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8.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 24 out of 31
  2. Negative: 1 out of 31

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  1. Antoine+
    May 20, 2003
    10
    Really a ghreat game! Imagine a game from the Prehistoric ages to the Nano Age!?!? Colossal scope! And each epoch is so different ! Truly like 14 games in 1!
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  2. AureliaC.
    Oct 8, 2002
    10
    As a fellow gamer I think this game is really neat!
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  3. Kostas
    Feb 10, 2002
    10
    One of the greatest games I've ever played! If you liked "Starcraft" you will love this game.
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  4. SalahA.
    May 11, 2002
    10
    Very very very great game.
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  5. [Anonymous]
    May 22, 2002
    9
    Empire Earth (EE) is a very impressive game--the downloadable demo reveals just the tip of the iceberg. EE is similar to Age of Empires in terms of basic gameplay but to say that "this game is so much more" would be an understatement. Everything is modeled in 3D which enables air combat (from old biplanes to attack helicopters to nano-age fighter-bombers). Clever features include snipers being invisible from a distance (except for a brief gunflash & smoke when they shoot) and partisans walking through normally inaccessible forests. Epochs like the stone age, and nano age are so dramatically different that they could have been entirely different games. Watching nanobots battle with lasers looks more like a Star Wars game than Age of Empires. I really like the fact that it includes the game save & autosave features. Also, the autosave default interval of 10 minutes can be changed. However, I didn't rate this game a perfect 10 primarily because it should've included more built-in victory types (like "Regicide" in Age of Empires II). This game is very highly recommended if you like real-time strategy games. I also own & enjoy Age of Empires II: Conquerors so I'm very surprised AOE2 rated higher than Empire Earth here. Expand
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  6. Jim
    Sep 27, 2003
    5
    First there was age of empires then other spin offs such as star wars battlegrounds, this is nothing more than a been there done that revamp on an old game. The unit hit points and damage are far off with little balance. build a cheap as hell wall and it takes a mass amount of firepower to bring it down. 5
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  7. MabaU.
    Mar 1, 2005
    9
    The best RTS game ever in spite of not being enough publicized.
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  8. LiamS.
    Jul 21, 2005
    10
    This is a really good game i8 advise everyone to buy it!!!
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  9. AnonymousMC
    Feb 28, 2006
    7
    The game is nice. Has excellent graphics, nice audio and it's pretty easy to play. But it's too much. It's like having 5games in one: The "chongo" age- rome - medieval - actual - futurist, and I really only like the 3rd and 5th. It's an unbelievable quantity... to much for me. It doesn't let you make a good strategic plan, specially if you are an "age block" over your enemy. Once you learn to use fire weapons before your enemy, it's over, you win. And when you get the robots! Just make a big group of them and you'll win. I liked a lot more the Age of Empires-Age of mythology games. This is just plain fight. Anyways, it's a cool game. It's like an amusement park. You wait a lot, but finally get exitement. That's his game. The campaigns are amazing, specially the german, even if it's in the age I most hate. Oh, almost forget, civilization work is horrible. You have only some different names and some SMALL differences. About civilization work, this is AWFULL. Expand
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  10. MattK.
    Dec 22, 2003
    6
    Empire Earth contains a lot of content. a little bit too much content for me, with like 24 very similar civs and about 120 optioins to make your own, over 300 units i think, and way too many things to build....not much strategy here, but it looks decent and the campaigns are more fun....the german one was excellent in particular...but i think i would rather play the 4 very different civ world of warcraft 3 or starcraft..which both offered much more strategy. it almost reaches the crown of the next great age of empires type game, but i cant say its that great. Expand
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  11. RichardM.
    Apr 17, 2003
    10
    This is by far the best RTS game I have ever played. It is so realistic that I can play for weeks at a time with my friends, online. If you don't have this game get it, you will be glued to your PC for hours the 1st time you play.
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  12. EEhead
    Jul 31, 2004
    10
    Excellent. Best RTS Game of all time.
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  13. Sep 6, 2010
    4
    Painful and slow gameplay make it incomprehensible that this game actually came after Age of Empires I. To me it feels like a primitive predecessor of that classic game in every way.
  14. Nov 24, 2010
    10
    Good Game, I liked Like Civilization. I tried once in normal and then I used some cheats I found on the net, Awesome Experience... Definitely one that you NEED to have on your gaming collection
  15. May 19, 2011
    10
    I grew up with RTS games such as this as well as Age of Empires II. Empire Earth and Age of Empires have their similarites, but I believe they are quite different games. The campaigns of Empire Earth are historically accurate and a bunch of fun to play. Skirmish mode is great too. If you enjoy slower paced RTS games than Empire Earth is a game that is certainly worth buying, if not, then try Age of Empires. Either way this is up there on the best RTS games ever list. Expand
Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 23
  2. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. While it isn’t perfect, it does offer up one hell of a good time. [Holiday 2001, p.96]
  2. Empire Earth’s kitchen sink design is too massive (if at time unwieldy) to be darkened by the shadow cast by a dozen games. [Feb 2002, p.94]
  3. It’s enjoyable, but because of the top-heavy resource management it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.