Empire Earth 2 Platinum Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Vivendi Universal
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $19.99
New (2) Used (6) from $11.39
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 2787
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Platinum
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: B000F49ZKM
UPC: 020626725880
EAN: 0020626725880
ASIN: B000F49ZKM
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Conquer history across 15 epochs and 14 different civilizations across a span of 10,000 years | | • | Dynamic AI and Environment Weather System | | • | Revolutionary Multiplayer – Engage in 9 types of games online for up to 10 players with improved tournament support and co-operative scenarios | | • | Crown System – A reward system for demonstrating superior military, economic and empire-expanding strategies | | • | Citizen Manager and War Planner simplifies resource management by alleviating the need to micro-manage your civilization during the heat of battle |
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Product Description
Empire Earth 2 Platinum allows you to lead your civilization through 12,000 years of conquest. Create, build, and lead a civilization to transcend the ages. You'll be challenged for the ultimate prize: Establish your reputation as world's greatest leader - past, present and future! From the Pharaohs to Napoleon, relive mankind's most legendary moments in three new globe-spanning campaigns. This special Platinum Edition features Empire Earth II, the Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy expansion, and the Prima Games Official Game Guide.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
Not a bad RTS game. February 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You'll get a good 2-3 months( or more) of enjoyment out of this game. The graphics are better than the first Empire Earth. However, I do miss being able to customize your civilization ( with the 100 skill points allocated). It was cool to try out new stratagies with different skill combinations----I was always partial to building upgrades myself.
 Empire Earth Platinum December 9, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a fan so review is slanted. Platinum edition did include books describing game which are very helpful and give me a chance to learn stragities one at a time. If you like this kind of game I recommend you try it.
Not Bad March 8, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Whereas I do miss some of sea battles and the way the aircraft attack, this is overall a good game. I did enjoy seeing the cutscenes and the briefings before "missions" as well as the trading aspect of the game. I do believe I enjoy the first EE game more but this has more of a traditional feel to it in the world of strategy games.
Best Stragegy Game Ever!!!!! March 7, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Empire Earth II is a major improvement over the normal type strategy game.
THe major thing is you are allowed to go into future ages and create robots, awesome tanks, and cool stealth bombers. Also the death of certain units, such as tanks and helicopters, are followed by a huge, cool explosion. In a normal game there is a barely a puff of air after the death of tanks and copters.
Naval Units are much more powerful and can inflict large amounts of damage and land units and buildings. It will destroy a tank in one shot and with multiple ships can destroy a fortress withing 5 shots
I advise you to buy the platnium edition.
 a good bit of fun; but Sierra still cranks out buggy stuff January 8, 2007
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
The game is a good bit of fun and easily can monopolize the hours of an entire day...until it crashes. If not for this, a solid 4 stars.
Sierra has carried a number of fine titles throughout the corporation's history; however as is their manner, the games will crash on whatever PC system. From IBM's to Monolithics (a moment of silence for the folks who started the RAM revolution with memory sticks), AST's, Lenova's to include ABIT and ASUS builds, their games are not as solid as should be for retail consumption, in my opinion. Disable all virus protection? Perhaps that would help; but the internet environment has become increasingly frought with untoward individuals with the perverse joy of causing harm and injury to innocent souls across the web. Since the vast majority of other software shops produce solid code, I cannot lay this blame on the shoulders of MicroSoft XP Pro.
I bought 3 copies of the game so when the grandkids come up to the ranch, we play across the LAN. Their mother has to near physically drag them from the computers when it's time to head back home. Well, she really did have to drag Darin off, this past weekend.
Suggestions: Anno spoiled me. It's nice when you can just hit an onscreen icon to instantly have your screen display the latest trouble spot, accomplishment, or manufactured ship. Finding military units and civilians is also much easier in Anno 1701 A.D..
Bottom Line: the game is fun and worth a look if you are a fan of Civs and such as I am. The autosave at least permits you to pick up where the occassional hard lock left off. Playing across the web or a local area network opens a new vista of enjoyment. After the kids left, I was faced with a large map full of hostiles which took me all night to mop up.:)
I heartily recommend grandparents with a LAN and some slight interest in gaming to invest a little money into multiple copies of a title. The children cannot wait to visit the ranch now. Of course, we don't get much work out of the youngsters; but it's my job to spoil them. They will work enough after they have grown up.
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