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Description
Age of Empires is set in the past, Command & Conquer explores the future, but up to now there was no real-time strategy game that covered the whole breadth of human history. Empire Earth fills this gap and lets you wage war with everything from prehistoric stone thrower up to futuristic battle-mechs.Empire Earth’s mastermind Rick Goodman was lead designer of the original Age of Empires. Similarities are thus hardly surprising; in fact, his new game can be considered a 3D version of its predecessor. Despite the graphical leap, the game’s look and feel are very familiar - AoE fans will feel perfectly at home. The perspective is fixed in an isometric view, camera management is not required. In your quest to crush the opposition, you build settlements, collect five resource types, recruit troops (land, sea, air) and, well, fight battles. Unit improvements are no longer researched in buildings, but can be bought at once for each unit type. For example, you can increase your tanks’ hit points, attack value, armor, speed and range separately -- for a price. It's your choice whether to spend your income on a huge army, or on an advanced one. Throughout the campaign, you also earn civilization points for heroic deeds; you can spend these on general unit improvements, e.g. reducing your archers building time by 30%, or making your citizens 20% faster.
The game’s four campaigns span the entire history of warfare: conquer the Mediterranean as the Greeks, lead the English from the middle ages to the battle at Waterloo, change history by making the Germans victors of the First and Second World War, and finally create a Russian empire in 2025. The campaign missions are heavily scripted and contain quite a few adventure elements; for example, you must lead William Duke of Normandy safely through enemy ambushes. As the scenarios focus on a set time frame, you don’t advance through the 14 epochs (from the Prehistoric Era to the Nano Age). In skirmish mode and in multiplayer battles, however, you may lead your people from caves into skyscrapers.
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Alternate Titles
- "地球帝国" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
- "EE" -- Common abbreviation
- "Diqiu Diguo" -- Simplified Chinese title
Part of the Following Groups
- BestSeller Series (Cendant / Havas / Vivendi Universal) releases
- Covermount: Fullgames
- Empire Earth series
- Games that include map/level editor
- Green Pepper releases
- Historical Conflict: Hundred Years War
- Historical conflict: Napoleonic Wars
- Setting: Classical Greece
- Setting: Future now Past
- Setting: Medieval Europe
- Setting: Totality of history
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Critic Reviews
GameSpy | Nov 14, 2001 | 94 out of 100 | 94 |
PC Games (Germany) | Dec 07, 2001 | 87 out of 100 | 87 |
Peliplaneetta.net | Jan 21, 2002 | 86 out of 100 | 86 |
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands) | Nov 20, 2001 | 85 out of 100 | 85 |
GameWatcher / Strategy Informer | Aug 12, 2003 | 8.5 out of 10 | 85 |
IGN | Nov 29, 2001 | 8.5 out of 10 | 85 |
GameSurge | Jan, 2002 | 81 out of 100 | 81 |
Game Chronicles | Nov 26, 2002 | 8 out of 10 | 80 |
Game Arena | Aug 08, 2006 | 7.5 out of 10 | 75 |
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Trivia
Epochs
The 14 Empire Earth epochs are:- Prehistoric Era (500,000 BC)
- Stone Age (10,000 BC)
- Copper Age (5000 BC)
- Bronze Age (2000 BC)
- Dark Ages (0 AD)
- Middle Ages (900 AD)
- Renaissance (1300 AD)
- Imperial Age (1500 AD)
- Industrialization (1700 AD)
- World War I (1900 AD)
- World War II (1930 AD)
- Modern Era (1950 AD)
- Digital Era (2000 AD)
- Nano Age (2100 AD)
Server shutdown
The official Sierra game servers were shut down on 1st November 2008.Awards
- GameSpy
- 2001 – PC Game of the Year
Related Web Sites
- Empire Earth (official website)
- EmpireEarth.cc (Part of the MFO network, with news and, of course, great forums.)
- Wikipedia: Empire Earth (Article about the game in the open encyclopedia)
-Chris (7740) added Empire Earth (Windows) on Nov 17, 2001
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