Terrible, Sierra goofed on this sequel
User Rating: 3.5 | Empire Earth III PC
Usually I look forward to a good follow-up to games that I have enjoyed. Not so with EE3. Granted EE 1&2 could get overly complex and just the sheer number of units that could be built and in play could be enough to make even the best micromanagers pull out their hair. But the units were well done, thought out, logical and had good graphical rendering. In it's attempt to simplify some of the complexity of the originals, EE3 has FAILED completely and miserably. The units look cartoonish and have sarcastically annoying order acknowledgement (young children might find them amusing the first few times), the unit pathfinding is broken (builders can't complete walls because they built themselves into corners), overly simplistic campaigns, stupid AI, and the list continues. The graphics/play engine is very poor (my machine is top notch and runs C&C3 and WIC with no problems). I couldn't believe this was from Sierra. I bought it because it was on sale and I liked the series, but seriously SAVE YOUR MONEY! Even if it is in the bargain bin, it's not worth it. I agree with most of the other reviews I've now (belatedly) read, that the game feels like a half finished, stripped down, low budget wannabe that needed more time, money and ideas.
