 "Best RTS game!" | 2008-07-25 |
| - Reviewed By User: AXCS9XB8WJPOF |
Empire Earth II is probably the best real time stratagy game made. I would choose thid game any day over a Civilization game or Age of Empires game. It is extremly detailed. From what you want your civilization to research in technology to what types of units you want to create. The Historical accuracy of this game is also amazing. Fight with the mighty Roman Empire or the lowly but powerful Minite Men of the American Revolution.
Overall this game is extremly fun. I suggest this game to anyone who loves History or RTS games. |
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 "Great graphics - Poor playability" | 2007-02-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3CTUOPB1IS3WR |
| 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. |
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| "very challenging game" | 2007-01-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: AZLGD143Y5P0I |
| 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. |
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 "Empire Earth II" | 2006-12-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2L94EXZ7RJR7N |
Empire Earth is one of the best RTS(Real time strategy) games around.
Necessary Hardware:
About 1.5GB's free on the Hard Drive.
About 512MB RAM(Memory).
1.5 GHZ processor.
At least a 64MB video card.
To check all these, Go to Start and select 'Run', type DXDIAG, a new screen will come up. The video card will be under the Display tab, everything else is under the first one.
Gameplay:
The gameplay is relatively complex, with hundreds of units and upgrades. Learning curve as a few hours, at least 5. To advance your civilization you have to up your Epoch, by meeting certain requirements. There are 15, 1 being the stone age and 15 being the near future. You use a variety of buildings to make units, such as barracks and factories. And there are defensive units like towers and castles. The game incorporates air units from WWI to the near future as well as naval units from the stone age on.
Graphics:
Are about average for a RTS game. The environments and vehicles look real, but infantry and human units get blocky, similar to Command and Conquer: Generals. Again, you need a good graphics card and enough memory.
Story:
The story line follows real life stories of the history's of Germany, Korea, and the United States. It also includes a D-Day map for both the allies and the axis. Using unique civilization units you shape how the world is today. Germany's campaign goes from the Catholic Knights 'taming' the barbarians to fighting Napoleon. Korea's goes from the countries stone age tribe formation to final war with China. While the US goes from the Spanish-American War to the near future, thus the last two levels are fiction. |
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| "awesome" | 2006-11-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: AROKH1ODKMBWO |
| 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!!!!! |
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 "Not that good" | 2006-10-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2CZ2ALXKBNOGW |
| 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. |
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| "Great Game But Confusing" | 2006-08-16 |
| - Reviewed By holly32781982 |
| 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. |
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 "Horrible... Just Horrible" | 2006-05-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2LHKYGMU0J6CP |
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!?!?!? |
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| "too many hours of fun" | 2006-03-28 |
| - Reviewed By martinw1200 |
Somebody stop me! (I've got work to do.)
For once they take a good game and make it even better. So often the sequel falls flat.
They must have listened to the fans on this one. They removed some of the stuff that didn't do its job, and added lots of good stuff. It's nice when you say "I wish it did such-and-such" and in the next version it does.
The graphics are nice. The game play is fascinating. The controls are even better and they were pretty good in the first version. (You hot-key fiends will love this game!)
It could use just a little more depth of strategy. But just a little. It's pretty good. I like it -- too much. Help! I'm trapped on this computer! |
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| "Major disappointment" | 2005-05-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1MCN64LRNP3O9 |
I thought this game would be a great one and an improvement over the first EE. Well, not quiet, this EE2 has nothing to offer, the grqphics look like the ones in Age of Empires II (realeased in 1999 I believe). The game runs slow, i have a computer with the following specifications:
*Windows XP
*Dx 9.0c
*Intel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz
*2 GB of RAM
*256 RAm video card
and yet the game runs slow.
I love Empire Earth I because the graphics are good, and the game runs smoothly...This new released now is a major disappointment, and I dont understand why if the graphics are not good. The gaphics of this game look like a paint by an abstract painter.
If you have played the first Empire Earth, you will see the difference between EE I and EE II, and you will go back to the first one.
Save your money and play EE I ntil these guys come with a real improvement over EE I. |
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