Empire Earth Review 

Since EA has dug up and pissed all over the corpse of Command and Conquer at E3, it would be great if you could review Command and Conquer: Generals and its expansion pack Zero Hour in one of your next videos and remind us of the glory days of Command and Conquer.

I have a game suggestion for you: Achron (NOT "Archon"), an RTS that heavily focuses on time travel. Not just time travel in the backstory and lore and such, but in *actual matches.* Oh, did I mention that this is a *multiplayer* game that you can (and should) play against *real humans*? I'd recommend checking out the TV Tropes page for it for a proper explanation of how the whole thing works, since it explains it much better than I can. You can do things like make a scout unit, order it to go into the enemy base, skip ahead one minute into the future to see what it finds, then go back to the present and cancel the order, or go back in time and build units to prepare (postpare?) for an attack that's currently happening in the present. IIRC, stuff four minutes before the present becomes finalized/set in stone, and you can only skip/jump up to one minute after the present. Here, have some videos (the first one comes from a demo of the game, and the pathfinding issue mentioned in the second one has been fixed): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CTVsXbWQXp0.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6iVFUav7lnU.html Okay, this will be the third and last time that I repost this, since I don't want to be one of those guys that constantly spams the same request at you. Hopefully you'll see this, since this is the second to top reply to your post.

My humle suggestions - Arx Fatalis, Boiling Point and Metal Fatigue. It might be my opinion but... more oldies, less indies. Just sayin... There is little to no active channels doing reviews of old games, and most of them fairly obscure. Indie? Plenty+let's plays.

the dawn of war music at the end tho

Hey could you do a review for a games called "Armies of Exigo"?

your parents sound like fun people! haha

What a great story lad! :)

My parents heard ,,for the emprah" and asked me if its star wars.

Der Transgender-Prophet Mohammed The fallen shall be forever remembered as the senate's finest.

Same here. The sound of the cavemen (and some other units that got the same SFX) when they die. It sounds like someone dry heaving, you know the sound. Good memories, it seems like such a long time ago now.

Best guardians ever

Ahhh a potato truck , this is an ideal hiding place. You will drive Piotr.

Is a nostalgia trip for sure. That and a lot of other cheesy lines of dialogue. "Hahaha, now for some sport." *scream!*

there, a potato truck!

I just read in the original voices.

*Hand on your shoulder* We forgive you. ☺

Haha we all gotta start somewhere man!

You're forgiven. Played the hell out of both game and expansion when I was 8 and loved both. I thank you for my childhood

Ah, the days when game studios just grabbed whoever happened to have some free time in their schedule to voice their most important characters.

"Important"

Hail swalt or some shit😆

Iyo ya chiii

YAAAA CAAAAHHHH

Aia chaaa

Yaka su taaa

It does exist in a copper age but it's only for millitary and keep as secret to everything

@@lrugelgumiho4751 steel in the copper age is best named today as Crude steel, but its still better than copper while bronze has yet to take off, iron is where things really change but even then steel would still be used through out hte middle ages and China will think of clever uses for steel, something involving a solid tube with black powder that explodes, when you are desperate well lets say fire crackers in your pocket will still fucking suck

Empire earth 2020

Uh, no. Steel is from four thousand years ago at the earliest, while the copper age began to end about six thousand. By 2,000 B.C. it was firmly the bronze age. @@Tucher97

@@Tucher97how would you discover steel before iron?

Rofl! I imagine the managers thought "This dev team is amazing! Zero bugs! We gotta give em a payraise!"

That does indeed answer a lot about EE3.

yeah it answers why one of the civs doesnt even work (like the AI cant play it i mean)

I can't understate how much pain this brings me as a person whose never seen EE3

I cannot laugh too hard, it's 3am here

I didn't want to nuke the entire map but I was so sick of losing units on frontal assaults that didn't produce anything.

@@xotl2780 yeah lmao, it's always 2-3 hours of playing "normally" until you just break

Nothing like building a massive doomstack of robots only to see 10 nuclear bombers appear from behind the fog of war, flying in a straight line from the enemy airfield to the center of your formation.

