Empire Earth
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This is a difficult, rewarding action/strategy history sim
I must admit the opening sequence won me over, to wit: "Few men have the ability to decide the lives of others" or something similar was what held my initial joy. Watching the video scenes that ranged from a shaman in a stone age culture to a world war captain fighting with lasers and pulse machine guns intrigued me.This game is simply astounding!The gameplay is amazing... it is the kind of game you have to get a full glass of icewater and maybe a snack and sit down and crack your knuckles then begin a TOTAL conquer of an enemy. As a superior (online anyway) veteran of AOE and AOK I must admit I was challenged beyond belief but not too much to make it not fun.I need not go into minor details of gameplay...this is an RTS game BUT it has some important differences. Everything I hated about Age of Empires has been fixed:1) The resources dont run out after like 800 gold...you get 30,000 for each mine. This means you spend more time on war strategy (which becomes...
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An Incredible game! A must buy for expert and novice gamers.
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...
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Product Description
An Epic Conquest Spanning 500000 Years!Product InformationThe creator and lead designer of the award-winning best-selling Age of Empires® Rick Goodman has conceived Empire Earth to be the premier historical real-time strategy game offering players unprecedented freedom to customize both the historical scope of their game and the character of their civilizations.Improving upon the Age of Empires interface Goodman and his team are making Empire Earth as accessible as Age with far more excitement and depth.Product Features From Rick Goodman lead designer of the award-winning best-selling Age of Empires! Epic scope – spans over 500000 years from the discovery of fire to laser technology and beyond. 14 different Epochs – replay all of human history or just the span of time that interests you. Train more than 200 different kinds of units.. Battle on land air and sea – in addition to armies you can build wide varieties of ships and aircrafts. Fight wars of the future with advanced robotic and anti-gravity units using secret weapons. Enlist great historical Heroes – such as William the Conqueror and Patton – to enhance your military abilities. Customize your military units by improving their strength or equipment. Play in Standard mode for a more-strategic empire building game or Tournament mode for faster-paced action. Have your Prophets devastate opponents with Calamities such as hurricanes earthquakes and deadly plagues. Engage in historic siege warfare – breach an enemy’s walls with catapults rams and siege towers. Increase the morale of your soldiers to improve their offensive and defensive capabilities. Match wits with the cunning AI or coordinate attacks with your computer-player allies. Construct 20 types of buildings and research 150 technologies. A helpful technology tree foldout is included. Temples Universities and other buildings provide additional def Top to learn more
Unlike Age of Empires, which takes on a single slice of history, Empire Earth offers you the whole darn pie! You'll start a civilization, directing your cavemen to gather resources such as food, wood, gold, iron, and stone. Eventually you'll advance through every era of history, all the way to the far-flung future where giant robots armed with lasers dominate the battlefield.
Empire Earth is the first game from Stainless Steel Studios and Age of Empires co-creator Rick Goodman, and is everything that hard-core fans who conquered the Age of Empires games could want. Stainless Steel Studios managed to pack more sheer gameplay, units, options, and replayability into Empire Earth than any other real-time strategy game had before it. Best of all, the game is very much based on the interface and gameplay concepts that made Age of Empires and its sequel so much fun, so players of the earlier games can jump right in.
The core concept should be familiar to any real-time-strategy fan. Empire Earth has your citizens (called peasants in Age of Empires) gather resources so you can build various buildings and units. You have to gather wood, gold, stone, and food, as in the earlier game, but Empire Earth adds iron to the mix. Food is gathered from various colorful animals dotting the map, wood from forests, and the minerals from deposits scattered around. Gather enough stuff and you can advance through the ages; there are 16 of them here, from humankind's prehistoric past all the way to the future some 200 years hence. At the beginning, you'll be fielding club warriors, and at the end, massive robot tanks. In the middle you'll build archers, knights, infantry, tanks, etc. All told, the game features 20 buildings and some 200 units.
