Development and Release
Development of the game began in 2005, shortly after Empire Earth II was shipped. The game engine was built on Empire Earth II's engine using Gamebryo 2.0 middleware, but was almost completely rewritten to allow the developers to create improved visual effects, ragdoll physics, more detailed models and higher resolution textures. Instead of making the units more realistic, Mad Doc worked to achieve a more "cartoonish" look.
On April 27, 2007 the American television show Numb3rs aired some footage of the game on CBS while it was still in development. The demo of EE3 was released on November 1 . The retail version of the game was released on November 6, 2007 in the US and November 16, 2007 in Europe. It was also released on Direct2Drive.
A patch became available two days after the game's release. EE3 is the first game in the series to be a Games for Windows title.
On November 12, 2007, a Gamespy arena portal was added for updates and stats.
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