Empire Earth Review

[@MandaloreGaming]

Empire Earth on GOG - gog.la/AAUEEGHH THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo Did the final editing of the video with an ear infection, hence no question section this time around.

[@HumanSupremacist]

Since EA has dug up and pissed all over the corpse of Command and Conquer at E3, it would be great if you could review Command and Conquer: Generals and its expansion pack Zero Hour in one of your next videos and remind us of the glory days of Command and Conquer.

[@athath2010]

I have a game suggestion for you: Achron (NOT "Archon"), an RTS that heavily focuses on time travel. Not just time travel in the backstory and lore and such, but in *actual matches.* Oh, did I mention that this is a *multiplayer* game that you can (and should) play against *real humans*? I'd recommend checking out the TV Tropes page for it for a proper explanation of how the whole thing works, since it explains it much better than I can. You can do things like make a scout unit, order it to go into the enemy base, skip ahead one minute into the future to see what it finds, then go back to the present and cancel the order, or go back in time and build units to prepare (postpare?) for an attack that's currently happening in the present. IIRC, stuff four minutes before the present becomes finalized/set in stone, and you can only skip/jump up to one minute after the present. Here, have some videos (the first one comes from a demo of the game, and the pathfinding issue mentioned in the second one has been fixed): kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYW5pIuYjLaLppI kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJq5d4iXq5yfpLc Okay, this will be the third and last time that I repost this, since I don't want to be one of those guys that constantly spams the same request at you. Hopefully you'll see this, since this is the second to top reply to your post.

[@SpecShadow]

My humle suggestions - Arx Fatalis, Boiling Point and Metal Fatigue. It might be my opinion but... more oldies, less indies. Just sayin... There is little to no active channels doing reviews of old games, and most of them fairly obscure. Indie? Plenty+let's plays.

[@migg619]

the dawn of war music at the end tho

[@weirdo3116]

Hey could you do a review for a games called "Armies of Exigo"?

[@MenachemSchmuel]

Man, I remember driving my parents absolutely nuts with this game. We only had 1 computer in the house, and no headphone, so my parents were forced to listen to this horrible cacophony of clangs and bangs. I'll never forget assembling armies of stealth bombers and just nuking the absolute shit out of everything on the map. Almost 20 years later, my parents still sometimes make fun of me by yelling "we are undah attack!!" Good times.

[@Soulliquor]

your parents sound like fun people! haha

[@KingSlayer2468]

What a great story lad! :)

[@Transgender-ProphetMohammed]

My parents heard ,,for the emprah" and asked me if its star wars.

[@k-leb4671]

Der Transgender-Prophet Mohammed The fallen shall be forever remembered as the senate's finest.

[@Schmeethe88]

Same here. The sound of the cavemen (and some other units that got the same SFX) when they die. It sounds like someone dry heaving, you know the sound. Good memories, it seems like such a long time ago now.

[@Mister0Game]

Hi! That's my voice that you are using as an example of bad VO. :-) To be fair, I was the Lead Designer, not a VO actor. And I have no memory of recording VO for the game, but it's hard to refute the fact that it's me. And I agree that it was not good, neither the VO or the expansion.

[@NoirProxy]

*Hand on your shoulder* We forgive you. ☺

[@MandaloreGaming]

Haha we all gotta start somewhere man!

[@phantomwraith1984]

You're forgiven. Played the hell out of both game and expansion when I was 8 and loved both. I thank you for my childhood

[@timothymclean]

Ah, the days when game studios just grabbed whoever happened to have some free time in their schedule to voice their most important characters.

[@Mister0Game]

"Important"

[@Elpresidente98]

The voice acting of the prehistoric shaman was ingrained into my head forever

[@JohnDoe-wd8rs]

Hail swalt or some shit😆

[@orakonur]

Iyo ya chiii

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

YAAAA CAAAAHHHH

[@GarkKahn]

Aia chaaa

[@Cudeus]

Yaka su taaa

[@OJ-wy5oi]

Mentioning the game being a war of attrition reminds me of my all time favorite MP game ever. I picked camouflage and pathfinding in a map. The game locked out before ww2 so no nukes and limited air power. My opponent quickly overwhelmed my bases, but my units had one advantage. They could walk through forests and turn invisible. What began was the Vietnam War as my enemy couldn't find my units, and I couldn't kill enough of his. It was just me having sharpshooters sitting beyond the treeline until one of his patrols autoexploring the map would happen by. Kill a few, run away. He eventually built the wonder that lets him see all buildings, which forced me to adopt a system of building a base, getting as much resources as possible, then running away before he could respond. It was great. I don't think any other RTS game had such organic, asymmetrical possibilities that would just emerge out of a little creativity.

[@TheKaoticSanity]

Thanks for the story! It totally triggered a 15+ year old memory! I had a similar situation in the 'sequel', Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. Me and a classmate were playing 1v1, and I was dominating him a fair bit. However, we played on the largest map, and he was China, who had mobile bases. We ended up having an hours long game of cat and mouse, where he just kept on relocating some of his bases to another corner to stay alive and rebuild in secret. We were sitting on computers in adjoining rooms, with a few meters in between, and a door. It ended up with us half playing, and half having a struggle between him body blocking his screen while I was trying to sneak a peek by opening the door and peeking out as sneakily as possible. Much of his time was spent forcing the door shut, so I couldn't screen cheat and finally finish off the game. Man, good times

[@dorpth]

@@TheKaoticSanity I knew 2 crazy comp sci guys in college who would have a "creative" take on Starcraft when they were drunk and playing in the same room. You were allowed to physically do anything to the other player, short of bodily harm, computer harm, or shutting off power. This resulting in dividing attention between playing, throwing stuff at the other player, grabbing their mouse hand, blocking their view of the monitor, and in some heated case a wrestling match.

