The Best Epich Strategy Game Ever!

While playing it I often thought to myself "this is a great feature" but never "this is a great game". There are a couple new features which should be incorporated into future RTS games (war planner, citizen manager, PIP) but many aspects of the game are horrendously amatuer. It sorely lacks the polish and easy-to-learn interface of its competitors: Warcraft III, Rise of Nations, and Age of Mythology are all better games. It's like they invented some new features, but otherwise failed to build on the past ten years of RTS features. Pathfinding is completely broken and by all accounts on fan forums in-game performance is universally mediocre given the quality of graphics, but these things could be improved in patches. I guess Magazine reviewers are easily swayed by a couple of 'spiffy' features, it's sad to see the harsh disconnect between reviewers and actual gamers. Empire Earth II has a lot of exciting crap stitched together but doesn't come through with a coherant game. Try it if you're a die-hard fan of the original, otherwise give this one a miss.… Expand

Awesome Strategy game. As good as Civ or AOE. Great detail and depth.

I'd give it a higher rateing if it didn't freeze while loading saves so often on my Falcon Mach V. Honestly, you would think it would run without a problem on a puter that runs Doom and Half-life on the highest possible settings.

This game is much easier than its predecessor. Its game play is only but a fraction of the time as EE was. Despite all of the new buildings and epochs, there seems to be less to choose from once you make your initial choice of a race. Furthermore, awesome graphics do not insure an awesome game, when will designers realize this.

This game is worse by far than the first game.

Best game ever!!! u cant miss it.

The best game ever!!! you have to buy this game.

I loved the original EE and keep hoping that Sierra finds a better developer or Mad Dog improves. EE could be the ultimate stategy platform. By bigest complaint is the sound. EE1's charactors evolved. It was cool to hear the cavemen grunt. Germans should speak German, Italy, Italian etc.. There are a lot of nice features but I HATE the oversized leaders. Stainless Steels EE1 was cleaner but Mad Dog could still make this the best RTS if theye just cleaned up some items and listen to all the community feedback, maybe EE3. There are a lot of good ideas in the forums. It's the commuunity that makes the RTS. If the customer's support and feedback dies so does the product. I like the addition of spies and the elimination of magical charactors. I could write a 5 page report about all the features that could be improved. I rate it an "Almost, but you need to fix this this and this.."… Expand

Major step down from the original Empire Earth. Big disappointment.

I've had the game 24 hours. So far it's a bit disappointing. The only graphical improvements I can see are minor: The water uses pixel shaders to gain a slight "sheen" and the people models are slightly better ... frankly it's hard to tell it isn't Empire earth 1. A lot of the "new" features (IE borders, trade caravans etc) are just the "old" features of other games (civ3, rise of nations etc.) so it just feels like a mishmash of a rehash. It's not BAD.. just not great. I've finished the four tutorials. .. and haven't yet mustered up enough interest to play the campaigns.… Expand

Very similar to "Rise of Nations", it's a pity that the previous "Empire Earth" was much better than "Rise of Nations"!!! In this game there isn't the possibility of custom civilations, and the presence of useless and complicated "special powers" only make the game more complicated and not user-friendly. Good graphic and audio, but small maps and the game is too fast leaving little time to devise strategies. Civilizations unique units are somewhat useless since they don't advance through ages. Nukes do very little damage. The civilian managment screen is a excellent idea and a very powerful tool!… Expand

Lacks the flair and design of the original, very disappointing. I find the UI and engine quite disgusting, mad-doc have made it feel far more amatuer. A definite step backwards.

Terrible stuff really. Back to rise of nations and age of mythology.

While not outstanding a good edition to the Empire Earth Series.

I liked it.

Great Game. Still addicted.

Cool game.

It is one of the worst games i have ever played, however the first game is one of hte best games ive played.

Could be a great game. But, the citizen manager needs work, unit movement is terrible, slow unit response, lots and lots of bugs. I could live with the bugs for now if there was any word of progress from the developers. Huge patch two months ago and not a peep from them since. Have to say I am really disappointed with every review I've seen about this game. Not a one of them was thorough AND honest. My first time on this site.....just checked the reviews here, Computer Games Magazines is the only one I recognize that handed out the rating the game deserves. The others must be using advertising $$ as their guide for rating the game.… Expand

I agree fully with Scott L. There are much much better RTS games (like Empires: Dawn of the Modern World -- which is 2 years older and a lot better).

I thought this was a brialliant and very stratigical game.

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.

This game is a masterpiece. The unit response times are beautiful, there's a huge range of epochs - each home to different units and building types - even in the year 2009 the graphics are still sturdy and quite impressive. This game is simply great. No flaws what-so-ever. The online mode makes this game so great.

An ugly dull clone of Warcraft/Starcraft whose reach exceeds its grasp.

Disapointing to say the least. the engine is buggy, and combat is mushy. back to rise of nations

Empire Earth II is not a bad game. Just like the first one, it has way too much stuff. There are so many ages and civilizations, but each age("epoch") has about 7-16 military units total, with a couple special units for each civ. The game itself copies Rise of Nations so much its insane, but thats not necessarily a bad thing, i think its good. Now there are cities and the civilzations are more distinct. My biggest problem with this game has to be its graphics-just so you know, if you've seen screenshots in ads for the game, the game does not look like that. AT ALL. i put it on max resolution, all settings maxed including shadows, and it looked nowhere near as good as the picture, especially for the units. the pictures they show have to be in at least 2048 resolution, something few people can have. So unless you can get it to look like the screens, the graphics arent too great, especially the water, which comparing to what we have been seeing lately, sucks. the gameplay has tons of things to do like war plans, but i can already tell no one is actually going to use them in multiplayer games. although ive only played the demo, i know from experience with the first one that the game is simply a technology race, without time to use any of the nice features that come with it.… Expand

disapointing the could patch it up to 8 of 10 for me if they improve the field of view, you see just too little to fight with your big units on the small screen, even medium formation of 8 tanks doesnt even fit on screen so all the nic ideas of war plans and so on are useless if yount make the big picture in the main screen.

I am the Age of Empires series expert and this game is cool.

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

One of the best RTS's of all time