For those who couldn't get enough of Empire Earth, the expansion should be a perfect fit. With so few significant changes it plays almost exactly the same. Whether or not it's worth it for you to pick this one up depends almost entirely on how much you enjoyed the original game. IGN, who gave it a 7.8 out of 10, stated 'While it's a solid game, there's just not enough here to compel me to reawaken the substantial addiction the first game generated. GameRankings averaged it at 66%, and Metacritic averaged it slightly lower, at 63%. The overall reception of Art of Conquest was lukewarm. The campaign ends with the last battle for Martian independence and the installation of Khan Sun Do as the first leader of Mars. With the acquisition of Space Battleship Yamato, the Martians fight an inter-planetary war against Earth to secure their independence. During the revolutions, Khan Sun Do, a descendant of the Kwan Do family, unites the five territories. The Kwan Do dynasty has been overthrown, and harsh conditions on Mars and an increasingly negative perception of the Earth governments have finally forced the Martian colonists into rebellion. With these colonies established, Mars is divided into five regions.Part Two is set 250 years after the first part, during the Space Age Epoch. A UFAR colony on Mars is eventually built, with help from Japan, alongside settlements built by the US-Canadian Conglomerate, the European Union of Nations, Novaya Russia, and the Republic of Japan. Meanwhile, the UFAR also struggles to develop a colonial programme competing against rival superpowers. The UFAR government struggles to suppress local rebellions and terrorist activities by the Eye of God, an extremist organization who claim that Earth should be the only home to mankind. The Kwan Do family are the rich owners of Kwan Do Electronics and Communications. One of these powers is the newly formed United Federation of Asian Republics (UFAR), founded and ultimately controlled by the Kwan Do family. As soon as it is discovered that it is possible to colonize Mars, the major superpowers of Earth scramble to develop the technologies and resources needed to establish settlements. This campaign is told from the perspective of the Kwan Do family, an influential family who claim to be descendants of the Qin Dynasty, and is split into two parts.Part One details the colonization of Mars.

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