Empire Earth 2

There have been few feats so bold in gaming history as Mad Doc Software (now Rockstar New England) deciding to boil down all the good bits of human history into one game. With Empire Earth II Gold you get not only the developer’s second punt at the series, you also get the follow-up expansion pack, The Art of Supremacy. Narrowing all of human history down this time to the most interesting 12,000 years or so, development in Empire Earth II is broken down to 15 distinctive and historically accepted epochs, starting off in the Stone Age, when man built his first permanent settlements, and began to develop agriculture, stonework and of course weapons. It is this last most regrettable of mankind’s creations that forms the basis for the game’s progression.