

I would highly recommend learning the fast keys which though a pain in the butt will make playing it easier. However it requires a huge amount of learning. Of course to take over a territory from someone else you must first destroy their building and then build your own. This will trigger special bonuses for building and defending. You will be required to building a some buildings (which must be the one race to do so). One neat thing they did is create territories for the entire map. Of course these units will still get fired on by enemies. On land they are trucks on sea there are ships. You of course still need a market place, but now you can create trading units.

They have put more effort into a trading system. You can also earn tech points by creating spys and sending them to steal technology. Now they have certain buildings that must be manned which will create "tech points". With Empire Earth II they have changed how this is processed. TECH ADVANCES, in EE 1 this was done more or less on a time line with key buildings or research being required. So if you don't learn the fast keys it will seriously slow you down over the course of the game. For example when you click on a villager instead of seeing menu for all buildings you now have an extra click required to select citizen vs military buildings.

They have moved everything around and they assume you are going to remember all the fast keys. Personally I love Empire Earth 1 since it's so simple. If you love Empire Earth (I) then you are in for a HUGE culture shock. The game has good graphics and tons of new buildings and uni ts to learn about. I ended up buying Empire Earth II w/Art of Supremacy (USA Version) and installed it on the same computer and it works perfect. It occurs during head to head because the application needs increase in regard to the size of game you are playing. It seems to be how this copy manages either the processor or the memory I can't tell which. The game does fine for learning stages, but when you try playing head to head. I installed the software on a decent Dell gx260 with 1 gig of ram and 40 gigs free harddrive space. I gave THIS ITEM a low rating because the foreign copy of this software even though it has an english version does not work properly.
