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Introduction
Empire Earth is a real-time strategy game by Sierra On-Line and Stainless Steel Studios. The game spans 14 epochs (500,000 years) starting from the Prehistoric Age and ending with the Nano Age.
The game contains many unique and innovative features, including a well implemented "morale" system which directly affects individual units statistics.It also incorporates a "hero" system, which has a special unit with extraordinary combat ability which can either heal nearby units or demoralise enemy units. It also incorporates the system of "Fortresses", which allow you to store units which do not count to the population units for release when needed.
Empire Earth has an expansion called "Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest". AOC features a 15th epoch, the Space Age (which focuses on the colonization of space, and features space terrain and space combat)
It also has several special powers for building civilizations, including Priest Towers (convert enemy units into your own) and Just-In-Time Manufacturing (create units immediately for a higher resource cost).
The sequel, Empire Earth 2, was featured recently at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Being developed by Mad Doc Software (the company who made the Art of Conquest expansion), because Stainless Steel is currently busy with a different project, Empire Earth 2 will feature completely revamped graphics, weather effects, as well as interactive and much more expanded maps to wage war in. It will also introduce a new strategy system in which players can map out the actions of a unit or group of units, such as giving them a route to take or positions to attack from, unlike most Real Time Strategy games in which units must be led on their route by the player directly if the player wants them to take that route. Empire Earth 2 is slated for release in August 2004.
Empire Earth campaigns
Except of Russia campaign, all of battles in the campaigns actuallt took place through out the history.
Greek campaign
The first four of eight scenarios focuses on the rise of ancient Greek civilization. The story tells the Helladic people, Trojan wars, to the rise of Athens and the Peloponnesian wars.
The second part tells the life of Alexander the Great, which the campaign ends in Persia.
England campaign
The England campaign is about the struggle between England and France of superiency of Europe.
The first three scenario is about William I of England, his voctory against the rebellion from the barons with the help of Henry I of France in 1047 and the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
The next three scenarios' setting is the Hundred Years' War between England and France, of which Edward, the Black Prince and his raids in France is featured in the second scenarios. The sixth scenario is Henry V of England's story. The first part is the internal unrest of Lollards. Henry V starts the scenario with fleeing from London to Oxford, of which his units are free from conversion by the existence of Oxford University. After that Lorrard After a cutecene with Archbishop of Canterbury, the second part consludes with Battle of Agincourt.
The next two scenario is led by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who meets Napolean Bonaparte in battle. The first scenario deals with Battle of Roliça and the resulting Convention of Cintra, Battle of Talavera and driving Napolean into Spain. The last scenario for England campaign is the Battle of Waterloo.
German campaign
The first four scanario sets place in World War I, of which the player follows the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. The players follows him in his early day of flight, the flying circus, Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme (1916) before he was shot down.
The scond part, consists of three scenarios, deals with the Third Reich. The first scenario introduces the lightning war, of which German have to capture Poland, Paris and Denmark. The next scenario is blockade of England, which features German warship Bismarck, and the final scenario is Operation Sealion, which was never carried out in reality.
Russian campaign
This campaign frstures the sci-fi style Novaya Russia with leader Grigor and his successor Grigor II (a robot). The player is set out to build the Novaya Russia empire and in scenario five, the viewpoint changes to Major Molotov, of which he builds a time machine and goes back to early 21st-century and destroys Novaya russia before it is grown to full power.