Age of Empires 2 Gold

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Summary: The Age of Empires is Here!
Review: All I can say is WWWOOOWWW!!! The campain is GREAT, the scenario creater is COOL, and the whole thing is just PERFECT! I love all the strategy and creating so many new scenarios to play with my cousin. The graphics are perfect, state of the art, and one of the best unit lists I have ever seen! You see, I love strategy games and could play them all day. Out of all, Age of Empires II is one of my #1 choices to play! I 10,000,000% say you should get this game. I also give a 10 out of 10 stars to the makers. Outstanding!!!

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Summary: The best middle age strategy game ever!
Review: This is one of the very few games I keep on my laptop and play regularly, even a couple years after installing it. This game runs just fine on the low memory and video capabilities of my fastly aging machine, and is a whole lot of fun to play. Game developers need to remember that you don't need gratuitous graphics bloat to make a game fun.

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Summary: Its......Starcraft only really early in histry
Review: This is a great game for Starcraft lovers. You do the same thing as in Starvraft but your in the middle ages. The only problem I had with this game was the voices....

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Summary: Been playing for 4 years and still love it!!
Review: I bought the AOK in 2/2000 and the Conquerors the day it came out in 9/2000. (Also played AOE I from 1998-2000). In my opinion, no other series is as comprehensive and fun. I have also played Empire Earth, Age of Mythology, and Rise of Nations. Here's why I like AOK the best (I'm referring to the most recent release, the Conquerors edition):

By the way, I only play Standard games, I've not tried any of the campaigns so I don't comment on them.

1)Time - The game is simple to navigate but has so many different angles of play. I can start a game with myself and two computer players on the hardest level and whip both of them within 3 hours. I've been playing an EE game off and on for 1 year and still cannot win. The short games keep me interested.
2)Ages - There are only 4 ages. This makes the game manageable for those who can't spend 15 hours a day on the computer playing games for weeks on end. Empire earth has around 10 ages and Rise of Nations has a lot as well. Upgrading the ages in AOK is not that hard.
3)Units - There are enough units here to keep me happy. Calvary, infantry, archers, naval units, seige units, special units with each civ. There are almost limitless ways to play the game. I play calvary one time, then infantry once, and so on. Never gets boring.
4)Graphics - Now that some of the newer games are out, the graphics are only so-so but it's still not that bad.
5)Civilizations - with around 13 civs and each having a unique strength and weakness, it never gets boring playing different ones and learning about each.

Here's why I like AOE better than Empire Earth:
1)The graphics are much better in Empire earth, but I cannot beat the game. The AI is very tough. I can nuke the computer down to 10 units left and 5 minutes later he has 300 armies and 100 buildings.
2)Simplicity. As I stated above Empire Earth is great fun, but almost too much action.

Here's why I like AOE better than Age of Mythology:
1)I am very disappointed with Age of Mythology. I find it downright boring.

I've only played rise of nations a couple times but I do not find it to keep my interest as AOE does.

Happy gaming.



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Summary: This is a really great game.
Review: This is a really good game. I had mastered the Star Wars equivalent, Galactic Battlegrouds, and was a little skeptical about the great replay value others had given this game. However, my misgivings were baseless. I have been extremely pleased with this game. Something about it gives it TREMENDOUS replay value. 5 stars. As far as the expantion pack goes, I've never played the original Age of Empires II. However, the features that come from the expantion really make the game. If you've ever played a real time strategy game before, make sure to get the gold edition.

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Summary: This game is cooool.
Review: I love this game. I played it forever. But I mastered it. So if you love histiry you would like this game. It has some history in it.