Empire Earth Nostalgia
Ohhh I miss this game so so much. Over the last two weeks, chatting with some mates from uni about the old school PC games triggered a strong sense of nostalgia.
Those were the days in high school between year 7 and 10. Use to play this game absolutely religiously. There were doubters out there - the legacy of AOE had formed a strong following out there who were too ignorant to consider Empire Earth. But this was the TRUE RTS game of its time.
What was there to not like about it? The basic limitation that Age of Empires had was that the game always just had a fixed time period. For example in AOE 1 it was between the time periods Stone Age to Bronze Age and the rest of the series followed suit - ie the middle ages for AOE2 and the colonial era for AOE3.
BUT Empire Earth spanned from the nomad/stone age ALL THE WAY THROUGH to the future nano age - spanning somewhat 500,000 years and around 14 different epochs. It almost felt like you were playing 14 different games.
And the gameplay was awesome - deathmatch battles that would go on for hours on end. I normally use to stick to the contemporary ages - WW1 onwards. The battles were extremely dynamic - ground wars, naval wars and once you could have aeroplanes, mad dog fights in the air.
Not to mention the fact that you could zoom down to the unit/ground level and watch the game fold from that perspective.
The only sticking point I can see thats of any relevance is that at the zoomed down level the units looked more like lego blocks than people - but it never came in the way of a great game.
The ground units spanned from foot soldiers to artillery units and tanks etc. The naval units from normal fishing boats and trawlers, transporters to all the types of naval battle ships AND aircraft carriers as well as nuclear powered submarines. Air units spanned from small fighter jets to large bombers, as well as transporter helicopters to assault ones as well.
And I desperately want it back. This is the first real time that I am regretting buying a Mac - just not enough games for this OS which is a massive fail. Now that the waters are calmer on the uni front I will finally get time to actually go around looking for the game now. Unfortunately I’m stuck to playing a demo of the mac compatible version of AOE III - and it just doesn’t do it.
I am thinking about running boot camp and installing windows - but I don’t really want to fork out $200 odd for Windows 7. I just want Windows XP to play my PC games - so if anyone had a copy out there that they don’t use XP anymore and don’t mind dishing it out - let me know:).
Over the last 2-3 years I ditched my crappy desktop PC and moved to PS3 - never thinking I would go back.
But the PS3 doesn’t have games like this.
1 year ago