McPlusle
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I recently purchased the Empire Earth series on GOG, with my only prior memory of the series being a demo of Empire Earth II that was on a PC Gamer CD. I remember the game's promised scope in its advertising being utterly mind-blowing, with its claims that you'd play as a civilization in real-time through the entirety of human history and beyond. Despite loving Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, a largely forgotten RTS by the developers of the original Empire Earth, I never bought a single game in the EE series until recently.
So I started a game of Empire Earth 1 and can't help but feel that I'm playing it wrong. No one in their right mind has played a game that spanned all of the game's fifteen ages, right? The cost to tech up is absurdly high on the game's default settings, especially in the first two ages which don't even let you build farms. So far it seems like a decent AoE-school RTS; just one that is a bit over its head.
I haven't played the other two just yet. I know opinion is split as to whether or not II is better than I. It definitely seems like a significantly different and more polished game, if also an even more bloated one. I'm assuming III is every bit the decline I've been told it is, but I'm gonna play it anyway.
So how do you feel about the series (as well as Empires: Dawn of the Modern World)?
So I started a game of Empire Earth 1 and can't help but feel that I'm playing it wrong. No one in their right mind has played a game that spanned all of the game's fifteen ages, right? The cost to tech up is absurdly high on the game's default settings, especially in the first two ages which don't even let you build farms. So far it seems like a decent AoE-school RTS; just one that is a bit over its head.
I haven't played the other two just yet. I know opinion is split as to whether or not II is better than I. It definitely seems like a significantly different and more polished game, if also an even more bloated one. I'm assuming III is every bit the decline I've been told it is, but I'm gonna play it anyway.
So how do you feel about the series (as well as Empires: Dawn of the Modern World)?