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Summary: Whats not to love?!
Review: This game rules!I mean, who doesn't want to see a massive golden soldier (aka colossus a greek myth unit) crushing buildings with his rather large hands until a fiery bird swoops and and starts attacking him(egyptian pheonix). This is but a small example about this lets take it up a little. Your opponent is sending in an army 10 times the size of yours, your doomed, unless you use the big kahuna, one of your god powers meteor shower! Almost the entire bulk of your enemies army is crushed under massive burning rocks.very cool.It is also good cause you can learn alot from this game, like greek, norse, and egyptian gods. Plus about ancient battles like the trojan war, and real myths like .ones about the hydra and cyclops, or about other cultures beliefs like the norse ragnarok.You can build magnificent cities and train grand armies. Each civilization has its strengths and weaknesses + their own heroes, mortal units,(basic infantry like archer spearmen and ooo so much more!) and last but not least their own choosable Myth Units. The stars of the game are MU's (Myth units)have special abilities and powers such as eating trees to heal itself (colossus unit) or growing heads after defeating an enemy (hydra unit). I would recommend this game to anyone from 8 to 91!!
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Summary: Buyer beware--game not compatible with many computers
Review: Like other reviewers, I've been disappointed by recent Microsoft Game releases. AOM is the last straw. There are literally hundreds of video adapters that AOM does not support. My home PC is right out of the box and won't run AOM. Think twice before buying this game.
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Summary: worth the money
Review: I am a huge AoE and AoK fan, so learning to play the game took almost no time since the controls are very similar. The graphics and cinematics and aweseome. Although there are only three playable races (the egyptians, the greek and the norse) they are all so different that it makes it really fun to learn how to play all of them. The single player campaign is, I believe, the best part of the game. The story is really interesting, and intertwines many different stories from ancient mythology, a fact that a world history buff like me appreciates. Random map and mulitplayer games are nothing really new...its just like slipping on the old AoE shoe. Overall, this game is a great RTS and worthy of being added to any strategy gamers collection.
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Summary: Great game, but......
Review: I think that this game is really good. However, I'm averaging one freeze or so a night. It gets frustrating. Also, every so often when I run scandisk it's telling me about dates/times being recorded wrong and has to change them to the correct ones. I also get a message having something to do with my boot values are messing up. I didn't have a problem before I got this game. I downloaded the patch, but it didn't stop the game from freezing. I hope that they fix it soon. In the meantime I'll just save often and become better aquainted with scandisk!! My system is an AMD 900mhz 256k ram 64meg nvida4 accelerator running win me. Problems notwithstanding, the game is very fun to play. The myth units are pretty nice as well. As an Egyptian you can mass an army of Anubites and swarm enemy units and cut them to shreads. They are my favorite unit against infantry. The Greek Colossesses are real tough. You can get a half dozen and level ememy buildings like crazy. I wish that it was easier to heal units though. I miss having priests to heal on demand, but I guess it's more realistic this way. This game will give you hours and hours of fun. There are a lot of simularities between AOM and AOK.
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Summary: Step-by-step analysis on Age of Mythology: hope this helps
Review: This game is fun, but it does not offer anything new compared to the old Age of Empires series. I've played all four of the Age of Empires titles, and this game offers nothing very new. In fact, it has regresses in certain areas. Graphics- unbeatable, they are in stunning 3D and are near-perfect. No complaints here. Sound- This is one of my major gripes. While the battle sounds are decent, the music is ismply abhorrable. Listen to the original, epic AOE music, and then listen to this .... You will see how much the Ensemble Studios music department has regressed since 1997. It is pathetic- the music is random bits of notes strung together into something that can barely even be called a soundtrack. And the opening musical theme- I don't know how to express my dismay about it. The composers were proud at being able to use a "real orchestra" to create this "music" but that didn't help. Gameplay- It gets a B+, because while the exotic myth units and "god powers" are fun, you will have to think to much about balancing the units and creating counter-units to the enemy's units, and making sure that cavalry don't come up against infantry, and infantry don't fall under the fire of archers, and archers avoid cavalry, and human units avoid myth units but still attack heroes, and myth units about heroes but deliberately try to attack human units, and heroes stay away from human units and focus on myth units... you get the idea. Playability (how addictive and fun is this game?)- The single-player campaign is VERY good, and it is well written and will give you hours, if not days, of fun. As for multiplayer, Ensemble Studios has set up an elaborate (albeit cumbersome and confusing) system where you can find opponents who are equal to you in skill. This allows you both to improve, and prevents you from unknowingly being crushed by experts. There is also a rating system so that you will know how you rank, in skill, compared to all of the other players in the world. The multiplayer connection also allows you to download free "patches" that fix bugs and errors in the game. Overall, this game is good, but not anywhere near perfect. The gameplay is a virtual clone of the original Age of Empires games, there is barely any sense of "newness" in AOM. The sound is pathetic, and personally I think they ought to fire the Ensemble Studios music department, or at least make them churn out better music. The gameplay is too complicated for a casual gamer to embrace quickly, but it is rather addicting (which is usually a good sign in a game). This game is, overall, nothing new or great; the designers had over 1.5 years to work on this title, and yet it still has its vital flaws, and that is why I give Age of Mythology a 3/5.
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Summary: great game
Review: I really liked how the game emphasizes the approach to battle that each civilization offers. I felt the most difficult parts of the game were leaving one civilization and morphing into the next one. My favorite by far is the north lands segment as you are rewarded for slash and burn techniques as opposed to the other two civs where you must first build your "culture" the northlanders are rewarded for battling. just like real warfare you better learn to scout before you put down roots somewhere. Only thing that I differ with is there is no place in this game for "love thy neighbor" if you will, sure it's no fun in a game but as realistic as the game is it could have made things much more interesting from an economic point of view.
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Summary: AOM...It's up to you
Review: Is an incredible game if you like the Age Of Empires series...but, you will be bored in 5 days...so...is up to you... <APQ>
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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!
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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.
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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.!
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