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Summary: Age of Empire lovers will play for months
Review: Designed along the lines of Age of Empires, with some of the same programmers, Empire Earth stretches from prehistory into the far future. Think of it as the standard build-a-civilization game with a timeline that encompasses all of mankind's history.The graphics are really great. It seems that every new release raises the graphics bar a bit, and Empire Earth falls into that category. It's a fully 3D version of Age of Empires, with little farms, temples, stables, trees, airports, towers, and more. The water ripples, the trees sway in the wind. There are different terrain types, from snow to desert to rocks and jungle. The plants and landscape features match the terrain properly. There are all sorts of great units matching the various time periods. There are frigates and battleships, galleons and triremes and catapult ships. The fully customizable scenario editor lets you mix and match the forces in one giant time-warp map, or construct your own historic scenarios. Drop an iceberg into the water, and you see the water lapping up against its edges. You can zoom fully in and out to admire your work! The game campaigns are a fun trek through history. Start out with sticks and stones, and just a few units. Take care of your goats, and soon you'll be progressing along through the Greeks, Romans, middle ages, Renaissance and all the way up to the far future. The range of units, cultures and timelines available is truly amazing. The campaigns are just to whet your appetite and get you started. When you're sure you understand the commands and tactics, it's time to go on line! You'll find thousands of maps, thousands of players, and a truly infinite number of scenarios to play out. Design any historical situation and see how you do in WW2 or in the War of the Roses. Try various combinations in the war against Cleopatra. A truly great game for any strategy fan, and one that can keep you occupied for months - or at least until a new version of the game comes out!
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Summary: Caveat Emptor
Review: I would like to say how much I love this game. However, I am unable to do so due to the arrogant nature of the customer disservice and the irresponsible attitudes of Sierra and its programmers.
If you use a firewall, even one other than Zonealarm, you will be unable to run this game without first DISABLING your firewall, or giving the game indiscriminate access to your internet connection. I mean you MUST do this for SOLO play.
I can understand that you need to allow a program to access the internet in order to have a multiplayer game over the internet, but given the number of titles that support and encourage multiplayer over the internet (both those of this and other genres) that do NOT have this bug, it is my recommendation that you play some of those other splendid titles and allow this one to fade away into the ignominous fate that should await all examples of bad programming, regardless of what former luster their publisher may have had.
I have contacted Sierra concerning this bug, and their official stance is to ignore it, claiming that EE does not attempt to access the internet unless multiplayer is selected, it merely makes certain system calls that cause firewalls to THINK they are accessing the internet, even though the game crashes when you allow your firewall to block access to the internet. They consider this a user problem. I consider it an invasion of my privacy and a security risk. The necessary steps to secure my computer (disable DSL connection and firewall) and have solo play are an offensive and unacceptable intrusion, and Sierra's attitude towards this bug is intolerable so I encourage you not to tolerate it. As I pointed out to Sierra, there are lots of other games of this type without these problems, play them instead, and be sure to let Sierra know why.
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Summary: This is a great game!
Review: Don't listen to those folks saying the computer cheats and you can't win. I won today, after several attempts (I think five). This game is far more complex than CIV III, it requires patience and strategy and planning. If you don't measure out your troops to your citizens and follow through on advancements at the university and within all the other elements, the computerized opponent will come in and wipe you out. One key is building secure walls around your town as soon as you're able, so that the computer opponent can't get through (and repairing them when your opponent attacks). There are many different elements that you need to pay attention to throughout the game to keep on top of things, but that makes the game so much more intelligent and challenging than CIV III (and I liked CIV III too). I found in CIV III I could win the game almost too easily, and could do so without fighting. In Empire Earth you HAVE to fight and you have to consider your military, along with your citizens' harvesting of food, minerals and wood. I particularly like that your priests can "convert" enemy troops and have them turn around and fight against their former allies. It's a great game, really; if you're interested in complex strategy and excellent graphics, try this game. There are so many options, it's infinitely playable over and over again.
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Summary: GEAT GAME
Review: Ok, if you have a good system and are looking for the best real time strategy empire building game ever, then you should get Empire earth! with 14 epochs, excellent graphics, and many awards, this is really a great game if you have a good system
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Summary: !The Best Game I Have Ever Played!
Review: -Good Graphics
-Zoom in on things
-learn real history
-play in many differt ages
-Tons of differt men
+much much more
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Summary: Great opportunity to SAVE MONEY!!!
Review: Just don't buy this one. You will have more fun watching your money sitting in a savings account. And for goodness sakes, don't let your kid waste his/her money & YOUR time!
