Empire earth 4 review plus#

The campaign missions are repetitive for the most part it's Step 1: Build up your economy to such a strength that you can fill up your army without your resources running out and make your base so strong that the enemy attacks on your base (which are always weak) won't stand a chance, ever. For example getting the range of bombards increased by 50% splash damage and a high range is the most effortless way to cut enemy armies to pieces. In Empire Earth range is key having the longest ranged units means you can slaughter the enemy before they can get any more than a few shots off and through usage of civ points and upgrades you can boost the range of a unit by 50%, the AI on the other hand doesn't get civ points so can spend as much civ points as possible to make the late scenarios of a campaign very one sided indeed.

The key to winning the Peninsular War and Battle of Waterloo is to get as many bombards as you can and level them up as much as you can. In the game artillery and bombers are way overpowered the fact that they were much weaker in Empire Earth II is basically admitting this.

Empire earth 4 review plus#

During the Peninsular War scenario the Spanish attack the French in the open field when in reality they usually did guerilla attacks and at Waterloo Wellington is able to recruit troops and build towers the night before the battle luxuries which he didn't get in real life (you can't build a tower in one night!) plus the British troops are as high quality as the French even though in the real Battle of Waterloo Napoleon had his experienced troops while Wellington was somehow stuck with raw recruits for the most part. Another upside which became a downside was the campaigns about 1/3 of the scenarios are fun but the thing is they can be historically inaccurate.

50,000 years of history in one game but even in that there's a problem the vast majority of those years are in the first Epoch and in the first Epoch there's not much to do. The graphics are fine and so is the music plus the scale of the thing is what drew me in.