One major innovation is the full 3-D graphics engine. The engine lets you rotate and zoom in anywhere, which yields some impressive visuals. More strikingly, the game engine can showcase huge numbers of units in full conflict, and you will see massive battles throughout the ages. The game offers full multiplayer, several historical scenarios, a campaign mode, and a random map generator that can be tweaked to play in any age against any number of opponents, which is a great option.
There are other key differences that set Empire Earth apart from the pack. You can build prophets, who can then summon mighty calamities on your enemy. Think of them as divine spells. You can start a plague, call a rain of fire, or summon a massive earthquake, for example. Artillery, aircraft, and naval powers are also represented. You can staff your outposts with citizens to make them grow into more efficient town centers, thus increasing your power over the map and control of resources.
This complexity is the game's greatest strength, but also its biggest weakness. This isn't a game for the timid, the new, or the slow. If you thought Age of Empires was complicated when compared to other real-time fare such as WarCraft, you haven't seen anything yet. This sophistication can be a bad thing for new gamers, but Age of Empires players looking for a new challenge are in for a treat. --Bob Andrews
Pros:
- Plenty of units and ages to explore
- Impressive new 3-D graphics
- Too complex for casual gamers
- High difficulty
The creator and lead designer of Age of Empires has conceived Empire Earth as the premier historical real-time strategy title, offering players the freedom to customize both the historical scope of their games and the character of their civilizations. Improving upon the Age of Empires interface, Empire Earth promises to be as accessible as Age, but with far more excitement and depth.
In Empire Earth, you'll command history's best-known civilizations, such as those of the Greeks, English, French, and Germans, or evolve your own as you choose from more than 100 unique attributes. You'll colonize or conquer surrounding territories and establish new settlements; plan and build walled towns and city-states; and construct temples and hospitals to protect and enhance your growing empire. Your town centers inspire defenders to fight harder, and can be transformed into powerful capitals. Wood, coal, oil, and other natural resources provide raw materials for expansion. More than a dozen technology tracks offer numerous opportunities for further advancement.
Train more than 200 types of combat units from every era in history, including the future on earth. Instantly improve the combat abilities of your troops with specific upgrades. Lead your armies to glorious victory with the help of Charlemagne, Churchill, and other great heroes from not only yesterday but also today and tomorrow. Fight in good weather during the day on an open plain, or carry out surprise assaults in the black of night or the dead of winter. Attack unsuspecting enemies with stealthy submarines and aircraft. Soften up an enemy position with artillery fire, carpet-bombing, or offshore shelling, or launch ballistic missiles. Wage epic sky battles with more than 30 types of aircraft, such as Sopwith Camels, Spitfires, F-15s, Apache gunships, and B-2 bombers. Fight massive naval engagements with more than 40 different ships, from 16th-century ships of the line to modern aircraft carriers. Board and capture enemy vessels. Train colossal and intelligent mechs to fight the battles of the future.
In Empire Earth, the military option is just one possible path to victory. Surreptitiously convert an enemy's citizens with furtive priests. Instruct a prophet to invoke devastating calamities, such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and plagues. Pick away at opponents' populations by taking over their citizens. Construct wonders of the world that endow your civilization with special abilities while demonstrating its superiority. Top to learn more
Age of Empires 3++
This game might be called "Empire Earth" but in all reality, it's the next bold installment in the "Age of Empires" saga. While it sports a different name and a new home (Sierra), the lead designer of "Ages" has done much more than make a mere sequel. While AOE2 was the next logical step from AOE1 historically and technically, Empire Earth takes a giant leap forward encompassing all aspects of human history and even takes a stab at the future (which is a little depressing considering there are only a couple of ages after the modern age. Are they trying to tell us something?) The interface is basically the same as AOE with many of the same old buttons and features, but the graphics are now 3D, and it allows you to take your perspective all the way to the ground to get an up-close view of your troops, your buildings and the combat in progress. The 3D graphics really do make a huge difference in visual quality. I was never really disappointed with AOE1 or...
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