Good game....
User Rating: 8.6 | Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest PC
Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest is an expansion to the visually stunning and extremely in depth real-time strategy game, with roots leading back to the Age of Empires series. This game is clearly designed with the intention of making any die-hard strategy gamer foam at the mouth, and spout bizarre gurgling sounds of joy while playing it. Does this expansion really cause that pleasing, yet simultaneously degenerative effect? Is the casual gamer lost inside the plethora of options and complexities? Oh, the suspense!The main attraction to this game is epochs. Imagine owning about 15 RTS games in one package. That’s really the best way to think of it. The original game spanned 500,000 years and included 14 epochs that started with the Prehistoric Age and ended at the Nanotech Age in the year 2100. The expansion has an all new epoch, called… the Space Age! Starting in 2200, it has the disheartening effect of making me believe I was born a few couple hundred years too soon. Among the additions in the space age is an all new Wonder, the orbital space station. The citizens in Space Age games appear as robots. This is somewhat humorous, since the interfaces still list them as male or female when they look identical. The sound and music are good, but didn’t stand out much either. However, none of them are annoying in the least, and the music that plays at the title screen features somewhat haunting chants that really set the tone for controlling entire civilizations and permanently altering the course of this little blue planet’s history. Oh joy.
