- Unprecedented unit and faction customization give you the ability to change units and research in the middle of combat to overcome any challenge.
- Full Games for Windows, Direct X compatible, Live for Windows support.
- Dual-layered gameplay featuring intense tactical battles and strategic global mode where you manage resources, consolidate territories, and maneuver armies.
- Massive-scale units that dwarf conventional RTS units.
- Developed by Petroglyph, makers of Star Wars: Empire at War.
Product Description
Save the world or destroy it as you take charge of several unique factions with awesome powers and spectacular units. Control massive-scale alien war machines that are fully customizable. With on-the-fly tactical customization, you can dynamically swap out weaponry, rework your tech tree, and retrain units in the middle of combat to thwart your foe and seize the advantage. This advance on the traditional rock-paper-scissors model of balance gives players even more c… More >>
Universe At War: Earth Assault
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I wasted enough time trying to play this sorry game, so I won’t waste much time trying to review it. This game had a great premise and some good ideas, but the gameplay is just too clumsy. There are much better games out there. Try Faces of War, instead!
Rating: 1 / 5
I really want to love this game. It seems like it should be really fun. The concepts for the three factions are interesting and the visuals are great.
The problem is, many people, including myself, can’t play the game, despite meeting or exceeding the system requirements. The game tends to hang up, crash, or otherwise bug out either immediately upon startup or about 5-10 minutes into matches. There have been two patches already, and neither has fixed the problem. Petroglyph and SEGA are aware of this issue, and don’t seem to be doing anything about it.
I’m abslutely sure I would like this game if it would actually run properly.
Rating: 1 / 5
Installs Securom. This is one of those copyright protection programs that you may never be rid of. Many people have had issues including myself with starting the game because incompatibilities between securom and other software makes securom think the DVD is a copy. Do some reading and you will also see that Sega offers no solution. Its been 18 months now, still no fix. Do your self a favor and try a game that does not have these frustrations.
Hail Flavius.
Rating: 1 / 5
I pretty much agree with the other reviewers. It’s a fun game to play with a few annoying things. I’ve only played the single-player. First of all the auto patch leads to a dead link, to find the update you have to goto the sega.com site and download it manually. Addtionally if you’re running Vista like I am, it will crash randomly and run slower than mud. I almost threw the disk in the garbage. But magically if you uncheck DX10 in the settings, it will run just fine. On the upside it’s easy and fun to play, it’s just too bad that the various units/races seem to borrow a little from every genre in sci-fi, if done right it would have been charming, although it feels more like the developers just wanted to rush the thing out the door. it shows. Is it worth ten bucks or whatever. Yeah. Fifty? Nope.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve played a lot of RTS games trying to find the one that sticks out. The last good RTS game that I played was probably StarCraft. Even though this game is nothing like StarCraft it has the content needed to make a good RTS game. Let me give you some example:
There 3 races in this game and each one has completely different units and buildings. They allow for the gamer to create a different strategy each time the game is played. In most RTS games, if you have the largest army (Guardians, Carriers, BattleCruiser in StarCraft) you will win…usually. In this game the gamer must determine what is the best course of action against the race you are playing and exploit it!!
Because this game came from a smaller developer (petroglyphgames) they have the ability to bring in new innovations and ideas to the game world. By looking at StarCraft 2 there isn’t anything new…just by what I can see (I may be wrong on that one). This game has great potentional, and I’m sure the expansion pack for it will be sweet (just like it was for Star Wars Empire at War made by petroglyphgames).
This game is a definate buy if you are looking for a different RTS game. If you like the boring same ‘ole RTS keep your Empire Earth 3. BTW- the developers of C&C3 are the ones that developed this game!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5