[@hosmerhomeboy]

Similar thing happened to me in supcom 2 on the big desert map (3 player ffa). Lost my base 40 minutes in, proceeded to turn into a guerrilla fighting force that wound up building silo's in the canyons to overwhelm the one players nuke defenses with about 200 nukes. I'd build an experimental factory, create a unit and load it into a transport as the enemy nukes/ artillery/ airforce wiped out the base behind it. I survived by building all over, all at once, and also nowhere. In the end I knocked off the second player (he killed the third after my nukes decimated their base) by dropping 10 experimentals on his commander. Game took 2 hours and I was shaking when it finished.

[@mirceazaharia2094]

Gentlemen, I tip my hat to you. You are legends among gamers.

[@TimecopSticks]

I will always remember the line from the Russian campaigns first mission "Halt! A dangerous criminal is on the loose, we must check your vehicle" "Relax Yuri this truck is just carrying potatoes, you may pass"

[@Guy_who_likes_trains20]

Best guardians ever

[@ventsislav92makaveev]

Ahhh a potato truck , this is an ideal hiding place. You will drive Piotr.

[@TheAsharedhett]

Is a nostalgia trip for sure. That and a lot of other cheesy lines of dialogue. "Hahaha, now for some sport." *scream!*

[@jobvermeeren2542]

there, a potato truck!

[@flame_of_the_west8909]

I just read in the original voices.

[@redgeneral5792]

Short Sword: "Attack with sharpened steel!" Me: "Uh. It's the Bronze Age..."

[@lrugelgumiho4751]

It does exist in a copper age but it's only for millitary and keep as secret to everything

[@Tucher97]

@@lrugelgumiho4751 steel in the copper age is best named today as Crude steel, but its still better than copper while bronze has yet to take off, iron is where things really change but even then steel would still be used through out hte middle ages and China will think of clever uses for steel, something involving a solid tube with black powder that explodes, when you are desperate well lets say fire crackers in your pocket will still fucking suck

[@diegonavarro387]

Empire earth 2020

[@lenkagamine4145]

Uh, no. Steel is from four thousand years ago at the earliest, while the copper age began to end about six thousand. By 2,000 B.C. it was firmly the bronze age. @@Tucher97

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

@@Tucher97how would you discover steel before iron?

[@Corrupted]

Playing against the AI felt like having a constant attack of 2 mosquitos for 3 hours while you try to build a nice looking base until you snap and just nuke the entire map. I still have PTSD from the AI constantly spamming priests to convert 1-2 of my guys at a time and bombarding random pieces of my wall just outside of my towers' reach

[@xotl2780]

I didn't want to nuke the entire map but I was so sick of losing units on frontal assaults that didn't produce anything.

[@Corrupted]

@@xotl2780 yeah lmao, it's always 2-3 hours of playing "normally" until you just break

[@sugarcubee1107]

Nothing like building a massive doomstack of robots only to see 10 nuclear bombers appear from behind the fog of war, flying in a straight line from the enemy airfield to the center of your formation.

[@alexandredupont1966]

In hindsight I feel slightly better about using infinite ressource cheat... which were used to automaticcaly nuke anywhere, anytime. Even then it was a struggle.

[@MavicAVF]

Minecraft - OOH Roblox - OOF Empire Earth - AAUEEGHH

[@greybayles7955]

VINI VIDI VICI

[@masternobody1896]

Yea...ka....toba

[@masternobody1896]

aoe rogan

[@Dueilangoisseus]

Oblivion: *KHAKK, BLEURL, HWWMH*

[@r.c.christian4633]

WHO-AAAAAAA-RE

[@Elenrai]

Honestly, the best thing about EE...well, it was building cities in the map editor. When a 7 year old child that does not understand a lick of English can use it without help, then you are doing things correctly. And yes, I was that kid who would be wiped out early game and proceed to act as a micro nation for a stronger teammate, simply being content building an empire of farms.

[@florianzippel6778]

When I was ten I created my entire own campaign with playable missions, heros, goals, factions etc. the editior was outstandigly awesome!

[@marnixmaximus3053]

I didn't know what the hell a 'Campaign Editor' meant when I looked it up in the dictionary, I was also a kid and didn't understand English. But Oh man did I built me myself the most prettiest cities and develop my own storylines, when I finally figured out how to move the camera I was considering going into the game industry lol. Good times.

[@florianzippel6778]

@@marnixmaximus3053 lucky me, I guess, playing literally every single game in my native language haha

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

Duuuuuuuude, I loved the builder, especially since you could mix eras in it, meaning I could make crazy combos of Greek and Roman Buildings.

[@bameno6641]

remember me at 7 playinge AOE 1 never realised there is an upgrade to the 2. time, when i realised that I learned fast 😁

[@etherraichu]

I was a beta tester for Empire Earth 3. There was this unfortunate bug... When we'd go and try to submit a bug report, we'd get a "503 error" and were asked to try again. It never worked. This answers most of the questions people have after they first play it.

[@Elenrai]

Rofl! I imagine the managers thought "This dev team is amazing! Zero bugs! We gotta give em a payraise!"

