We live in an age of safe, sanitized RTS games that hold your hand and end in 20 minutes. Empire Earth is the opposite. It is a sprawling, broken, ambitious masterpiece. It is the Dwarf Fortress of historical strategy: impossible to master, painful to learn, but when you finally launch a nuclear missile from a submarine and hit a medieval castle, you will understand why we still boot this game up on old laptops.
(One point for every 10,000 years of history. The other 6.5 points docked for having to manually click "Repair" on 30 battleships.) Empire Earth- Gold Edition
The Gold Edition sweetens the deal with Art of Conquest , which adds futuristic units like giant mechs, cyborgs, and the delightfully unbalanced "Angel Link" (a fighter jet that transforms into a walking artillery platform). Want to see a Roman legionary get vaporized by a laser robot from the year 3000 AD? This is your sandbox. We live in an age of safe, sanitized