1. MatiasK.

   10

   The Best Epich Strategy Game Ever!

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2. FredB.

   8

   Much shiner than its predecessor with a better interface and some awesome new features like territories and capturing buidlings. I must say, however, that I preferred EE1's complex array of specialized counter-units to EE2's simple rock-paper-scissors system. Also, the campaigns are bland, incorporating few cinematics and no dialogue. Still, a fun and challenging game with visible crews for unenclosed vehicles and artillery.… Expand

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3. Maslab

   7

   I do especially like dropping nukes and other various bombs on fledgling civilizations, but there isn't that much strategy required. Build a bunch of units and charge. That's about it. However, it is very fun if you just want to blow up stuff on a massive scale.… Expand

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4. llamayarmybar

   4

   I suppose their is no beating around the bush. Empire Earth 2 is a terrible game. Its almost amazing how terrible it is and how unbelievably dissimilar it is when compared to its rather fresh debut many years before. The good? It has a gorgeous graphics engine, a weather system, water that looks quite lovely and some little unique camera features not seen in many real time strategy games at the time. The bad? Its user interface is just plain garbage. Absolutely painful dialogue, lackluster music, nonsensical tactics system, abhorrent pacing, boring economy driven matches and frighteningly tedious gameplay. Its nothing like Empire Earth, which may be why the second game fails to connect on so many levels. It has nothing even remotely "fun" going on under any of the mechanics. Its basically meant for deliberately slow players and perhaps those masochistic enough to master the subtle nuances of obsessive compulsive resource management. The rest of the game is an odd blend of micromanagement and research "warfare." Of course none of it makes any real goddamn sense. Why do priests earn research points? Why do villagers gain a resource bonus just from barricading themselves inside a supply hut? Why did they even keep the latter mechanic from the first game if it serves no point in an entirely new economic system in this game? Why do they still have that awful unintuitive unit queuing system they had in the first game? The one where you'd click for one unit and it wouldn't start showing how many you'd started building until you clicked the unit again? Not even Age of Empires was that tedious or poorly designed. Unit dialogue is hardly creative, mostly just repeating very generic responses that are not really fitting for most of the epochs you're civilization is in. It outdoes nothing from the original and merely cripples itself in the wrong areas. It showcases everything bad about the original game and does nothing to improve itself or set itself apart as the better game between the two. The first game is still by far, immensely more forgiving whilst being immensely more entertaining.… Expand

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