Empire Earth- Gold Edition Here

In the pantheon of real-time strategy games, there are the sprinters ( StarCraft ), the middle-distance runners ( Age of Empires II ), and then there is Empire Earth . To play Empire Earth: Gold Edition (which bundles the 2001 original with its Art of Conquest expansion) is not to play a game. It is to sign a 14-hour contract with insanity, ambition, and the single most audacious scope ever crammed onto a CD-ROM.

The Tyranny of Scale: Revisiting Empire Earth: Gold Edition , the Strategy Game That Ate History Empire Earth- Gold Edition

(One point for every 10,000 years of history. The other 6.5 points docked for having to manually click "Repair" on 30 battleships.) In the pantheon of real-time strategy games, there

Let’s get the headline out of the way: Empire Earth is the only RTS where you can start with a caveman throwing a rock at a squirrel and, six hours later, nuke that squirrel’s descendants from orbit with a stealth bomber. It is absurd. It is glorious. It is also, at times, a monument to terrible user interface design. The Tyranny of Scale: Revisiting Empire Earth: Gold