better age of empire
Review: Well , i think not bad for playing this game if you already get bored with age of empire , many new features, but lack of visual
detail ( even i am using g force 2 )

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Nothing really new - only better than before
Review: Although basically the same type of game as AOE-2Kings, Empire Earth is a little bit different. For a start, one pile of resources can last you the whole game. If you don't secure them, the enemy will. It doesn't matter how many times you blow up the enemy, they'll always come back to mine the resources. The enemy always builds little cities around a pile of resources so if you continuously nuke them, it doesn't matter, they'll keep on building the same Capital or Hospital again and again. At first this was frustrating until I realized you had to send in ground troops to secure these areas and build walls around them to stop the enemy from rebuilding. It's a slow process but you can eventually wear down the enemy. Also, if you attack with the wrong kind of troops it doesn't matter how many there are or how strong they are, they'll get wiped out in a matter a seconds. Anyway, I've only played the easy level but I think securing ALL the resources is the key.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Wa-what happened?
Review: I have been waiting for this game to come out ever since last summer, when I read an article about it in a Belgian computer magazine.
That article (especially the screenshots) and the Empire Earth website had raised a lot of expectations so when the game came out, I was very quick to buy, install and try it.
Perhaps not the best move I've ever made, my ego is crippled beyond repair.

I'me not exactly a rookie when it comes to real time strategy games. I've played earlier games such as all Command & conquers, Starcraft, Total Annihilation and Earth 2150 a lot, but despite my earlier experiences with the genre, none prepared my for the onslaught that ensued when I started playing EE.

I'll readily admit it: Empire Earth's A.I. has a strategic mind far greater than mine. Even with the difficulty level set to "easy", the game gave me the ride of my life. With the included singleplayer campaigns I never made it past the second scenario, and even some of the secenarios I myself had made with the included editors prooved simply to hot for poor little me to handle.
I bow to a superior mind, I am unable to beat this game. EE's A.I. can have me any time of the day with both it's hands (if it had any) tied behind its back.

To cut a long story short: this is an awesome, absorbing game. It is easily the most diverse, intense, replayable and most of all challeging RTS game I've ever played, or even heard of. Which makes me only more depressed because it's simply to hard for me to play.
If you thought Age of Empires 1 and 2 were no big deal and Earth 2150 was for kiddies, this is your game. It won't get any better than this as far as RTS goes.
If you're just an average or mediocre home-strategist (like me) or are just starting with this sort of game, hands off! You'll end up with an utterly obliterated ego and a inferiority complex to boot!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to dig up my copy of ye olde Command & Conquer part 1, and pretent I never read that article....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: You can't possibly saticfy everyone....
Review: ....Although this game does a really good try!
I first heard of this game last summer, and ever since, my live mainly consisted of waiting for EE to finally hit the shelves.
When I spotted the game in stores, I bought it immediatly and hurried home to install and play it.
I am so very glad I did!

Good heavens, this game is great! It delivered just about everything it promised, and much, much more. Usually I end up dissapointed when I have been looking forward to certain game for such a long time, but this one is an exception to the rule.

Empire Earth seems to me like an attempt to please everyone who likes RTS, and to attract a few people who are more into the Age Of Empires and even Civilisation style games. Although usually, games that try to please everyone like that fail misserably, but EE actually pulls it off! This game has everything worth having in an RTS game! It is easily the most diverse computer game I ever saw.
If you are fond of RTS in, for instance, the Roman Era, no problem! we can arrange that! Prefering a good laser battle over throwing spears at each other? Fine, just access the appropiate era. Just about everything between throwing rocks and throwing the A-bomb is there, and you can play it however you like. If you want to you can limit gameplay to one or two (or three, or whatever) eras, or you can try and build an Empire of your own from before the Stone Age to well into the 22th century.

Off course, in addition to all the praise, some critism too, is in order.
For one, especially with the two (pretty good) editors available, EE sometimes almost seems more like a piece of software to make your own RTS game than a real game. Especially because the "random" map single player games and the campaigns are pretty hard. Even with the difficulty setting turned to "easy", the AI gave me the ride of my life! (Of course it depends on you wheter you consider this a good thing, or a bad)
Second, not everything works flawlessly (not yet, anyway). "Gigantic" size maps made in the editor, for instance, are not always playable. I assume this sort of thing will be corrected in the upcoming patches.

Overall, though, I consider this a great game. One of the few that actually delivers all it promises. For the rest, the graphics are good, the gameplay awesome, and the untis well blanced. Furthermore, despite its "Civilisation"-isch toutches at times, you won't loose a lot of time with boring mining and micromanagement. Buy it! just buy it!
Only make sure you have one heck of a computer to play it on, otherwise, you'll end up playing in slow motion.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I cannot stop playing this game
Review: This game is so much fun and challenging. The only draw back is that it is so vast that a random map starting from the earliest epoch to the latest one can take days to play. I rather play historical periods, like industrial age or modern age.
It took a good deal of time to learn how to beat the computer in a random map, even on the easiest level. I've played all the AOE games, and the strategy is a little different. I found it can take real technique laying seige to an army or a town that is much different than how it is done in AOE.
This game is a must have for anyone who like RTS games.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Empire Earth
Review: Although Empire Earth has the potential of being one of the best games I've ever play I have problems with the game bogging down. It's like the system gets overloaded. I've E-mailed Serria through thier web site with little success. I have more than the minimum requirments in order to run the game. It's very frustrating and I hope they fix this problem soon. Great graphics and attention to detail.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Strategy game out there
Review: I have always loved Rts like starcraft aoe2 warcraft everything u can think of.
This game goes from Prehistoric age all the way to nano age (far futur)
personally i dont play the futur too much but its great to have it.
My favorite Ages or epocs r WW1, WW2 and modern
Im a big fan of senario editors too, so far i have made awsome levels like Pearl harbor, Dday, desert storm, ww1 trench warfare, any kind of battle in history you can make on senario builder.
what i find fun somtimes is put nano age mech warriors and lazer infantry angainst an enormous army of clubmen and stone trowers and whatch them get anihilated. or just nuke them all with b52s or b29s
Also with this game come awsome airplanes which is really important to me.
you get sopwit cammels and fokers in ww1 as long as a bomber
you get spitfires, mechersmiths, b17s b29s p41 p38 lighting So many planes
modern age is f15 f14 f117 b2 b52
anyways
wether you want to play civil war battles, roman battles, knight battles, ww1-2 battles, even modern nuke sub warfare, or even futuristic mech warriors and plasma cannons, whatever suits you, or why not play them all in one game.

one nice thing is you can zoom in and out and get real up close to the battle, just about eye lvl.
if you like RTS this will be you favorite game untill somone does the same thing with better grafics

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Game Ever
Review: This game is the best game that Sierra has ever came out with. I would highly recommend it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Age of Empires on steriods
Review: Developed by one of the originators of Age of Empires, Empire Earth plays like Age of Empires but has imporvements at all levels. If you loved Age of Empires, then you'll love this even more.

The graphics detail is tremendous and the new zoom in feature to see the action up close is novel.

The game starts in prehistoric times and goes through many other "epochs" including two future epochs invented by the game's creators.

This is Age of Empires on steriods!


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