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Summary: 1 OF THE GREATEST GAMES EVER MADE!!
Review: I like most RTS and RPG games. This one is absolutely excellent!!
It has pretty much everything... campaign editor, online battles, chat room, cinematics, and each country has it's own campaign. It has 3 countries like Starcraft's 3 races Greek (Protoss strength), Egyptian (zerlike in strength and unit productian), and Norse (witch I haven't prsonally played but are neither really strong or really slow. However, if your a major Blizzard fanatic like myself, you will be surprised at the size of the units. The minotaur are as big as a protoss zealot. At least you can still tell the difference between them. Unfortunately the campaign editor isn't at all user friendly. Yet the god powers and Myth creatures make up for most of it. The "battle net" isn't that easy to use either. But if your desperate for a fight with another human, you can always get there with patience. The Myth units are amazingly powerful and have great appearances, the Leviathan, the Cyclops, the War Turtle, etc. All together this game RULES! However, if you want an easy game to beat, get something else, this is real strategy, not luck like some other games like Diablo which I fiercly detest. By the way, you may want to pick up the Strategy Guide as well, it'll help.
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Summary: Excellent Game but......
Review: To start off, i have been an avid player of the other Age of Empires titles, i have played for over 3 years and hoped to continue the series by picking up this title.To start off, the graphics are amazing, sometimes ill just stare at the ocean waves lapping for a bit, the special effects are wondrous, i still get chill seeing gigantic meteors crash into the ground. Yet, as an AoE fan, this game has let me down a bit. Featuring only 3 civilizations (though each one has 3 diff. gods to chose from so maybe about 9 diff civs) just didnt give me the choices i was looking for and had come to know and love so much in AoE. Ensemble seems to be a little more controlling in this, there is a strict population limit, (a max of 10 houses, giving 10 pop each, though you can get more pop with town centers, though town centers can be only built on settlements, so there are some great battles, but never of the massive armies you would have in AoE,) The focus of the battles is more on countering than full scale attacks. Multiplayer has dissapointed me in some ways, because it takes away alot of the choices. You cant pick the age you start in, you can add more population (which is a big thing for me) Another (not critical) but thing that irked me was the scenario editor. A very well done one, a little more complicated than the last it left out alot of the Triggers that were crucial to some extremely fun Custom Scenarios. For hardcore AoE fans, this game may fall up short, but i still reccomend it to them. The myth units are excellent, a great thing to bolster an army with. the god powers are amazing, and the graphics (i say again) are rich and wonderful. The campaign, boasting over 30 missions have a good story line, and though i havent quite finished it yet, i get frustrated, because it seems like almost every mission requires you to establish a base, build an army and destroy/recapture/kill X person/thing. All in all, a great game with wonderful graphics, very well balanced, each civilization is a new gameplay experience, and i recomend this to everyone.
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Summary: GREAT GAME GREAT VALUE
Review: I bought aom, thinkning it was a WC3 clone and for ... bucks, what the hell. BOY WAS I WRONG, AOM HAS GREAT GRAPHICS, FUN CITY BUILDING, GOD POWERS ADD TONS TO THIS GAME'S ALREADY GREAT LOOKS. THE WAR IS EVEN MORE FUN, CRUSHING YOUR ENEMIES WITH 9 DIFFERENT GODS! (LOKI,ODIN,THOR,ZEUS,HADES,POSIEDON,SET,ISIS,AND RA) THIS GAME IS CHALK FULL OF HOURS OF SINGLE PLAYER GAMES WHERE YOU ASSUME THE ROLE OF A GREEK WARRIOR NAMED ARKANTOS AND SOMETIMES WITH DIFFERENT FRIENDS..(ODYSSYOUS, AJAX AND SO ON) AND AFTER YOUVE BEEN PRIVELIGED WITH THE SINGLE PLAYER MODE, GO ON TO MULTIPLAY, IT IS FAST FURIOUS AND FUN, WITH SEVERAL DIFFERENT GAME MODES AND A RATINGS SYSTEM. I TRULY BELIVE THAT THIS GAME HAS OUTDONE ITS BIG BROTHER
WARCRAFT III OVERALL RATINGS
GRAPHICS:98.8%
GAMEPLAY:96.9%
SINGLEPLAY:99.2%
MULTIPLAY:97.3%
OVERALL:97.8%
THE NEW WAR CRAFT III KILLER HAS ARRIVED AND THIS BAD BOY IS SERIOUS...IT CAME, IT SAW, AND IT STRUCK WC3 DOWN WITH A HUGE LIGHTNING BOLT FROM ZEUS!
