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Great graphics - Poor playability

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing Strategy games since 1985. I remember a game originally written for Unix computers that was illegally translated to the PC called Empire. The first RTS games like Age of Empires blew me away and I followed that line until Age of Mythology. At that point, I switched to The Empire Earth series and played Empire Earth until Empire Earth II was released. I couldn't wait to buy it, but I have been very disappointed. The game has great graphics and sound, but the computer opponents don't play very well and are pretty easily defeated. Age of Mythology chased me away from the Age of Empires series and Empire Earth II has chased me away from the Empire Earth series. I am now playing Age of Empires III. It is a much better game. If you are new to RTS games, you will have fun with Empire Earth II but if you have been doing this for a while, I would pass on this game.

very challenging game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game for my husband who is a computer game freak. This game is very challenging and very exciting. The graphics are fantastic.

awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game is the best strategy war game i have ever played! you can play the time epocs of caveman to future! you can build atom bombers, musketeers, ironclads, robots, battleships and millions of other units! make trade routes, declare war, make armys, and all kinds of things! even make your own costum battle! each different country has 3 special units that only they can make, for instance germanys 3 special units are barbarians, german knights, and panzers. BUY THIS GAME!!!!!

Not that good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i thought the the new empire earth II would be as thrilling and exciting as the first version. Wrong. Requieres too much ram resources, and the game it's just not fun anymore, even tough has some cool new features but the game isn't friendly enough.

Great Game But Confusing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is excellent! The graphics are great and I love the abundance of features in this game! It is certainly an improvement over the original Empire Earth. However, the game does take a little getting used to and can be confusing.

Horrible... Just Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 24
Date: May 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wow... talk about a shocker. I loved EE1 and thought that EE2 would be one heck of an improvement. I could not have been more wrong. My first clue was how slowly my mouse was moving on the screen... ok, so I'll just adjust the mouse options and speed them up. Guess what... there are 2 mouse options, reverse buttons and scroll speed. That's it. Unreal. (and for all you who like to dismiss complaints like that b/c of a poor system, let me just say that this is running on a 2 month old P4 3.2Ghz (HT) with 1 G ram, top of the line GeForce card on a custom built platform so this is a game play issue, not a system issue.)

Alright, so I'll try to play anyway... what's a little mouse lag. So I go to configure the map. Remember all those great little selections from other games (terrain age, wetness, etc). Those are missing too. Yeah you get to pick a few options but nowhere near as many as I'd like (or as many as are in most other games). Fine, I'll suck it up... So I picked "Gigantic Map"... guess what... It ain't very gigantic. I have a civilization on each side of me and can't build too much b/c the territory is so frickin small. So, let's go kill some nieghbors... no, can't do that until you build a university, garrison some citizens and then RESEARCH how to attack. C'mon. That's just stupid.

Now I know each game has a learning curve, so I try to stick it out. Let's build a little army, do a little research and get on with it. A note on the research... I can't seem to tell that it makes any difference. It really is hard to determine which technologies do which (instead of being "gunpowder" they have names like "spear point"(having nothing I might add to do with Archery or spearmen)).

For sake of my fingers, I'll stop the list now but let me assure you the litany of mistakes go much beyond what I have written here. How this game has been rated so high by everyone I'll never know. The concept is great, the graphics are good but the interface and game play suck to level I can only barely describe. How this ever got out of Beta this way is beyond me.

For the first time in a long time I played a game for less then an hour, pulled it out of the cd and I plan to send it back to the manufacturer with a little note saying I do not "accept the license terms".

I guess I would be less upset if this had been one of those "bargain" rack games for 9.99 that you had never heard of and we're taking a risk on but this is EMPIRE EARTH. One of the acknowledge masters of the RTS world.

How sad to see such a great franchise like EE die such a slow and ugly death. Sierra... What the heck happened!?!?!?

Much better that original...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: April 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I like it. Its much easier to defeat than the old one. Some of the concepts are the same, others are changed beyond recognition.
Cheats are there, but in smaller quantities. But they are not needed to defeat the AI on easy. Some new units never really come into play.

What a disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 15
Date: April 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Empire Earth 1 was brilliant. I purchased this game hoping to find our next Lan party game but was so incredibly disappointed.

It felt like a huge lack of units and it was simple to outtech the AI even on the hardest levels.