[@youmukonpaku3168]

That does indeed answer a lot about EE3.

[@12thArchknight]

yeah it answers why one of the civs doesnt even work (like the AI cant play it i mean)

[@galactakid7064]

I can't understate how much pain this brings me as a person whose never seen EE3

[@o0DnDing0o]

I cannot laugh too hard, it's 3am here

[@naknuknik]

When i heard "IAKATOTA" "AI-ACHA" and "YO-YAAA-KII!" i instantly had a nostalgie hit :D

[@masternobody1896]

Its yakatoba ool

[@DraculaCronqvist]

I agree, that sound effect, especially the first, is burned into my brain.

[@TheManLenin8]

SINK THE LANDLUBBERS

[@DerMunger]

Also EE had one of the most expansive campaign creators out there up until today. You could even write cutscenes and much much more.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Man... the era of comfy RTS * Age of Empires * Empire Earth * Stronghold + Crusader * Anno series Such a good time, that was.

[@bobobobbob1375]

And Settlers, Don't forget Settlers

[@cooljim1376]

It's a damn shame the genre is barely even alive these days.

[@Bobinarea52]

Why does no one remember rise of nations :\

[@Lady_in_Yearning]

Don't forget the Cossacks games, the good ones.

[@oddluck4180]

Now everyone wants to be Starcraft.

[@snafing]

whaaat? i love the soundtrack "enmity". it gives the game such a special feeling.

[@DraculaCronqvist]

Agreed, it's really good.

[@foshezeefocker7707]

Kind of reminds me of a feeling of dystopia, kinda like the Factorio game songs

[@sonatuzun7020]

Enmity is awesome!!! It is very much about the silent but persistent passage of time that makes civilizations fall and rise! When I heard it accompanying snow plowers on a documentary, I didn't just think of Empire Earth. I also thought about the silent but persistent passage of time that makes civilizations fall and rise! Then said to myself "isn't this a bit over-dramatic for snow plowers? Now hear this Mandolore, you may have uttered irresponsible insult to Enmity in this quite good review of Empire Earth but you too are a subject to the silent but persistent passage of time that makes civilizations fall and rise!

[@SuperMunchkin43]

@suck urmum Thats what i thought as well! sounds like the obelisk music from heroes 3.

[@Theshockmaster5eva]

Sounds like the factorio soundtrack to me

[@Antillles]

"The AI in this game cheats and it cheats hard. The best example can be found in the russian campaign." Of course.

[@rogerklotz7737]

(Talking to you Starcraft)

[@maverick5640]

No comrade its pronounced: Slavic Magic

[@samuelswenson1505]

Yep. Play Empires Dawn of Modern for balance but a bit limited. 0 A.D. might be the best RTS overall.

[@Taabituubi]

No limt what you can do with enough manpower and vodka.

[@trueblueclue]

It all makes sense now. That campaign was broken.

[@doctoradventure413]

There was a documentary from the History Channel that I remember watching in my Freshman year of high school and it was using footage from Rome Total War

[@columbibae1178]

Decisive battles, was it? That shit was goood.

[@t3ichtaucher]

@@columbibae1178 Time Commanders also used the Total War Engine to let people refight historic battles

[@Kc40k]

I saw one about Mexico which used AOE 3.

[@Jwlar]

Creative Assembly used to license out there engine to history docs, including one on the BBC at the time.

[@NorseThunderFox]

Now I want to see a show on history channel use TABS to recreate a historical battle.

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Empire Earth is one of my favourite games of all time, used to do island maps and rush to airplanes to murder people :D

[@joannis2497]

I hated online because of people like you lol

[@DaiReith]

5 airports with fighter/bombers? xD

[@SacredDaturaa]

I used to play the island map with my roommate, we would turtle and chill with ships while we gradually out-teched the AI. Good times.

[@franciscojavier9517]

Rush of b-29 bombarders

[@schmid1.079]

Just spam Helis honestly. Planes are too ineffective because they have to refuel all the time and if you leave just one villager alive on that island you are fucked.

[@SeeASquaRE]

"AUGHHHHHHHH" Remember this game for its hilarious death sounds.

[@redgeneral5792]

The flamethrowers dude. 'Agh, its in my eye!"

[@htf5555]

BLUUEEGHHH

[@rainbowvomitself]

i think its more of a EUGHHH rather than an AUGGHHHHH

[@guerrillaheavydefender8364]

THE FUCKING GERMAN MARINES

[@toufiq309]

This is the first game i ever bought... I remember saving my school money for sometime just to buy this.

[@loretto5]

Holy shit, I remember playing this game and looking at the Russian campaign with the date 2018 thinking thats far away, WTF.

[@c_xela]

2023 coming to an end, and still no Russian mech president (that we know of)

[@LastZepp1]

@@c_xela Sadly!

[@alexanderveritas]

*Grigor II:* The greatest (and most long-lived) emperor of Russia.

[@guilhermevillas8751]

Putin: hold my vodka

[@ivanlima5015]

I just realized universities prevent priests from converting thas hilarious

[@magicmanscott40k]

Oh I get it lol

[@mulder801]

For real tho 😂

[@user-mq1up2fw4r]

You never felt the wrath of an army of NPC priests heading towards your army then.. there wasnt a scarier sight in EE.

[@riv4lm4n]

*tip*

[@adnauseam1432]

666 likes don't jinx this people

[@ARandomMonitor]

"The dark, nightmare future of 2018." This game was prophetic.