In hindsight I feel slightly better about using infinite ressource cheat... which were used to automaticcaly nuke anywhere, anytime. Even then it was a struggle.

Thanks for the story! It totally triggered a 15+ year old memory! I had a similar situation in the 'sequel', Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. Me and a classmate were playing 1v1, and I was dominating him a fair bit. However, we played on the largest map, and he was China, who had mobile bases. We ended up having an hours long game of cat and mouse, where he just kept on relocating some of his bases to another corner to stay alive and rebuild in secret. We were sitting on computers in adjoining rooms, with a few meters in between, and a door. It ended up with us half playing, and half having a struggle between him body blocking his screen while I was trying to sneak a peek by opening the door and peeking out as sneakily as possible. Much of his time was spent forcing the door shut, so I couldn't screen cheat and finally finish off the game. Man, good times

@@TheKaoticSanity I knew 2 crazy comp sci guys in college who would have a "creative" take on Starcraft when they were drunk and playing in the same room. You were allowed to physically do anything to the other player, short of bodily harm, computer harm, or shutting off power. This resulting in dividing attention between playing, throwing stuff at the other player, grabbing their mouse hand, blocking their view of the monitor, and in some heated case a wrestling match.

Similar thing happened to me in supcom 2 on the big desert map (3 player ffa). Lost my base 40 minutes in, proceeded to turn into a guerrilla fighting force that wound up building silo's in the canyons to overwhelm the one players nuke defenses with about 200 nukes. I'd build an experimental factory, create a unit and load it into a transport as the enemy nukes/ artillery/ airforce wiped out the base behind it. I survived by building all over, all at once, and also nowhere. In the end I knocked off the second player (he killed the third after my nukes decimated their base) by dropping 10 experimentals on his commander. Game took 2 hours and I was shaking when it finished.

Gentlemen, I tip my hat to you. You are legends among gamers.

When I was ten I created my entire own campaign with playable missions, heros, goals, factions etc. the editior was outstandigly awesome!

I didn't know what the hell a 'Campaign Editor' meant when I looked it up in the dictionary, I was also a kid and didn't understand English. But Oh man did I built me myself the most prettiest cities and develop my own storylines, when I finally figured out how to move the camera I was considering going into the game industry lol. Good times.

@@marnixmaximus3053 lucky me, I guess, playing literally every single game in my native language haha

Duuuuuuuude, I loved the builder, especially since you could mix eras in it, meaning I could make crazy combos of Greek and Roman Buildings.

remember me at 7 playinge AOE 1 never realised there is an upgrade to the 2. time, when i realised that I learned fast 😁

VINI VIDI VICI

Yea...ka....toba

aoe rogan

Oblivion: *KHAKK, BLEURL, HWWMH*

WHO-AAAAAAA-RE

Its yakatoba ool

I agree, that sound effect, especially the first, is burned into my brain.

SINK THE LANDLUBBERS

Agreed, it's really good.

Kind of reminds me of a feeling of dystopia, kinda like the Factorio game songs

Enmity is awesome!!! It is very much about the silent but persistent passage of time that makes civilizations fall and rise! When I heard it accompanying snow plowers on a documentary, I didn't just think of Empire Earth. I also thought about the silent but persistent passage of time that makes civilizations fall and rise! Then said to myself "isn't this a bit over-dramatic for snow plowers? Now hear this Mandolore, you may have uttered irresponsible insult to Enmity in this quite good review of Empire Earth but you too are a subject to the silent but persistent passage of time that makes civilizations fall and rise!

@suck urmum Thats what i thought as well! sounds like the obelisk music from heroes 3.

Sounds like the factorio soundtrack to me

I hated online because of people like you lol

5 airports with fighter/bombers? xD

I used to play the island map with my roommate, we would turtle and chill with ships while we gradually out-teched the AI. Good times.

Rush of b-29 bombarders

Just spam Helis honestly. Planes are too ineffective because they have to refuel all the time and if you leave just one villager alive on that island you are fucked.

Decisive battles, was it? That shit was goood.

@@columbibae1178 Time Commanders also used the Total War Engine to let people refight historic battles

I saw one about Mexico which used AOE 3.