I was even able to form treaties with both AI while they duked it out and then wipe them from the face of the earth once I hit level 15.

Also disappointing is that the game requires the CD in the drive to play. Most modern games don't anymore. I'm guessing the pirates they are trying to stop aren't hindered by this CD check and the consumers that paid for the game are.

Just a small simple review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've played RTS games for a long time. Most of them won't wow you with the graphics but make up for that in gameplay. I had been itching to purchase this game ever since it came out but really didnt want to dish out the full price. I remember the first EE to be a whole lot better (gameplay and graphics wise) than this pile of crap. The graphics arent good... at all. I dont think i've seen so little detail put into units since the original Age of Empires. But, just because the graphics are terrible doesnt mean the gameplay is bad...or does it? Gameplay is pretty crumby. I'm not really sure what it is about it... but it makes me want to yawn. Audio is terrible as well. Bomb blasts, mortars, gunfire... it all sounds so muffled. But this is just a personal review from my experience with this product. I just wish there was a "I want my money back button" as so many people have said in the past. :\

If you think Empire Earth 2 is one of those plain, simple RTS games, then you are wrong.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: February 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Now I have played a lot of RTS (Real-Time Strategy) games in my spare time. But I expected Empire Earth 2 to be like the first Empire Earth game except for graphics. I was wrong when I downloaded the demo of EE2 (Empire Earth 2). I was excited even though it was a demo! Realistic battles and expanding your puny, Stone Age men to lasers and mechs in the final epoch (epic if you can't pronounce it). Soon, I bought the game and boy, was it incredible! Now what is exciting is that you can have the total population to 2000! Except you won't be able to create all those soldiers. Anyway, I have played EE (Empire Earth) it was interesting, but I wanted more than what I got in the first game. I wished for something like a thing inwhich you can just use a scroll and let the A.I do the sorting when it comes to gathering resources. When I played EE2, it had even more than what I barganed for: A War Planner system that uses teamwork with your allies, A Citizen Manager, and many more that I never expected in a RTS game, ever! The game is alive with weather that affects gameplay, hurricanes, blizzards, and sandstorms don't cause damage; however, they do affect line of sight and airplanes have to return to their base. I experienced a hailstorm once during my conquests. And if you want to see a battle close-up, press PgDn for down and PgUp for up. And Crtl left and right arrows to rotate incase you were were reading the EE2 guide too fast.

I enjoyed starting in Epoch 1 in humble beginnings and I will list you the epochs and what they mean

Epoch 1= Stone Age
Epoch 2= Copper Age
Epoch 3=Bronze Age
Epoch 4=Iron Age
Epoch 5=Dark Age
Epoch 6=Middle Age
Epoch 7=Renaissance Age
Epoch 8=Imperial Age
Epoch 9=Enlightment Age
Epoch 10=Industial Age
Epoch 11=Modern Age
Epoch 12=Atomic Age
Epoch 13=Digital Age
Epoch 14=Genetic Age
Epoch 15=Synthetic Age.

EE2 is based on historical nations and every epoch is based on historical times (except for Genetic, Synthetic, and a bit of Digial Ages). In time, as you learn techologies, you will be able to advance through time. What I also like is that in the orignal game you start in 500,000 B.C and you stop at the future ages. But in the sequel, it starts at 10,000 B.C, giving even MORE historical accuracy.

There are 80% more buildings than in EE and more units and civilizations! 3 more epochs have been added to the orignal 12 in EE, and many more features such as territories. It feels like a RTS version of "Monopoly". And through the start of Mankind, people have been scattered after the Tower of Babel affair (they wanted to reach Heaven but God made their language different and they couldn't finish the tower). But they made certain tribes and soon, they became nations. And if you betray the A.I they will call you Judas (When Judas betrayed Jesus). I thought that was fine for the game not to hide any Christian words.

And the units are great, from swords and shields to lasers and mechs, the sci-fi world has not been revealed in the final epoch (15.) And along the way, you must build certain buildings both economical and military to survive. The A.I has improved big time. You have to build your armies quickly, or the enemy will rush you with a large army! And nobody wants that, now do they?

I think that the EE2 deserve some credit for their hard work on Empire Earth 2.

P.S There is an expansion for Empire Earth 2. I won't review it until it comes out, but if you are curious, it is called Empire Earth 2: The Art of Supremacy.

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