[@Guanchen]

Trump is basically a robot.

[@raycearcher5794]

In the dark future of 2018, there are only Priest Towers.

[@mikesully110]

lol, imagine a donald trump campaign in the Extended Edition

[@wolfwarlordjake8992]

Mike Sully I could imagine one of the missions being to build a wall around your southern border before the citizens from the south swarm through

[@raycearcher5794]

Your job being, presumably, to dink around KZbin looking for possible criticism of the president?

[@Rogdub]

to this day i am impressed by the game's manual. mine was nearly as thick as a small book, with lots of descriptions, pictures and references to history. it was awesome.

[@abadenoughdude300]

I miss old Blizzard manuals, where maybe 30% was for the gameplay and the rest was worldbuilding. Kinda sad that we reduced what was a fun read about game mechanics and story to unskipable tutorials and boring exposition dumps and called it "progress".

[@akiraigarashi2874]

@@abadenoughdude300 Old Blizzard has died for quite a while unfortunately. Wonder if Microsoft will be able to refurbish it.

[@erray_01]

"the main theme is fantastic" *immidiately gets a shoe ad with aggressive rap music*

[@wolfgangervin2582]

Now I want a game with a main theme by Death Grips.

[@ronnierossi8626]

Lol same thing

[@AB-bg7os]

We are under attack! We are under attack! We are under attack! We are under attack! We are under attack! Yes mylord? Death to the heathens! We are under attack! We are under attack! EUGH

[@rogelioVela1985]

I get this a lot when I played lol

[@tonyjiang94]

*Death to the heathens

[@AB-bg7os]

I love this game do much

[@AB-bg7os]

Woah that's new I never knew about that

[@guerrillaheavydefender8364]

Male Civilians lmao

[@GG_Nowa]

you sold me on this game from going from cave men to giant robots. this is what modern gaming needs more bizzare progresion like that as it makes everything better

[@leathery420]

May also want to check out rise of nations. Doesn't go to giant robots, but you start from cavemen, and end in about the late cold war/modern day with Tanks, jets, subs, missile shields, ICBMs. You get to pick from a couple dozen different nations and many strategies.

[@mrvex6695]

One of the few games where tech differences are soo large that it makes combat impossible between distant periods. In Empire Earth 2 and 3 even the basic swordsmen are able of destroying modern vehicles. In this one, its practically impossible.

[@CaptainLekirk]

Mr Vex I distinctly remember playing against an AI on an easier difficulty and using some kind of big game hunter or something and hunting cavemen.

[@mrvex6695]

I simply make it happen with the editor Those glorious dying sounds of cavemen...

[@andregon4366]

Modern gaming is all about pursuing a fad, comfort zone and/or microtransaction fest.

[@MrMarttivainaa]

I always used cheat codes to counter the cheating AI and just made my own fun, building colonies to other islands and making my own D-Day landings to claim red's clay for myself. The scenario editor was also great, all the official campaigns were made with it so it was very versatile and easy to use. It was also possible to disable AI cheating and go 1 vs 14. Fantastic game.

[@JussimirPasold]

They should release a Definitive Edition of this game

[@phannghiaorigami5455]

Then the good news for you: i hear that some people are working for Empire Earth : reborn , like a Remaster of EE.

[@michaelwiesinger2643]

@@phannghiaorigami5455 If they fix the - pathfinding - sound effects - "filler-ages" & - game breaking techs they might be up to something really big! Like BIG!!!

[@v44n7]

@@michaelwiesinger2643 filler ages are important, lets not forget EE goes between all historic ages (somewhat) if you cut some of them it will be shame. They need to add stuff on them maybe but i don't think filler ages is a problem. The pathfinding and cheating AI are the worst problems in EE

[@0animalproductworld558]

Send them the requests 🐁 They will update the graphics at ease 🐁

[@donator6]

vini vidi vici... vini vidi vici... VINI VIDI VICI. I am dying

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

*ALL GLORY IS FLEETING*

[@Robert399]

*veni

[@Robert399]

@@davidlee9870 Phonetically they don't rhyme either: "weynee, weedee, weekee" (And because "it's Italian" would be a total non sequitur...)

[@Robert399]

@@davidlee9870 No, it's not _consequential_ , neither is this entire thread nor this video nor this video game. So what? I chose to write about it.

[@Gigas0101]

Honestly I hope that clip gets remixed.

[@adaw2d3222]

Such great memories from his game. I was 12 when it came out. Now, do Rise of Nations!

[@Mic_Glow]

UP

[@cherithklehm]

Throoones and patriots... thrroooones and patriots... THROOONES and patriots... thrones-thrones-thrones-thrones... repeat infinitely.

[@Victor-kv8bi]

6:01 "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"

[@tennoshenaniganizer9234]

Oh wow, this takes me back. I use to play the shit out of this. My main rule was always listen to the main theme finish in its entirety before starting a mission

[@ShadowGaro]

The missions were amazing, tons of historic shit to read. Too bad I was 13 and sucked at all of them

[@O.B23]

Xavier: Renegade Angel was a good show ya know

[@MrDrManPerson]

sharkyghf good? Meh, wierd and extremely quotable? Indeed.

[@FreakyFriday4Phaggs]

Like most people, I always knew I was special. But not like the others.

[@RegularCody]

'it helps no one to be regressive"

[@futhington]

I was going to come down and comment on exactly this once I heard the Shakashuri Blowdown music at the start.

