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This latest in the Empire Earth series adds some interesting twists on play. However, I found the graphics to be less realistic - more like Warcraft-type fantasy graphics - than the 2 previous versions. I found that to be very irritating. Also irritating was the game's slow startup, and perceptible halts when switching between modes. Although I like the game itself, I was disappointed by the shift to "cartoony" fantasy graphics, which detracts from the realism in this version. I assume the slow loads and pauses are due to my computer system not being state-of-the-art with flash memory drives. But I truly don't see anything here which should require more than the minimum required equipment (more game programmers should work on real-world computer systems, IMO). As with other games, make sure that your computer system meets the minimum hardware requirements for the game. If your system does not meet the minimum (particularly for graphics), the game play may be unacceptibly slow, the screen blocky or halting, or even completely unplayable.Read full review
I am a huge fan of the Empire Earth series. For the first and hopefully only time, I enjoyed the first release more than the two sequels. The second release was a good time, but lacked some of the best elements the first one boasted - such as individual unit upgrades. Then comes this debacle slapped with the title Empire Earth III. This pile of coding garbage was such a miserable failure, that Mad Doc software removed any mention of it on their webpage. The AI in this game made it so easy it was no fun. Units would get easily confused and the pathfinding was ridiculous. The water looked great - it's too bad the ship units were one of the biggest disasters of the game. Extraordinarily choppy animations and poor AI (again) ruined the graphical detail they put into the water scene. And I have a beefed out system. I can crank any modern game on highest graphical detail and my computer will lick its fingers with glee. For whatever reason, this game brought my rig to its knees. Battlefields loaded for 60-120 seconds at a time. The game would get very laggy to where it would freeze for periods of time to catch up on processing - yet on Command and Conquer 3, hundreds of units fighting and exploding wouldn't slow me down. Who could forget the memorable characters in the game? Absent a storyline entirely, the units' personalities where obviously the focal point of the designers. Such witty remarks, like the ancient builders saying "I bring round spinning thing with sharp edge!" totally eliminates the historic relevance that this series first brought its players. Not only that, but the dialogue brought confusion to anyone listening. If in the modern era (this release presents a reduced Five eras total), for example, the flame tank were to be attacked, the player would hear "We're under -- cooking these hot dogs! Hee hee!" Who in their right mind would know that this is a distress signal? Took me a while to get used to the immature, starving-artist wisecracks this game featured. Lastly, victory in this game was nothing to strive for. I underwent the agony of beating the "world conquest" mode just to beat the game, and it was a complete waste of my time. No stats, no fantastic ending, nothing. It seemed like an awful attempt at imitating just a section of C&C3 - the global conquest - and for dedicating a whole game to this cause and proving entire design teams incompetent - was a waste of this player's time and money, and an embarrassment to the companies whose logos are emblazoned on their product. To fans of Empire Earth, this is not the product you hoped for. The series has been completely raped of anything resembling the original greatness.Read full review
Hello You asked me to write a summary of why I bought this product and so on. So my dear son really wanted the computer game that, just as we were looking we found a store on eBay so I bought. This game has many advantages. First of all because it is only installed on my computer so my control is complete, when, how and how much he will play this game. This may sound bad but for me there is a reward for good behavior. And to see him enjoying the game. What I do not like that a lot of military activity for one who lives in Israel unfortunately experienced real situations. The question is whether I'll buy the same game again if he wants to "earn" it so why not
its what i wanted and the game is a lot of fun. it has all the features that were described and i enjoy the type of game that it is. its better than the second and first one with more control over your society.
Game isn't bad and not the greatest. I bought it out of curiosity and it was worth it for the price. I really don't go by reviews myself but honestly I bought the game out of boredom one day and it's a decent time killer. I'm pretty happy about my purchase.
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