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Summary: A GOOD BUY
Review: if you read the one of the previous reviews about the game not including both age of kings and its expantion, its wrong. what that guy did was try to load the expantion pack first. they give you both, you just have to load it in the right order. anyways, its a great game definitly worth buying.
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Summary: This is a fun game!
Review: I confess to not being a hardcore gamer, so I'm undoubtedly out of date wrt what is the 'best' game out there, but I really like this one! Talk about fun. I've spent hours on this game, trying various strategies, researching various technologies, etc. I'm not even close to being bored with it, or being burned out on playing it. Hints: Try getting to the point where you can successfully build a wonder! Definitely use Trebuchets. Try 'plowing' through the woods with a siege weapon. Build a prison camp to confine your opponent! (I was able to build multiple wonders this way)
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Summary: Age of Empires Gold
Review: Age of Empires Gold is the best game. You can build and controll civilizations with many campeighns. Have heroes from Eric The Red to Ghengis Khan. Destroy other worlds before they destroy you. Change history.
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Summary: Gold edition??????????
Review: Aren't gold editions supposed to have both the age of kings and the expansion kit for a cheaper price? Just got my game, and when installing, the game complains that without Age of Kings installed that the conquerors expansion kit cannot install. I called Microsoft support and told them that I am installing a gold edition, and they said that gold editions only include the expansion kit for double the price. Never mind that both this Amazon and Microsoft site says that the gold edition includes both. Thank you Bill Gates. I guess he is trying to recoup some of the losses at the stock market....
I wan't my money back. Don't buy anything microsoft.
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Summary: Great and Greater
Review: I know that you probably don't want to read a review for a product that has not even been released but listen anyway. I have these games (I bought them seperately) and know about the product. Don't listen to Product description- This is Age Of Empires !2! and its expansion!!!!!!!! The game itself is a beauty and the online play and custom scenarios just add for nearly unlimited replay value. I would reccomend this for a person who wants a slightly cheaper package of both games.
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Summary: Clap Clap Microsoft
Review: I must put my hands together to Microsoft for producing this game, for it has kept me going for months (from the 25th December 2003 to the 31st of May (and that was because I got a new game!)). Two of the ongoeings of the best game ever made makes this the best stragity game pack money can buy!
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Summary: Automated farms are great
Review: 1. Farmers start a new farm once the old one is done, you can queue. any one who ever played AOE-I knows how great that is :).
2. The addition of Gates makes for nice Castle building
3. Villagers automatically start a new task when they finish a work type building (granary, storage, town center)
4. UNIT FORMATIONS!!! my personal favorite only second to the Farm queue. It adds a whole new dimension to battle tactics. huge improvement from AOE-I
5. Advanced unit commands. Follow, Protect, Patrol, they just make this game so much nicer.
6. the ability to toggle around to your inactive (we'll call it that) villagers. "where's my whip"All this improvements have the feel of AOE developers playing their own game and saying "gee wouldn't it be nice if we had this" they realy polished this game. It belongs in anyone's greatest games list. Easy!
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Summary: Challenging till Boredom
Review: I used to love Age of Empires but it got prety boring by year two. The map editor is fun to use. But the internet multiplayer requires you to have the same version of Age of Empires, and the same system (Mac/Window) as the person you are playing with. The bottom line is buy this only if you have some buddies that have this too.
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Summary: Fun! At first....
Review: I have owned this game for over 2 years and when I first got it, it was all I could think about. Of course that's how I am with every new game I purchased recently, (Nov 2004-Feb 6) I have been obsessing about Halo PC. After beating a few campaigns, I began to tire of playing this game. A couple of times I played online with my pals but it was still boring. What I find most frustrating is that you can't attack while running. COME ON! WHY DOES SOMEONE ON HORSE HAVE TO STOP EVERY TIME THEY WANT TO TAKE A SWIPE AT SOMEONE? The other thing that bothers me is that the only way to heal someone is by having a monk come do some voodoo magic of some sort. The graphics are good compared to most strategy games, I find myself wanting something that might make my video card work a little harder, if ya know what I mean. The funnest think to do in this game is to play it on easy and then just slaughter the enemy with a huge army of long bowmen, cavalry, siege weapons, and champions. It's fun to watch as empires tumble before you. I hope I don't sound to malicious, I would never allow this to happen in real life, this of course is just a bunch of pixels with mediocre AI that I am destroying. For the following reasons I did not give this game 5 stars:
1. Boring after a few weeks
2. Multiplayer is extremely hard to make work because you have to go to MSN or Yahoo gaming or something like that and half the time, you can't get it to work.
3. Mediocre graphics
4. Lots of annoying little things
If Microsoft makes an Age of Empires 3 of some sort, I will be sure to buy it, even if it is only as good as Age of Empires Gold.
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Summary: Extremely fun
Review: I installed Age of Empires II (AoE2) about 4 years ago. Today, I still play with friends online about once a week. There is something special about AoE2 that makes every game a new experience, drawing us back time and time again.
One thing that appeals to me is its well balanced military system. AoE2 offers a small but complete set of units, each unit playing very differently from another, this means most units will be utilized well in a battle. Many other games have many more unit types than AoE2, but few of them play out as sophisticated as AoE2.
Semi-successors of AoE2 such as "Age of Mythology" or "Rise of Nations" have been on the market for a while, each with promising new features. Yet, neither game could offer the excitement and variety that AoE2 offers. There are aspects of AoE2 that newer games were unable to duplicate. If you value good game play, I would highly recommend Age of Empires 2.
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