![]() ![]() Unit management is so poorly handled that going to battle in EE3 is more like a doing your chores than playing a game. However, we move on to the gameplay, or lack thereof.ĭespite the promise of customizable civilizations in order to make up for the distinct lack of unique civilizations, the tech trees seem to march along very similar paths from one game to the next, and the rock-paper-scissors approach to combat does not make the units feel part of any unique system. With so little of the underlying game left, everything else that Mad Doc has attempted gives you the sense of putting additional floors on a building with a cracked foundation. Post-patch, the ratio between minutes and crashes improved considerably – maybe 30:1 – but not sufficiently enough to warrant extended gameplay. This is one of the few games I have reviewed with fewer than 80 hours of it under my belt, because for every 10 minutes of having the game open – not playing, mind you, just having it open, I would have a CTD or other error that would cause me to close out (or shut down) and try again. And, once again, when the AI does get to base building, it never builds up a terribly large force to threaten you. Many, many battles end before they begin because the AI's initial force, workers and all, will just charge your force and be annihilated. ![]() In World Domination mode, the AI seems to be even worse, just when you thought it couldn't possibly so. In skirmish games, the AI builds up what any human player would turn into a war-machine-gone-force-of-nature, but the AI will never pose a serious threat. Gone is an AI that makes you sit up and pay attention. In World Domination, you are particularly cheated in that, if you manage to take a research-specialized province early enough and hold onto it, you can find yourself in the Future epoch really before you have an empire under your belt. You can run through the five epochs – Ancient, Medieval, Colonial, Modern, and Future – without breaking a sweat. Gone is the feeling that you are marching through history. Gone are special resources, because gone are most of the epochs gone are exciting battles between the Incas and the Koreans because gone are specific civilizations in favor of customizable template civilizations, Western, Middle Eastern, and Far Eastern, which really all play the same way – interestingly enough, the Mesoamericans are completely unrepresented, so while there is a "Western" civilization, initially defined by Western Europe, the Western Hemisphere is effectively absent from the game. In fact, there's a lot of wanting for the old game. Other than the World Domination mode – which is not a new feature to this genre, thanks to Rise of Nations – there is not a whole lot of "newness" to the game. To build EE3, the folks at Mad Doc took its predecessor's engine apart to rebuild it into something "new." The outcome has been the same as though a five-year-old were given a monkey wrench, a top-of-the-line engine, and then told to go nuts. There is very little that can be said is "innovative," the gameplay is ridiculously simple for today's RTS standards, and the emphasis on cutting-edge graphics make this a game that only the best of the best gaming platforms can handle – although even if you could afford to spend that much money on a PC, you still wouldn't want to throw away $50 on EE3. That was until I bought Empire Earth III.ĮE3 is a bastardization of the Empire Earth series, as much of a bold, new direction for the series as Cardigan's bold charge against the Russians was for the British campaign in the Crimean War. (Oh my OS is WIN 7 BTW)įaulting Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Empire Earth III\EE3.By AlexChec | Review Date: NovemI bought Empire Earth III because I was a devout follower of the Empire Earth series. I've tried re-installing the game, running the game as admin, lowering the settings, turning off the auto save and running in compatibility mode, yet all yield the same results in crashing. ![]() Every time i try to play, after about 30-60 minutes the game crashes to desktop with "Empire earth 3 has stopped working". Hey, I'm was wondering if anyone here could help me with this problem I keep having with Empire Earth 3. ![]()
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