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Empire Earth 2 (PC) | 
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| From: Sierra
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £3.98
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 6597
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows Xp
Genre: military-strategy-games
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3348542194656
ASIN: B00029P9VE
Release Date: April 29, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: New, factory sealed, dispatched immediately by first class post (air mail if outside the United Kingdom).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Fairly Good August 19, 2007
DB Dom (London, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
On the whole Empire Earth [EE] is pretty enjoyable. Certainly it is good fun to advance and then crush less advanced civilisations. But rather than attack lesser beings, I want a challenge. Maybe I am not playing it hard enough, but I find advancing gives so much more of an advantage and if you do not advance quick enough you lose out your chance to win. I almost always end up being in Epoch XV (the highest) and just nuking my enemies. It just doesn't work for me sadly, I'd rather have a challenge, but not get swamped and miss out on any chance to advance. It is without a doubt, any gap of about 5 epochs onwards the more advanced player will win. The Map editor is OK, but annoyingly demanding I feel and the two different ways of saving the map are confusing!
In essence a quite enjoyable game, but not brilliant and I feel it leaves me not quite satisfied yet...
 Super game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! August 16, 2006
Xavier Syzrgy
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
So much better than age of empires in every way!Great gameplay and super realistic graphics. A must have for everyone.
OMG! August 6, 2006
A Person who dosn't like buses
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This game is much better than the origenal with the MUCH better graphics and new civilisation powers and special units. The addition of weather and seasons makes the game that little bit hardder.
However. Having said that there is one poroblem. As I said the graphics are excellent and because thay are so good the game has a fair amount of lage.
Apart for that I would strongly recomend buying this game :)
 They ruined my favourite game! April 27, 2006
L. J. Aanes
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Let it be said: If you liked the original because it let you be creative, stay away. Empire Earth 1 was one of my favourite games, and certainly the best strategy game I have ever gotten my mitts on. I loved building a custom world, maxing out my roman soldiers stats, and then laugh as they plowed though futuristic cyborgs with the best of ease. You simply won't find the same fun in this game.
First of, they completely ruined the map-maker. I agree that the first one took some time to get used to, but this is completely gibberish. all form of control is lost in an onslaught of incomprehensible menues (Is it spelled way? I'm Norwegian). All the different terrains look similliar, and the height system nearly killed me. Don't ever try to use it.
Next on the list is the tutorials. People who easily fall asleep shouldn't try them. The voice that tells you what to do is so tedious, it doesn't seem real, and goes into the smallest details. And you can't skip it. The previous tutorials could at least make me pay attention. After playing the tutorials, you'll find that you didn't learn anything, as you didn't listen to the slow voice who would make a better living by singing lullabies.
As for the combat system, it is what the word complex was invented for. There are six types of unit classes. Heavy and light cavalry, infantry and artillery. The relationship between them is so obscure, you'll often find yourself taking all your troops and send them all together in a wild mish-mash of death.
Stradegy and alliances is an important factor in EE2. The annoyng thing is, it's too big! Owning land plays an important factor, and many is the time you'll find yourself unable to expand your city just because another faction has a city center half a continent away.
Forging alliances with other factions also plays a big part, but more choises is added into this because of the "strategy". You can now not only give away recources, but units and land too. This can be good, as you will be given gifts too, but you'll often find that you can't ally with someone because they want to be given more land, something you don't own.
The last thing i'll be complaining about is the tech system. Tech points is used to learn new technologies and to advance in ages (Which they have stolen the fun out of too, by naming them "epoch [number]", instead of giving them proper names). These are earned by depositing citizens in universities, and then just standing there, doing nothing. The thing is that this is an incredibly slow method, as opposed to the original where you used normal recources to advance, and the less citizens barricaded in the university, the more time it takes. I'm a normally patient gamer, but this game drives me to my limits.
The final decision is this; If the choise is playing this or get infected by the plague, choose the plauge. It will be much more pleasant.
 Ohhh Dear February 24, 2006
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
I ll make this quick... If you like the first game because of the way you can control everything from the scenario option then stay away from this. I enjoyed so much creating worlds that I thought the second would be even better. What a mistake!!! The scenario builder although more advanced, does not let you do the bascis that you want to do i.e. state population max etc... The game itself is pretty good and runs fine with some nice features to upgrade, but I am so let down by the scenario builder I simply cant see past it... Sorry .... I really hope the next game goes back to/keep some of the basics that make this game a trial to play..... Stay away!!!
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