User Rating: 6.8 | Empires: Dawn of the Modern World PC
I’m a fairly picky gamer. The average game I play has to be really good, or, simply put, I won’t play it. Frankly speaking, a game has to have a good feel or it simply doesn’t captivate me. I’ve been a huge fan of the RTS genre ever since Age of Empires. I saw that this game received a 8.5 on Gamespot and figured it would be a really fun game, so I went to the store and paid my cash for it. Big mistake. Empires: Dawn of the Modern World lacks a high-quality feel to it. It just feels forced. The campaigns haven’t impressed me because I can’t get into the gameplay. My biggest annoyance with this game, however, was the scrolling. You have to move your mouse pointer all the way to the side of the screen for it to move, and then it jumps over. This makes scrolling so toilsome and jumpy that it gives me a headache. The units move too slowly, I think, and the early stages of any game are boring to me. I guess I’m just spoiled by RTS games with an excellent feel, such as Age of Mythology and Warcraft III: the Frozen Throne. In any case, I’ll just stick to my WCIII and try to stop regretting I wasted all that money on Empires, which I will rarely play.
