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Different Name Same Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 25
Date: November 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Think before you buy folks, think about you've bought this type of game before, they added some new graphics, a touch up on the interface and basically just cut a portion out of the origional Empires and now are charging you another full fee for the same type of gameplay.

If you have a handful of RTS games already, especially the origional Empires or RON or Age of Mythology or Warlords III, etc. etc. Unless you are just a fan(atic) for RTS games, you're just going to be spending extra money for nothing much extra.

But, for RTS fan(atics) who just can have enough RTS games on their hard-drive, then of course nothing I say is going to stop you. But, hopefully those with slim pocket books will think twice and wait for this one to hit the bargain bin in about six months.

This Game has Technical Problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: August 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Forget this game if you have an NVIDIA GeForce 4000 or higher video card. You will get a C++ Runtime Error every time the game loads. Activision is aware of the problem but has no solution. After two days trying unsucessfully to load the game, I threw it out!

really bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 30
Date: June 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

worst game ever, it ignore me every time I try to run thre game, it just appear the loading screen and then it dissipear, i try it again but it wont work. u like WWII games go buy medal of honor allied assault, it has better graphics, fun, way better then this stragity game. but if u like stragity game go buy starcraft best stragity game i ever play.

Okay, but needs a lot of improvement

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: January 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is an okay game. There are some ideas that make it interesting and enjoyable to play, but otherwise the game is not worth buying. There are different countries represented at different epochs, and you have to chose which country you want to be as you progress through the game. I think this is an innovative idea and makes gameplay interesting. The three campaigns let you use some different strategies besides collect resources, build an army, attack, rinse, repeat. Also, each team has strengths and weaknesses, although other games have touched on this, E:DOTMW brings it to a new level. Each team has completely different units and technologies. This makes the game very interesting, and playing each team is a unique experience.
Despite the positives, there are many more negatives to this game. Although many people tout the graphics as innovative, the graphics in AOE II were pretty much the same. The AI is pretty stupid. For example, workers will sometimes get trapped between some buildings and the "edge" of the map or a group of trees. Mistakes like these were almost non-existant in AOE II. The campaigns need some serious story-line revamping. They start out interesting, but it seems like the story writers ran out of ideas and so just ended the stories without really resolving them in the same exciting fashion they started them in. The "random map" feature and multi-player ability is just like every other RTS on the market. Build up an army as quickly as possible and fight with it, rinse and repeat. The game is also lacking on units and entire countries. For example, Japan is not included in the World War I or World War II eras. Navies have no option to build destroyers to battle submarines. The USA does not have Iowa battleships during the World War II era. I'm sure that these "oversights" were done on purpose to make room for an expansion, but until there is an expansion, it is a serious lacking in the game. This is an addictive game, but has little substance. My recommendation is to go out and buy AOE II used and play that.

Another Age of Empires 2 imitation

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: April 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game thinking it would be innovative and extremely cool, very different of Empire Earth, the game before this. But I got disppointed. This game is just another copy of Age of Empires 2, it doesn't innovate anything.
You can chose to play from the Middle-Ages to WWII, but none of the ages are cool. This is becouse of the stupid things in this game, for example a man taking shot of a tank and do not dying, or being hit by a cannon and the same thing happens. The game characters are always being hit and can't even notice that, they take shot and keep walking. Archers, cannons and anything that can shoot always hits their targets. Soldiers are bigger than airplanes.
These factors appear also in many other rts before this one, but repeating the same mistakes is very stupid.

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 19
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Horrible game, the graphics are weak, the game play is slow and the game does not measure up. Do not waste your money. I bought the game off the reviews I read here and I am so dissapointed. I am a heavy gamer and I by 2-3 games a month. By C & C generals & the Zero hour expansion. You will be much happier. Thumbs down for this game I should have bought the Lord of the rings game :(
Cheep game for sale!

Multiplayer Stinks

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game is like a copy of Empire Earth but better. The graphics are horable and when i tried to play multiplayer with my brother over LAN you need to have 2 different versions of the game. The Single-Player games are great though.

Seen it before

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: August 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty fun game if you like Age of Empires, Stronghold, Lords of the Realm, etc. While I had fun with the game, it really offered very little new to the genre. The graphics were ok, but certainly not cutting edge. The AI offered a decent challenge. This game is ok to play if you have already gone through all the top games like Warcraft, Total War, or any of the games I have mentioned above, and you need a strategy fix.

For those about to get real, we salute you . . .

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: December 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is okay, but it's basically an improved Empire Earth. What doesn't get improved is the gameplay or the graphics. Empire Earth seemed to require a lot of wall building to finagle a win and this game is no different. Personally, Age of Empires and Rise of Nations have much better graphics. Don't get me wrong, the game's not bad, but it's not Command&Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. Now THAT's a great game.

an ok game, but needs major improvments!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: December 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Empires is an ok game, but it has its drawbacks. one, the only surface warship for WW1and 2 is a battleship. no destroyers or such. very few nations, few ages, not at all like Empire Earth 2! the game is freguently choppy, and isnt musch fun if every thing is jerky. i reccommend a lot of RAM for this game. another thing: u cant make more that 3 airports which can hold 15 aircraft! that is sooooooooooooooo agrivating! aaarrggghhh!! the campaignes are ok too, but are kind of confusing. overall, its kind of fun, but could be alot better! ONLY BUY THIS GAME IF U WANT OK EXPERIENCE OR HAV VERY FAST COMPUTER! IF NOT, BUY SOMETHING ELSE!

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