[@zezimashelpr]

TASTE THE PAIN!

[@Katanerpsycho]

That Russian campaign haunts me in my dreams ...

[@Rusink]

Jajajajaja, me too!

[@panji7585]

Yeah scary future

[@redgeneral5792]

Novaya Russia forever!

[@MidoriOfTheShuinsen]

"Ah, a potato truck."

[@Dark__Thoughts]

I loved Enmity. Totally captured that "grand but dark" kinda feel of the game (excluding the funny campaigns). Honestly, looking back at it, in a lot of ways it was kinda paving the way for the 4X genre. It certainly had a much grander scale than regular RTS at the time, so I guess it fills a similar role as SoaSE, bridging the gap towards the more complex games that came out a little later.

[@kitsuna77]

"The music ended up in discovery shows" This also happened with World In Conflict as well, the Sniper Run music made it into a lot of shows and I swear I thought I was going crazy hearing it

[@MrGeneralHeavy]

Holy shit i didn't know that anyone besides me actually played Empire Earth. Man that game was great.

[@chocolito9461]

that game was my childhood

[@MandaloreGaming]

I think a lot of people played it nonstop for a few months then forgot about it over time. There was a lot of hype for it before release.

[@SuperGman117]

I keep hearing about it, so it must not be that obscure. Unlike Universe at War, that is...

[@Vidyadude]

Literally everyone played Empire Earth.

[@juiqloap8506]

It still kept a pretty decent population for a few years after launch, probably til 2005 or 06.

[@matthewgrainger8606]

I had that "stock sounds" moment when I was watching Daredevil and noticed they use "Leaving Earth" from Mass Effect 3 in one of their season recaps. Shit tripped me out.

[@-Senry-]

Literally spent whole days playing this game when I was young, the replayability was amazing for a teen discovering the RTS genre. (EE was my AoE basically)

[@illbebackb80]

Quote ingrained in my memory "Attack with sharpened steel"

[@Lumineszenz]

Empire Earth was my childhood. Played that game so much back then and absolutely loved it!

[@yomuyugi]

man the natural disasters abilities were so fun

[@diasavia246]

Empire Earth influenced me in so many ways tbh. As a young kid our whole family had to live with my grandfather cuz of serious obstacles that came up, which was like 2005 or 6 maybe? I was so young that my memories of that time only come in bits n pieces - This game being one I could nvr ever forget or let go. At such a young age I was using the Scenario Editor to make my own maps, playing Sims 2 on the same XP computer time to time. Thank you EE for giving me my passion for history, passion for worldbuilding and LOVE for RTSs as a whole ❤️

[@botyorick]

Hearing the age of mythology music during an EE review is still such a childhood trip

[@unearthlyenemy]

thank god, another Mandalore video

[@ghoulish6125]

Just as I was loading the ole over/under up.

[@namedenkeinerhat2827]

Gunnar Ali his blessings come in mand shapes, this one being perhaps the greatest

[@JUAN_OLIVIER]

It took me an entire day just to get past the second Russian mission, most difficult mission on the game. The key is to take out the green rebel base first early on.

[@guerrillaheavydefender8364]

I couldn't even pass those Greek Campaign..

[@Rojoyerf]

I ended up using a tactic of massed bombers and airlifting small disposable groups of tanks to destroy their air defenses. You legit just need to blitzkreig to win that mission

[@whok5407]

I try three year to pass this mission

[@Zakuzelo]

Mission starts, pause, que up a ton of units. You've got a lot of buildings and thousands of every resource, so don't skimp out. As soon as you've got a few tanks, a siege gun or two, and a couple anti-air , go kill green. As in they should be dead in the first 5ish minutes of the game; you don't need a lot, they're two eras behind you. Once they're dead, add the units that were building in the meantime to your army and hug the bottom of the map all the way west, up to orange's farms, then up towards their capital. You just walked around all their cities and they die as soon as it goes down, should be done around 10-15 minutes in. Then voila, half your enemies gone, you've got cybers, plenty of space, and can leisurely build up to kill purple. Yellow rarely, if ever, attacks, purple's easy to handle alone, and Britain's attacks are rare enough to not be a big deal. Victory. Oh, and get those two port towns for the victory points and population, but don't worry about defending them. They're only good for fighting that harbor-clogging fleet, and there's no reason to do so at all.

[@FreelancerCZ]

What I did in this mission was to move instantly after the start with all units west. There in the corner i destroyed the small base and used the infinite stone to build some solid defence. From that point, you can slowly advance.

[@hipiticlivi7400]

I for one, can't wait for the rule of Grigor the Second.

[@corvodraken3049]

The first Russian mission was just glorious

[@theblackpantslegion]

Yay, something to do on the train other than swear and fight train goblins. Help me.

[@slendy9600]

Underrated comment

[@fakenews6133]

Sometimes I chew bubble gum too, but I'm usuall all out.

[@Ken-th7bj]

can we get a review on this person's life? haven't fought train goblins since WoW

[@adiscerningdunmer9311]

What in the Sam Hill's a train goblin?

[@virileagitur7403]

love your ss13 vids

[@aximey]

Ooh, the Dawn of War music at the end, nostalgic that

[@roys.1889]

Foreshadowing, perhaps?

[@jeanhamilton3296]

I knew it !

[@the_evil06]

For the Emperor Brother...

[@Mish844]

Never forget Soulstorm though

[@k-leb4671]

Now that's some good RTS music.