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Summary: Hard Play
Review: I have had my AOM for one week now. Definetly addictive game play, good graphics. I had no problem loading the game. I play Single Player/Random Map. The Easy setting is a piece of cake. Your enemies don't attack you, and from my AOE experience, I was able to defeat the Easy level, no problem. Move up to medium, and I have no chance. The computer play is very tough, but I guess you wouldn't want it easy. The graphics/playing characters are great, but smaller than I am used to. Very satisfied with the game, I just wish I can find the proper computer level to compete at.
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Summary: Let's clear up some things...
Review: 1. Even though the graphics look bad when you first enter the game, all you have to do is go to OPTIONS and make the screen size and graphic detail larger. 2. You can see and change all the hotkeys by going to options and clicking "edit hotkeys". By the way, there are hotkeys that change stances, too... 3. AOM has just as much depth as W3. It is not always about numbers. For example, an army of calvary doesn't have a chance against a line of infantry. 4. Processor speed is not always the problem to a slow game, it could also be memory and internet connection... I do agree that the manual is pathetic, though. You need to buy the strategy guide ... in order to get some good tips.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: This game delivers the awesome gameplay that RTS players have come to expect from the age of series. This one features three races, each capable of following a divine allignment of their choice, and to create mythical creatures, heroes and regular soldiers. You can also summon acts of god. To pay for your mythical units, you must do different things for each race; pray, build and kill. As for the graphics, the AOM team took the road to 3D with reasonable success. The graphics are pretty, and look especially spectacular when you have large forces battling each other on screen. The terrain and units are very detailed, and the animations are very impressive and fun to watch, making this very pleasing to the eye. As for the campaign, the story keeps you fasinated with a story as good as the amazing one in Warcraft III. Rounding up, I think that this game is well worth your purchase, and a worthy member of the Age of series.
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Summary: Does not work!
Review: The previous Age of Empire games worked fine on my computer, but this one evidently won't because of my video card. This could have been avoided if the packaging had offered more details, but game companies these days would rather let the buyer not beware and then let them get stuck with trying to get their money back. Forget any help from their customer care, either!
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Summary: Age Of Mythology delivers bigtime
Review: I wasn't sure at first. It looked like a microsoft version of warcraft 3. But it turned out to be a blast. It's textures are awesome and so is the gameplay. And the power of the gods, fun fun fun. It brings a new perspective to the age of empires series. I could see them even do a lord of the rings game, just like the starwars game. I'll buy it. Hope this helped your decision.
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Summary: Good, but has some bugs
Review: I have had multiple problems with simply running Age of Mythology. With an ATI Radeon graphics card and a fairly fast computer, I have had numerous computer lock-ups. I will be in the middle of playing and the game will just freeze. Plus there are some graphical inconsistencies. The cursor doesn't always come in clearly. Also with 256 MB and a 1.2 processor, when running a 3 on 2 random map, the game is extremely slow. This game could have gotten 5 stars, but due to the frustration of the bugs in the game it only deserves 3. Hopefully they will offer some patches soon to fix the problems.
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Summary: Warcraft 3 or AOM?
Review: I'm thinking of buying a game. I'm not sure which one I should get. Anybody have any suggestions. Which one is more action paced, more exciting. Which game plays faster? Basically, which is the overall better game?
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