Empire Earth III

aka: EE3
Moby ID: 31120

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Average score: 53% (based on 43 ratings)

Player Reviews

Average score: 2.5 out of 5 (based on 8 ratings with 1 reviews)

Shaming all RTSes

The Good
There isn't a whole lot Empire Earth III has to offer, just an exciting introductory cinematic and then the good show is over. The only upside in the gameplay is the easy difficulty, no thanks to broken enemy AI.

The Bad
Once you've entered the game, the worst in the trilogy immediately shows. Graphics are very outdated and hardly any better than what the second Empire Earth game displayed. The sounds (especially the unit voices) are repetitive to no end and the music is completely out of place with the epochs.

In the actual gameplay, collection of resources is downgraded from the prequels. The tutorial throws all the mechanics sandwiched into a single scenario, instead of a set of scenarios to learn the game at a comfortable pace. While you play, units don't go where they're supposed to and spoil the battlefield. The greatest letdown that broke the game is that there are no real campaigns, just three world conquests pretending to be campaigns, which not only strips the fun out, but also means no references to ancient history, the very core topic of an Empire Earth game.

The Bottom Line
If you bought this title, you lost your hard earnings. Nothing other than "The Settlers: Heritage of Kings" compares to this aberration of an RTS. Should you manage to master this game, then you'll unlearn everything Empire Earth 1 and 2 taught you. The irredeemable bad qualities you got from this game spell an anticlimactic end to the Empire Earth series. Pray that the first or second game will one day get a HD remake.

Windows · by Kayburt (30393) · 2021

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