Empire Earth: Gold Edition

My favorite RTS from my childhood is finally available on steam. Nostalgic.

MY NAME IS METHOS

What can I say - take a trip down memory lane with this absolute masterpiece. Despite 23 years having passed, almost a quarter of a century, I still find it thoroughly enjoyable - and not just for nostalgic feelings. I must say, however, that I remembered this to be quite easier. Either I became retarded in this span of time, but I would argue I always was, or the better performance of modern hardware is a favorable factor for the AI. At medium, it was routinely beating my ass up, whereas I used to play at the highest level of difficulty. Also, I did not remember in the slightest games lasting well over 3 hours, but that's what happening to me now. 10/10, not for weak pu*sy

Classic RTS that runs well on modern systems (mostly) where you literally span the whole history of man in some sessions. Highly recommend!

Finally! I've missed you old friend.

It's always fun to nuke the Bronze Age back to the Stone Age.

I'll gladly add this childhood memory to my library, thank you very much! The game seems to run fine, at least on my system, which is not a given for 25+ year old title. In terms of graphics, there was probably no way around some hick-ups without a major overhaul. As it is, high resolutions feel really zoomed in, cursor/writing become tiny, UI becomes too stretched or squished, but all that's no biggie. What's worse for me is that for some reason ground-UI elements (i.e. circles around units, effect area of buildings, arrow for unit formation direction, etc.) seem to glitch into the ground and become tricky to see. This is not the case on water, so I believe that it has to do the ground textures themselves. My GOG version does not have this issue, so I'll probably continue to play that one instead of Steam.