I'll help you fellow friends...

[Alexanderofmacedon]

When I got Empire Earth, I was amazed. The game was exactly what I wanted. It gave me hours of fun playing as the Romans, Greeks, and Macedonians. I finished them and played as the English during the 1500-1800. It was great and even now I play some of my created scenarios.

When I heard the second one came out I got my mother to take me to the store in order to buy me the game. This month is my birthday so she bought it for me.

I came home and started to play it. I realized it was nothing like the first one, but hey, change can be good right?

Wrong. It is hard to play, hard to have fun and just downright not very good.

Unfortunetly, that's $50 down the drain for my birthday that I didn't even want. What's worse, my mom now feels bad about it...

Just wanted to share to save some of you fellow orgahs from the same fate.

[The_Doctor]

These thing happen. It is terrible when your buys you terrible game. My mum bought me "Q conquest online", it is some kind of crazy Star Trek and is terrible.

EE2 is also bad for many reasons.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

You've played Empire Earth II? Have you played the first one?

[The_Doctor]

There was demo out ages ago.

Yes, I did play the first one, which was quite good.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

It's so sad...

And still it made such a great rating...

I hope they make an Empire Earth: Ancient Edition

Boy oh boy wouldn't that be neat!

[Reverend Joe]

"Empire Earth" was one fo my favorites. It was rather like a latter-day "Age of Empires"... god, I loved that game before I got STW. And I really wish you had posted that earlier. I, unfortunately, purchased "Empire Earth II", and I had to find out the hard way how bad it was. But I guess that's just the way it goes... noone seems to be able to make really engrossing games anymore. We used to have "Empire Earth" and "Master of Orion 2", and now we have "Empire Earth 2" and "Master of Orion 3".

And for anyone who considers it, don't but MOO 3 either. (Although probably noone will be; that game is several years old now... seems like it just came out yesterday... I'm gettin' old fast. )

[Alexanderofmacedon]

We need to petition for a Empire Earth: Ancient Edition!

Don't you think?

[Kraxis]

What's worse, my mom now feels bad about it...

If only she had seen that post. Mothers are about the most loving creatures out there.

Just make sure she knows it was you own fault (eventhough it really wasn't anybody's fault) for 'demanding' it. Then it will be forgotten... I have learned that from 25 years of dealing with a very loving mother.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Yeah. I know what you mean...

[Kekvit Irae]

The original Empire Earth was everything Age of Empires should have been, right down to customizing the benefits of your civilization in-game.
However, my only gripes are that you can only assign six workers to any one resource (7 is you play as Russia/Advanced Mining), and the game is pretty much over once you hit the WWII era since nothing can stand up to a zergrush of nuke bombers.

[Lord Winter]

The original Empire Earth was everything Age of Empires should have been, right down to customizing the benefits of your civilization in-game.
However, my only gripes are that you can only assign six workers to any one resource (7 is you play as Russia/Advanced Mining), and the game is pretty much over once you hit the WWII era since nothing can stand up to a zergrush of nuke bombers.

There are ways to stand aginst a massive bomer asult. Lots and lots of aa.
I too used to play ee. I have to disagree you because my favorite setting was mod sh or t-low(dm isn't unbalanced ethier in Modern)

[Dutch_guy]

well sometimes the AA couldn't fire fast enough, so spamming nukes at your enemy would destroy him before he has the time to built more AA .

[Husar]

I´m sorry for you and your mum, I played the demo of EE2 just once and knew I would never buy it.

[Mikeus Caesar]

I loved the original EE, and was going to buy EE2, but one of my friends bought it, and said that once he'd got it to work for his computer (apparently the system specs for it are very specific) it turned out to be utter crap. He persuaded me not to buy it, and i never will.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE


I have asked a friend to show me some things on EE2. It seems the campaign is still as horrible as I thought. No real good campaigns and no real time period.

With this said I would like to say that EE2 has reformed it's 'skirmish' battles. The one's where you pick victory conditions and you make everything in a random map battle.

After I played with this I found this part makes up for a lot. Now I'll actually play it. I don't think it's worth buying unless you're absolutely bored and have a good amount of money, but it's not as bad as I had once thought.

Good luck to all...

[Kekvit Irae]

EE1 didnt have that great of campaigns either

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

GAH! EE = not too great.

I dunno. I never really liked it. Even before I was introduced to the wonders of Total War.

You couldn't rotate the camera in battle! WTH?

[Mikeus Caesar]

GAH! EE = not too great.

I dunno. I never really liked it. Even before I was introduced to the wonders of Total War.

You couldn't rotate the camera in battle! WTH?

You must remember, it was made back in the days when RTS's had only the most simple of graphics and ability. Back in the day, EE was a hella advanced game.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

But you could rotate the camera in the map editor!!

[Alexanderofmacedon]

That did stink...

But I think it was a good game none the less...