Zardon

Read The Review Here
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Video game franchises are volatile entities. With each successive release of a popular franchise, publishers walk a fine line between pleasing existing fans and attracting new ones. Driving fresh sales with changes to gameplay can backfire terribly, as the fans that made a series a success in the first place may walk away in disgust. Yet publishers are reluctant to ditch previously successful branding, so a profitable series is likely to soldier on until its final iteration resembles its first release in name only. Some games have such valuable pedigrees that even the worst gameplay isn't enough to hamper the critical reception; take the extended technology demo known as Doom 3, for instance.

Other games, however, such as Sierra's recently released real-time strategy game Empire Earth 3, can't survive on branding alone. 2007 has seen a number of superb releases in the real-time strategy genre, and the Empire Earth name alone isn't enough to carry the third game in the series if the gameplay isn't up to par. Given the generally excellent reception of the series' previous release, continued success for the series is no easy task - and by no means guaranteed.

BlueMak

System Specs

I like the review, but I disagree with the score.
Unfortunately more and more sites and magazines consider 50% to be a low score and not an average (where 0 is zero and 100 the max).
Leaving that minor detail aside, I enjoyed reading the review and I still can't believe how one company can massacre a game as they have with EE3. It's like they were trying to ruin the series and produce the most sucking game of the year.
What a disgrace for a game, I wish the developers were ancient japanese warriors.

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"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,
You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis

Skull

regardless of whether it gets 50% or 25%, its still fair to be considered a crap game. which the other 98% of the text is detailing.

BlueMak

System Specs

Which is why I said I like the review apart from the final score :-p

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"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,
You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis