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Empire Earth

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This page details pre-release information and/or media for Empire Earth.

Trailers#

Trailers show how the game looked quite different compared to the final.

  • 0:16 to 0:20 Citizens previously were far more ape-like.
  • 0:36 Tanks caught on a large fire, they do not in the final.
  • 0:43 to 0:52 the flamethrower had a huge flame, and various cyber skin changes.

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  • From 0:15 the in-game GUI was transparent as seen at the bottom left, and different skins.
  • 0:17 and 0:25 sad face placeholder icon and various other places.
  • 0:27 looks like there was a campaign that included the UFO that was scrapped.
  • 0:41 the apple icon is very different to the final version.
  • 0:45 the Capitol building is a mere shell with only pillars compared to the final.

Screenshots#

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Specifically: Comparison screenshots

The pre-release screenshots below all show:

  • Much more darker models than the final.
  • Completely different UI.
  • 6 different resources were planned. Stone, Gold, Wood and Food resource is shown, but two other unknown resources. One resembles a barrel, another an animal, one of these would have become Iron, and the other scrapped.

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A statue on the right does not even resemble anything in the final release.

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It's likely Information Age became Nano or Digital age in the final. There appears to be a much earlier model of the Teleporter and Cybers.

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The dock is extremely different from the final release.

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