[@diaryofamadpanda3123]

!!WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!! I showed this to my Mom, who's desk was across from mine as I played ten million hours of this game back in the day with the sound up high. The sound of a bunch of civs chopping and mining had Vietnam in her eyes for a sec lol

[@timblake2862]

Having played a lot in multiplayer back when the official servers were still running, I disagree about the music being unmemorable and dull. Shadows & Enmity are the two tracks that always come to mind when thinking about this game, even years after I played it last time. They're not as in your face or epic as the main theme (which is admittedly awesome), but there are many tracks that are great at building tension and atmosphere: Honor, Rivers, Time, Balance of Power.

[@Duckman1616]

Wait...did you really wear gloves so we couldn't see your hands?

[@botcommander4804]

He did in every video so far where we could have seen his hands.

[@Zeusselll]

BOT commander and why is that?

[@mrjonte2309]

he's black

[@botcommander4804]

This will remain the mystery, until the day Lord Mandy or someone else, who knows the actual reason, enlightens us with that piece of knowledge.

[@CitrusZero]

He's a skeleton who does not want to reveal his true identity

[@GrandHighGamer]

I'm gonna have to disagree on that track being boring, I thought it was very good 'suspensful' music. I can see why a documentary would use it.

[@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange]

Gradius It’s unbelievably memorable as a “feeling” kinda memorable, but not a “remembering” kinda memorable. Like, I instantly started thinking about the next notes and could hum along with it (cause I’m a fag), but fuck if I could remember it or how it sounds outside of listening to it.

[@12joelewis]

Best rts ever. Used to play when i was so young. My dad did too. For his bday bought us both copies and finally played vs each other over lan. Classis game

[@joab1150]

do you wanto play online, we have a discord.

[@thomassharples9734]

My god, the use of the Xavier: RE music at the start is genius...the footage really looks like a Shakashuri blowdown

[@StandLmao]

THEY JUST DON’T STOP!!!! -MandaloreGaming 21018

[@CegeRoles]

I actually jumped in my seat when I heard that, since he almost never yells.

[@warhammernerd52Daxx-Lorenzo898]

*Stone Age Man vomiting death sound*

[@articcenturion8387]

X20

[@janusjanhaar]

I still remember how I used to play multiplayer, and you could store units in a fortress building. This would make the pop go down so you could make more units and store them in fortresses in sort of an infinite loop. Me and a mate played together and focused on defence while just stacking looads of units. Then after we had enough we emptied out those fortresses and just curb stomped every other player XD

[@Kumogakure42]

The enmity theme sounds a bit like Heroes of Might and Magic 3 when you find an obelisk or whatever it is that shows you where the treasure is buried...or maybe I'm just hearing things... . 7:00 Is it just me or are the horses more like ponies?XD

[@creion9394]

I'm sure you're not. These things occur because studios purchased batches of pre-recorded music in order to fill in certain areas. This could have been due to time constraints, cost savings or whatever. Lots of triggers that you hear in HoMM3 (like the new month one) can be heard in South Park from at least the 6th season to the 9th. I'm always blaming myself for not marking these down with timestamps and all. Swear on my cross Heroes 4 has common musical elements with Stronghold: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2bZdoukjLaCfpI - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGfSpYt6ibhjgbc The singer's timbre is really close. It was all mixing and editing. I'm pretty sure they bought it in batches and mixed and re-recorded as needed.

[@myrtorp]

I remember in the editor you could boost a unit stat as much as you want, i remember making a slinger one shotting people across the map, and the planes! If you boosted their speed to stupid levels they would start acting wierd, flying up and down really fast or just gliding across the ground. Make alot of planes and set their speeds differently and you have a mayhem of retarded planes goofing around. And I could never finish any campaign, it was just too hard

[@paddymcguiness4845]

I was just putting another comment about messing around with the size and power of the explosion of the nuclear bombs. 9 year old me spent HOURS of my Saturday trying new things out when I could.

[@EugeneOneguine]

Really ? Shit I need to try that !

[@warriorcrab1319]

Ah, a potato truck

[@zillasaul]

GRIGOR! YOUR LIFE IS IN DANGER!

[@kopernikpolski60]

I cried when I readed those comments ;-; good old days :(

[@warriorcrab1319]

Me and my friends use to laugh so hard at that line when we were kids, I don't even know why.

[@radawald]

where are those simpler days...

[@ThePerriannath]

Halt! A dangerous criminal is on the loose!

[@saurabha.srivastava794]

Just not memorable ??? - @4:50 Still get goosebumps after 15 years, hearing these background Music. If you've not invested thousadns of hours in this game ......How you suppose, you'll value its value! :) GG Game, and GG Pefection ---- Of its time, it was much ahead of its Era. This was one of the most memorable games I played in my LateTeens.

[@Neoentrophy]

It's probably worth remembering with earlyish 3d models is that they were mostly made for and rendered in CRT monitors, so the stretched faces would have been much blurrier by default. Adding a HD monitor was what breaks most pre-ps2 graphic aesthetics.

[@Mechsrule1]

EE has one feature that really puts it above most others. Above Age of Empires. I'd really love for it to become a feature in more games. 'Explore'. One button click, then just let that unit reveal the map for you. It's so useful and efficient.

[@DjZorlag]

YES! And also, those infinite resources lets you concentrate more on attacking than microing your economy all the time. Just a little bit balancing and expanding at times and thats it.

