The first Empire Earth is still, to this day my fav RTS game. When i heard about the sequel i got really excited about it, but after having tried it out, i was really disappointed. It didn't have the EE feel to it, it was too different. Firstly, the weather effects. The weather effects were really harsh on my system, which at that stage was top-of-the-line. It was nigh on impossible to see what was going on at all. Worst of all was the constant bad weather, for every 5 min of good weather, you'd get >10min of bad weather. Drives me insane. Secondly, the resource collection system seems to be overly complicated, too many different types of resources to collect. And collecting knowledge is a rip off of RON, its system was better. The idea of never running out of resources no matter how long you mined it up is another thing, running out of resources isn't a reason to expand to get more anymore. I prefered the upgrade system of the original EE as well, you could buff your units the way you wanted to, if you preferred extra range and firepower, then you could do that. There's nothing like that here. The idea of territorial borders is good, but RON did it better i think. I also dislike the building-limiting aspect of the game, can make things difficult if you have a small pop cap and very few defensive buildings to build. On the upside, the visual details and effects were improved (except for the weather), especially the water. If the graphics of this game were put into the original EE, it would be the ultimate game. As many negative points as there are, it's not a bad game, there's worse out there. But compared to it's prequel, it's not as good.
This is a terrible, terrible game. Let's examine this car wreck one piece at a time. First, the interface is good on ideas lousy on execution. The picture in picture idea is interesting, but in practice feels more l... Read Full Review
This is a very wide game. Thus, game isn't that old, many things are reminding me, that it's from very begging of strategies. But it's not. The concept of this game is absolutely the same as in EE original game. Your ... Read Full Review
