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Whats the name of a strategy game that resembles Age of Empires but is more futuristic?

• Whats the name of a strategy game that resembles Age of Empires but is more futuristic? My uncle had a game for PC that I played for a while. It was a strategy game, the game-play was exactly like the one of the Age of Empires series. The difference is that the game was a bit more futuristic, and you'd get heroes the more you played the story mode. Also the heroes would lvl up the more u used them, and they had a few special moves that you could use. I recall that there was a heroe that used gas to damage/kill enemy units. Thing is my uncle is a jerk and he wouldn't let me play the game, and now he doesn't want to tell me the name of the game. I'd truly appreciated any type of feed back. :)

• Answer:

  Might be Empire Earth. You should check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Earth and look at the screen-shots...