[@LilGamingYes]

Personally I would have enjoyed it better if the resources were more limited but you could put more citizens on them, possibly have resources respawn over time even if in a random location. It is nice to focus more on the combat and not have to look at your base to micro manage your citizens but that's one thing that annoyed me along with the units grouping/pathing...

[@rolfdew3224]

Rise of nations scout units can do this too!

[@uomoafide6539]

It's something i've seen in very few rts, the only one that i remember right now that does this is Warlords Battlecry 3 which uses exploration as a stance for the unit.

[@raptorhacker599]

Aoe demands more micro

[@JAKX091]

5:20 If you think that's crazy, you should've watched House of Anubis on Nickelodeon, during dramatic scenes it would use the main theme from Heavy Rain, of all games.

[@sethleoric2598]

James Atkins aw man i remember that series it was weird af it was it horror neil gaiman?

[@timebrain3188]

I swear there was a Renaissance art documentary or something like that on the Smithsonian that used music from Skyrim. It was really trippy

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

That emotional piano tune from Mass Effect 3 was used on a ton of random crap, like investigative journalism pieces.

[@Zazquatch0]

Oh I remember the Mass Effect 3 theme being in a lot of "sad" journalistic reports. In Germany, we have this Reality TV channel where at around noon, they play lots of these "women's" reality shows about weddings and women going shopping and they really like to use the Sims 3 soundtrack for that. There was also a nature documentary where lion hunted and killed some animal and they played the theme from Star Wars where they fight Darth Maul.

[@gonderlane996]

South Park has scenes that uses music from Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

[@ImBoredToo]

4:43 That was one hell of a nostalgia bomb. Gun Metal used this same track for the mission select screen. It was a transforming mech/plane you can pick up on xbox(og)/gog/steam

[@agisuru]

The RTS that burned voice lines into my brain was Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2. AHHH, A NEW HORDE OF ORCS

[@Lunarice98]

We have work to do.

[@The15231]

Shoutouts to the xra music

[@bcsb]

TASTE THE PAIN

[@kyon813]

Frittata!

[@coachrenaldo]

Bad path finding? I'm getting some really bad dawn of war flashbacks...

[@loreseer9553]

METAL BAWKSES

[@adiscerningdunmer9311]

SQUAD BROKEN

[@coachrenaldo]

ADiscerningDunmer IT CANNOT BE DONE! WE MUST RETREAT!

[@M0narch1024]

THOUGHT THEY'D BROKE OUR BACKS?

[@roys.1889]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - Blood Raven Sergeant in the Intro (made famous by Sly Marbo in the Text to Speech series)

[@BGQB7]

This game doesn't need a review, it needs a remaster

[@MelvinGundlach]

"And then you have tracks, which are less exciting" *ad plays*

[@MorriganJade]

So basically... The thing I took from this video: I have NO idea what I was doing back when I played it.

[@BillyBtheman]

Man this Main theme, these voice lines, it's like I'm a kid all over again. I love it

[@KlingelTimi.]

Empire Earth was (is?) One of only a few games with a german campaign: in EE1 a great one during WW1 and WW2 and in EE2 a good one from the german knights in east prussia to the Reunion under Bismarck. Dont know other games which had so cool campaigns / scenarios!

[@Lethargie55]

Friedrich Barbarossa in AoE2

[@timshoot2963]

Castle strike

[@warhammernerd52Daxx-Lorenzo898]

Empire Earth 3 is what nailed the coffin shut

[@MRayner59]

No kidding. What a dreadful piece of shit.

[@gafasd]

This game was so good me and my sister got in fistfights over the gamedisc. Until she pissed me off beyond belief and I threw the disc at the wall shattering it and our relative sibling-peace.

[@Superschokokeks]

true siblings

[@Transgender-ProphetMohammed]

Wille A U smacked her properly?

[@spade8]

I still come back to this game in 2019 because of the nostalgia

[@robashton8606]

"Of course I am French! Why else do you think I have this _outrageous_ accent?!?"

[@JustinY.]

Now that's a lot of effort to play the game.

[@pikistikman]

Justin Y. Who ARE you?

[@MandaloreGaming]

I nearly laughed to tears when I first saw the "SECRET TO BEAT ALIENS" image. Empire Earth doesn't have aliens. I still don't know what it means.

[@JustinY.]

MandaloreGaming lol

[@comradecommissar1945]

wow these farcry 2 mods look great!

[@deans.wright6632]

This

[@Zedpade]

I remember playing this game at a realy low age when I couldnt even read. I played this game so much, I knew by heart what to click to start a skirmish.... but thats it, I kept playing comp stomp over and over again. I always had to ask my older brother or parents to tell me what to do because I couldnt do campaign without reading/understanding the objectives. Damn, the music and some sound effects still haunt me..... I also remember being home alone sitting on 1 damn campaign mission for hours because (as I said) I couldnt read hahaha.

[@duchessskye4072]

Your childhood reminds me of mine. Very similar regarding this game. So nostalgic...

[@Zedpade]

@@duchessskye4072 the sound of futuristic soldiers dieing, civilians dieing or explosions still haunt me haha

[@Elenrai]

Did you spend way too much time making your base look "nice" instead of trying to win the compstomp games aswell? :D

[@Zedpade]

@@Elenrai lmao yeah, putting the same buildings beside eachother was a no-go.

[@Elenrai]

@@Zedpade lol we should play sometime!

