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| From: Vivendi Universal
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $9.99
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New (12) Used (9) from $4.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 4094
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 1.5 x 5.3 x 7.6
MPN: 72247
Model: 72247
UPC: 020626722476
EAN: 0020626722476
ASIN: B0001XOJAS
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: **NO CA SALE** FACTORY SEALED RETAIL BOX with MANUAL inside. Ship daily via USPS w/FREE delivery confirmation & Email Notification. Expedited shipping is required for APO address/California Sales.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not that good October 8, 2006
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
i thought the the new empire earth II would be as thrilling and exciting as the first version. Wrong. Requieres too much ram resources, and the game it's just not fun anymore, even tough has some cool new features but the game isn't friendly enough.
 Great Game But Confusing August 16, 2006
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is excellent! The graphics are great and I love the abundance of features in this game! It is certainly an improvement over the original Empire Earth. However, the game does take a little getting used to and can be confusing.
 Horrible... Just Horrible May 18, 2006
15 out of 22 found this review helpful
Wow... talk about a shocker. I loved EE1 and thought that EE2 would be one heck of an improvement. I could not have been more wrong. My first clue was how slowly my mouse was moving on the screen... ok, so I'll just adjust the mouse options and speed them up. Guess what... there are 2 mouse options, reverse buttons and scroll speed. That's it. Unreal. (and for all you who like to dismiss complaints like that b/c of a poor system, let me just say that this is running on a 2 month old P4 3.2Ghz (HT) with 1 G ram, top of the line GeForce card on a custom built platform so this is a game play issue, not a system issue.)
Alright, so I'll try to play anyway... what's a little mouse lag? So I go to configure the map. Remember all those great little selections from other games (terrain age, wetness, etc)? Those are missing too. Yeah you get to pick a few options but nowhere near as many as I'd like (or as many as are in most other games). Fine, I'll suck it up... So I picked "Gigantic Map"... guess what... It ain't very gigantic. I have a civilization on each side of me and can't build too much b/c the territory is so frickin small. So, let's go kill some nieghbors... no, can't do that until you build a university, garrison some citizens and then RESEARCH how to attack. C'mon. That's just stupid.
Now I know each game has a learning curve, so I try to stick it out. Let's build a little army, do a little research and get on with it. A note on the research... I can't seem to tell that it makes any difference. It really is hard to determine which technologies do which (instead of being "gunpowder" they have names like "spear point"(having nothing, I might add, to do with Archery or spearmen)).
For sake of my fingers, I'll stop the list now but let me assure you the litany of mistakes go much beyond what I have written here. How this game has been rated so high by everyone I'll never know. The concept is great, the graphics are good but the interface and game play suck to level I can only barely describe. How this ever got out of Beta this way is beyond me.
For the first time in a long time I played a game for less then an hour, pulled it out of the cd and I plan to send it back to the manufacturer with a little note saying I do not "accept the license terms".
I guess I would be less upset if this had been one of those "bargain" rack games for 9.99 that you had never heard of and we're taking a risk on but this is EMPIRE EARTH. One of the acknowledged masters of the RTS world.
How sad to see such a great franchise like EE die such a slow and ugly death. Sierra... What the heck happened!?!?!?
Much better that original... April 9, 2006
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
I like it. Its much easier to defeat than the old one. Some of the concepts are the same, others are changed beyond recognition.
Cheats are there, but in smaller quantities. But they are not needed to defeat the AI on easy. Some new units never really come into play.
What a disappointment March 31, 2006
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
Empire Earth 1 was brilliant. I purchased this game hoping to find our next Lan party game but was so incredibly disappointed.
It felt like a huge lack of units and it was simple to outtech the AI even on the hardest levels.
I was even able to form treaties with both AI while they duked it out and then wipe them from the face of the earth once I hit level 15.
Also disappointing is that the game requires the CD in the drive to play. Most modern games don't anymore. I'm guessing the pirates they are trying to stop aren't hindered by this CD check and the consumers that paid for the game are.
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