Platform: PC | Game Size: 483Mb
Empire Earths mastermind Rick Goodman was lead designer of the original Age of Empires. Similarities are thus hardly surprising; in fact, his new game can be considered a 3D version of its predecessor. Despite the graphical leap, the games look and feel are very familiar - AoE fans will feel perfectly at home. The perspective is fixed in an isometric view, camera management is not required. In your quest to crush the opposition, you build settlements, collect five resource types, recruit troops (land, sea, air) and, well, fight battles. Unit improvements are no longer researched in buildings, but can be bought at once for each unit type. For example, you can increase your tanks hit points, attack value, armor, speed and range separately -- for a price. It's your choice whether to spend your income on a huge army, or on an advanced one. Throughout the campaign, you also earn civilization point for heroic deeds; you can spend these on general unit improvements, e.g. reducing your archers building time by 30%, or making your citizens 20% faster.
The games four campaigns span the entire history of warfare: conquer the Mediterranean as the Greeks, lead the English from the middle ages to the battle at Waterloo, change history by making the Germans victors of the First and Second World War, and finally create a Russian empire in 2025. The campaign missions are heavily scripted and contain quite a few adventure elements; for example, you must lead William Duke of Normandy safely through enemy ambushes. As the scenarios focus on a set time frame, you dont advance through the 14 epochs (from the Prehistoric Era to the Nano Age). In skirmish mode and in multiplayer battles, however, you may lead your people from caves into skyscrapers.
Requirements:
Multimedia PC with Pentium II - 350 MHz or higher processor; 64 MB of RAM; 450 MB of hard disk space; additional 100 MB of hard drive space for swap file; Super VGA monitor supporting 1024 x 768 resolution; AGP (4 MB) or PCI (8 MB) 3D video card that supports 1024 x 768, 16 bit color resolution; CD-ROM drive; Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device; 28.8 Kbps modem (or higher recommended) for Internet or head-to-head play (56 Kbps modem or higher to host a game); DirectX compatible sound card (speakers or headphones recommended); DirectX 8.0a or later.
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