Empire Earth Gold Edition

Overall gem from when I was a kid, thank you for allowing to relive those moments in a responsible way.

Not the greatest game out there but it's perfect spent countless hours as kid playing this and I finally found it again

I played this game when it came out and it was a lot of fun. I also played it as multiplayer. Nice game and nice campaign. The only thing what I dont like and what I think is much better in AoE2 is the AI. In EE the AI has endless ressources (easy to see when you play with open map). So it doesnt matter hom much workers you kill or how good you bother their economy they will allways have enough ressources and can rebuild. I also had the feeling that the AI is hardest of you attack in the mid game and destroy some buildungs. all of the sudden the AI was went 2 3 eras forward. e.g they dont collect ressources but build units and go to next era or in island maps they build towers around the whole island. while you can build 3 or 4 they build 10 without collecting stone So the difference of the difficulties is just that the AI uses their endless ressources differently. Best way to handle is go to the last epoch and bomb the AI out of the game. So you prevent that it will be from 2 eras behind you to 2 eras infront of you. Still fun ;-) Try to make games via IP work to play with friends. thats best.

This game is an old classic, as we all can agree on (Those of us who have played it). I remember picking this game up in a charity shop around 9 years ago. Once I had painfully loaded the game up, because, for a six year old, installing the game with the sold out wizard is almost impossible, I was blown away by the amount of freedom you had over the game. You could put anything anywhere and advance through the epochs into different ages, whilst unlocking new buildings, soldiers, and upgrades along the way. Unfortunately, my little mind could not defeat the AI without using cheat codes, so the AI grew tiresome, as it always overwhelmed me. I started playing the game again recently, after finding it, and it is still as good as ever. The only difference now, being, I can actually outsmart and defeat the AI. Overall it is a very challenging, but fun, RTS game,

First off, it DOES run in Windows 10. It in fact ran in my notebook with integrated Intel graphics, which I suppose is another feat. As for the game, it has a lot of content spanning through 15 ages and supporting massive maps with massive number of units and very little in the way of lag. (Age2HD, I'm looking at you) The plus of this game is that games will feel very unique, each map setup presents its unique challenges and the game has lots of different units, each with its own special skills, made to more or less counter each other and all result in a very satisfying empire building and mayhem. The big issue with the game and the reason why I recommend to only get it on a good sale is that it has a very bad AI and its graphics didn't age well. You won't find a thriving online community for this game and the AI cheats all the time. The AI cheats so much it is broken, it will flood military units early game, but once you get over that it is pretty much done for. The AI advances linearly through the ages and poses no variation whilst you, once you take a hold of a second and then third gold, will advance exponentially through the ages. The graphics are limited in the sense of the camera being close to the battle and the view range being less than optimal. The game also has issues with food in the early game, you can struggle greatly if you start the game at an age earlier than Cooper against the AI. It seems the idea of the game was to originally have animals roam around and reproduce, and then you had to take care not to deplete its sources or exploit them to develop agriculture. The reality though is just another good idea left unfinished and transformed into a gimmick as reproduction is really slow even for very small gathering rates. This game might be best view as a testament to how high people could dream rather than how much they could achieve. It is fun for a while and can be awesome to play in Local Network with other people though.