[@TheKyotoEffect]

I LOVED EMPIRE EARTH. This is such a cool throwback to see you review this. I had the gold edition, too, so that was so cool. (:

[@PineJayForge]

I distinctly remember the aggresvely French "Thank you for your business" when you buy siege from a merchant during the William campaign when I was a kid. I didn't have headphones at the time, I feel bad for my parents.

[@ilo3456]

I love Empire Earth 2 but goddamn I wish we could simply erase Empire Earth 3 from existence, like really it needs to not exist, the sooner we can erase it from reality the better

[@friendlytalbot4050]

I never played it and no one ever explains what's wrong with it, only that it should not have existed. So... what's up with that?

[@niallreid7664]

Mauricius Rex I second this.

[@Justacheese]

I can give you a somewhat long explanation. First off all the campaigns were removed in favor or a conquer the world map. there were only 5 ages instead of 15 for EE 1. You had: Ancient (think iron age from age of empires), medieval, nepolianic or industrial, modern, and the future. There were only 3 civilizations to choose from, but at least they were vastly different. West had big strong costly units, east swarmed you with heaps of weak units and east was really mobile.. I think. I can't really remember. The units also had awful voicelines. They were awful jokes that you would hear over and over until you wanted to bash your head in. For example the attack heli's in the modern age would say "Take a picture why don't ya? It will last longer!" in a really condescending voice that sounded like they were saying it to you. And then lastly it just got bonkers by the end era's. The east got these biological engineered abominations that looked like they came from half life 2. They could spawn zombies. The game was advertised as historically accurate >:I and lastly to top it all off the soundtrack sucked. nothing memorable at all. The main theme was the same part of a tune nearly the whole way through.

[@ilo3456]

Cheese sandvich Dude, I grew up with the First Empire Earth, I played the sequel and then I played 3, so I do know this game

[@ThePhoenix986]

CPU Purple Heart/Neptune He's answering Mauricius Rex

[@zimbu_]

Could have mentioned the scenario editor. I remember a lot of people made their own scenarios to share online on sites like Empire Earth Heaven. Always nice to see somebody remember Empire Earth. The original was a very high quality game that has been almost forgotten.

[@mrvex6695]

Yeah, the editor is great and somewhat simple on the surface, yet it has some depth for those interested. The best type of editor....

[@redgeneral5792]

I loved the scenario editor. I made the Industrial and WW 1 European Roleplay scens.

[@redgeneral5792]

Yep. Indy Roleplay took me a year to develop. WWI not so much, but made an intro animation of the French going over the top and charging the German trench.

[@kentreed2011]

When I was a kid I used to make cities in this game while playing against enemy AI and I had basically no military. You can guess how it went everytime the AI attacked lol. This game's scenario editor was awesome too, one could make beautiful cities and cool battle maps. I used to be really creative with these when I was a kid but now I can't find myself creating anything. I guess my childhood creativity and patience are gone.

[@akadopeboi]

I would love love love to see a remaster of this game. More than any RTS out right now.

[@SpeedySPCFan]

My only experience with the original EE is really odd. I remember buying No One Lives Forever at a thrift store a while back so I could have a legit copy to play and show off, and after bringing it home, I found something I didn't notice in the game box when I bought it: someone left their copy of the EE Expansion in there. So now I have this copy of the expansion but I don't own the original game.

[@dirpyturtle69]

lel

[@jcmchandsomeface2292]

When taking about the Russian campaign and Clear Sky came on I was in tears

[@mothballmouth]

How does this video have 2 mil views and you don't have a million subs yet? You deserve it clearly.

[@darkiller76521]

7:37 don't try to slide by me with that age of mythology music.

[@konnigkratz]

To be fair, your critique of the soundtrack that one of them is less exciting - it's meant to be the calm music in a game, so yeah

[@jeltje50]

Yeah that "calmer track" was still pretty dope imo. It's not nearly as epic feeling as the main theme. But it still feels pretty dope. And is still really rememberable.

[@sticc3978]

@@jeltje50 DAMN RIGHT!!

[@SisyphusJP]

Lol track was so good that unlike most games it got used for hundreds of documentaries lol

[@brohvakiindova4452]

@@jeltje50 just imagine the main theme playing in the background on a 8+ hours long match... it's not designed for that... I think they did a really good job with the in game music

[@femmeamor]

Did no one else notice that it sounds almost exactly like one from HoMM3? The real question is who ripped off who?

[@Katyusha666]

The lines that were seared into my mind: "For the crown!" "Saxon dogs!"

[@danielrobertson2154]

Yakisoba! Instant ramen..

[@TheManLenin8]

DEATH to the heathens

[@omnipenne9101]

I used to play this game religiously as a kid. Had so much fun playing local multiplayer with the family.

[@iknowwhoiam1456]

Ahh yes my childhood I loved the terrain building part

[@nikolaytsankov9066]

BUILD A WALL AROUND MOSCOW FOR GOD'S SAKE

[@RRRanTVPianoMusic]

AND MAKE THE UKRAINIANS PAY FOR IT

[@IllyrianTiger99]

The cheeki breeki music made me laugh so much I actually fell from my chair and couldn't breathe for 3 minutes You earned yourself a like mate :D

[@MrJustonemorevoice]

"Some of these lines have been burned into my brain" *ATTACK WITH SHARPENED STEEEEL!*

[@SomeGuy-dq8pn]

I humbly disagree on your critique of Empire Earth's soundtrack, it was awesome and was great music to strategize to