Civ3 and other strategy games

[Aslan]

Has anyone played some of the other strategy games that have come out recently? Besides Civ3, there are several new strategy games on the market in time for Christmas. Here's just a few that I've seen at software stores:

Empire Earth
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
Acropolis
Cossacks
Battle Realms
World War III
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns (and its expansion pack)
Monopoly Tycoon
Europa Universalis II
Etherlords

Have you played any of these games? How do they compare to Civ3 (not just whether it is turnbased or RTS)? Are any of them worth looking into or buying?

I have played the Kohan game and found it somewhat enjoyable, and as a Star Wars fan, the Age of Empires II spin-off game looks quite interesting indeed! But, truth be told, I'm really interested to hear about Empire Earth or Cossacks. But any comments anyone has about any of these games would be helpful (barring that they not be unproductive critiques, with nothing but contemptuous divel on the glories of CivIII over "inferior games"...I want good, even-handed assessments of the games you've played, and how they stack up feature- and gameplay-wise with CivIII).

Thanks, and Merry Christmas!



Aslan the Lion

 

[Hobie]

one game not on your list that i love is conquest: frontier wars. the ai in this game is pretty amazing. the computer is good at making coordinated attacks against you and you allies will save your butt every now and then just when you thought you were done for. because it's based on a limited command points model, it doesn't turn into a tank-rush game where you just pump out units. there's more strategy in this rts game than i've ever seen in any other game. highly recommend you guys go download the free demo from happy puppy or something.

 

[Gumby3000]

I've played Empire Earth once with a friend of mine.

But it's not as fun as Civ3 is, but it's worth playing now and then

 

[cutiestar]

I hated Empire earth, but that is extremely biased, as I hate all real time, couldn't stand Age of Empires either, or Populous.

Infact i guess I am just not a gaming person, i am addicted to Heroes and I will be in to buy Heroes 4 about as fast as i was in to buy CIV III, and they are the only two game series i have ever loved.

When I was young "ELITE" ruled on a commodore 64

Anyway back on topic, I didn't like Empire Earth much, but it did seem like a good version of Age of empires if you liked that.

 

[Gumby3000]

I think that Empire Earth and Civ3 have many things in common, but Civ3 is for the turn-based gamer and EE is for the realtime-player

 

[cafka]

I don't think you can compare realtime strategy games with Civilisation III - the gameplay differs alot. And yes, I've played some of those games mentioned, mostly Cossacks which was.. eh.. pretty ok

For a while.

But Civ3 - oh my god - thats an incredible game, haven't played any civ-games before I purchased it; just got a tip from a good friend. And now I'm in love with the game.

 

[Aslan]

I don't want this to be a thread on the goods/evils of RTS or turn-based, I think I outlined that in the first post.

 

[Doomsday]

Played Empire Earth,
Very good game. I enjoyed it quite a bit, going to buy it. The graphics rock. I love the evolution from the stone age to the space age.

Monopoly Tycoon,
Simplistic, but fun. Download the demo, you will get a good sense for what the game is. Different Twist on the monoply name, it is fun.

World War III
Awesome game. I love the customization of unitss, the graphics are great. I liked the story line, AI is a challenge as well. A very in depth RTS gmae.

Haven't played the rest.
my 2 cents

 

[Aslan]

Thanks for your tw cents. That's the kinda stuff I'm looking for. Does anyone else have any other comments about these games?