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The '''''Empire Earth series''''' is a franchise of [[real-time strategy]] [[computer games]] developed by [[Stainless Steel Studios]] and [[Mad Doc Software]], and published by [[Sierra Entertainment]], [[Activision]], and [[Vivendi]]. The games in the series are historical RTS games that are similar to ''[[Age of Empires]]''.<ref name=gamespotreview>{{cite web | url=http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/empireearth/review.html | title=Gamespot rating | publisher=Gamespot | accessdate=2006-12-30}}</ref> [[Rick Goodman]], who designed Empire Earth and Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, was one of the lead designers of Age of Empires. The games use the [[Titan (game engine)|Titan]] and [[Titan 2.0]] engine, which was sold after SSSI closed. ==Chronology== <div class="floatright"> <timeline> ImageSize = width:200 height:200 PlotArea = left:50 bottom:10 top:10 right:0 DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:2001 till:2007 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical order:reverse ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:2001 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:2001 Colors = id:blue value:rgb(0,0,0) id:red value:rgb(0.9,0.05,0.05) # there is no automatic collision detection, # so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar # shift texts up or down when two have same year Define $up = shift:($dx,1) Define $dw = shift:($dx,-8) PlotData= bar:Games anchor:till color:red width:15 textcolor:blue align:left fontsize:S mark:(line,white) shift:($dx,-4) from:2001 till:2007 at:2001 text:"[[Empire Earth]]" at:2002 text:"[[Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest|AoC]]" at:2003 shift:($dx,-14) text:"[[Empires: Dawn of the Modern World|Empires:DotMW]]" at:2005 text:"[[Empire Earth II]]" at:2006 text:"[[Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy|AoS]]" at:2005 shift:($dx,-14) text:"[[Empire Earth Mobile]]" at:2007 text:"[[Empire Earth III]]" </timeline></div> The first game of the series, ''[[Empire Earth]]'', was released in 2001. It was developed by SSSI (Stainless Steel Studios), and published by Sierra Entertainment. The game was praised for its in-depth gameplay, and received positive critical acclaim. The 2 million unit sales were enough to spawn an expansion pack and several sequels to the game. The game had 14 epochs in it, which totaled 500,000 years. The game also included 21 nations, from every age and location. It was also developed for the [[mobile phone]] in 2005. Released in 2002, ''[[Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest]]'' was an expansion pack for the first ''Empire Earth''. The expansion pack added several new campaigns and features to the game, but was received negatively because there were many small bugs that were never addressed by [[Mad Doc Software]]. The expansion pack was released in 2002, after the release of Empire Earth but before the release of ''Empires: Dawn of the Modern World''. ''[[Empires: Dawn of the Modern World]]'' was not technically the sequel to ''Empire Earth'', but it was released in 2003 and sometimes called the Spiritual Sequel to ''Empire Earth''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pc.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r21660.htm |title=Empires: Dawn of the Modern World |accessdate=2007-04-15 |date=November 12, 2003|publisher=GameZone }}</ref> The game was also designed by [[Rick Goodman]] and the SSSI team, and had many throwbacks to the first ''Empire Earth''. ''Empires: Dawn of the Modern World'' was much more condensed, with only 1,000 years and only nine civilizations. Even so, the game received positive acclaim as a good RTS, but not very innovative. ''[[Empire Earth II]]'' was released in 2005, a couple years after ''[[Empires: Dawn of the Modern World]]''. ''Empire Earth II'' was developed by [[Mad Doc Software]] and published by [[Vivendi]], since Stainless Steel Studios left the project to develop ''Empires: Dawn of the Modern World''. ''Empire Earth II'' used revamped graphics and weather affects, but still retained the feel of the original ''Empire Earth''. The game was received relatively well (about 79% on average according to MetaCritic), a little lower than the original ''Empire Earth'' and ''Empires: Dawn of the Modern World.'' [[File:Empire earth.png|thumb|left|200px|A screen shot from [[Empire Earth II]]]] ''[[Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy]]'' was released