Empire earth 3

[humvee2800]

Feelings?

[Snoopy]

Goods:

Campaign map, missions on Camp map, yadda yadda...

Bads: Cartoon like graphics (with huge people killing other huge people)

Uglies: 5 ages instead of 15, 3 civs instead of about 15.

In other words:

It will either be a total success and bring the EE series into the limelight, or it will be crappy and be a letdown. No in betweens.

[Thanatos]

Who cares, I've got TW.

[humvee2800]

individual human parts seem out of proportion however the buildings seem somewhat more realistically sized.

Snoopy there are not just 3 civs, but 3 big differences in culture.

They said themselves there is more then just those civilizations though a english nation will not be all that different from its surrounding europeans.


one good thing about the ages is that although theres 5 they have a more complicated technology system, so rather then advancing by researching ages you gain way more through technology.

and the amount of ages in ee2 did kind of piss me off.

[Kanaric]

Who cares, I've got TW.

You must be pretty damn bored then.



Empire Earth 3 sucks, I think its funny that this site has some infatuation with games like this simply because it has "historical" ideas behind it. It was going to be a bad game, it is a bad game, and always will be a bad game.

Most RTS is hyped up flavor of the week trash.

[Parky]

I loved EE1. the first game i remeber playing that was a 3d rts.
didnt play EE2

[kev-o]

I loved EE1. the first game i remeber playing that was a 3d rts.

Agreed. EE1 was my first strategy game as well and I was blown away. EE 2 and 3 have brought the series downhill.

[The Last Spartan]

Loved EE1, hated EE2. They just screwed it up I think. But it's quite difficult making games like that, especially since it includes the entire world, there would be huge diversity between each country and civilization.

[humvee2800]

Mind you if you look at western nations in comparison to eastern ones, you can see that the differences between each nation are not so pronounced.

EE1 was a game before its time

EE2 was garbage

EE3?

[invictus]

Well iv been a fan since EE1. EE2 was ehh....it could have been better. Not the worst but not the best. Im hoping 3 will be alot better, but we shall see. -Leon

[hellheaven1987]

Agree. EE1 is great, EE2 is garbage.

[humvee2800]

I am very undecided on the graphics, they say they decided to go with a more exaggerated look... but it also seems like they cut some serious corners.

Im ok with a warcraft 3 like game with a few advances, but at least make it so the advances are smooth.

im probably gonna have to buy the game and test it out before I make my decision.

[Gavmundo]

I thought Empire Earth was pretty good when it came out. At the time there weren't too many similar games and it mixed the action of the AOE series with a bit of Civilization but by the time EE2 came out we'd seen it all before. I thought EE2 was poor but having looked at a few previews od EE3 there are some interesting features but I'm pretty sick of the AOE type games now. I need to be able to form units into armies and am not really interested in the drag and click games anymore they're too out of date.

I thought the Cossacks system was going in the right direction with you being allowed to create units when you created enough individual soldier and even Rise of Nations was interesting with each unit consisting of three soldiers but I'm not a fan of creating single units and dragging and clicking to move them en masse. I'm not really a fan of the Epochs type system either. I like my games to be a little more tactical.

[humvee2800]

Since I am a diehard rts fan, I think that to survive in the long run RTS will have to make certain changes.

Principally away from the whole god damn rushing system.

[Gavmundo]

Since I am a diehard rts fan, I think that to survive in the long run RTS will have to make certain changes.

Principally away from the whole god damn rushing system.

Quite right and it does sound like EE3 is trying a couple of new features to freshen things up although I don't know if it will be enough for me. The "rushing system" is just to archaic for me these days. Another problem I have with a lot of RTS games in the inability to be able to station troops on castle walls. AOE was a prime example of this as was EE. I recently tried Sparta which didn't get many good reviews and I thought it was rather good ... as you play a Custom game rather than the Campaign (which is baaaad). You are able to station troops on walls (and besiege fortresses) which is what attracted me to it.

[Thanatos]

Since I am a diehard rts fan, I think that to survive in the long run RTS will have to make certain changes.

Principally away from the whole god damn rushing system.

While we're at it, why not the whole "Let's build an entire base in thirty minutes!" system as well. It's stupid, and I've always hated it.

[Nefus]

Feelings?

With experience from the first and second i think it will be a bad game

[PurpleScotch]

Agreed, those game styles are just too old for someone like me .

[Angmar_nite]

EE1 was so nice. It was the first game I ever played, where I could zoom into the ground. I beat all the campaigns to death!

I remember when I witnessed my first bombing run on multiplayer... I never even thought anything on such a large scale was possible. Then I saw the layers of AA guns and walls. The indiscriminate destruction and excessive defenses awed me so much!

The cybers were also very creative, as Novoya Russia, my cyber armies butchered all.

The only thing that was lacking was the space battles...

[humvee2800]

First person shooters are older the rts games... and they are one of the most popular genres in the gaming industry...

Age does not matter, renewal does.

games like total war and the like do give more accurate battles, but rts's tend to give a specific hands on feel, as well as the ability to truly get closer to each individual soldier, settlement, building.. etc

The problem with them has always been in rushing or degradation of gameplay.

In empire earth the one most accustomed to building as many soldiers as fast as possible as well as knowledge how to abuse the resource system will win. It abandons all empire building, tactics, diplomacy, or just plain cleverness for a unbalanced fast action gameplay which epoch based games are not designed for.