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Summary: Great fun..for a while...
Review: All in all...Empire earth is a fabulous game. It is Age of Empires, only one step further. In AoE you can go all the way to the early rennaissance and a little further. In Empire Earth we go there, then to the two world wars, on to the modern age, and ending in the future, where we control robots and fly hovering fortresses.
I HIGHLY reccommend this Game for Strategy loving Players, who like a little *kick* to their game.
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Summary: age of empires [look-alike]
Review: Empire Earth is good, Not quite as much fun as Age Of Empires, Some of the scenarios get too be a little too difficult and thus frustrating. Graphics are superb as well as gameplay. I would recommend this game, but youll pull your hair out at times.
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Summary: A evolutive game
Review: The game is (maybe) the best game about strategy, you have many feature and you can build, almoust, everything. You run from early ages and can arrive to cultures in the future. Your culture will improve itself (according your command) and challenge many others groups.
It's obsesive and you can spend many hour enjoying and learning tips and controls, but it's very funny. You will enjoy it a lot!!!!.
Only be carefull about your Video Card, you need PCI with 3D or AGP 4X for a good experience.
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Summary: Nice game!
Review: You will love this game. Although it has relatively poor graphics and boring compaigns.
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Summary: Empire Earth
Review: I liked this game alot! It was so much fun to play this game because it took you, the gamer, so far back into time. It seemed very realistic considering the fact we don't really know too much about some of the levels. I thought this game was fun and somewhat educational. For example, on some of the ages, you can build "heroes". The heroes include, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Hannibal, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, and Oliver Cromwell. I had no idea who Oliver Cromwell was and it interested me to go and find out. Of course you can advance to a very digitilized age. I thought it was cool to imagine what the future would be like, and then I realized that I could play in an age of lasers, robots, advanced troops, and much, much more. I thought it was cool for Sierra to come out with a game that can take us back into time and wonder if that was really what it like. For those of you who own this game or are interested in buying it, I would also recommend a few games ... Half-Life, Half-Life Counter Strike, Half-Life Blue Shift, Half-Life Opposing Force, Half-Life Battle Fortress, and finally S.W.A.T. 3. I am a big fan of any Sierra games, especially the Half-Life series based in my home state of New Mexico. For those of you who read my review I hope you enjoyed it, and have fun playing this and many other games! ...
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Summary: Sierra is getting there
Review: First off i want to say i liked this game far more than age of empires 2. Empire earth is fast paced- and not only covers large age spans, but you can choose which ages you want to play in.From cavemen to F-22 fighter jets -- you can't get any better than that. The computer AI is VERY VERY challenging, but annoying at times. The art, music, sounds are excellent. The replay value is decent. My only complaint is the multiplayer needed some serious work, thus brining the expansion. The expansion is said to fix this greatly in additon to some additonal units and ages / epoches to play in. OVERALL: It's definately one of the best strategy, RTS games out there, GO BUY IT TODAY!!
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Summary: Full of Promise
Review: I am an avid strategy game player. I particularly enjoy most RTS games. I picked EE up after playing AOE for months and hearing so much good about it. I had high expectations because of the amount of breadth in this game; so many ages; so many units; so many possibilites.
I was somewhat disappointed, but let me get to the good first.
1) The ages are amazing. Each with their unit upgrades and stats. The ability to trample infantry with a brigade of elephants is delightful. Watching my curaissars decimate my opponents spearmen made me squeal with glee. Each unit has it's own specialty. In particular the medics, with their ability to heal is of great value.
2) The Prohet is amazing. This unit can, with a wipe of his hand, obliterate fleets with a hurricane, level walls and towers with an earthquake, annihilate armies ith plagues, and reduce buildings to ash with firestorms and volcanoes.
3) The premise is simple. Only five types of materials are needed: stone, iron, gold, wood, and food. Each unit costs a different amount of each. This basic type of resource gathering is a staple for RTS.
4) The pace is just enough to keep interest. Definitely necessary for a game with so many ages.
5) I have found the AI to be challenging and aggressive. In AOE the AI is not as good.
Now, to the bad.
1) Irriating lock-ups plague some games. I haven't had nearly as much trouble as some of my friends. I think it may have to do with the quirks of each individual's game system.
2) The availability of every resource is a problem. Each resource pile begins at 200,000. True, you can adjust availability, but only to an extent. It turns out that every player can build at roughly the same rate. There is no resource scramble like there is in AOE. Strategy then becomes defense oriented.
3) The prophet. Yes, he is great because he is powerful, but he is far too powerful. How many players enjoy seeing their invasion fleet wiped out by a hurricane? Or their cleverly placed and successful army crushed by pestilence? What good are walls if they can be felled so easily and readily with an earthquake? A small group of prophets can slaughter a civilization. A balance needs to be struck.
4) I felt because of the breadth of the game there should have been more technologies and buildings to reflect those technologies. The buildings are quite basic which is true to the simplicity of the game, but as the ages wore on I found myself wondering what real difference there was between an age when the only thing that I did was upgrade my units. The first real changes don't come until the modern age.
5) Aging up occurs too slowly. Sometimes between ages the cost of aging up leads me to believe that the process of aging is simply to slow the game down.
In all, the game is an average strategy game. More cumbersome than AOE in terms of gameplay, and less enjoyable. I look forward to the expansion and have hopes that it will speed things up a bit, add some new buildings and achievements and create a better balance.
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Summary: Nice game, but not the best
Review: This was a very nice game. It takes your basic RTS and expands it to cover a lot more of history. But the problem with covering a lot more history is it doesn't get as indepth as AOE II, for example. Anyone that advances through the ages slowly will be overrun by even small more advanced armies. It focuses less on accuratly historical parts of the game, and there are no special units based on civilazations in history, mostly because there are no civilizations. With no special technologies or more chocies on how to play the game, it becomes point and click game-play, with no strategy. In general, it's not too bad. Good path-finding, balenced units, and a nice way of playing, but there is no detail. That what really holds this game back, is the lack of detail.
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Summary: The best rts ever!
Review: If you'r an age of empires fan you'll love this game!!! insttead of 4 ages that span mabey a few hundred years you get 12 epochs that span 500,000 years!!! Its only weak spot is, heck it hasn't got any. The one thing thats puzzleing is that the upgrade of the grenaider, the doughboy is worse than the grenaider. The graphics are great and it's very relistic. I give it 5, 10 if I could.
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Summary: RE: Justin Hawthorne's remarks
Review: I played this game using a router which has a built-in firewall and had NO problems with single player OR multi-player online (your comp does NOT go online to play single player as I've played it when my ISP was down for a whole weekend). I'm sure there are others that have the same problem as you do but I suspect most don't. Unfortunatly, this makes you part of a small minority and software developers can't address every single issue with every single system. Don't get me wrong. I'm not defending Sierra here as they do have a bad reputation with gamers out there for customer support (or so I've heard the rumblings). They took a very long time to release a patch to address problems that others where having and none since, but the expansion pack just came out (see Empire Earth; The Art Of Conquest) which probably has updates. I just feel the game itself shouldn't be trashed for the unresponsiveness of the developer's support staff. It's an AWESOME RTS if you can play it. The expansion, by the way, is by Mad Doc Software so maybe they'll have better support.
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