"Your probably reading this review right now becasue your not sure if you should buy Empires: Dawn of the modern world. Well you definatly should. Here are the goods-and bads of the game.

As you probably already know the game starts in the medival age and ends in in WW2. This is awesome becasue it gives you the experience of getting to build foot-solders and archers then an hour later your pumping out tanks and bombers. The games graphics are very good. A little bit like warcraft 3 graphics but alittle less cartoony. The game is also very balanced in the way stainless steet studios designed each race to have their own special units. In the box comes with colored pictures and information about all the special units. For those of you that get boared building various units and comanding them into battle then you will be happy to know that the game includes variouse diffrent "powers" that can be bought at the university. These powers include variouse things like call down a meteror or build all units in que lines. This ads a great twist to the game.

Another awesome thing about the game is the wonders you can build. As like age of the empires you can build wonders to win the game but not like age of the empires if you have that setting turned off then it will still benifit you to build a wonder because each diffrent reace has a special that comes with the wonder. For example if you build a wonder and are playing U.S then you can drop 30 or so troops anywhere on the map.

Another incrddible thing about this game is the fact that you can change the poulation limit to the way you want it. Lowest is 250 and highest is 80,000 yes 80.000. There are more between these two numbers.

This game does have internet play . Oh yes i almost forgot the combat is amazing. Unlike warcraft or age of the empires and all the other rts's empires has sweet combat. Certain units will make your men fly in the air or fly back 5ft to there death. And when buildings get destroyed you can her glas braking and crakling as they slowly fall down.

Though no game is perfect (except halo) there are a few faults. The first thing you will notice is the game is not that smooth, like warcraft is a very smooth game. The frame rates are a little slow as you scroll around the worlds.)by the way the some maps have huge moutains that most units cant cross). After about 2 days of playing you wont even notice the bad frame rates. Another thing you will notice is how it takes a very long tim e to get your economy going but you can switch the setting to action mode which makes your citizens harvest fatsre and move faster so you can get to fighting. The only catch is there less resources.

All and all this is a great game really worth buying. Its only$30.00 at bestbuy to. I give it a 9 out of 10." - KillaGorilla