It grew on me.
User Rating: 8 | Empire Earth PC
I remember when I bought this game... I got it sealed so I had some time to change my mind in case I wanted to return it. Strategically I waited until the 2 weeks passed and I could no longer return it, and I took it out of it's box. IIRC it still had a nice albeit environment-unfriendly Box with a capital B if you remember those days and with an actual paper manual that you could sit down for. Anyways, I played the game some and to be honest was let down. It was confusing, and simply too much. There were too many units to choose from at a time and I was left uncertain how to compose my army. After a while I put the game down.
Then some time later for some reason I decided to pick it up again and tried to get into it. After a while I guess I made the "switch" and the amount of choice became one of my favorite parts of the game. It was really enjoyable all the things you could do and could create. The battles are also quite long lasting from my experience with a lot of defense structures to be built and have a really epic feeling. With the options of so many ages and different upgrades and units it's enjoyable to decide what to do; while you still have the option of a simple no nonsense rush. I definitely enjoyed playing.
