To judge whether the content of the game is rich enough from "a whole round in the game", then the game of The Earth Empire must be listed.
Earth Empire is also a real-time strategy game, which is somewhat similar to the civilization development of the Empire Era, and is somewhat similar to the ancient future war theme of Red Alert and StarCraft, but it is completely different from the "core gameplay" of these games.
Today, we will talk about this very distinctive real-time strategy game, Earth Empire.
First, not like the Earth Empire, more like the Earth "Era"
Stainless Steel Studios released the first earth empire in 2001. Unfortunately, this series came to an abrupt end after the third part in 2007, basically drawing a "stop". It may be that RTS games are not optimistic, it may be that other RTS games are mature and stable and have divided the RTS market, or it may be that the sales volume is not enough...
All in all, the classics are not perpetuated.
The modern technological stage of Earth Empire 3 has the "inner taste" of Red Alert 3
To me, the Earth Empire is more like a "history book" that condenses human civilization together.
As far as the stage of civilization is concerned, there are more than 10 stages of human civilization development than in the era of empires. From the Stone Age, when only wood and stone could be used to build grass sheds, to the Dark Ages, the first dark ages of the Game of Empires, 900 AD, to the Atomic Age of the First and Second World Wars, and finally to the Nano Age, where nanotechnology could be used...
The Earth Empire condenses tens of thousands of years of human civilization into a "one-turn" game, which makes me who has never seen the world as a child very on top, mining resources, developing technology, developing civilization, infinite circulation, straight to the nano era. In the Earth Empire, each new stage is like a new game, and there will be a new game experience.
The architecture of the first generation of the nano era is very trendy
Second, it is a real-time strategy game, but it is not "real-time"
Although Earth Empire is a real-time strategy game similar to Red Alert, Age of Empires, StarCraft, and Warcraft, Earth Empire is so "real-time" compared to these works. Calling Earth Empire an RTS game, I prefer to call it a business simulation game.
Computers are difficult, development cycles & confrontation cycles are long, at least when I play, I prefer to build cars behind closed doors, because it is not an easy task to set fire to drop the computer in seconds, and it is more fun to develop the economic development territory by yourself.
The "stitching" of Sim City and the Age of Empires
Fast-paced RTS games such as Red Alert and Warcraft can surround the enemy in half an hour or annihilate them in one fell swoop. But in the Earth Empire, time doesn't seem so "precious." As a child, a disk of the Earth Empire drove down, as little as one or two days or more than a few weeks, an archive even if there is no day and night to play for several days... Including for most players, the pace of this game is not as fast as other games.
Sometimes my own pace is slow but the pace of the computer is fast, there will be a computer has pulled modern aircraft, tanks in the wandering around, and my naval defense force is still a small wooden boat, there may be a small wooden boat to overturn the other submarine or cruiser situation ~ ~
In the Middle Ages, there were fleets with oars, and probably the enemy had been equipped with cruisers:
Third, the Sinicization of crying and laughing
The reason why the Earth Empire can become one of the childhood memory games is also inseparable from the "credit" of scum.
"Stable", "Leopard Barrel Box", "U-Boat", "Encirclement Factory", "Barrel Factory", "Club Member", "Age of the Emperor"... I have also been confused before, whether it is because I bought a DB caused by incomplete Chinese. It wasn't until later, when I saw that the translation of the authentic version of Ogilvy bought by my friend's father was also like this bear, that I knew that this was a machine-turned pot.
(It's a bit of a pity that I didn't find the machine flip mess map, and now the version on the Internet is fixed by the machine flip)
Fourth, finally "classic"
Termination with part III.
The third generation of Earth Empire listed in 2007
Although it was a game in 2007, the most mainstream A card N card at that time could not run perfectly and smoothly, and it was naturally labeled as a graphics card killer, semi-finished product and other low evaluations.
Such an evaluation is not without reason, the three generations of the Earth Empire are like a giant stitch monster, breaking up the essence of those classic RTS games and kneading them together. This kind of stitching has become the biggest feature of the Earth Empire.
Starting with the classics and ending with the classics, the fate of the Earth Empire series should not have been like this...
I don't know if it is the developer's intention, the three generations of the game's racial structure settings have some "bad taste", the player is so evaluated: the eastern forces were directly turned into biochemical freaks by the black future technology... When game graphics become a target for game makers to compete with each other, rather than the development of gameplay cores, the end is obvious.
I don't know if this work that carries childhood memories can we live in The Earth Empire 4, the Earth Empire 5, the Earth Empire 6...