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Do not, repeat do not buy this game !

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 53 / 78
Date: November 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved the gaming experience of the open skirmishes of EEII Exp. and the graphic quality was good. These guys at MadDoc completely ruined this game. The graphics are poor at best even at the more extreme settings. Performance is atrocious. The user interface has changed for the worse. Game play suffers greatly compared to EEII. Apparently they were not able to use the original game engine and it certainly shows. I completely wasted $50 on this worthless gaming experience. I've been playing strategy games since the original Command and Conquer and beleive me you WILL be dissappointed if you buy this mess. Since we can't return opened games, please show these misrepresenting jerks by not purchasing this rip-off.

Save Your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 39 / 45
Date: November 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst game I have ever owned. It seems like a cross of the video play of Zeus or Poseiden and Rise of Nations. Please save your money and spend it on a good game like pong.

Dumbed Down

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have played each empire earth version always impressed at the strides made with each successive version...until this one. It looks like EE III was redesigned to better cater to players interested in a first person shooter (FPS) game instead of an RTS. The variations of the different cultures and their technology evolutions were completely thrown out in favor of 3 basic cultures: western, eastern and middle eastern. The more advanced technological stages were diluted and "cartoonified" into something resembling a weak PS3 game. The bottom line is that it looks like if you are interested in a rich gaming experience with plenty of variation and some realism thrown in, go this Age of Empires III. It is everything this game isn't.

What Happened Here?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Please tell me I am dreaming! Seriously!

If you satisfy all of these conditions then, this is your game

- You like extremely shallow games
- You want to have a reason to reduce you computer into metal shards
- You want to look at cheesy animation and graphics
- You like spending $[...] for a pile of junk
- You want to use it as a prank birthday gift
- Plenty more, but I don't feel like writing for the sake of this game

Get the point? This game is HORRIBLE! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!
This is the worst game I have ever played (besides Bionicle), the only reason I am even bothering to write this review is so all of you buyers can be warned of this game (technically, this doesn't even qualify as a game, games are supposed to be fun!).

I like the Empire Earth series, and the previous games were really fun, but this on the other hand, is quite the opposite.

Graphics 4/10
Gameplay 1/10
Story 0/10 (there is none)
Sound 2/10
Presentation 1/10
Length 1/10 (After two hours, this will be off your hard drive)
Stability: Major Problems, Major Lag (I have a very good graphics card)

Score 2/10 - Downright Horrible

A great destruction to a great series...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If all good things must come to an end, then this game is exactly that end.

What happened here MadDoc? What in god's name did you think you were going to accomplish by doing what you did here? You purposely dumbed down the game to try to appeal to a greater audience, to gain a larger market share, and, you failed. You turned your back away from the customers - because you got greedy.

In particular, MadDoc failed to realize that:
1) The market for gamers who play the EE series are history fans and RTS fans of whom have intelligence and enjoy depth and strategy. EEIII targets the market of the likes for Warcraft III, and guess what, remaking the same game is never a good idea, not to mention changing the game by changing the original target audience of intellectuals to a target audience to that of morons is just going to burn you. I'm almost certain that a number of people at MadDoc tried telling the head business jerks that this game idea was a dead end, and I bet the business people didn't even care to listen. These people developed the business-man-syndrome, this nose-in-the-air attitude that they know everything, rightfully certain of their inner thoughts as being truth among men, arrogantly and egotistically pushing themselves to unforeseeable financial failure, all on account of greed by simply not knowing their audience nor market.
2) The reduction in the number of epochs, the number of unique civilizations, the number of collectible minerals, the number of units, etc. is their major fault here. MadDoc dumbed down gameplay simply by removing gameplay, and their lead game designer should be fired as a result of this atrocity. We players weren't asking for unique assets for each unique civilization, but rather just more storyline behind them. We players weren't asking for a simplification of the epochs, but rather just more precision in historical accurate gameplay. We players weren't asking for a dumbed down version of EEII so our grandparents or nephew could play - we were asking for a game WE wanted to play; one with strategy, cunning, and most importantly GAMEPLAY! MadDoc removed the most vital part, can you not see the error?
3) MadDoc decided to add the world map, almost like a Risk-like layer ontop. This *is* what players asked for, but they did *not* ask for the above two. MadDoc, very literally, could have not even of touched EEII, but rather just add this world map part, and released it and it would have been 10x better than what it is now.

If you enjoy mindless Warcraft III like games, EEIII fits that bill nicely. I would save your money for something else. This game and its series is now under control of non-intelligent weasels who care nothing about players, but have let their greed consume themselves.

You've got to be kidding

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 20 / 35
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

1) Graphics are terrible - far worse then EE2 but much higher systems requirements

2) Voices are annoying at best, grating at worst

3) Unit and building styling looks like a bad comic strip

4) The gameplay is just plain boring

What happened? EE1 and EE2 were so much fun, this looks like it was developed in 1998.

Medieval Total War III

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 16 / 23
Date: November 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

-The most disappointing for this empire earth series it's that it doesn't have any story-lines for the three factions.
-If you like Warcraft III, you're probably like the graphic in this game.
-The gameplay for single player campaign is more like Medieval Total War II with RTS features (like gathering resources and building units).
-Be aware of the system requirement, even with my thin gaming laptop, i couldn't play the game smoothly and had to turn all features to the lowest. below is my system:
2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB of Memory RAM
ATI x1400 of 256MB

Great delivery, and condition.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I received the product in good time and good condition. Had no problems whatsoever. The game wasn't like Empire Earth 2, but like all other commercial RTS games. The way they changed the game wasn't for the better, but closer to the standardized money making version of other games. This is my own personal preference of course, but I would have liked more of Empire Earth 2 in the game supported by bright new ideas in a third series of the title.

I am going to wait.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 47
Date: November 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The reviews of this product showed an undemanding version that takes away from play instead of improving it. What a shame. I will reevaluate this game at a later date.

Extremely Disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: December 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am extremely disappointed with Empire Earth 3.
Having played both EE 1 and 2, I had high expectations for EE3, especially considering how vastly better EE2 was than EE1. However, I have been let down for these two main reasons:
1. EE is now too simple. EE1 and EE2 had such complexity and depth of strategy and customization; the developers didn't treat the gamers as idiots. You had to actually think to play the game. Now, the techs are reduced, the epochs are not only short in advancing from one to another, but lack complexity in each epoch to make someone want to stay in a particular epoch for too long.
2. EE3 has performance issues. Granted, my computer isn't a dedicated gaming rig, but with a 8800GT 512mb video card, a Q6600 quad core and 3 gigs of ram, one would expect the graphics to run at least somewhat smoothly. However, at the lowest graphical settings and with nothing else running in the background, EE3 still manages to run slow during skirmishes, and unplayable in Earth-view during the world domination game. This is with the 1.1 patch.

On the upside, some of the graphics are admittedly nicely done, and overall the game is still playable for short periods of time, if you ignore the performance issues. This is definitely a game you'd want to borrow from a friend to try first before buying, EVEN if you've played the first 2.

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