In your quest to crush the opposition, you build settlements, collect five resource types, recruit troops (land, sea, air) and, well, fight battles. The perspective is fixed in an isometric view, camera management is not required.
Despite the graphical leap, the game’s look and feel are very familiar - AoE fans will feel perfectly at home. Similarities are thus hardly surprising in fact, his new game can be considered a 3D version of its predecessor. Empire Earth fills this gap and lets you wage war with everything from prehistoric stone thrower up to futuristic battle-mechs.Įmpire Earth’s mastermind Rick Goodman was lead designer of the original Age of Empires. Not an American user? Description Age of Empires is set in the past, Command & Conquer explores the future, but up to now there was no real-time strategy game that covered the whole breadth of human history.