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Age of Mythology Special Edition

Age of Mythology Special Edition

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Warning! Adictive.
Review: Great way to waste your time. You will be amazed how imersive this game can get, and how much time has just disappeared from your life!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Gameplay does not live to expectations.
Review: First of all, this game is beautiful. The graphics and sound are phenominal. From the fish swimming around in the transparent oceans to the character animations, it just looks awesome.

That aside, I've been playing the AoE franchise since it first came out and I guess I was expecting more from this game. The maps seem too small, and the civs are so different, and playing different civ's makes it like a different game which tends to have people move towards focusing on a specific civilization because the learning curve on each one is so different.

The single player campaign is pretty good, but the staying power AoE & AoE2 had came from multiplayer gaming... This one just won't make it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I dont know...
Review: It just isnt all that fun i mean woopdie doo you kill stuff with creatures that are mythological. last some... gods are sitting around casting stupid spells all over that do absolutly nothing except counter the little creatures.!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Another copy from microsoft
Review: Age of empires was a bad copy of Warcraft II and Age of Mythology is a bad copy of Warcraft III. If one has played too much the original games and wants something new can try Microsoft's copies, otherwise they do not worth.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Thanks to this game, I now actually like RTS!
Review: Having never played any of the other 'Age' games, and the only other RTS in my resume is Warcraft I, II, and C&C, it definitely will take alot to get me to like an RTS game (Warcraft III...only went half way before I got uninspired).

I bought this game on impulse, like so many things I buy. Having read several positive reviews online I was hopeful. Having spent 16 hours straight after getting this game, I was hooked.

There really isn't much variety in units and buildings, but that's a good thing. Following in the veins of WCIII, you don't get to choose which civilization you can take on the Single Players campaign. You play through the boots of Arkantos (there are 3 missions where he is absent, though), a greek hero, but you spend around 10 missions each on Egypt and the Norse region, with the different gods and units of each. Each mission you play is different then the ones you've already played, keeping the game fresh til the very end. The difficulty level, however, is very daunting. Never played easy mode, but the difficult mode is hardly fair.

Although the God powers seem awesome, I played through the game using them only once in a while. But I found that if in a tough situation, using those God powers helped shift the tide of battle.

Enjoyed, and now on the look-out for other great RTS.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Game
Review: This is a great game, the grahics are top-quality and the LAN play is smooth and excellent. The only problem is the manual, missing the stats that SHOULD have been in it. I give it five stars anyway, because it's excellent.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: whats wrong with you people!?!?!?!??!?!??????
Review: ...the game has a rich story, cool units (even the "mundane" non myth units are cool!) and excellent online play. it might not be as good as warcraft 3 but it is still a wonderful game

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: If you liked Age of Empires 1/2 this is a nice twist
Review: I have been a big fan of the Age of Empires/Age of Kings/Age of Empires 2 series by Microsoft. This is a decent variation of AOE2 with some interesting differences.

In AOM you get god powers/favor depending on the mythos path/tech tree you follow, there are Greek (Zeus, Posseidon, Hades), Norse (Odin, Thor, Loki), and Egyptian (Set, Ra, Isis). Each civilization has a set of special MYTH units based on favor points you gain from your god.

Greeks worship at the temples you build for god favor, Egyptians build monuments to gain favor, and the Norse wage war/battle to gain god favor points. The more favor points you accumulate the more special myth units you can create. Greeks get Pegasus, Cyclops, Minotaurs, Collosus' for example. The MYTH units change depending on the sub-deities you decide to worship at the begining of each new age you acheive. You are given a choice of 2 minor gods at each level you go up, which will award you special units and powers. To combat myth units, there is also a HERO class of unit which are best suited to take down myth units.

The God powers are fun, Zeus can strike down an enemy unit with a lightning bolt for example and kill one unit dead. The Norse can sic a pack of wolves to attack 4 town centers with one of their god powers. Egyptians can summon a tornado to devaste a town center. Another Greek minor god can give you a single use Earthquake power to devastate an enemy camp. It's fun playing god.

The AOE2 combat style has not changed much. The Greeks are pretty much like any standard AOE2 civ with archers, calvary and infantry. The Norse and Egyptian civs have units appropriate to their culture (asps and enforcers for example for Egypt, Ulthsark and Dwarfs for Norse). Mix in some Norse Fire Giants, an Egyptian Enforcer and Scarb beetle, and a few Greek 50 ft. iron collosus' and you have a battle to watch for sure.

There are seige weapons for each civ. Greeks get the standards like catapults, specialized archers, and a new heliopolis seige tower unit. Norse get battering rams, fire giants, battle boars. Egyptians get decent enchanted siege weapons as well (scarabs beetles, crocodiles).

The civ you pick can also affect the game play. A norse civ would be considered a "rushing civ" while the greeks are more of a "building civ" - the egyptians somewhere in between the two others.

The multiplayer is pretty good, but I have had a few crashes in game play when the game goes out of sync (:(). If you want to play like you did on the microsoft zone, you may be disappointed as you can only play MP through the game's GUI which is ok.

Advanced game setup lets you pick multiplayer games (2-10 players) and the standard quick start will match you up with a single opponent with a comparable rating score. Your ratings score is based on how many games you win/lose - you start ar 1600 points (I'm 1520.62 now for example).

All in all, it's a nice twist on AOE2, but people wanting a completely new and original gaming experience may be disappointed if they were not a fan of the original AOE series of games.

I give it 4 out of 5 stars - it's a lot of fun to play.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Crashed the most stable computer on my network
Review: It's long seemed that when it comes to system requirements of Microsoft products, there's what the box says you need and what you really need. Kinda like Kramer from Seinfeld, they come into your house, grab a beer from the fridge, plop down on the couch and start complaining that the chips are stale.
The most stable computer (Win2K pro, etc.) on my network had never crashed until I installed AOM and ran the tutorial campaign. Haven't been able to run more than a minute or so of the tutorial and I'm guessing that it's overwhelming my video.
Take a good hard look at AOM's stated requirements and compare it critically to your machine's capabilities, especially the video card.
We'll try it on a few other machines, but if it looks like it's going to require a hardware upgrade cycle you'll be finding my copy in Amazon's used section.
Amazon's bundle is a compelling value. Not only do you get AOM for decent price, but you get a free AOE cd to replace that one that you've worn to pieces.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great game impressive graphics
Review: First off this game is great the cinematics are awesome. This also comes along with a few downfalls, if you do not have a substantial video card it is not worth getting. If you do not have a decent computer with at least 20 gigabytes of memory left on your computer I do not reccomend this. Plan to get a better video card if you do not have a good one with the game or else you might be seeing Age of Empires the first graphics.


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