For the uninitiated, Empire Earth (released by Stainless Steel Studios in 2001) was the megalomaniac’s answer to Age of Empires . It promised nothing less than the entirety of human history—from the Prehistoric age with stick-wielding cavemen to the Nano age with laser-armed robots. It was ambitious, clunky, and utterly magnificent.
The worst-case scenario usually unfolded like this: please insert the empire earth cd