Posted December 16, 2010
Hi,
My family used to have great fun with Empire Earth (1) LAN games, but eventually we got tired of it because the AI always cheated when it started to lose. For example, when you have the AI player all but completely destroyed with its army wiped out and only a handful of buildings left, suddenly on the complete opposite side of the map it would have built up a huge city/settlement with many fighting units. It took all the fun out of the game for us.
So, I'm wondering, does EE2 have this same "feature", or is it more realistic and fair?
Any thoughts would be most welcome.
EDIT:
I guess no one knows the answer, so I found out for myself.
I purchased EE2 and have played enough of the campaign now to know that YES, indeed the AI does in fact cheat in EE2 just like it did in EE1. I had all possible contact points with the enemy AI walled and well defended, when suddenly a HUGE fleet attacked me from the ocean in my rear which was not connected in any way to the enemy base! Cheater!
Of course, I'll at least play through the campaign anyway, but multiplayer games are probably out of the question now.
How disappointing.
My family used to have great fun with Empire Earth (1) LAN games, but eventually we got tired of it because the AI always cheated when it started to lose. For example, when you have the AI player all but completely destroyed with its army wiped out and only a handful of buildings left, suddenly on the complete opposite side of the map it would have built up a huge city/settlement with many fighting units. It took all the fun out of the game for us.
So, I'm wondering, does EE2 have this same "feature", or is it more realistic and fair?
Any thoughts would be most welcome.
EDIT:
I guess no one knows the answer, so I found out for myself.
I purchased EE2 and have played enough of the campaign now to know that YES, indeed the AI does in fact cheat in EE2 just like it did in EE1. I had all possible contact points with the enemy AI walled and well defended, when suddenly a HUGE fleet attacked me from the ocean in my rear which was not connected in any way to the enemy base! Cheater!
Of course, I'll at least play through the campaign anyway, but multiplayer games are probably out of the question now.
How disappointing.
Post edited December 23, 2010 by nogwart