I'm so miserable about this faliure I'm still trying to convince myself that I'm not asleep and this is just a bad dream
The Bad: The whole gameplay
Sob... this is such a pathetic failure. Where can I start? Ok, the Empire Earth series was never for easy going RTS fans. But this peice of u-know what is so simple and stupid, George Bush could figure it out. I mean, Mad Doc was going right with the first two EE's. They weren't for all but they where simply the best RTS's, rival of AOE.
The graphics look Ok, but they are rather garish. I have a Dell XPS. That is like one of the best. I mean $1000 should buy you the best shouldn't it? Even on my awesome computer, I still had the graphics turned to low. And I still had delays. You simply can't have a good enough graphics card to run this demanding thing.
The soundtrack is simply annoying like the other EE's. But the units responses... they are the reason of the downfall of the Empire of EE. For instance, Mark IV tanks are British ok? So when I clicked on one it said " I say, would you care for some tea old chap?" What theheck!!! I don't want to listen to that!!! Also it is annoying when the units give a sarcastic response like " that's a GREAT plan!". You will seriously feel like telling you're computer to shut up.
The World Domination... ha ha. It is really terrible. I thought it would like, revolutinize gaming. When I first saw the interface, I felt an overwhelming sense of deja vu. ( for idiots, that means that you feel like you've seen it before somehow) It was sort of no, exactly the world domination in Rise of Nations. The battles are never epic or anything close to that. Most of the time you have to navigate through the map to find a patheticly weak tribe. And you have to that again. And again. And again. In the previous EE's even the easiest AI will give you a huge challenge. in this game, you just train a handful of troops, and you will own the enemy. No challenge. And if there is no challenge, there is no fun. No fun= Empire Earth III.
The civilizations have dissapeared. There are only three civilizations in theory. And, they are all similar. No variety.
The battles are just a mess of troops, you can't really see anything. And, since there are only 5 epochs, you can't make decisions. In the other game, you think "should I attack with slingthowers or upgrade to simple bows?"
In this you make the brain-dead decision of " should i attack with bows or upgrade to machine guns?"You decide.
The campaign is a big mess. It is like the guys at Mad Doc said " lets make a battle between Teutonic Knights and Japanese ninjas!" No historical fact whatsoever.
So, I'm going to Best Buy tomorrow to see if I can get my money back. If you want to buy it after reading this, you must be either be retarded or you have a mountain of dough to spend.Don't get this game.