The second puts you in the rather plush shoes of Czar Alexander of Russia in his fight against Napoleon, and the third somewhat bizarrely follows the plight of the semi-nomadic Maasai people in West Kenya, circa 2037, who are being menaced by agitated lions. The first unfolds in Ancient Egypt, charting 30 years of conflict between Egypt and Thebes. The chief offerings of Art Of Supremacy (is supremacy an art, by the way? Can you hang it in the Tate? Has it ever won the Turner Prize?) begin with the three new single-player campaigns, and the four new civilisations ready to be obliterated within. And, sadly, this expansion pack, for all its extra units, missions, civilisations and modes, doesn't really help matters much when it comes to taking on the big boys.

When Empire Earth II pitched lip last year, despite packing one of the finest RTS interfaces ever splashed across the bottom quarter of a computer monitor, it also started to knock at the knees when confronted with one of its more muscular, effective competitors. In The BeginningĮmpire Earth first arrived way back in 2001 with the fanfare of a military tattoo, but behind the drum rolls and the pipe playing there was a really rather derivative RTS. What Empire Earth has always been about is a cunning fusing of the classic history game gather-and-build dynamics perfected by Age Of Empires, with Civ's epoch-spanning scope. It's real-time for a start, and you don't make great jumps in technology and history during gameplay here, rather between missions. But we will go as far as to say that, judging by this ultimately unsatisfying add-on to an already ageing game, receding hairlines or no receding hairlines, Sid Meier it ain't.Īdmittedly, Empire Earth never set out to be Civilization. Now, owing to a fundamental aversion to bum-jousting with convicted armed robbers in prison toilets, we're not going to provoke this land's stringent libel laws by accusing the developer of Empire Earth II: The Art Of Supremacy of being a slavering loon.

When You think about it, the notion of a PC strategy game that spans the swathe of history from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century is the dream of either a deluded slavering lunatic, or a balding US games genius called Sid Meier.

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