Empire Earth Gold Edition

Rewrite history with the ultimate strategy collection!

Empire Earth Gold Edition includes the original Empire Earth, named Gamespy's "PC Game of the Year," and the official expansion, Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest. An added feature is an Official Strategy Guide with award-winning strategies and advice from tournament champions for both games.


Empire Building:
Command history's best known civilizations such as the Greeks, English, French, or Germans, or create and customize your own from scores of unique attributes. Colonize or conquer surrounding territories and establish new settlements. Plan and build walled towns and city-states. Construct Temples and Hospitals to protect and enhance your growing empire. Town Centers inspire defenders to fight harder and can be transformed into powerful Capitols. Wood, gold, iron and other natural resources provide the raw materials for expansion, while intelligent citizens keep your economy running smoothly. Over a dozen technology tracks offer numerous opportunities for further advancement.

Weapons Of War:
Train more than 200 types of combat units from every era in history, including Earth's future. Instantly enhance the combat abilities of your troops with specific improvements. Lead your armies to glorious victory with the help of Charlemagne, Cromwell, and other great heroes from yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Carry out surprise assaults in the dead of night. Attack unsuspecting enemies with stealthy submarines and aircraft. Soften up an enemy position with artillery fire, carpet bombing, or off-shore shelling. Wage epic air battles with over 30 types of aircraft such as Camels, Spitfires, F-15s, Apache Gunships, and B-2 Bombers. Fight massive naval engagements with more than 40 kinds of ships, including 16th Century ships-of-the-line, U-boats, and modern aircraft carriers. Train colossal Cybers to fight the battles of the future.

Religion, Wonders and More:
In Empire Earth, the military option is just one possible path to victory. Convert an enemy's citizens with furtive priests. Instruct a prophet to invoke devastating calamities such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and plagues. Or demonstrate your civilization's superiority by constructing Wonders of the World. Each Wonder endows your civilization with a special ability, such as the power of self-healing or mass-conversions.

Features:

• Mastermind a civilization's glorious rise to power in any period of human history.
• Engage in multiplayer warfare throughout 500,000 years of history.
• Play in empire-building Standard Mode or intense RTS Tournament Mode.
• New terrain and graphic enhancements for the ultimate in realistic environments.
• Free Prima Official Strategy Guide with award-winning strategies and advice from tournament champions.

• Empire Earth
• Empire Earth Earth: The Art of Conquest Expansion Pack,
• Empire Earth: Gold Edition Prima Official Strategy Guide

Empire Earth

The Game from the lead designer of Age of Empires comes Empire Earth, a real-time strategy game that lets you control the destiny of a fledgling civilization through 500,000 years of human history. Choose any point in time and establish a civilization to transcend the ages and dominate the earth. Each player takes control of a fledgling civilization and strives to forge the greatest of all empires. Reign as a Greek conqueror, Roman emperor, medieval monarch, Renaissance prince, or benevolent despot. Select from 14 epochs in world history – including the Bronze Age, the Renaissance, the Imperial Age, World War II and the Digital Age – and establish an empire for the ages.

Features:

• Epic scope - spans over 500,000 years, from the discovery of fire to laser technology and beyond.
• 14 different Epochs - replay all of human history or just the span of time that interests you.
• Train more than 200 different kinds of units.
• Battle on land, air, and sea - in addition to armies, you can build wide varieties of ships and aircraft.
• Fight wars of the future with advanced robotic and anti-gravity units using secret weapons.
• Enlist great historical Heroes - such as William the Conqueror and Patton - to enhance your military abilities.
• Customize your military units by improving their strength or equipment.
• Play in Standard mode for a more-strategic empire building game or Tournament mode for faster-paced action
• Have your Prophets devastate opponents with Calamities such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and deadly plagues.
• Engage in historic siege warfare - breach an enemy's walls with catapults, rams, and siege towers.
• Increase the morale of your soldiers to improve their offensive and defensive capabilities.
• Match wits with the cunning AI or coordinate attacks with your computer-player allies.
• Construct 20 types of buildings and research 150 technologies. A helpful technology tree foldout is included.
• Temples, Universities, and other buildings provide additional defensive measures beyond walls and towers.
• Create your own civilization from 100 different attributes or choose from 21 predefined civilizations.
• Different paths to victory, including military conquest and constructing Wonders of the World.
• Six different Wonders, each with its own special power.
• Special effects such as a day/night cycle, weather, translucent water, smoke, and special attack effects.
• Experience expertly balanced gameplay - each unit has its strengths and weaknesses.
• Gather 5 different resources that vary in importance depending on yor strategy.
• Play four epic single-player campaigns that each follow a civilization's extraordinary rise to power.
• Training scenarios guide you through the basics of game play.
• Gorgeous random maps of various types and sizes for the ultimate replayablity.
• Create your own original maps, scenarios, campaigns, and even in-game movies with the included editors.

Empire Earth: Art of Conquest Expansion

Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest pushes the envelope even further with 3 all new campaigns from the Roman Empire to WWII and finally into the future. Players have conquered new lands before, but this time to continue the dominance of their civilization, they must cross the boundaries of space.  Carry your quest for world dominion beyond the bounds of earth and into the Space Age of the 22nd century with Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest. Cross the final frontier as you extend your conquests into space and command armies that travel faster than the speed of light.

Features:

• New "Strategy-Changing" Space Epoch. Conquering Earth is just the first step to ensuring your civilization's universal dominance.
• New "Most Requested" Single Player Campaigns. The fans asked for them. We complied. Play the 3 most requested campaigns - The Roman Empire, World War II and the new futuristic space campaign.
• New Unique Units, Buildings, Powers and Calamities. New space ships and docking ports are just the beginning. In Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest, each of the 21 pre-designed civilizations will gain unique special powers, buildings or units.
• Upgraded Graphics. New terrains, lighting, water animations, battlefield scarring and environmental enhancements keep Empire Earth on the cutting edge of graphics.
• Enhanced Multi-Player. Battle with eight or more friends online. The enhanced matchmaking system will make grounding them to a pulp so much sweeter.
• More Epic Scope and Depth. Create, build and lead a civilization to transcend the ages from the beginning of history to Earth's near future, 2300 A.D.

Empire Earth Strategy Guide

Empire Earth is an epic conquest spanning the entire history of the world; it is the most in-depth real-time strategy game ever. Players will need Prima's Official Strategy Guide and its valuable resources to successfully conquer 500,000 years of history. All victory paths are detailed, as well as important statistics on all available units and weapons.

Features:

• Complete campaign walkthroughs and maps for each scenario
• Inside tips for scenario design
• Full stats and tips for each unit, building and cyber power
• Strengths and weaknesses for every civilization
• Award-winning strategies and advice from tournament champions!

"The true successor to Age of Empires"
     - PC Gamer

• Windows 98, Me, 2000 or XP
• Multimedia PC with Pentium II - 350 MHz or higher processor
• 64 MB of RAM (128 MB RAM for Win2K/XP)
• 450 MB of hard disk space; additional 100 MB or hard drive space for swap file
• Super VGA monitor supporting 1024 x 768 resolution
• AGP (4 MB) or PCI (8 MB) 3D video card that supports 1024 x 768, 16-bit color resolution
• CD-ROM drive
• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
• 28.8 Kbps modem (or higher recommended) for Internet or head-to-head play (56 Kbps modem or higher to host a game)
• DirectX-compatible sound card (speakers or headphones recommended)
• DirectX 8.0a or later
• Internet access required for Internet play. May require payment of a separate fee to an Internet Service Provider. Connect time charges may apply.