in 2006, and was an expansion pack for ''Empire Earth II''. The expansion pack added several new campaigns, civilizations, units, and features to the original ''Empire Earth II'' game. However, the game was received worse than its expansion pack predecessor, and was considered bad for its lack of innovation with the new campaigns it offered. ''[[Empire Earth III]]'', also called EE3, is a [[real-time strategy]] [[computer game]] by [[Mad Doc Software]] and released by [[Vivendi Universal]] on November 5, 2007 It was received very poorly in contrast to its predecessors. ''[[Empire Earth Mobile]]'' is a ''[[Civilization (series)|Civilization]]''' style [[Turn-based strategy|TBS]] developed by Vivendi and published by Wonderphone. It is quite smaller than any other title in the series, with only four epochs and other condensed features. ==Marketing== The series' tag line for marketing (which is also the ending statement to the in-game video at the loading of ''Empire Earth'') is: {{quote|'Epic' is too small a word}} as the games are very epoch diverse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/empire-earth-2/529488p1.html|title=Empire Earth 2 (PC)|work=GameSpy|publisher=IGN|accessdate=2007-06-20|date=2004-07-09|first=Allen|last= Rausch}}</ref> == Demise == [[File:Empireearth average reviews.png|thumb|The decline of reviews for each game, trend line shown in red.]] The Empire Earth series was ended with the release of [[Empire Earth III]], it received mainly negative and average reviews and widespread condemnation from fans of the series. Any remnants of it were removed from [[Mad Doc Software]]'s official website. On November 1, 2008, multiplayer support was dropped for [[Empire Earth]], [[Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest]] and [[Empire Earth II]].<ref>http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/08/servers-for-21-sierra-games-shutting-down/</ref><ref>http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55173</ref> Leaving only [[Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy]], [[Empire Earth III]],and [[Empires: Dawn of the Modern World]] with multiplayer servers. Empires: Dawn of the Modern World multiplayer is no longer very active due to bugs and glitches which were not fixed by the developer.<ref>http://empires.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=3,1861,,10</ref> Online activity continues to dwindle on [[Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy]] and [[Empire Earth III]] due to the lack of updates and support. ==Reception== ''Empire Earth'', the first in the series, was well received by the critics, averaging an 82% overall.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/376328.asp?q=Empire%20Earth |title=Empire Earth |author= |accessdate=2007-03-21|publisher=GameRankings}}</ref> ''Empire Earth II'' did not do as well as its predecessor, with only a 79% average.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/920489.asp?q=Empire%20Earth |title=Empire Earth II |author= |accessdate=2007-03-21|publisher=GameRankings }}</ref> The expansion packs were given mediocre reviews at best, with ''Conquest'' averaging 66% and ''Supremacy'' averaging 61%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/561395.asp?q=Empire%20Earth |title=Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest |accessdate=2007-03-21|publisher=GameRankings }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/930536.asp?q=Empire%20Earth |title=Empire Earth: The Art of Surpremacy |accessdate=2007-03-21|publisher=GameRankings }}</ref> ''[[Empires: Dawn of the Modern World]]'' had a closer rating to ''Empire Earth'' than anything else in the series, with an 81% average.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/589675.asp |title=Empires: Dawn of the Modern World |author= |accessdate=2007-03-21|publisher=GameRankings}}</ref> ''Empire Earth mobile'' averaged about 77%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/930409.asp?q=Empire%20Earth |title=Empire Earth |author= |accessdate=2007-03-21|publisher=GameRankings }}</ref> Empire Earth 3 was received poorly, averaging a press score of 4.8 according to Gamestats. == References == {{Reflist}} {{Empire Earth series}} [[Category:Multiplayer online games]] [[Category:Panhistorical video games]] [[Category:Real-time strategy video games]] [[Category:Windows games]] [[Category:Empire Earth]] [[ca:Empire Earth]] [[de:Empire Earth]] [[tr:Empire Earth (seri)]] [[zh:ε°ηεΈε½η³»ε]]
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