Strategy fans, dust off your citizen-microing skills and prepare to guide humanity through the ages. Rebellion has officially made the impossible possible: the 2001 real-time strategy masterpiece, Empire Earth: Gold Edition, has finally marched its way onto Steam for the first time ever!
For years, PC gamers have had to jump through hoops, configure compatibility settings, or hoard old physical discs to get this titan of the genre running on modern rigs. Now, Rebellion has brought the classic home, fully compatible with Windows 10 and 11.
What Makes Empire Earth an Absolute Legend?
If you missed out on the golden age of RTS gaming, Empire Earth was the ultimate answer to the question: “What if Age of Empires covered the entire history of human civilisation?” Designed by Rick Goodman (one of the brilliant minds behind the original Age of Empires), the game didn’t just stop at the Imperial or Industrial era. It blew the doors wide open, spanning 15 distinct epochs and 5,000 years of history.
Prehistoric Age ? Stone Age ? Bronze Age ? Middle Ages ? Atomic Age ? Digital Age ? Space Age
You start your journey as a handful of primitive humans foraging for berries and throwing rocks. By the end of a long match, you are managing a high-tech superpower, utilising cybernetic mechs, nuclear bombers, and orbital laser shields. The sheer scale of tech transitions remains unmatched to this day.
What’s Included in the Gold Edition?
Rebellion didn’t just give us the base game; they’ve delivered the complete, definitive experience package for just $5.99 / £4.75.
- The Original Empire Earth: Experience seven epic single-player campaigns tracking monumental turning points in human history—from Ancient Greece and the Norman Conquests to the futuristic, fictional Russian Novaya USSR.
- The Art of Conquest Expansion: Expands your horizons even further, adding brand-new campaigns (including a colonise-the-stars Roman space campaign) and shifting the final epoch straight into the far-flung Space Age.
- The Complete Arsenal: Command more than 200 unique units across land, sea, and air.
- Robust Editor Tools: Revisit the nostalgic, deeply customizable map and scenario editors to build your own massive historical sandboxes.
Pro Tip for Veterans: While modern matchmade multiplayer servers are a thing of the past, the classic 8-player LAN multiplayer functionality is fully intact, making virtual LAN parties via tunneling software incredibly easy to set up with friends.
A Great Time to Be a Strategy Fan
If you want to dive even deeper into the nostalgia, Rebellion has also brought Empire Earth II: Gold Edition and Empire Earth III to Steam, giving you the option to grab the entire trilogy via The Empire Earth Collection bundle at a hefty 23% discount.
Whether you are a veteran looking to hear that iconic “Yes, Citizen?” voice clip again, or a newer RTS fan looking to see what peak 2001 strategy gaming felt like, this is a historic release you cannot afford to pass up.
Head over to Steam, grab your club (or your laser rifle), and go make Earth your empire!
Source – http://reb.to/EEGEYT
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