Empire Earth Gold Edition

If you like the RTS genre then this game is a must have! I have owned this game for years on Steam and purchased it again here on GOG so that I can actually download the game install files. The other reason for my post given it is now 2024 and the world has moved on from the version of Windows when this game was first released I noticed that there are still a coupe of reviews still showing up on the first page of reviews one from 2016 an another from 2014 simply stating that this game is not compatible on Win 10 and another on Win 8. This unfortunately many have been true when they posted but today it is not the case. I am currently writing this review on an Acer Aspire 3 laptop that is defiantly not a gaming power house. AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics running at 2.80 GHz with I think 16GBs of DDR5 ram, may be DDR 4? Regardless this is not a gaming laptop. It is running the latest Windows 11 and I just launched a game to see if it would actually run on this latest version of Windows. It launched and played flawlessly, however since it has been years since I have played this title and have forgotten a lot about the game I quickly got my ass kicked is short order. Since the RTS games have always been one of my favorite Genera"s this title has just moved up to the top of my play list. If I remember correctly this game if played on high difficulty mode is more than challenging to successfully complete. In my book this is a must have title.

Has issues with AI blatantly cheating. Still can't help but be awed by the scope of it all!

I can launch it, but it freezes in the menu, and the expansion crash on start.

Lots of ages from the Prehistoric Age to the Space Age (The Art of Conquest). Has a ton of units, including heroes and prophets with powerful spells. You can create your own civilization with civ points to get some useful bonuses.

This is better than the second and third one. And its in my opinion the only good RTS out there except for maybe Star Craft and warcraft. Or War winds. The expansion pack was the only improvement that ever was good for this game. It was excellent. The only draw back is too many ages I guess but its all good. I spent hours and hours in my teen years playing this online and offline. The AI learns well but you can eventually out do it. This is the best of them. Better than 2 or 3. The sequels never did any good.