Empire Earth

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Summary: An Incredible game! A must buy for expert and novice gamers.
Review: If you can only pick one game to buy this christmas, it should be Empire Earth. This game is like having 10 games in 1. When you compare the scope of Empire Earth to Age of Kings, Age of Kings has 4 ages while Empire Earth has 14. In addition, the 14 epochs of Empire Earth have as many or more units that age of kings!

Now, I'm not one to jump on the bandwagon, and I've heard everyone raving about this game. I thought, 'sure, I bet it's great'. I must say, after playing it for almost a week solid, I have to jump on the bandwagon, this game IS incredible! I don't want to put up the huge list of features, but in short:
Great multiplayer, great AI, great single player campaigns, and an amazing scenerio editor are just a few.

In fact, the only negative for the game is that the multi-player online system (won.net) could be better by adding more chat features and ranking systems. But that has nothing to do with the ingame play. On modems, the game runs smooth as silk! I just can't say enough for this game.

I'd easily recommend this over Civ 3, Star Wars battlegrounds, and Battle Realms.

So if your looking for a 'sure winner' game, you can't go wrong with Empire Earth. People will be playing this game for years to come.

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Summary: Fantastic; from stone age to the future - I was floored!
Review: This is a wonderful game, beginning with cave men and ending up with robots - this game is breathtaking. I was in awe upon loading it and each time I get into a new epoch I feel that awe renewed. The fact that it all fits on one CD blows me away. It is one of those games that you could play for over three days straight so beware. This would also greatly complement a Western Civ course or add spice to any history lesson.

The graphics are also delightful: fields of wheat, beautiful oceans and trees swaying in the wind. Also you can zoom in and
get a first person perspective and then zoom back out!

There are plenty of great campaigns and some nice complementary materials like a poster/time line and helpful history refreshers in the manual.

A text book based on this game would be a great teaching tool!

Rating:
Summary: It's weak
Review: My first impression after playing it is, it's lame. The action is very slow. Everything on the screen it too small. Who really cares how good the graphics are if they are too small to see. The voices that repeat continuously when you move a citizen, boat or soldier, really gets annoying fast. I play a lot of AOE and I was really disappointed with Empire Earth...

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Summary: Fun game
Review: This game is fun. I think it is really cool. Everyone should buy it. It tastes yummy. Yum, Yum, Yum. Game is good. Buy me more. I like computer games. They are pretty.

Rating:
Summary: YEAH
Review: I LOVE THIS GAME IT IS LIKE AGE OF EMPIRES, BUT 20 TIMES BETTER!
I LOVE THE STRATEIGEC BATTLES. LIKE IF U HAD MORE GUYS THEN THEM AND YOU ATTACKED BUT THEY HAD THE HIGH GROUND THEN U WOULD GET SLAUGHTERED. I ALSO LOVED HOW IT WORKED UP THROUGH TIME. MY FAVORITE PART WAS FIGHTING IN WWII. THIS GAME IS ONE OF THE BEST STRATAGIE GAMES EVER MADE

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Summary: Stone Age to the Future on one CD
Review: What I like about this type of game is the historical content
you can pick whatever age that you like.The units range from
clubmen to knights to early firearms to lasers.On the battle
feild you can get up close by zooming in on the units.By doing
that the units can get a little blocky but the feel is there.
Some might point out that the game is to hard to many units
and so on, but thats what makes this game more interesting.
Buy the time you build your city train units upgrade them
and research tech.you relize where time went and that is
what makes for a good game.

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Summary: Long long time
Review: It is a very long time that we buy a PC game and find there is a BIG menu and details untis poster included. If Flight Simulator 2002 included a printed BIG menu, I will surely buy it.

Of course, the CD-ROM itself is all you have to own. But why not a beauty box and a colour-printed menu?

Enjoy it!

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Summary: *~*greatest game ever*~*
Review: This game has the best graphics i have ever seen.The trees sway back and forward and the water is very clear and you can see every thing underwater.There are lots more soldiers hat can be made unlike Age of Empires where there are only about 20 soldiers you could choose from,but in this game there is constantly new upgrades to your soldiers and buildings and units.I have the demo and the game looks G*R*E*A*T.I know I am getting it are you...

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Summary: An RTS for the Ages
Review: First a little background on the development of the game:

Empire Earth is a new RTS game by Sierra Studios which is led by Rick Goodman. Rick Goodman was the prime developer of the Age of Empire games, hence the obvious simularities between these two games. Rick left Ensemble Studios to create his own company in order to make a game that he wanted to play. And this game turned out to be Empire Earth. Empire Earth is a 3D RTS game that covers the entire half million years of human history. From the Paleolithic Age with cavemen to a future age called the Nano Age with laser battle mechs. Hence my title of "An RTS for the Ages".