Creative Assembly used to license out there engine to history docs, including one on the BBC at the time.

Now I want to see a show on history channel use TABS to recreate a historical battle.

2023 coming to an end, and still no Russian mech president (that we know of)

@@c_xela Sadly!

And Settlers, Don't forget Settlers

It's a damn shame the genre is barely even alive these days.

Why does no one remember rise of nations :\

Don't forget the Cossacks games, the good ones.

Now everyone wants to be Starcraft.

The flamethrowers dude. 'Agh, its in my eye!"

BLUUEEGHHH

i think its more of a EUGHHH rather than an AUGGHHHHH

THE FUCKING GERMAN MARINES

This is the first game i ever bought... I remember saving my school money for sometime just to buy this.

Putin: hold my vodka

(Talking to you Starcraft)

No comrade its pronounced: Slavic Magic

Yep. Play Empires Dawn of Modern for balance but a bit limited. 0 A.D. might be the best RTS overall.

No limt what you can do with enough manpower and vodka.

It all makes sense now. That campaign was broken.

May also want to check out rise of nations. Doesn't go to giant robots, but you start from cavemen, and end in about the late cold war/modern day with Tanks, jets, subs, missile shields, ICBMs. You get to pick from a couple dozen different nations and many strategies.

One of the few games where tech differences are soo large that it makes combat impossible between distant periods. In Empire Earth 2 and 3 even the basic swordsmen are able of destroying modern vehicles. In this one, its practically impossible.

Mr Vex I distinctly remember playing against an AI on an easier difficulty and using some kind of big game hunter or something and hunting cavemen.

I simply make it happen with the editor Those glorious dying sounds of cavemen...

Modern gaming is all about pursuing a fad, comfort zone and/or microtransaction fest.

I miss old Blizzard manuals, where maybe 30% was for the gameplay and the rest was worldbuilding. Kinda sad that we reduced what was a fun read about game mechanics and story to unskipable tutorials and boring exposition dumps and called it "progress".

@@abadenoughdude300 Old Blizzard has died for quite a while unfortunately. Wonder if Microsoft will be able to refurbish it.

Now I want a game with a main theme by Death Grips.

Lol same thing

UP

Throoones and patriots... thrroooones and patriots... THROOONES and patriots... thrones-thrones-thrones-thrones... repeat infinitely.

Trump is basically a robot.

In the dark future of 2018, there are only Priest Towers.

lol, imagine a donald trump campaign in the Extended Edition

Mike Sully I could imagine one of the missions being to build a wall around your southern border before the citizens from the south swarm through

Your job being, presumably, to dink around RU-vid looking for possible criticism of the president?

sharkyghf good? Meh, wierd and extremely quotable? Indeed.

Like most people, I always knew I was special. But not like the others.

'it helps no one to be regressive"

I was going to come down and comment on exactly this once I heard the Shakashuri Blowdown music at the start.

TASTE THE PAIN!

I get this a lot when I played lol

*Death to the heathens

I love this game do much

Woah that's new I never knew about that

Male Civilians lmao

The missions were amazing, tons of historic shit to read. Too bad I was 13 and sucked at all of them

Jajajajaja, me too!

Yeah scary future

Novaya Russia forever!

"Ah, a potato truck."

Underrated comment

Sometimes I chew bubble gum too, but I'm usuall all out.

can we get a review on this person's life? haven't fought train goblins since WoW

What in the Sam Hill's a train goblin?

love your ss13 vids

Then the good news for you: i hear that some people are working for Empire Earth : reborn , like a Remaster of EE.

@@phannghiaorigami5455 If they fix the - pathfinding - sound effects - "filler-ages" & - game breaking techs they might be up to something really big! Like BIG!!!

@@michaelwiesinger2643 filler ages are important, lets not forget EE goes between all historic ages (somewhat) if you cut some of them it will be shame. They need to add stuff on them maybe but i don't think filler ages is a problem. The pathfinding and cheating AI are the worst problems in EE

Send them the requests 🐁 They will update the graphics at ease 🐁

Gradius It’s unbelievably memorable as a “feeling” kinda memorable, but not a “remembering” kinda memorable. Like, I instantly started thinking about the next notes and could hum along with it (cause I’m a fag), but fuck if I could remember it or how it sounds outside of listening to it.

