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Empire Earth 2 PC Amazon.com
Prepare to serve up worldwide conquest on an epic scale once again with Empire Earth 2 -- the sequel to Gamespy.com's 2001 "PC Game of the Year," Empire Earth. Become the world's greatest conqueror of all time by creating, building, and forging the grandest of all empires as you progress through 15 epochs that span more than 10,000 years of history. This sequel introduces new units, powers, and leaders through three expansive campaigns and once again sets the standard for real-time strategy games. Featuring the latest technology that expands both the single-player and multi-player experience -- including an artificial intelligence system that will adapt to your every move -- Empire Earth 2 delivers dynamic challenges that require focused problem-solving. For instance, you will be forced to adapt to ever-changing weather conditions that will impact your civilization's growth and survival. With each new season or ecological cataclysm, you will be forced to make tough decisions and devise new strategies for survival. A growing civilization demands keen management, and to help you keep a close eye on your operations, Empire Earth 2 is equipped with an advanced Picture-in-Picture (PIP) management system. With it you can control various regions of your civilization simultaneously in real-time. This, along with the brand-new citizen management system and revamped research system, will help alleviate the need for tedious micro-management, especially during the heat of battle. Once you master the control of your gigantic empire, you'll be ready to engage real-life opponents over a LAN or the Internet. Empire Earth 2 supports nine types of multi-player games. Tournament features include multi-player cooperative scenarios, a new reward system for military, economic, and empire-expanding superiority, and a tactical planning map that helps coordinate efforts with your team and other players. Take your empire building to a new level with multi-player action that demands strategic knowledge and good negotiating skills. With Empire Earth 2, the future of civilization is in your hands. |
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 As always the sequel fails to live up to the original!, May 6, 2023
I bought this game with high hopes that it would be better than the first Empire Earth and was disapointed. The Graphics are maybe a little better but I wouldn't say they were anything spectacular.
One thing that is lacking in this game that was in the first is the ability to make your own civilization and what kind of characteristics it will have. You are offered a few different types of civilizations with preset characteristics and thats all the choice you have.
The AI in this game seems to be less of a challenge than in the first. While there may be some new units in the game they are still pretty much the same just have different names. Tech tree is more drawn out but the end result is the same. I have had the game 3 days and have already went back to the original, cause it was actually more challenging.
Bottom line it's just another example of a company trying to squeeze more money out of a sucessful title, but with nothing really new to offer, save your money and don't believe the hype!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Could have been better..., May 5, 2023
I have been playing history related rts's for quite some time now, starting with Age of Empires 1. The first empire earth didn't really bring anything new to the standard success formula of these games, it just had 'more'. When Rise of Nations came out a while back, I was astounded, it streamlined the clunky interface of the RTS and allowed you to do so much all at once without freaking out about how fast/slow you did things. This allowed you to focus on the combat aspects of the game. Empire Earth 2 is just Empire Earth 1 with some of the great features of Rise of Nations added on. The whole idea of capturing the enemy city center was taken from Rise of Nations. The whole 'frame in frame' idea with the little window in the lower right is really stupid. There is no point to this as you can just push the spacebar when anything happens. Besides the weather effects, the graphics are not that good. The game also has a pretty clunky interface. It is true that it is a deep game and everything, but then again so is Civilization 3. This game has almost no innovation, just taking parts of other proven games and throwing them together with duct tape. If you are going to play a history rts, with ages and such, get Rise of Nations instead.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
 Massively entertaining but rather complex. Very good RTS, May 2, 2023
Empire Earth 2 (EE2) is a worthy successor to Empire Earth (EE), filling a number of holes and adding massive amounts of content to the original game. The play is frantic and tough and enough content's been added so that you can spend days on a single game. I knock a star off both fun and overall for a combination of things making the game far more complex than it should - including inexcusably skimpy documentation - but this deserves 4/4 stars for fun and playability as a game that will keep you up late, late, late at night.
If you've never played 2001's EE, you're in for a treat with EE2. The concept here is pretty simple. You control a civilization from the stone age through far in the future, but as this is a real-time strategy (RTS) game you can't stop the clock like you do in Civ, meaning you're constantly fighting off opponents along the way. The real issue is why you should buy this over EE. The simplest way I can put it is to compare the original Civilization versus Civilization II, where the two games blew people away but for different reasons. The first one created a genre. The second added massive layers of complexity to the original creation.
Simply put, there's a lot more in EE2 than there was in EE. With 300 differing units (versus 200 in EE), more civs, and any number of new variables ranging from weather to tech advances to temporary bonuses, it means that the old "hold off the barbarians by building Hadrian's Wall until you advance and build 10 leviathans to do a Sherman's March through Georgia" RTS strategy doesn't work here. The AI has gotten a lot better, as well as the civilizations being more balanced. The two combine to force you to really have to know the ins and outs of both your civ and your opponent to win. Everything (resource management, unit management, battle strategy, and far more advanced diplomacy and battle plan coordination) becomes important to pay attention to, especially at higher difficulty levels. I view it as kind of like being an air-traffic controller; take your eye off the screen and you lose big. It's a major pain trying to keep up with everything, but if you can it's a blast. The fact this is multiplayer-ready straight out of the box is also an improvement, as well as significant tweaking of handicap levels in multiplayer games that make the potential of newbie versus veteran matchups actually playable for a change.
Where this loses a star on both fun and overall is that they didn't do enough to make the information overload easier to manage. There are a couple nice new features in the UI (the Citizen Manager is helpful but I find multiple screens just make things even more confusing) but nothing revolutionary, like the city managers in the later Civs that helped you deal with all the extra layers of complexity. Even small things, like unchangeable hotkeys, weren't well thought out. Where I go from frustrated to disappointed is unacceptably skimpy documentation. There is no tech tree printout included, something basic to all RTS games and that was included in EE. Moreover, neither is a civilization list along with their bonuses as well as any detailed information on unit and building statistics. While all three are available piecemeal in the in-game tooltips feature, that doesn't make up for the fact that this is basic stuff that any RTS game should include. (It's almost as if Sierra has made a deal with Prima to force you to buy the strategy guide.) The lack of help in managing the new complexity means this game is far better suited to hard-core, experienced RTS players than those new to the genre. Finally, graphics are only ok even though this requires fairly new equipment to run properly.
Don't get me wrong. This is a very, very entertaining game that will have you shocked that it's 3 in the morning when you just wanted to play for a couple of hours before bedtime. Its just that if they'd spent a little more time polishing up playability this would leap from a great game to a classic. Still, very much worth buying.
4 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
 I'm King of the World!, Apr 29, 2023
It's great. You can pretend to be important! I sit at home in my room, alone, in the dark, no friends, nothing and yet I am the most powerful man on earth.
Buy it if you are one of life's losers.
3 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
Shipping does stink , Apr 28, 2023
I ordered this item on April 26th and picked 2 day shipping which was $9.99. Later on I checked when it would be here and it said May 2nd. That is 6 days and I didn't pay for 6 days I paid for 2. I could just go out to the store to get it instead of waiting 6 days. The first game was great though so I can't wait for this one. It is the only game that I played for 6 months without getting another game and I love it and still play it now.
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