Now, let me just start off my "review" by saying that I'm not really that big of a fan of RTS games, I normally like realsitic WWII wargames. However, I heard about this game about 6 months ago, IIRC. The shear scope of this game pulled me in as I have a Bachelor's Degree in History. I had played Age of Kings and was amused by it for about 2 or 3 months, but I found the game to get a bit redundant at times, due to its rather limited resource gathering. But the big draw to Empire Earth was it's 3D graphics. At last the RTS gaming community finally gets to get down on the ground with their troops. Not only that, but they get to see hundreds (about 200 or so) of nicely animated units with pretty good special effects. Blood "explosions" when a unit gets hit, smoke from muskets and cannons that actually drifts once fired, smoke from artillery impact points and crumbling buildings, and fire from damaged structures and units.

Now another point about some of the negative reviews on this board. Some complain that the graphics just aren't as smooth or sharp as they are in Age of Empires. Well, they can't be really. If they were as highly detailed as they are in those games, Empire Earth would require a 64MB video card. The amount of VRAM that it would take to display graphics as sharp as Age, would be tremendous. Could the graphics in EE better, of course, but it would make the minimum system specs jump up at least to a 6-700 MHz machine with a 32MB card.

But the graphics are just one highlight to the game. The ability to customize your civilization down to a certain unit type is awe inspiring. You can also upgrade up to like 5 or 6 different aspects in each unit from hitpoints, attack rating, range, speed, blast effect, and various types of armor. If you don't use one unit, then you don't have to upgrade it. Which isn't entirely different than AoE, but with the Civ Builder, each generic type of unit, such as "Ranged Infantry" which covers a whole lot of units, can get certain bonuses without the micromanaging.

Alright now that I got that mushy stuff out of the way, here's a breakdown of the 14 epochs, yes 14. 14 in as such as one of the 12 epochs (the 20th Century one) has been broken down into 3 epochs, (WWI, WWII, and Modern). The other 11 epochs include, the Paleolithic (or Prehistory), Stone Age, Copper Age, Bronze Age, Dark Ages, Medieval Age, Rennaissance Age, Imperial Age, Industrial Age, 20th Century--(WWI, WWII, Modern), Digital Age (21st Century), and Nano Age. So be prepared to go from clubs and slings to NUKES! and beyond. Should be fun. All coming to a desktop near you in the week of Nov. 14th.

Oh I almost forgot. Why only 4 stars? Because we're still using hitpoints. But then again, with as much unit stat micromanagement you can probably adjust each unit to about their historical toughness. Also, one reviewer mentioned that their short swordmen were cut down by javelin throwers without doing hardly any damage to them. Well that's the Rock-Paper-Scissors relationship used in the game. It forces you to use combined arms to deal with a threat, which removes the ol' tank rush RTS tactic.

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Summary: A Game that can be described as a new epoch to RTS
Review: This game is so phinominal it blows my mind. The demo alone in my own humble opinion is so outstanding that it makes AOE2/1, Command and (...), Cossacks*(my favorite until EE) look like childs games meant to only warm the true rts gamers up for the epoch of EMPIRE EARTH!!! with the war currently going on in Afghanastan its hard even to concentrate on games but the game really takes the stress and worries from my mind. It is pure fun/carnage on the battle field ranging from all over lavish landscapes in rome, byzantium, africa and so on and so forth.I honestly believe anyone who can critisize this game is either looking for unwanted attention or are just AOE fanatics. The roman legions have finally entered the strategey world. I created a swarm of Legionaires/ roman lancer calvary in the demo and i had a blast. I have played that one senario over and over against the gothic armies just outside the walls of ROME!!! I love the archers/javelin throwers the game has uncanny effects and dinamics. The Roman legionaires protect themselves with their large rectangular shields and get in close with the short swords and cut down the enemy!!! The game is great to just sit back and watch as battle cries and screams come from furious wariors getting impaled by a long pike!! War elephants crash threw the enemy like a bowling ball and that is a new feature compared to AOK the war elaphants/elephant archers crumble any moral and fight in the enemy soldiers unless the have some very very long pikes to stab these great looking war beasts!! EE covers melle combat,longrange combat from cannon to arablasts!!! This game is litterally every rts game including graphics of black and white put in to one monstrosity of a game :) I cant imagine what the full version of the game is going to be like! By the way if you play the demo the demo can not support the higher resolutions to the gamplay so even without the 800x600 32 i had to settle for the 800x600 16 which makes a significant difference. The ocean and landscape including the wildlife is emmense and lush with wind/waves and reproducing/migrating herdes of hippo,elephant,deer,gairaffe and about 12 or more types of wildlife that intertact and prey on eachother lol!!! I CANT URGE YOU ENOUGH TO GET EE ON NOV.14 AT ANY STORE!!!!! THERE ARE LITTERALLY Thousands OF MORE FEATURES TO THE GAME WHICH I CANT EXPLAIN NOR FULLY KNOW ABOUT!! GET GAME AND HAPPINESS WILL BE IN YOUR LIFE. OH I CANT WAIT TO CHARGE MECHS INTO A STONE AGE VILLAGE AND WATCH A SLAUGHTER UNKNOWN TO MAN UNTIL nov.14 lol :)