Empire Earth

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Summary: This game will define the strategy genre for years
Review: Shock is the only word to describe Empire Earth. When I visited the booth located near the entrance to the PC wing at E3, people were running back and forth amongst the eight monitors setup exclaiming "It's the same game!". One screen showed prehistoric clubman fighting it out, the second displayed a gigantic siege setup in the middle ages, the third brought Napoleanonic units into the mix, and the last screens displayed the World Wars and the Future. Amazing! Empire Earth is the culmination of Age of Empires, Age of Kings, Cossacks, Red Alert, and Starcraft brought into a beautiful 3D world. You better pre-order this game early, as it will be flying off the shelves once word spreads.

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Summary: Empire Earth- Best strategy game so far.
Review: This game is alot of fun for anybody that likes strategy. It is made by a former AOE designer. It is alot like age of empires, except there are 12 eras instead of 4 ages, and these range from the early stone age to the space age, and there is smarter AI and much better graphics. Instead of the rough blocky terrain of older rpg's, this game has smooth real-looking graphics. There are hundreds of units ranging from club men to laser infantry. It is very complicated and requires alot of concentration and time, but immensly fun for the AOE games, civilization, or shogun fans. Or, just anybody that likes strategy.

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Summary: sucky
Review: this product was the worst and shouldn't be purchased if you don't want to throw 20 dollars down the drain. HORRIBLY DONE. sierra should have been disposed of and a better company like the creators of Medeival total war should make another game. SO THINK AGAIN IF YOU PLAN TO BUY IT. it is boring and nothing is realistic especially the graphics, for example the people are larger than the house. so don't buy this...............for your own sake!

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Summary: Awesome
Review: This is the best game ever made. It is just incredibly fun and there is no way you can't like it. I can't wait for the sequel because its going to be ten times better then perfect

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Summary: Crushing Good Fun, yes, yet somehow troubling
Review: Empire Earth is an extraordinarily well put together game from almost any objective, "within the genre" perspective, as other reviews have mentioned the unit balance and combined arms aspect is excellent. The challenge factor is very high, and it's difficult to get much ahead of the AI in the normal game mode. You can have a LOT of units in exsistence all at once, and I often found myself wishing I could deputize other players, for example, to command my navy or helicopter fleet while I led the army or managed the economy. The game is a ton of fun, addictive, and will get inside your head.

And yet. There's no real way to negotiate with the computer players, and the goal of the game is either wonder construction or utter conquest. I almost always chose wonder construction, and the computer attacked my wonders with godawful savagery. When you're able to defend the wonders or crush all the other non-allied players, you win, and that's that. The creators of the game are either just looking to make a game and not a world sim, or are Machiavellian, zero-sum worldview security nuts of the Cleonic stripe. I eventually stopped playing the game altogether, because I couldn't deal with the endless war and the fact that the game gives you no way to make a lasting peace with your enemy. I feel this limited the game's replay value, and I wonder what the implications are, if such games are influencing a large number of people's worldview. We live in a troubled world ourselves, and we need to believe that peace between many nations is possible. Sadly, in Empire Earth, it is not.

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Summary: coooooooooooooooooooool$$$$$
Review: this game is the best game i played.don't believe those layers this game is fantastic with cool grabics you can't stop playing it.if you want to buy it buy it dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Its the best!
Review: This game is the best! You get to build walls (unlike any other stretagy games) which has high hit points (HP) to protect you from most enemies and it can help your team mates!Building walls is fun! you can even put gates! Heck why am I saying this to you? You should play the game yourself and see if you like it!

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Summary: No Title
Review: Even though it's not really fair, I tend to compare Empire Earth to Age of Empires II in my mind because they're so similar. Also since I'm a huge fan of Age of Empires II.

Empire Earth is a really nice game. The grapics are nice, it's nice to be able to select more than 40 units at once, it's great to be able to play from prehistoric times to the future and I like how modern prophets are basically bums wearing doomsday cardboard signs. It's really fun. It's amusing to create scenarios where you can have panzers fighting against hordes of swordsmen or rock throwers. The vast ammount of time it covers allows a lot of flexibility in creating your own scenarios.

My biggest complaints (that aren't significant enough to actually dent my opinion of the game) are the lack of Age of Empires II features. Maybe this is unfair because they're different games, but I miss being able to trade surplus resources in the market for resources I really need. I also don't like not being able to create trade cogs or trade carts.

However this is a fantastic game that every strategy gamer should at least try.

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Summary: Much better than Age of Empires
Review: While Age of Empires only lets you control the far past, Empire Earth includes the past, the present, and even the future. There are a lot of great units which evolve as you progress through ages. The graphics are also much better than those in AOE. It is also full 3D. Also, the different scenarios, units, and structures are historically accurate. This includes the ancient Greeks and Romans, WWI, WWII, and much more. If you liked Age of Empires, you'll love Empire Earth. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Improves upon the classic Age of Empires formula
Review: Empire Earth could have easily been called Age of Empires 3 since the gameplay is so similar. As is typical with such games, resource collection, building institutions, and creating units is the bulk of gameplay. There are several ways to customize the game, including your choice of maps, civilizations, number of enemy civilizations, and so forth. One really good thing is that resources don't get depleted throughout the game, except for wood. That is, I was mining that same gold mine in epoch 8 as I was at the beginning of the game. Also, new units such as the hospital, prophets, wonders, and firearms add some interesting gameplay elements. I've only played the game once (for 12 hours straight!) and was defeated in the 8th epoch (Rennaissance?) by computer opponents who ganged up on me before I could maintain my 3 wonders for 2000 years. One thing that I noticed was that the gameplay is slow, largely due to the huge amounts of resources that you have to collect to advance through the ages. Also, the enemy AI is clever and ruthless even on the easiest difficulty setting. As with the Age of Empires games, diplomacy is a weak part of the game (also, there is no market for trading). Overall, I liked the gameplay, but I don't recommend trying to play through all 14 epochs--you can choose to limit the number you play--unless you don't mind playing the same game for days.

Graphics are decent. You can zoom in and out, but probably will not find a need to do so very often. They are an improvement over the graphics of the Age of Empires games, but not much. The music is okay and the special-effect sounds are nice. The villagers speak in English regardless of their civilization. If you enjoy strategy games or are a fan of the Age of Empires games as I am, you should like Empire Earth. However, in my opinion, this game is not the classic that these other games are because of its lack of originality and rather slow pace.