The creator and lead designer of the award-winning, best-selling Age of Empires^® Rick Goodman has conceived Empire Earth to be the premier historical real-time strategy game, offering players unprecedented freedom to customize both the historical scope of their game and the character of their civilizations. Improving upon the Age of Empires interface, Goodman and his team are making Empire Earth as accessible as Age with far more excitement and depth.

• Epic scope — spans over 500,000 years, from the discovery of fire to laser technology and beyond.
• Customize your civilization to fit your strategic style by choosing from over 100 attributes, or choose a predefined civilization.
• 12 historical epochs — replay all of human history or just the period that interests you.
• Train more than 200 different combat units.
• Battle on land, air and sea with cavalry, cannon, battleships, submarines, helicopters and even thermonuclear ballistic missiles.
• Fight wars of the future with robotic and anti-gravity units using energy weapons.
• Enlist great heroes - such as Napoleon and Patton — to help lead your empire to supremacy.
• Customize your military units using up to 10 adjustable attributes, such as attack strength, armor and hit points.
• Deplete opponents' populations by conquering and assuming their citizens.

• Unleash terrible Calamities, such as volcanoes, earthquakes and plagues.
• Construct specialized buildings and awe-inspiring Wonders of the World.
• Research scores of exciting technologies.
• Fight with eight or more allies and enemies online.
• Embark on several large single-player campaigns, including training scenarios.
• Explore random maps, from small to giant, with various terrain types, including marsh, desert, gravel, snow and ice.
• Create your own custom scenarios and maps with the versatile campaign builder (included).

Covering the Paleolithic era to the Nano Age of the 23rd Century, Empire Earth serves up RTS on an epic scale.

Command history's best-known civilizations, such as the Greeks, English, French and Germans, or evolve your own as you play by choosing from well over 100 unique attributes. Colonize or conquer surrounding territories and establish new settlements. Plan and build walled towns and city-states. Construct Temples and Hospitals to protect and enhance your growing empire. Your Town Centers inspire defenders to fight harder and can be transformed into powerful Capitals. Wood, coal, oil and other natural resources provide raw materials for expansion. Over a dozen technology tracks offer numerous opportunities for further advancement.

Train more than 200 types of combat units from every era in history, including Earth's future. Instantly improve the combat abilities of your troops with specific upgrades. Lead your armies to glorious victory with the help of Charlemagne, Churchill and other great heroes, from not only yesterday but also today and tomorrow. Fight in good weather during the day on an open plain, or carry out surprise assaults in the black of night or the dead of winter. Attack unsuspecting enemies with stealthy submarines and aircraft. Soften up an enemy position with artillery fire, carpet-bombing, or off-shore shelling, or launch ballistic missiles. Wage epic sky battles with over 30 types of aircraft, such as Sopwith Camels, Spitfires, F-15s, Apache Gunships and B-2 Bombers. Fight massive naval engagements with more than 40 different ships, from 16th Century ships-of-the-line to modern aircraft carriers. Board and capture enemy vessels. Train colossal and intelligent 'mechs to fight the battles of the future.

In Empire Earth, the military option is just one possible path to victory. Surreptitiously convert an enemy's citizens with furtive priests. Instruct a prophet to invoke devastating calamities such as volcanoes, earthquakes and plagues. Pick away at opponents' populations by taking over their citizens. Construct Wonders of the World that endow your civilization with special abilities while demonstrating its superiority.

Empire Earth: the most extraordinary and ambitious RTS ever created.