Empire Earth 3

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $10.97

Features:

• Battle across the entire globe or create a randomly generated globe to conquer
• Choose both the starting location and starting era
• Civilizations are divided into the three factions each with its own tech tree, units, structures and game play style
• Each Civilization's tech tree allows players to create completely custom civilizations of their own choosing
• As your empire spreads cities and outposts will grow and improve. Units and structures evolve over time.

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Dumbed Down [Posted on 2008-02-04]
I have played each empire earth version always impressed at the strides made with each successive version...until this one. It looks like EE III was redesigned to better cater to players interested in a first person shooter (FPS) game instead of an RTS. The variations of the different cultures and their technology evolutions were completely thrown out in favor of 3 basic cultures: western, eastern and middle eastern. The more advanced technological stages were diluted and "cartoonified" into something resembling a weak PS3 game. The bottom line is that it looks like if you are interested in a rich gaming experience with plenty of variation and some realism thrown in, go this Age of Empires III. It is everything this game isn't.

A bit laggy... [Posted on 2008-02-12]
I experienced a lot of lags when playing this. Things slowed down a lot, screens took long to load. Maybe the game is too taxing for my system.

However, the Multiplayer was quite entertaining and I kept playing longer than I would have ever guessed.

It's just a little sad to see the third installment of this great series going down the hill.

Great delivery, and condition. [Posted on 2008-03-10]
I received the product in good time and good condition. Had no problems whatsoever. The game wasn't like Empire Earth 2, but like all other commercial RTS games. The way they changed the game wasn't for the better, but closer to the standardized money making version of other games. This is my own personal preference of course, but I would have liked more of Empire Earth 2 in the game supported by bright new ideas in a third series of the title.

What Happened Here? [Posted on 2008-04-25]
Please tell me I am dreaming! Seriously!

If you satisfy all of these conditions then, this is your game

- You like extremely shallow games
- You want to have a reason to reduce you computer into metal shards
- You want to look at cheesy animation and graphics
- You like spending $[...] for a pile of junk
- You want to use it as a prank birthday gift
- Plenty more, but I don't feel like writing for the sake of this game

Get the point? This game is HORRIBLE! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!
This is the worst game I have ever played (besides Bionicle), the only reason I am even bothering to write this review is so all of you buyers can be warned of this game (technically, this doesn't even qualify as a game, games are supposed to be fun!).

I like the Empire Earth series, and the previous games were really fun, but this on the other hand, is quite the opposite.

Graphics 4/10
Gameplay 1/10
Story 0/10 (there is none)
Sound 2/10
Presentation 1/10
Length 1/10 (After two hours, this will be off your hard drive)
Stability: Major Problems, Major Lag (I have a very good graphics card)

Score 2/10 - Downright Horrible

Expected more... [Posted on 2008-05-10]
Those of you that still remember the first Empire Earth, will know that if you set-up the game for 2 players, the difficulty to the default setting and hit the start button... you'll be sit on that chair for 2hours++ just to get through the stone age.
I could still remember that I use to play one battle for more than 2 days.

For me the only really weak point of Empire Earh III is the game play duration. If you start a Skirmish battle with the same setting as meantioned above you'll probably finish the game within 2 hours. (So much for RTS). The rest of the improvements are quite nice, they have added "World Domination" mode (almost like the board game: Risk). Improvements are made on the character/object modeling an the enviroment.

For those of you that like the long game play... stick to Empire Earth I. Other than that, the overall game experience is really nice.

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