Empire Earth

The Good
The campaigns bring life to the history that you only read in books and articles. There's absolutely no end to variety as you not only play through the scenarios, but have the ability to customise your own in the editor. Even the random maps make for a nice break from the campaigns. And finally the tutorial is very helpful, although it doesn't teach you how to make tributes to another sect. The Russian Campaign is perhaps very creative for a hypothetical world domination by political extremists, then time travel fixes that.

The graphics are very well textured, the units smoothly animated even for polygonal voxelated actors and the camera pans well across the map. The unit, structure and ambient sounds are crisp and keep you aware of what is happening as you play. And of course there is a good selection of units, though you find yourself playing rock-paper-scissors (shock-piercing-arrows) against opponents in the earlier epochs.

The Bad
The campaigns could have done with better historical accuracy, especially the alternate history where the Germans won World War II, though that is forgivable. The use of prophets really makes playing scenarios far too easy.

The annoyances abundant in the game are the music tracks which sound very samey and don't really match all the epochs. Then there's the ever-irritating "We're under attack!" warning, which goes on and on. And some sound effects we could do without are the dying sounds of primitive period units which sound like puking. Leaving it at that, there's not that much to put you off playing at all.

The Bottom Line
You may think it's all been done before in the Age of Empires series, but Empire Earth's collection of all epochs in one game is ambitious for its time. It's really brought out the best of historical-themed strategy games. Audio isn't perfect, but just enough to make the game lively. After you play through each and every scenario the game has to offer, you'll be hungry for more.

The Good
So nice real time strategy game

The Bad
One game is too long and can be more than 30 hours

The Bottom Line
Often the same way to win against IA is to build towers evrywhere

The Good
The campaigns were very good in this game. The objectives were easy to understand, and I had never come across anything like them in any other game. I had fun playing around with the camera which was eay to control and adjust. Last the units, I enjoy building up big armies, and so far Empire Earth lets me build the biggest [1200 units.] This means huge battles, and I don't know about you but thats the whole reason I buy these games

The Bad
The standard game mode can become boring, becuase the game's AI thinks the same each time. This leads to a lame game if you know whats basicly going to happen to you in the end. Last the game is just plain slow. It takes a while to produce a unit which is bothering when trying to build up a large army. My advice to solve this tiny problem is to make two or even three of each military building.

The Bottom Line
So basicly Empire Earth has good gameplay, but can become boring after a while if all you play is the standard game mode. I 'd say its worth the money if you want a game that not only lets you fight in modern times but also in the past. For me the goods outwayed the bad. Buy it for gameplay and graphics not for a game you think is new and different from all others, becuase it's not.