Empire Earth Gold Edition

It aged well, just like I remember. Windows 10 playing without problems.

This game was pretty cool for its time, but the mechanics of battle didn't age well. There is no attack move command, and the units aren't very bright in terms of choosing targets. Do not buy this game unless you plan to play with friends or story (which isn't that great to begin with). The custom game computer stays with your epoch hand in hand so you can't really hunker down to tech win later. And winning, its just a grind fest. Most units work as a rock paper scissors. So you build a huge force of a unit and make a push with rock. Computer comes back with paper. You come with Scissors, they come back with rock... it goes no where. And forget about trying to control planes... or boats... It's just too much of a nightmare to coordinate any sort of combined arms which turns this into a slow WWI style back and forth. I just spent 4 games trying to make some sort of strategic push but the computer just won't quit. Age of Empires 2 is a much cleaner and polished game.

Still hoping for a HD Remaster

Empire Earth was never a particularly good strategy game, as far as RTS' went. Age of Empires 2 continues to be more populated, balanced and stable, and arguable more fun, and Rise of Nations would soon come and totally blow Empire Earth out of the water using its own concept. Empire Earth really is an obvious test of concepts, many of which would now be considered poorly planned or explained. For example, the age system is GIGANTICALLY bloated, holding around fifteen different ages, and you must wait multiple ages before you can even get farms, leading to most high skill ceiling games being finished before you can even get crossbows. Units generally follow a rock/paper/scissors balancing, but which units are weak to which is never explained, except for very briefly in the tutorial, for one spearman unit. Balancing also goes out of the window around the time you get guns. For example, some hero units (Otto Von Bismarck especially) are more effective than any slow hero that comes later, due to the fact that their unit speed actually allows them to keep up with your later era armies. The AI is probably the best example of its age. It lacks strategic depth and must cheat to survive, spamming whatever unit is counter to what is most prevalent in your army. It will also cheat out hundreds of units in mere minutes, and will use them without mercy. It is entirely possible for an AI civilization which is nearly completely destroyed and should have no resources to almost immediately build multiple nuclear bombers and devastate your invading forces, then rebuild as though it were nothing. EE is still very fun, especially with friends. It is not as balanced as some other RTS, but multiplayer is very solid, be it fighting against your friends or co-oping against an all-seeing AI. If you are used to the clunk and experimental aspects of games in the early 2000s, you should have no trouble enjoying this game. If you are not, it's best to avoid it. I'd rate it 3.5 if I could.

Played this game hundreds if not thousands of hours since the game was released (on CD not here..). This game makes fun even against KI, because you can't find many ppl to play with (because the most ppl dont like this Pixel Graphic ..) Sadly EE2 & EE3 got worse Gameplay than this one.. just better Graphic. Would be perfect with a HD Remake but don't think this will happen.