I was just putting another comment about messing around with the size and power of the explosion of the nuclear bombs. 9 year old me spent HOURS of my Saturday trying new things out when I could.

Really ? Shit I need to try that !

that game was my childhood

I think a lot of people played it nonstop for a few months then forgot about it over time. There was a lot of hype for it before release.

I keep hearing about it, so it must not be that obscure. Unlike Universe at War, that is...

Literally everyone played Empire Earth.

It still kept a pretty decent population for a few years after launch, probably til 2005 or 06.

Oh I get it lol

For real tho 😂

You never felt the wrath of an army of NPC priests heading towards your army then.. there wasnt a scarier sight in EE.

*tip*

666 likes don't jinx this people

I couldn't even pass those Greek Campaign..

I ended up using a tactic of massed bombers and airlifting small disposable groups of tanks to destroy their air defenses. You legit just need to blitzkreig to win that mission

I try three year to pass this mission

Mission starts, pause, que up a ton of units. You've got a lot of buildings and thousands of every resource, so don't skimp out. As soon as you've got a few tanks, a siege gun or two, and a couple anti-air , go kill green. As in they should be dead in the first 5ish minutes of the game; you don't need a lot, they're two eras behind you. Once they're dead, add the units that were building in the meantime to your army and hug the bottom of the map all the way west, up to orange's farms, then up towards their capital. You just walked around all their cities and they die as soon as it goes down, should be done around 10-15 minutes in. Then voila, half your enemies gone, you've got cybers, plenty of space, and can leisurely build up to kill purple. Yellow rarely, if ever, attacks, purple's easy to handle alone, and Britain's attacks are rare enough to not be a big deal. Victory. Oh, and get those two port towns for the victory points and population, but don't worry about defending them. They're only good for fighting that harbor-clogging fleet, and there's no reason to do so at all.

What I did in this mission was to move instantly after the start with all units west. There in the corner i destroyed the small base and used the infinite stone to build some solid defence. From that point, you can slowly advance.

Foreshadowing, perhaps?

I knew it !

For the Emperor Brother...

Never forget Soulstorm though

Now that's some good RTS music.

*ALL GLORY IS FLEETING*

*veni

@@davidlee9870 Phonetically they don't rhyme either: "weynee, weedee, weekee" (And because "it's Italian" would be a total non sequitur...)

@@davidlee9870 No, it's not _consequential_ , neither is this entire thread nor this video nor this video game. So what? I chose to write about it.

Honestly I hope that clip gets remixed.

James Atkins aw man i remember that series it was weird af it was it horror neil gaiman?

I swear there was a Renaissance art documentary or something like that on the Smithsonian that used music from Skyrim. It was really trippy

That emotional piano tune from Mass Effect 3 was used on a ton of random crap, like investigative journalism pieces.

Oh I remember the Mass Effect 3 theme being in a lot of "sad" journalistic reports. In Germany, we have this Reality TV channel where at around noon, they play lots of these "women's" reality shows about weddings and women going shopping and they really like to use the Sims 3 soundtrack for that. There was also a nature documentary where lion hunted and killed some animal and they played the theme from Star Wars where they fight Darth Maul.

South Park has scenes that uses music from Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

do you wanto play online, we have a discord.

Just as I was loading the ole over/under up.

Gunnar Ali his blessings come in mand shapes, this one being perhaps the greatest

I'm sure you're not. These things occur because studios purchased batches of pre-recorded music in order to fill in certain areas. This could have been due to time constraints, cost savings or whatever. Lots of triggers that you hear in HoMM3 (like the new month one) can be heard in South Park from at least the 6th season to the 9th. I'm always blaming myself for not marking these down with timestamps and all. Swear on my cross Heroes 4 has common musical elements with Stronghold: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m5vEXnWQOH0.html - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v6otXDTS0KU.html The singer's timbre is really close. It was all mixing and editing. I'm pretty sure they bought it in batches and mixed and re-recorded as needed.

