Empire Earth III (PC Games, 2007)

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.

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.

Was a present, and this is belated as well but pretty much perfect cept 4 the rip on the box, but thats okay, the box is probably under my little brother's bed smashed up now anyways, but was a good transaction and the game works which is all that really matters anyway. Thanks.

Very few times I'm very satisfied with an item, and when it comes to price and shipping time I'm very picky. I must say I liked the game. I decided to buy it because I saw it was an excellent opportunit, great price and great shipping rate, and it only took 3 days to arrive. I am very satisfied. 5 Stars and 2 Thumbs up!!

Financiero25

Great game. My son is totally into these types of computer games and this was awesome for him. It was a great price and we couldn;t beat it. Thanks.

I have empire earth and empire earth II and this only has better graphics over these. I was disappointed some.

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This game is nothing like EE 1 or 2. It's just weird. It also crashes a lot on 2 different computers so there is obviously a problem with it. EE 1 and 2 are both way better games so just get them instead.

Fun game. My eight year old likes it. Only thing is I had to buy a video card because my PC didn't have one.

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.

Very good game for a RTS fanatic like myself :D awesome graphic and a good flow and setup. the constant battle happening around the earth while your in a separate one keep you on your toes

Shipping was very fast. The product was as promised as well. Great communication. Its a great buy. Would recommend!