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Summary: Age Of Empires, Are familys favorite Comp. Game!
Review: Age Of Empires 2 is where you get to battle against 1-11 other civilitions, including the Vikings, Chinese, Mongols, and tons more. You have 10,000 years to lead your "team" to lead Rome. It comes with a Inside Moves Book. You gat to have allys if you want to. You are the King, and you can die or survie. I reccomend this game.
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Summary: Strategy??
Review: Just a little comment reading the other customer's review. AOE II is a very good game for sure, but frankly can we talk about strategy in this king of game?? You just need to click as quickly as possible with your mouse to gather ressources to build a huge army and then send it to the ennemy base. More or less, if you have more units you win...If you take the ennemy army by the back it won't make any difference, no tactical advantage!!! Moreover the formations (line, flank...) are more a gadget than something useful, it doesn't give any particular advantage contrary to Cossacks...
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Summary: Age of Empires 2
Review: This game is a improvement over the original verision by far. All of the original elements that made the first game truly enjoyable a back and better than ever. There are also many emporvements. One example would be trading. In this new version trading costs you virtually nothing other than the cost of a trade cart and a market. Using this method you can prolong the game by buying resources with gold at your market place. Another example would be garisioning your troops. This tactic provides a unique stragic option which makes it harder to destory an enemy. Yet another improvement is the ablity to see troops even when they are behind buildings. What is more annoying than losing a troop because you can not see and/or select him? By far the biggest advantage is treason. This technology allows you to see everything on the map and is incredibly useful. To top it all off the second version of the game includes women as well as men. Although they are in the game as peasants, they are still there despite the fact that the society at the time was mainly male dominated. The Second Age of Empires is a experience in itself, and you have never truly played a computer game until you have tried it. Without a doubt it is the best and most interesting straetgy game currently on the market.
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Summary: As Addicting As It Is Fun
Review: I love this game and now see what all the hype is about. You control everything and these are the games I like. I might like Roller Coaster Tycoon a little better but during these boring summer days, I like playin this.
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Summary: You take all those little things for granted...
Review: Although I say it myself, I am pretty good on the original AOE. When I first got AOK the first thing I thought was oh my god, this isn't much different to the original. But it's stuff like the find idle villager button and being able to find out what diplomatic stance others have to you. This is a great game that I would recommend to any AOE player.
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Summary: Shouldn't get anything less than 5 stars
Review: This is the greatest game ever on PC! Age of Kings blows Starcraft,Warcraft, Command and Conquer, etc. away! nothing compares. I like Starcraft, warcraft, and all those games, but they're nothing like Age of Kings.
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Summary: Age of Kings Is The Best PC Game Ever!
Review: Age of Kings is absolutely brilliant! It is very much like the first game, but with some very creative additions. The Scenario editor now features Triggers rather than the Individual Victory settings in the original. The triggers allow you to make your scenarios much more detailed. You can make the computer bring units to certain locations once something is achieved, make units appear throughout the scenarios at certian points and much, much more! It also features a new style of random map called Regicide in which you must attempt to [get] the enemy's king before they [get]yours. It also allows for brilliant multiplayer games on Microsoft Internet Gaming Zone and against your friends over the modem. There's much more to say about it, but I've written about the main features.
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Summary: Not Sure What's More Tedious
Review: I'm not sure what is more tedious-- this game or my life. After sinking 15+ hours into this game today, I have nothing good to show for it. But enough of my whining. Let's take a step back. Many of you gamers probably still cherish (or curse) the first time you found your first real-time strategy game, be it Command & Conquer, Warcraft, or even Dune. And you've probably progressed through the ranks of real-time strategy games. So you know the territory-- long sleepless nights, intricate micromanagement, small unit and large scale combat. Age of Empires has all that. True to form, Microsoft has taken many sure-fire components of previous games, like Warcraft, C&C, whatever. And true to form, once again, Microsoft's end result is just a little less. . . satisfying than the original. Now I know, I'm preaching heresy, and should be burned at the Microsoft stake. If you started out on this game, it is probably near and dear to you. But if you grew up on better designed games, AoE is very frustrating. I mean, how often DO I have to replant my farms-- it seems like every 5 minutes. And how tedious IS it to have to root out those pernicious AI's that just never seem to figure that horse-bound archers, or another monk, won't do the trick. Now am I being slightly unfair to Mr. Gates & Co.? Probably. Am I a bitter little man with nothing to do on a weekend but play AoE until I get carpal tunnel syndrome? ABSOLUTELY! But SKIP this game, if you know what's good for you. Instead, I recommend a little known real-time game that puts AoE to shame-- Trevor Chan's "Seven Kingdoms". Now that, my friends, is a true find.
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Summary: Aged cheese? Or old meat?
Review: Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings is, to put it frankly, one of the best multiplayer games out there. It's a game that is purely of skills, tactics, and logic, and it is definately good enough in the graphics department. But in my opinion, it's missing the element of lasting game appeal. When you first install the files and run the program, you are instantly slaughtered by the Easiest computer opponent. Which is good, because it sets within the player a desire to continue playing until you can conquer the...Easiest level. You move on to the Medium level, then to the (gasp) Hard level, and after a while, you master them all. And when you master the Hardest level, you're the king of the mountain. Or are you? You've mastered the computer... and now onto the best part of the game, you must conquer your friends. Don't get me wrong, playing against friends is the funnest part (since the computer players are so predictable). But what if nobody's around? The computer gets boring. This is my opinion... even if it is frighteningly addictive and lots of fun at first, it ends up being like aged deli meat... the longer you have it, the less appetizing it is.
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Summary: HOLY MOTHER OF GOOD GAMES!! SHE HAD ANOTHER ONE!!!
Review: The mother of all good games has given birth to yet another beautifully done game. AOEII is what one could call the prime example of its genre. Most RTS's force you to ... your oppenent with bigger guns, but in AOEII that is not the case. Military is simply a defense, and in times of need, an army for war. The various paths and civilizations make you all warm and comfy. The first thing you are greeted with is a beautiful cinematic from yours truly, Microsoft Games. Then there's the multitude of campaigns, all of which were done excellently. The engine is a truly refined version of ye old AOEI. Formations for your men (and women) is a great new thing that adds some strategy to your game, and the new game options are just terrific. My true favorite is Regicide, in which each player has a King character and the last one standing wins. Sometimes when others destroy my entire civilization I like to hide my King in the forests, just for time. AOEII is definetely an enjoyable game, instead of wasting $20 on Starcraft, spend it on this better game.
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