I actually jumped in my seat when I heard that, since he almost never yells.

He did in every video so far where we could have seen his hands.

BOT commander and why is that?

he's black

This will remain the mystery, until the day Lord Mandy or someone else, who knows the actual reason, enlightens us with that piece of knowledge.

He's a skeleton who does not want to reveal his true identity

X20

TASTE THE PAIN

Frittata!

YES! And also, those infinite resources lets you concentrate more on attacking than microing your economy all the time. Just a little bit balancing and expanding at times and thats it.

Personally I would have enjoyed it better if the resources were more limited but you could put more citizens on them, possibly have resources respawn over time even if in a random location. It is nice to focus more on the combat and not have to look at your base to micro manage your citizens but that's one thing that annoyed me along with the units grouping/pathing...

Rise of nations scout units can do this too!

It's something i've seen in very few rts, the only one that i remember right now that does this is Warlords Battlecry 3 which uses exploration as a stance for the unit.

Aoe demands more micro

lel

GRIGOR! YOUR LIFE IS IN DANGER!

I cried when I readed those comments ;-; good old days :(

Me and my friends use to laugh so hard at that line when we were kids, I don't even know why.

where are those simpler days...

Halt! A dangerous criminal is on the loose!

Yeah, the editor is great and somewhat simple on the surface, yet it has some depth for those interested. The best type of editor....

I loved the scenario editor. I made the Industrial and WW 1 European Roleplay scens.

Yep. Indy Roleplay took me a year to develop. WWI not so much, but made an intro animation of the French going over the top and charging the German trench.

true siblings

Wille A U smacked her properly?

We have work to do.

No kidding. What a dreadful piece of shit.

METAL BAWKSES

SQUAD BROKEN

ADiscerningDunmer IT CANNOT BE DONE! WE MUST RETREAT!

THOUGHT THEY'D BROKE OUR BACKS?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - Blood Raven Sergeant in the Intro (made famous by Sly Marbo in the Text to Speech series)

I'm really really late to this, but yes, that's definitely from the Shakashuri Blowdown. I'd recognize it anywhere

@@gray15780 ya recognized it first note

Holy fuck I knew I heard it somewhere b4! Good catch!

Yah

You couldn't seek your way out of a cardboard bag.

I never played it and no one ever explains what's wrong with it, only that it should not have existed. So... what's up with that?

Mauricius Rex I second this.

I can give you a somewhat long explanation. First off all the campaigns were removed in favor or a conquer the world map. there were only 5 ages instead of 15 for EE 1. You had: Ancient (think iron age from age of empires), medieval, nepolianic or industrial, modern, and the future. There were only 3 civilizations to choose from, but at least they were vastly different. West had big strong costly units, east swarmed you with heaps of weak units and east was really mobile.. I think. I can't really remember. The units also had awful voicelines. They were awful jokes that you would hear over and over until you wanted to bash your head in. For example the attack heli's in the modern age would say "Take a picture why don't ya? It will last longer!" in a really condescending voice that sounded like they were saying it to you. And then lastly it just got bonkers by the end era's. The east got these biological engineered abominations that looked like they came from half life 2. They could spawn zombies. The game was advertised as historically accurate >:I and lastly to top it all off the soundtrack sucked. nothing memorable at all. The main theme was the same part of a tune nearly the whole way through.

Cheese sandvich Dude, I grew up with the First Empire Earth, I played the sequel and then I played 3, so I do know this game

CPU Purple Heart/Neptune He's answering Mauricius Rex

Your childhood reminds me of mine. Very similar regarding this game. So nostalgic...

@@duchessskye4072 the sound of futuristic soldiers dieing, civilians dieing or explosions still haunt me haha

Did you spend way too much time making your base look "nice" instead of trying to win the compstomp games aswell? :D

@@Elenrai lmao yeah, putting the same buildings beside eachother was a no-go.

@@Zedpade lol we should play sometime!

Yakisoba! Instant ramen..

DEATH to the heathens

Friedrich Barbarossa in AoE2

Castle strike