Empire Earth Gold Edition

This is by far the best game period. I used to spend so many hours playing this over LAN with my brother. Building up the massive nuke army and watch the screen stay white for about a minute. Beats Age of Empires simply cause of all the ages, I loved going through them all, even if it does take abit of time. Watching my tanks roll over people horsemen armies. If you like a game where you need more then a day to sometimes finish it, then you will love it more.

The game Empire Earth came out after games like Age of Empires made building empires from primitive beginnings to a more glorious age was fashionable. The scope of the game is massive, including at least 20 ages (or I think the game called them Epochs) ranging from the Stone Age to a futuristic Nano Age. All along the way you gather resources, build units, enlist heroes, build wonders, and advance your way through time. However, the game was just tedious to play. While the scope of the game was great, the AI was just too determined to hang in the game. If there was enough money for 1 town center, they'd build it and rebuild. No matter how many units you send scouring a map, it's incredibly difficult to eliminate a computer from the game. While I enjoyed the game for the most part, the game just ended up being lackluster for me. If you like RTS games that can take as long as TBS games, then Empire Earth is the game for you!

I've played Empire Earth occasionally since around 2004. I've wasted hours and hours with the random maps in single-player mode since I never hit it off with the campaign. I've also tried EE2 and EE3 a little and they just lacked something that this game has in terms of gameplay. Later on I have developed a habit of bringing this game up everytime we have a LAN party with friends. We like to take our time with building up bases and armies and our matches usually take at least 4 to 6 hours until completion with the maximum population limit and a huge random map. The original random maps created by the game have very predictable and boring patterns but there's an easy fix if you just download some random map scripts from Empire Earth Heaven. I can recommend this game for RTS game fans but the lack of zoom-out feature has started to bother me a bit more every time I play it - the view feels slightly too close. The game supports modern high resolutions but the maxed out view still shows the same amount of content as the smaller ones.

This is a can't live without game. As I update to new computers I find myself lost without this game. Good Luck getting any sleep. EE II and EE III are just not the same. This is one of those game where the "original" is still thebest

I bought this game thinking it was rise of nations. It isn't it is far, far better. Massive maps from the starting epoch will last for HOURS and are a real challenge even onstandard, as the AI loves making raids and is great at building properly mixed armies. Fight them with nothing but tanks and prepare to be destroyed as they respond with helicopters, battleships with subs and so on. Better than any RTS I've played, including modern games.