Video Games : Empire Earth

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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years
Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Vivendi Universal
EAN: 0020626710978
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Vivendi Universal
Manufacturer: Vivendi Universal
Model: 71097
Publisher: Vivendi Universal
Release Date: November 14, 2001
Sales Rank: 9126
Studio: Vivendi Universal

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Product Description:
An epic conquest spanning 500,000 years! Battle on land, air, and sea in addition to armies, you can build wide varieties of ships and aircrafts.

Amazon.com Review:
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

Cons:

Too complex for casual gamers
High difficulty

Amazon.com Product Description:
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.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Even after so many years this game is a blast!
A real time strategy game. That allows your 'people' to evolve through the ages. From Pre-Historic age up to Cyber age. People who love WarCraft 2 will probably like this game.

You can play scenarios built into the game, or even more fun start your own LAN game and play with friends, with and against computers of various difficulties. You cut your own wood, gather food, mine stone, gold, and iron using peasents. With every age the voices and sayings of your 'people' change and evolve.

You can build walls. Setup towers and anti-aircraft for defense. You can wage battles on the high seas.

You can choose custom Civs to give your team an advantage at certain tasks of your choosing, be it farming, or archery, you have a certain number of points to purchase these benefits and it makes the game more interesting.

You can configure your game to start and end in whatever era you like. (we usually cut Cyber out and stop at Atomic).

I've been playing this game since it was released and we still find it to be our favorite. A family get together isn't complete without my 3 brothers, my husband and myself enjoying a day long game of Empire Earth.

Rating:

- Not too complex, and very playable.
Sometimes older games can be more addictive then latest photo realistic battle royale.

The game is a standard RTS game where you civilization evolves from prehistoric up to a nano age. The game is quite addictive, since it doesn't use an overly complex set of unit behaviors, and left to them selves most units can handle enemy recon and scout probes.

The game has priests that can convert enemy units (great when you can get an entire battleship to convert and defect), and prophets who can bring on plagues, quakes, fire storms, and such. A boat full of well place prophets can save your butt if the AI team sudden advances to WWII tech while you're still driving around on horses.

The stock maps are kind of bland, but there are hacks for the game that make the maps more random. max sized random island maps are fun.

population and resource management are pretty simple. The Civs don't need infrastructure (homes increase morale, but aren't need for population). No long supply lines, etc.

Being an older game, you can run it with multiple AI enemies, 600+ units and no lag. Only glitch is that game will crash if you task switch or accidentally hit the windows button.

Rating:

- Just as good as Age of Empires & Rise of Nations!

I'm suprised more people don't know about this game because if you're looking for a game that is a cross between Age of Empires and Rise of Nations, then this will give you exactly that:

Positive:
1.) Classic Age of Empires: When you play your very first single player game in Empire Earth you immediatly start off with cavemen just like the first Age of Empires. They talk, gather, walk, chop, and mine just as you'd imagine a caveman would do!
2.) Graphics: Here's where the game switches a bit more into Rise of Nations. Considering this is an older game, the graphics are great! They're just about like the ones in Rise of Nations and in some cases, better!
3.) Advancing: You have the option of starting in the PREHISTORIC age and working your way up to an age beyond our current one. You even go through WW1 and WW2! The ages take a lot of skill and time to advance through as opposed to AOE's and RON's where you can soar from ancient to present in a much quicker time.
4.) Animals: Many different kinds, and believe it or not, they mate. Whether you choose to gather their babies for food is up to you. =o
5.) Trees: You can walk and fight through them so unfortunately for all of us that hid behind them, we no longer can do this technique.
6.) Prophets: Beware of the prophets. In EA a prophet might set an earthquake on your town or perhaps a hurricane and every disaster is realistic and horrible.
7.) Intelligent game: Enemy soldiers know just where you're weak in your city. I built walls and set men and towers almost all around my city when I got attacked. I was shocked to see that the enemy found one very small wall that I forgot to guard. They attacked, ran my village down, and when I tried to run, they chased my villagers across the map (all three of them) and defeated me. Laugh if you want but that was not the least bit funny to me.

Negative:
1.) Difficulty: For some, the difficulty of this game might be their dream, but this game might not be for everyone. From the people that I know that play this game, all use cheats to beat it. Not because it's set on hard or moderate, no, because it's set on easy and the game is really that hard. It's not like AOE or RON where you can set it on easiest and almost for sure beat the game. You only have three choices and I doubt anyone has ever beat the game on moderate.

Summary: This has to be one of the best games I've played in a very long time. Maybe because I'm a fan of Rise of Nations, Age of Empires, and Age of Mythology, but either way this game is addicting and fun. It's a great alternative to the other games if you want to combine them all. I highly recommend it especially to all AOE and RON fans!

Rating:

- Really fun for Everyone (man that was corny)
I'm not really an RTS guy, in fact I stink at them. I have only beaten the computer on my own on easy twice to put it in perspective. I still like the game. Why? 2 words: cheat codes. I also like the variety the game offers, but the AI is ridiculously difficult, even on easy. All in all a fun game b/c of the codes though.

P.S. while i'm a noob at RTS, i'm pretty good at FPS games ;)

Rating:

- Empire Earth
If you like strategy games, you'll love this one.

Strategy games don't get old easily as long as it is classic. We have seen from Age of the Empires. They have values. The endless missions, the awesome graphics, and the okay sounds. Endless units are in this game, from cavemen to cyber machines in the 22th century. This game is all you are going to look for in a strategy game. This game is simply huge! And that's what's so enjoyable about it.


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