Seriously, this stupid game has wasted more of my family's time than any other software product we have ever purchased. It runs like molasses on a top-of-the-line processor, with a top-notch video card, tons of memory, lots of disk space. From scanning reviews, I'd guess you might possibly manage to get it working if you happen to have the exact same system as some of the early testers...probably means some out-of-date version of Windows. But don't count on it.
There are so many recommendations in the handbook for speeding up the program, that it's obvious they knew on release that this would be a problem. Half of the recommendations basically involve turning off and/or crippling the promised attractive features of the game. To release a program like this which does NOT reliably run on any machine meeting recommended or better system specifications (and you are out of luck if your system only reaches the "minimum" specs) is totally unprofessional.
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Summary: Prepare to be frustrated...
Review: Take my advice: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! I had heard no end of praise(at Amazon especially) for it and I know it would have been great. But the units take quite a while just to start moving after being told to move!!! And don't start thinking "oh,the CP was too slow". I upgraded to a 1.7 gHz computer, and it didn't help.
We got a graphics card with an nVidia Ge Force 4 processor, which is the latest thing, and it didn't help,either. All my other games, which had been working fine, got better. ... it only works on Windows ME, which was discontinued some time ago.
In summary, the words I would like to use to describe this game would get this review banned from the list. ... EE is a total rip-off ...
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Summary: A MUST PLAY GAME
Review: This game builds upon everything Age of Empires was missing. You can evolve and progess through eras to a date in the future. The computer is very challenging in the death matches. The game play online is awesome. This is a must play game. Sierra has done it again.
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Summary: Can't help it, I like it
Review: Yes, I read the reviews where people said it's kinda hard and the computer cheats. I still bought this game because I'm a curious person and the idea of playing different epochs instead of being stuck in one seemed interesting.
Well, I'm glad I did. Though probably not the best RTS game out there it's lot of fun to play. If you start out on an easy level (you can set resources high for instant, give yourself more citizens than your computer opponent) and choose a small map, it's not all that hard. I won against 2 computer players the second time I played. It's even easier if you don't choose one of the offered civilisations but the "custom civilasation" where you can make your own settings. The computer can't do that, so once you know which opponents you play and know their strengths and weaknesses (i.e. good navy but no improvements for infantry) you can adjust your own military and economy to win an advantage.
Sounds boring? Well, it isn't once you get the hang of it and, well, this is what the game is about(you can still use one of the civs that are already on the game). Use whatever you can to build a cililisation that will defeat the others. And you're not alone, you can make allies (but watch out, if you don't choose the "allies locked" setting their loyality might not last and you'll have to look for new friends, maybe by offering a little tribute?). If you're weak look for allies, if you're strong others will seek your benevolence.
You can research technologies, you can train priests, prophets and military units, gather resources and populate settlements to upgrade them into town centers and capitols. All that will make you get into the next epochs where you will find new ways to improve your military, temples, universities and so much more. In the beginning the huge variety of options can be confusing and if you don't pay attention to have economy and military in balance the enemy will find and use any weakness. But once again, start out small so you can overlook your actions and soon enough you will be ready to take on an enemy who seems too powerful. And it is your choice if you want to fight with soldiers, ships and artillery or convince the enemy of his errors and send priests to convert citizens and soldiers (if you're really good your priests will even convert buildings, but I must admit I was a little puzzled that houses can develop a sense for religion....) ;-)
I found a combination of both leads me to success most of the time, and if all else fails you can still make your prophet call terrible calamities upon the stubborn enemy. What makes this game a little different and more enjoyable than others I played are the beautiful little details. Not only your buildings change their appearance while you advance through the epochs, but also the clothing of your citizens and soldiers and the way they talk (from "hrrr?" to "with my honour!" and "their heads will roll!"- that's my favorite ;-) but don't worry, there's a "no blood"- setting!). Eagles will flap by occasionally, clouds will throw their shadows on the ground and when your ships engage in a battle you'll actually see the smoke when they fire their cannons ("sink the land- lubbers!!!"). There's much more to explore and I tried to focus on the important and the reasons why I like this game, but I'm sure if you like RTS games you'll enjoy this one. I'd definetly buy it again.
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Summary: :))
Review: Nice game,but not the best.Comparing to the other games like AOE2 or War Craft III graphics is low.The best thing that i really liked is 16 ages,it's a little bit long time to go though then all,but interesting.Every age new technology.It's a litle bit hard to play against computer.If the graphics was good,so and the game.
You should see graphics in War Craft III and compare.I regread to buy this game.
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