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Empire Earth

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 17 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Sierra Studios
Developer: Stainless Steel Studios
Genre(s): Real-Time Strategy
Players: 8
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Summary
From the lead designer of Age of EmpiresĀ® comes Empire EarthTM a real-time strategy game that lets you control the destiny of a fledgling civilization through 500,000 years of human history. Choose any point in time and establish a civilization to transcend the ages and dominate the earth. [Sierra]
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
GameSpy
What impresses us the most is the sheer size of it -- each epoch feels fleshed out and playable, and every era has its own nuances, so it's almost like getting 14 games in one.
Read Full Review >Gamezilla!
Chock full of 200 units from 14 Epochs and about 60,000 years of evolution, Empire Earth can't help but quench your thirst for ultra-realistic and incredibly encompassing strategy game play.
Read Full Review >Media and Games Online Network
The most comprehensive real time strategy wargame ever produced.
Read Full Review >Voodoo Extreme
What makes this such a compelling feature is that you actually have different sets of units, heroes and buildings for each of the epochs, translating into over 200 different combat units, structures and era-appropriate historical heroes to command your armies. To say that Empire Earth has a lot to offer is an understatement.
Read Full Review >TotalGames.net
An enjoyable RTS game in the Age of Empire mold that will last even the most experienced of gamers quite some time with the various gameplay and map-making options available within it.
Read Full Review >Game Over Online
An excellent and vast real-time strategy game that is complex yet fun to play, and which provides almost unlimited replayability.
Read Full Review >Gamer's Pulse
The variety of options available made me enjoy this game more, but it balanced out with the not so great graphics and audio.
Read Full Review >Electric Playground
Earth not only plays great, it respects the feel of history and advancement, and by its very nature makes the player respect it too.
Read Full Review >Armchair Empire
Its enjoyable, but because of the top-heavy resource management its easy to feel overwhelmed.
Read Full Review >PC Gamer
While it isnt perfect, it does offer up one hell of a good time. [Holiday 2001, p.96]
Gamers' Temple
This is not a game for those new to strategy games - the challenge and complexity make Empire Earth too much to digest for these players and it may easily prove to be frustrating to them.
Read Full Review >ActionTrip
The multiplayer has one great option -- players can choose any nation from any period of human history, which means you can try out German plains from WW II and employ them against fierce Russian futuristic tanks.
Read Full Review >IGN
It sometimes paints with a very broad brush and glosses over certain details but it's a big package that's big on coherence and consistency.
Read Full Review >All Game Guide
The title is ambitious in scope, rife with innovative ideas and, while not flawless, is a genuinely fun addition to the ever-growing lineup of RTS games.
Read Full Review >GameZone
The graphics look fine when pulled back, but tend to get blurry the closer you get to the object of the zoom. And there doesnt seem to be any way to rotate the camera to allow a better view of a single object or citizen.
Read Full Review >Maxim Online
War is hell unless youre in the cockpit of the F-15 thats dropping bombs on cavemen.
Read Full Review >Computer Gaming World
Empire Earths 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]
GameSpot
A huge game to say the least--it's much more time-consuming and involved than the typical real-time strategy game, and its staggering variety of units is as impressive as it is intimidating.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
My main gripe comes from the game's seeming inability to provide consistent gameplay...the game's performance couldn't equal its scope. [Jan 2002, p.95]
G4 TV
The most ambitious and complicated real-time strategy game ever made. This will make it a joy to devout fans of the genre, but an overwhelming mess to everyone else.
Read Full Review >Computer Games Magazine
It tries almost nothing new. It's like a K-Tel greatest hits album. Yeah, sure, you've heard these songs a million times, but they're all good and it's nice to have them in one place.
Read Full Review >Yahoo! Games
Playing Empire Earth is akin to attending a banquet with courses of food... that keep coming long after you've pushed back from the table and undone your belt.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 17 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Esteban F. gave it a7:
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.
Liam S. gave it a10:
This is a really good game i8 advise everyone to buy it!!!
Maba U. gave it a9:
The best RTS game ever in spite of not being enough publicized.
EEhead gave it a 10:
Excellent. Best RTS Game of all time.
Matt K. gave it a 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.
Jim gave it a 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
Antoine + gave it a 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!
