Empire Earth is a Strategy game in real-time published by Sierra Entertainment, left in 2001 on PC.

Description

The player controls a civilization, and it goal is, in the majority of the cases, to destroy its enemies.

The warlike units are of nature stone-paper-scissors, i.e. one with the possibility of beating an army twice larger than his by choosing its units well.

The play proposes four modes: campaigns, the tutoriaux ones, scenarios and charts random.

The play, all in 3D, have an graphical interface and visual rather simple and effective, and have many light effects (explosions, reflections of water, etc). A zoom is possible during the play, making the sight practically subjective. Rotation is however impossible, except for the canned movements of camera in the scenarios and the campaigns.

Ages

Empire Earth recovers fourteen eras on the whole. The version Empire Earth expansion brings a new era: the Space era.

• Prehistory (I): Prehistory is the first era of the play. The military units available are one cannot less rudimentary: stone club and launcher.

• the Stone Age (II): This age sees allows the construction of schools of archers and docks (and thus the creation of archers, of raft of fishing and tranports).

• the Age of copper (III): At the age of copper appears the first walls and fortresses. Moreover, possible the construction of stables, farms and hospital is made.

• the Bronze Age (IV): With the Bronze Age appears the first warships, galères and frigates. The machines become available in the arsenal.

• Bottom empire (V): Bottom empire corresponds to Rome Antique and resembles the Bronze Age much.

• the Middle Ages (VI): No new unit makes its appearance with the Middle Ages.

• the Rebirth (VII): the use of the powder brings revolutions at all the types of units. Arquebusiers and coulevrines are as of this time available.

• the Era of the empires (VIII): the Era of the empires resembles an improved Rebirth much.

• the industrial Era (IX): the industrial Era can be comparable at the Napoleonean era.

• the atomic Era - Premère World war (X) : The First World War sees primarily the appearance of aviation. However, the submarines and the tanks also unite with the part as of this era.

• the atomic Era - Second world war (XI) : The Second world war sees as for it the appearance of the atomic weapon.

• the Modern atomic Era (XII) : It corresponds to our time, with a very destroying armament.

• the Digital age (XIII): the Digital age is the first futuristic era of the play. It allows the fabriquation of robots in cybernetic laboratories.

• the Nano Old one or nanotechnologic Era (XIV): the Nano Old east corresponds to the apogee of the robot-like wars.

• the space Era (XV): the space Era (only available in the expansion) makes it possible to carry out its engagements until in space and to conquer another planets. At this age, the citizens all are of the robots and appear space transport.

Economy

The natural resources used in the play are food (fishing, drives out, gathering and later agriculture), wood, the stone, gold and iron. The difference in several plays of the same type, Empire Earth allows the quasi unlimited exploitation of the resources. Thus, the gold or iron, stone quarries thus the corn fields are inexhaustible. On the contrary, wood, the fish and the zones of fodder conceal limited quantities of resources. In this direction, the traditional strategy consisting to exhaust the sources of supply of an adversary to attack it thereafter appears not very effective. It is all the more true as the IA of Empire Earth has unlimited resources without regard with the exploitation which its peasants make. This measurement was installation by the creators to compensate for his tactical weakness.

Taking again a concept maintaining established well in the strategy games, Empire Earth allows the commercial exchanges by tributes. Thus, in certain scenarios, it will be for example necessary to send a quantity X of resource

Army

The play comprises several having heroes of war of the capacities of interesting strong wars. Several heroes being characters having marked our history, such Jules Cesar, Alexandre the Large one, others are completely fictitious characters a such cyborg which incarnates the hero carrying out the armies of the nano-technological Era.

Countryside

Empire Earth proposes four campaigns: the Greek countryside, the English countryside, the German countryside and the Russian countryside. The version Empire Earth expansion proposes as for it three other campaigns: the Roman countryside, the peaceful countryside and the Asian countryside.

See too

• Empire Earth 2

External bonds

• Screenshots of the play
• Test of the play on JeuxVideo.com