Tag: RTS

Empire Earth 2, the successful sequel to Empire Earth turned 20 years in April 2025. However, this game has become obscure while the original is having an active community on YouTube and Reddit. This site seeks to remedy that and provide more context to understand the beauty of this amazing game. Empire Earth 2 is a more strategic game than the original, but it is no less amazing in its gameplay and graphics.

Empire Earth 2 is a game that seeks to overtake its predecessor, and it was quite successful at release. However, the video game industry recently has been focusing on retrenchment over new games. The sequel has been languishing in obscurity. The game is well worth one’s time to play and there is a simple reason for it: the aesthetics of its future ages.

In Empire Earth, there were three future ages but they were underdeveloped. Even in the Space Age, introduced in Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest was somewhat of a letdown and wasn’t as interesting as it could have been.

Empire Earth 2 gives much more character to the future ages than in the original game.

What I appreciated the most was the effort put into the Asian capital buildings in the game. The screenshot above is the Asian Capital building in the Genetic Age.

While Empire Earth 2 may not be most advanced game now, one can see the great efforts in the way how the developers were approaching this game.

I wish the video game industry still would have this level of respect for details and efforts when making their virtual experiences for the players.