Poor Rick Goodman. Had Bill Gates died before he destroyed Stainless Steel, the developer of EE, I would cave in and give this game the 7/10 that it is. There are many things I can greatly appreciate about Empire Earth just by not playing it, because it's basically a more boring version of Age of Empires with a very generic gameplay loop, not to mention severely glacial pacing even when game speed is maxed (not as slow as AoEII Dark Age starts).
This is ONLY a 10/10 because it deserves tons of respect for harboring immensely positive intent, and should be officially revived to fix its problems stemming from being dated. Sadly, that's not happening anytime soon, because the scumbag who wants to minimize competition destroyed EE and made it nonexistent in order to keep Age of Empires 2 afloat. Empire Earth may suck to play nowadays without mods, but the game itself exudes so much passion that it deserves respect. It's ostensibly a more polished AoE1, another game with a niche playerbase based in Vietnam and parts of China. EE is even more indie, with a niche playerbase consisting of Latin Americans, particularly South America.
EE1 is so good that it has the opposite thing to Sticker Star: it is the best entry in the series, and every subsequent release would get worse over time. Art of Conquest barely made any changes and had awful campaigns sans World War II. EE2 is meh. EE3 is... Uh, bad. The original 5 campaigns are actually very special and are incredibly fun to play, especially the Russian campaign. That story was truly riveting, and the dialogue/voice acting was fantastically timeless. EE1 is yet another case where passion is more important than anything, and I find myself coming back to it and feeling bad for Stainless Steel whenever I remember their untimely, undeserved fate. Especially considering Mad Doc, now a subsidiary of Rockstar Games, ultimately smashed the series after promising to keep it alive. Nice going. I'm just going to watch the campaign playthroughs in addition to listening to EE1's great music.
This is ONLY a 10/10 because it deserves tons of respect for harboring immensely positive intent, and should be officially revived to fix its problems stemming from being dated. Sadly, that's not happening anytime soon, because the scumbag who wants to minimize competition destroyed EE and made it nonexistent in order to keep Age of Empires 2 afloat. Empire Earth may suck to play nowadays without mods, but the game itself exudes so much passion that it deserves respect. It's ostensibly a more polished AoE1, another game with a niche playerbase based in Vietnam and parts of China. EE is even more indie, with a niche playerbase consisting of Latin Americans, particularly South America.
EE1 is so good that it has the opposite thing to Sticker Star: it is the best entry in the series, and every subsequent release would get worse over time. Art of Conquest barely made any changes and had awful campaigns sans World War II. EE2 is meh. EE3 is... Uh, bad. The original 5 campaigns are actually very special and are incredibly fun to play, especially the Russian campaign. That story was truly riveting, and the dialogue/voice acting was fantastically timeless. EE1 is yet another case where passion is more important than anything, and I find myself coming back to it and feeling bad for Stainless Steel whenever I remember their untimely, undeserved fate. Especially considering Mad Doc, now a subsidiary of Rockstar Games, ultimately smashed the series after promising to keep it alive. Nice going. I'm just going to watch the campaign playthroughs in addition to listening to EE1's great music.