Empire Earth 2 Gold Edition

Don't get this review totally wrong. EE2 is not a terrible game. But it far inferior to EE1. - It has less than half the units EE1 had! - It has NONE of the era specific leaders such as "Henry V" or "Otto Von Bismark", it now has just a paltry three, generic souless leaders, whose "powers" are pathetic! - The first two epochs are a total balls up. Who the hell in their development team thought that Greek Hoplite Heavy Infantry and Stone Thrower seige engines are appropriate to THE STONE AGE? These units should not even appear for another five millenia!!!!! - What is the point of this new "weather system"? Apart from slowing units down a little, the whole thing seems a cosmetic, unecessary addition! Ships can still sail, and aircraft can still fly even in FKING HURRICANES!!!!! - Speaking of "weather", GONE, TOTALLY GONE are the "Prophets" who could call down firestorms, earthquakes, plagues etc! - What is the point of this much vaunted new "War Plan" feature? So far, AFAIK it DOES NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL. You're meant to be able to influence an ally AI's strategy with this, but they JUST IGNORE IT, even when they say "hey nice strategy, we'll do that!" - Technologies and unit upgrades are a PATHETIC JOKE compared to EE1! Now you only have generic "veteran" and "elite" upgrades to units for example. In fact the only real improvements are the slightly better GFX, the new "territories" system which does add a new strategic angle to the game, and fact that buildings such as fortresses now are proper defensive structures, and not just glorified mothballed unit storage like in EE1! Houses now increase max population too, not just "defense" of an area. Ie, a few things have been made more like Age of Empires. Those few improvements are swamped by the deluge of terrible new ideas, badly implemented design and even the removal of many of EE1's strong features! (Actually EE2 *IS* shit, isn't it?) If this is the next step toward EE3, no wonder EE3 was TOTA

This one looks pretty but was not that good compared to the first game, so get the first one first.

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Love the game! Just it is a shame I can't do a resolution of 1920x1080. Empire Earth allows me to.

After being a hard core empire earth fan you can imagine how excited i was to play this. In the end i was disappointed. This game is basically the original only worse. If you want a good rts game then buy the original empire earth game. 7 years playing it and i still find it entertaining.