Its singleplayer experience is just plain bad. I can only really recommend Empire Earth 1 if it's deeply nostalgic for you, or if you have friends to play multiplayer with. I really wanted to like this game as a kid, I defended it tooth and nail based on the awesome game it could have been, but looking back even the strongest prescription of rose-tinted glasses can't mask how much of a turd the singleplayer experience is. The campaign is really the intersection of the game's two crippling faults: a non-existent AI, and a lack of cohesive creative vision. If the Empire Earth scenarios are less well designed gameplay-wise than those in AoEII, then I won't bother.Дarvin: The Empire Earth 1 campaigns are absolutely terrible. I am not overly interested in the cheesy implementation of in-game cinematics - which from what I've seen on Youtube really do elevate the camp to new levels, not what I expect from a (mostly) history-based game - but am asking specifically about the gameplay vs AoEII scenarios. I say AoEII because there isn't a chance in hell that the Empire Earth scenarios can rival those in Empire Earth II (again, from a mission design perspective - having played both, I can say AoEII is good but not as advanced as EEII).

Still, while it cannot compete with Empire Earth II, I figured maybe the campaigns in Empire Earth (and its expansion) still manage to heave themselves up to the level of the campaigns in Age of Empires II (speaking of the original Age of Kings)? From a mission design perspective I mean. It isn't exactly news that Empire Earth has badly aged: the graphics is one thing, but what really sucks is the AI and personally I can't stand the idea of all civilisations looking the same (vaguely Western aesthetic). Now I wonder if I should play the campaigns in the original Empire Earth? I like to play the scenarios and campaigns of various RTS games - they provide ideas for my own modding efforts.

That said, I am generally interested in RTS scenario design (both history-based and fictional). A few years ago, I made up my mind when considering getting into this series: based on the info I gathered from the Web, I decided to get Empire Earth II and Empire Earth II - The Art of Supremacy, and NOT Empire Earth + expansion. I only tried Empire Earth once at a friend's place as a teenager (over a decade ago), and at the time it seemed appealing.

Empire earth 1 vs 2