"GameSpot" named "Battlecry II" a runner-up for its March 2002 "PC Game of the Month" award. While describing the game as "a solid real-time strategy game" and giving it a rating of 8.2 out of 10, the publication noted that "game doesn't take a big leap forward". According to the game's Metacritic page, this was an opinion held by many reviewers. Another criticism concerned the game's save feature. Despite the positive review the game received from "The Armchair Empire", it criticised the save feature. The review described how "...during battles, saves are unlimited, but there be only one saved game (the most recent save), meaning that a save at an inopportune time is worse than no save at all".