so a few weekends ago, I got to play an old favorite game of mine Empire Earth. It was a bit of a under-stated game when it came out but has stayed firm in my heart for a grand RTS.
The reasons why this game is receiving my high praises is because of one major component: Grand Scale. This game serves you up not a feeling of fighting a detachment from an army fighting in a battle that is only part of a war. This game gives you a feeling of building an empire and waging war in the same notions of Sins of A Solar Empire.
The game offers such a immense scale, that maps take massive amounts of time to cross in the same liking of another favorite Supreme Commander. Its possible to have massive engagements also because of the high unit cap, which when in 2 player can mean over 500 units per side. Granted when playing a massive 8 players game this unit cap of 1200 is split 8 ways.
I take for example of awesomeness this game gave me, a battle that has made me immersed back into this grand RTS. I was playing with a few chums just out of having no real life for anything else and we started playing the game. Once a few hours of preliminary base building, skirmished, alliance, and back-stabbing had taken place the game put itself into overdrive. I had one of my opponent try and smash my naval forces but I was able to support the battle with some aircraft that made quick work of their boats. It then came that my opponents (by the by their are 4 players, but one had internet trouble and was dropped)allied friend who I had made sure to piss off with a few tactile attacks sent their naval force. This is where I decided to send my plan which over starting of the game I had been planning was a massive attack islands that sent flying bombers onto their production islands. This made Opponent 2 withdraw naval forces and I could push what was left of mine into their waters.
The battle raged on like this for awhile. With me holding off attacks from my 2 opponent's and while able to make small tactile nuke drops. It was moving in my favour but very slowly. This is when a massive combined submarine force attacked my naval armada which had been making trouble on their one of my opponents main island and destroyed all but a 2 carries and a few battleship. Luckily I was able to make some sub killers and hold them off, which also allowed me to have a break and notice my other opponent was working on their own naval force again which I quickly sent a basket of nukes. The game was looking even more to be in my grasps with my opponents having 2 main islands each and a small resource Island. My naval armada was being sent to destroy their last mini islands anjavascript:void(0)
Save Nowd plans for a all out attack on their main force was imminent. The problem was, my territory was largly undefended and my strategic advantage had been mostly luck so I could easily lose my advantage at anytime. That when the computer crashed and we lost.
This is what I mean by epic scale, the war here has been debated over since with who would win and who not but all in all all agree the game great. I hope my long winded battle recap has not made you sleep but inspired to buy, this or any other epic game out there. Just make sure you have time to spend on playing a battle because its easy for a life to disappear.
The reasons why this game is receiving my high praises is because of one major component: Grand Scale. This game serves you up not a feeling of fighting a detachment from an army fighting in a battle that is only part of a war. This game gives you a feeling of building an empire and waging war in the same notions of Sins of A Solar Empire.
The game offers such a immense scale, that maps take massive amounts of time to cross in the same liking of another favorite Supreme Commander. Its possible to have massive engagements also because of the high unit cap, which when in 2 player can mean over 500 units per side. Granted when playing a massive 8 players game this unit cap of 1200 is split 8 ways.
I take for example of awesomeness this game gave me, a battle that has made me immersed back into this grand RTS. I was playing with a few chums just out of having no real life for anything else and we started playing the game. Once a few hours of preliminary base building, skirmished, alliance, and back-stabbing had taken place the game put itself into overdrive. I had one of my opponent try and smash my naval forces but I was able to support the battle with some aircraft that made quick work of their boats. It then came that my opponents (by the by their are 4 players, but one had internet trouble and was dropped)allied friend who I had made sure to piss off with a few tactile attacks sent their naval force. This is where I decided to send my plan which over starting of the game I had been planning was a massive attack islands that sent flying bombers onto their production islands. This made Opponent 2 withdraw naval forces and I could push what was left of mine into their waters.
The battle raged on like this for awhile. With me holding off attacks from my 2 opponent's and while able to make small tactile nuke drops. It was moving in my favour but very slowly. This is when a massive combined submarine force attacked my naval armada which had been making trouble on their one of my opponents main island and destroyed all but a 2 carries and a few battleship. Luckily I was able to make some sub killers and hold them off, which also allowed me to have a break and notice my other opponent was working on their own naval force again which I quickly sent a basket of nukes. The game was looking even more to be in my grasps with my opponents having 2 main islands each and a small resource Island. My naval armada was being sent to destroy their last mini islands anjavascript:void(0)
Save Nowd plans for a all out attack on their main force was imminent. The problem was, my territory was largly undefended and my strategic advantage had been mostly luck so I could easily lose my advantage at anytime. That when the computer crashed and we lost.
This is what I mean by epic scale, the war here has been debated over since with who would win and who not but all in all all agree the game great. I hope my long winded battle recap has not made you sleep but inspired to buy, this or any other epic game out there. Just make sure you have time to spend on playing a battle because its easy for a life to disappear.
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