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Looks nice!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: September 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game looks great, and I cant wait for it to come out, that is the hardest part like always, waiting! Well I have played Starcraft, RA2, and Age of Empires 2 recently and I love all of those 3 strategy games. This game will combine all of them into one game and I think it will work great. My favorite from those 3 games was AOE2 and this game is made by the creator of AOE2 so that is another plus. There are already 200+ units and another 100 for single player in the game, so you will never get bored with using the same units and tactics to search and destroy. You can even create your own civilization to your taste. 5 different resources can be gathered, the game supports up to 16 players in multiplayer, and you can enroll all kinds of famous people from History, all the way from Napoleon to the Pope. Well this is all for now, my main point is that it looks a very beautiful and fun game and I cant wait till it comes out in November!!

Caveat Emptor

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 26
Date: September 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I would like to say how much I love this game. However, I am unable to do so due to the arrogant nature of the customer disservice and the irresponsible attitudes of Sierra and its programmers.

If you use a firewall, even one other than Zonealarm, you will be unable to run this game without first DISABLING your firewall, or giving the game indiscriminate access to your internet connection. I mean you MUST do this for SOLO play.

I can understand that you need to allow a program to access the internet in order to have a multiplayer game over the internet, but given the number of titles that support and encourage multiplayer over the internet (both those of this and other genres) that do NOT have this bug, it is my recommendation that you play some of those other splendid titles and allow this one to fade away into the ignominous fate that should await all examples of bad programming, regardless of what former luster their publisher may have had.

I have contacted Sierra concerning this bug, and their official stance is to ignore it, claiming that EE does not attempt to access the internet unless multiplayer is selected, it merely makes certain system calls that cause firewalls to THINK they are accessing the internet, even though the game crashes when you allow your firewall to block access to the internet.

They consider this a user problem. I consider it an invasion of my privacy and a security risk. The necessary steps to secure my computer (disable DSL connection and firewall) and have solo play are an offensive and unacceptable intrusion, and Sierra's attitude towards this bug is intolerable so I encourage you not to tolerate it. As I pointed out to Sierra, there are lots of other games of this type without these problems, play them instead, and be sure to let Sierra know why.

Not for the faint at heart!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have really enjoyed this game a lot. I was skeptical after I played the demo but the demo does not do the game justice. The game is similar to AOE II:AOK but the graphics and gameplay are better. One unique thing is that each mine (stone, iron, and gold) has ~300,000 of each in it so you do not have to find new mines or constantly replace them like in AOK. The ability to expand through 14 different epochs is great and gives a lot of choices to the player. For example, I have played all 14, limited it to just a few and even played just one. The choices are endless. Another unique idea is that you select your civilization AFTER the game starts so you do not know who you are playing. This adds a level of excitement to the game not found in previous RTS games. Overall it is a wonderful game.
The one problem, that I sure will be fixed in a patch at some point, is that your units will stop if the unit they are directed to attack is killed. This is very annoying b/c all the sudden you have units stopping in the middle of nowhere! This does annoy you but if you group your units it can be easily by-passed.
To conclude this game is great for many hours of fun play. Be warned, the games are long 4-5 hours and take a lot of strategy. This is not for the "faint at heart" RTS gamer. Overall, it combines the best of AOE II: AOK and Cossacks to make one incredible game.

Great Game, but with Bugs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of Ages of Empires, you will love this game. It is the same concept but much more advanced. Graphics are not as good and sometimes it is hard to tell what unit is what, but the selection of what you can do and units you can use is tremendous. I especially like the ability to play all the way through so many epochs. I played one game that started in the dark age and I couldn't beat the computer until we had advanced all the way to the nano age. That meant one game lasted forever - just kept saving it and coming back on another day.

Now the negative: it is buggy! I was used to playing AOE without incident, but this game occasionally locks. It has an autosave feature, but I would rather not have a lock problem than an autosave. Also, sometimes the window starts scrolling for no reason. This is a problem when you are in the heat of a battle and you lose control of what you are looking at. Perhaps they will succeed in taming these bugs with future patches.

All said, I'm glad I bought it and love to play it. I paid $49 when it first came out. To get it at under $20 for the current Amazon price is a steal.

A Game that can be described as a new epoch to RTS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: November 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is so phinominal it blows my mind. The demo alone in my own humble opinion is so outstanding that it makes AOE2/1, Command and (...), Cossacks*(my favorite until EE) look like childs games meant to only warm the true rts gamers up for the epoch of EMPIRE EARTH!!! with the war currently going on in Afghanastan its hard even to concentrate on games but the game really takes the stress and worries from my mind. It is pure fun/carnage on the battle field ranging from all over lavish landscapes in rome, byzantium, africa and so on and so forth.I honestly believe anyone who can critisize this game is either looking for unwanted attention or are just AOE fanatics. The roman legions have finally entered the strategey world. I created a swarm of Legionaires/ roman lancer calvary in the demo and i had a blast. I have played that one senario over and over against the gothic armies just outside the walls of ROME!!! I love the archers/javelin throwers the game has uncanny effects and dinamics. The Roman legionaires protect themselves with their large rectangular shields and get in close with the short swords and cut down the enemy!!! The game is great to just sit back and watch as battle cries and screams come from furious wariors getting impaled by a long pike!! War elephants crash threw the enemy like a bowling ball and that is a new feature compared to AOK the war elaphants/elephant archers crumble any moral and fight in the enemy soldiers unless the have some very very long pikes to stab these great looking war beasts!! EE covers melle combat,longrange combat from cannon to arablasts!!! This game is litterally every rts game including graphics of black and white put in to one monstrosity of a game :) I cant imagine what the full version of the game is going to be like! By the way if you play the demo the demo can not support the higher resolutions to the gamplay so even without the 800x600 32 i had to settle for the 800x600 16 which makes a significant difference. The ocean and landscape including the wildlife is emmense and lush with wind/waves and reproducing/migrating herdes of hippo,elephant,deer,gairaffe and about 12 or more types of wildlife that intertact and prey on eachother lol!!! I CANT URGE YOU ENOUGH TO GET EE ON NOV.14 AT ANY STORE!!!!! THERE ARE LITTERALLY Thousands OF MORE FEATURES TO THE GAME WHICH I CANT EXPLAIN NOR FULLY KNOW ABOUT!! GET GAME AND HAPPINESS WILL BE IN YOUR LIFE. OH I CANT WAIT TO CHARGE MECHS INTO A STONE AGE VILLAGE AND WATCH A SLAUGHTER UNKNOWN TO MAN UNTIL nov.14 lol :)

