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Summary: The best game of the century!
Review: i think that AOE 2 is the best of AOE's because on AOE and AOE rise of rome, everything is not symmetrical for exampla the buildings are just a little bigger then the units and workers, and in AOE 2 the buildings are symmetrical to the workers and units and,and this is just my opinion but you should be a real AOE fan to play AOE 2 because you don't know how hard it is to control you units in AOE and AOE rise of rome.you can hide your workers and garrison them in the towncenter. and i think that one of the cool things made in AOE 2 is that you can build in a gate in your wall and only you and your allies can get throught it, but your enemys will have to brake it to get throught.
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Summary: A ton of great new features
Review: I have played Age of Empires and Rise of Rome, but this by far is the best of the three. You have a lot more control over your villagers and military units and you can even garison units inside of buildings. The town center has a feature that if you are attacked you can signal all of your villagers to go hide inside of buildings. The castles have a lot of great features too. I have a pentium 350 megahertz computer and I haven't had any problems with the speed at all. The buildings definately aren't too big because in this game they are very well proportioned. This is definately among the three best computer games that I have ever played!
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Summary: A Game for all seasons.
Review: I spewed my guts out on Age of the Empire's one. It was one of my greatest disappointments. I had hoped it was better than warcraft or starcraft but I was gravely disappointed. What a complete clone. That was why I was so relieved to see that empire 2 finally went where empire one should have gone the first time. How utterly sad that MS could not see it in thier heart to combine the games so that at least empire one would have been a little more tolerable. Oh, well. With empire 2 you finally get unique units for every given nationality and much cooler siege and ocean fairing units. Those large balistic artillery, that act like a cross between a catapult and a howizter make this a keeper. You had better have enough ram though. This one spells honkin pentium big time. Still lots of strategic fun for the little meglo maniac in your family.
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Summary: Awesome game
Review: AOE 2, The Age of Kings is the best game i have ever played. It is very user friendly, and easy to learn but it also has much depth and there's no limit to how good you could get (but it takes a long time to be an expert). if you get tired of playing computer AI go to zone website and play it online. This game is undoubtedly one of the bes Real-Time Strategy game ever made. It's worth the money
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Summary: i have more fun climbing trees than playing this!
Review: If you are looking for a good buy you have come to the wrong place. The graphics is the only advantage to the really bad game. Microsoft should be ashamed. the buildings were too big, the game ran too slowly and the CD is made of really bad material. it isnt worth its money
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Summary: Yeah but... for the MAC?
Review: Liked the first version, has some good educational elements for my son, a 2nd grader. The concept of technological advances being important for the acension of one society over others. And he has to learn the key technologies in order for his armies to be triumphant. He gets it here, where as Russ Meyer's Civilization is too complex for him at his age. My son has played the version II game and loves it, but Microsoft hasn't brought it out for the MAC. Too bad. Otherwise I would rate it a 4 star for children and young adults.
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Summary: Okay
Review: Age of Kings is a good game, but NOT as good as age of empires and rise of rome. If you're going to buy this, buy the first one. The gaming experience is much better as a whole if you master both!
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Summary: HINT!
Review: Amazing Game! Keeps me awake in class. To those complaining about being unable to keep up with the computer because it can fight while simultaneously building more troops and its economy--here is the solution. Use F3 to pause the game and then direct your troops/buildings/villagers to their tasks at your leisure. Then unpause the game and let them go to work. This takes away a lot of the anxiety and time frustration of trying to be 4 places at once. It also makes it possible to take notes occasionally.
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Summary: It has everything
Review: First of all, I loved AOE I, and was looking very mush forward to the second comming. And WHAT a game! Everything that you've been scream about i all these years that where missing in RTS games is in this one. There even a button you can click to cyckle through idle villagers, and soldiers. Emsemble Studios have created (in my oppision) one of best RTS games to date.And the built-in campaigns are clever, though and lots of fun to play. Almost everything in this game is a masterstroke, although it takes cute a machine to play it. But if you have a Pentium 400 or above with a lot of ram, and a videocard (12 md over more) there's absolutly no problem in playing this, even in 1280 x 1024. Buy it and be preparad to lose some time of you life, because this game is addictive.
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Summary: Computer crasher
Review: The first Age of Empires was great. The second one just plain sucked. Sure it has good graphics and an easy to use interface, but the game would always crash both of my computers. You can only play in 800x600 or above which is a downside also. My computers are not old either, one is a 300p-2 160megs ram 17 inch monitor, voodoo3 etc. The other is a 450 amd k6-2 96 megs ram, Ati graphics, 15 inch monitor. I just wanted to put this warning out to those who will be purchasing it. It may work fine for you, but I had problems. It sure is not addictive as the first AOE. Buggy software! Blahh! I am not anti Microsoft by the way.
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