When comparing Empire Earth vs OpenRA, the Slant community recommends Empire Earth for most people. In the question“What are the best RTS games for PC?” Empire Earth is ranked 19th while OpenRA is ranked 26th. The most important reason people chose Empire Earth is:
Fight in 14 different epochs. You can start 10,000 BC and develop your civilization up to the future. Each time period being notable, thus creating a change in gameplay and scenery.
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Pros
Pro Evolving gameplay and scenery
Fight in 14 different epochs. You can start 10,000 BC and develop your civilization up to the future. Each time period being notable, thus creating a change in gameplay and scenery.
Pro Modern improved recreation of the classic game
Classic Command and Conquer with overhauled UI, rebalanced gameplay, replays and observer mode.
Pro Fosters creativity
Features an in-game map editor and is geared towards modding.
Cons
Con Long battles
Aging up takes a lot of time making battles a lot longer. Which many may not want to sink the time into.
Con In a grey zone
(The C&C guys are actually well aware of this project and are fine with it... so this isn't true.)
All CnC assets are still copyrighted by Westwood/EA and not freely available anymore, so per law, it is illegal to share them as mods. Also, Dune was never available as free download, which makes the whole mod illegal as well.