One of my favorite games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

EE is one of the best "civ" construction games I have ever played. Unlike the Civilization series (which is a bit complex for me) or the Caesar series (which is a tad archaic at times), EE is really fun and very interesting. Never the same game twice, I highly recommend Empire Earth.

Awesome in Many Respects...but Missing Something

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I picked this one up in the bargain bin @ Marshalls. I was truly suprised at how good it is, (patched to 2.0 immediately).

The graphics make battles almost cinematic, and you can zoom in to eye level and back out to sky high easily and intuitively, (I use a mouse wheel). Great job on the UI.

The timespan is so great that often a game ends half way through the available epochs. In order to get to the Nano age I had to start in Renaissance.

But, I find that something is missing from this one. I loved AOE/AOC and I think what is missing is some kind of strategy. It seems as though you just plough through the ages as quickly as possible to get the most powerful weapons sooner than everyone else. There doesn't seem to be strong differentiation of the races in economic or military attributes. Hence, there is little change in gameplan from scenario to scenario.

It's well worth the bucks, especially at bargain bin prices.

No Title

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Even though it's not really fair, I tend to compare Empire Earth to Age of Empires II in my mind because they're so similar. Also since I'm a huge fan of Age of Empires II.

Empire Earth is a really nice game. The grapics are nice, it's nice to be able to select more than 40 units at once, it's great to be able to play from prehistoric times to the future and I like how modern prophets are basically bums wearing doomsday cardboard signs. It's really fun. It's amusing to create scenarios where you can have panzers fighting against hordes of swordsmen or rock throwers. The vast ammount of time it covers allows a lot of flexibility in creating your own scenarios.

My biggest complaints (that aren't significant enough to actually dent my opinion of the game) are the lack of Age of Empires II features. Maybe this is unfair because they're different games, but I miss being able to trade surplus resources in the market for resources I really need. I also don't like not being able to create trade cogs or trade carts.

However this is a fantastic game that every strategy gamer should at least try.

For true RTs gamers --- this is the game to buy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Am speaking as one who has played the game, and is currently participating in the Beta-Test. This game is like 14 RTs games put into one, has an absolutely wonderful user-friendly editor with almost every feature imaginable, each and every unit is very diverse and well balanced. What stands out the most about this game isn't the graphics, even though the graphics is one of those things that you really realize the beauty of them as you play, the gameplay and plain fun of this game is what really stands out. At first sight, I was really uncertain, than after a half an hour it started, where hours passed by and this game totally sucked me in, it is very fun, and every time you play is like playing for the first time, you can't get bored of it easily. The replay-value is extremely high, has so much to it. After you've played the scenarios through and through, and have played countless hours in multiplay, you can go to the incredible editor and design awesome campaigns and scenarios. The scenario itself is quite incredible, your able to use the exact type triggers used by the developers for their scenarios and campaigns. There are 100+ units/structures specifically made to be used in your self-made campaigns, such as two types of "Missile Bases", one in the modern epoch, and one in one of the future epochs, which you can decrease the nuclear ballistic missile firepower to simply destroy a small area of structures when launched, or increase the firepower to destroy everything on the map. So much to it, so definitely, for any true Rts gamer, this is a great game to buy with much diversity and uniqueness. You may find similarities to Age of Empires, but it goes far, far beyond it.

solid game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: March 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Probably the best thing about this game is the amount of variety it offers. Because it spans such a long period, there is an amazing array of units to choose from, as well as a massive tree of upgrade options. For this reason alone, I find myself playing it over and over.

Another of the game's strengths is the unit balance system. Since, especially in the early game, every unit has a corresponding unit which is very effective in countering it, early rushes become much more difficult. It also means that most units in the game are useful (unlike many strategy games, where you can be content with building only one or two unit types).

The AI is challenging - perhaps too much so at times - though not perfect. Occasionally, if you hit a computer opponent hard enough, it will essentially give up, even if it has the resources to rebuild. Still, though, playing against the computer will probably keep you entertained for a while, and prepare you to play against other people.

The only reason I'm not giving this game a 5 star rating is that it doesn't really offer anything innovative. It takes the best elements of popular RTS games and combines them together quite well, but if you're looking for a unique experience, you won't find it here. However, if you like RTS games in general, Empire Earth will give you more (and I mean a *lot* more) of the elements you already love.

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