Empire Earth 3

[Sarathos]

The demo is out and its looking pretty good. Anyone here played it?

[Csargo]

I keep getting emails from the developers about faction previews. How they got my email address I'll never know. probably Husar or something.

[Caius]

The demo is 1.71 GB! So, have you played it? Do you have interesting info about it?

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I played the original for a while. Second rate bloody AOE imitation. Don't know about this one though.
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[Sarathos]

Well I think is more a cross between AOE and Civilizations series. Both are very good RTS and Empire Earth is quite a good combination, but anything since AOE is kinda second rate....
It was a good two games though, I played the first, loved the idea of moving trhough the ages as well as good gameplay, so I went out to buy the second plus expansion. I rather like the expansion better, EEII was a good base but the expansion is a little more involved and has the minor things which makes it more complex and enjoyable. EEII isnt hard to play at all, if you read the manual you can master it. But AOS is more customizable and really lets you play how you want, I mean you can create your own Civilization, that has to be kool.

I anyone wants to check it out here is the link: http://www.empireearth3.com/us/index.html

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I didn't like it probably because I loath AOE and Civ.
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[Mongoose]

I Liked the first one, how ever, IMO, none of the sequels have improved on it much, so I lost interest.

[Divine Wind]

I Liked the first one, how ever, IMO, none of the sequels have improved on it much, so I lost interest.

Agreed. The first game of the series was really good. The single player campaigns were very well done. I bought the second game but got bored very quickly.

[shlin28]

I actually quite liked the second one

Third one looks good, but apparently the gameplay is not good at all.

[Mongoose]

I tried the demo yesterday. It ran slow and looked kind of weird. I dunno, I actually think that even though the first one had an inferior graphics engine, it actually looked better because the artwork was good. I don't like the blocky, cartoonish look that they're going for with this one.

The actual game wasn't much better. The interface seemed clunky, and confusing. And the "harvest, build, train" RTS theme isn't getting better with age, either.

The EE series almost peaked at the first game. Dawn of the Modern world and EEII were slightly better, but not by that much. As far as I can tell, III looks like it's actually REGRESSING. The original EE wasn't even that great in the first place, but it could be a lot of fun to play in the modern ages because there were so many different kinds of units, including atomic bombers. Nothing beats playing a 3 VS 3 game and attacking some one with 60 atomic bombers at once. The longer games from the the starting age to the finish one were good too, but they took way too long. Even playing in just one epoch, a game could last like 4 hours if there were enough players. It would take months to finish a single game. I think the core of the problem was that the build times and gather times were too slow ... and don't get me started on the AI. It cheated so much that even after you cut off all of its resources, it could keep fighting for hours ... same problem with Modern World. What I didn't like about Modern World was that while it had a lot of the same problems that Empire Earth I did, it didn't have a lot of the good stuff. There weren't as many unit types, there weren't as many ages, est.

I'll stop rambling now.

[Sarathos]

Agreed, but if you have a spare day with nothing to do...

[Veho Nex]

loved the first one hated the second 'cause infinate air time for planes though i loved the plan map thingy

edit: it also looks like EE3 is going fictional big time with the pre space age units. I think i saw a dual masted iron clad in one of the screens.... way to kill history guys...

[Mongoose]

I think that they've officially killed the series for me at this point. THE HORROR:

The developer's questionable sense of taste and humor is also on display in the visuals and sound. The overall graphic design of the game leans toward the cartoonish, with a brightly colored palette that often renders units in pastel hues more appropriate for a teen girl's bedroom décor than an army's. This at least helps make buildings distinctive, as splashes of color let you tell one civilization's settlement from another at a glance. Of course, there are basically only three of them, so it's not like you've got a lot of architectural styles to memorize. The audio component of the game soars well past cartoony and into stupid. Units acknowledge orders with nothing but cheap jokes. Knights make snarky little comments about "being right behind you…way behind you," and usabari camel riders crack jokes such as "I am like a camel fart--loud and dangerous." As you can tell by these winning examples, the lines in the game aren't funny. And they're much less amusing after you've been forced to listen to them a few hundred times over the course of a skirmish. Troops seem to get stuck like skipping records at times, too, and often incessantly repeat the same dialogue every time you issue a move command. This just makes a bad situation even worse.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...g=tabs;reviews

[Mikeus Caesar]

I think this says everything about it...

Everything in world-domination campaigns is also mixed up when it comes to time and place. You start in the proper geographic location for your civilization, but nobody else seems to be in their proper places. So if you begin a campaign as the West, you kick off your conquering in ancient Western Europe. So far, so good. But then you can immediately encounter an Olmec tribe in Britain, an Asian settlement in the vicinity of Spain, and Knights Templar guarding a lost tomb next to a pack of elephant archers in what appears to be Germany. So much for the global scope and historical realism; the game seems to be even more of an historical mash-up then any other RTS.

And we complain about Total War...it makes some of the more absurd units from RTW seem perfectly fine.

[Caius]

I think that they've officially killed the series for me at this point. THE HORROR:



http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...g=tabs;reviews

Teh horror.