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Summary: The second best game after chess!
Review: Feast your eyes on the colour-filled lively textures of this brilliant strategy game. Make your brain work on it at days and nights, feel the wonderful control of the game and scream when you win. Be the master of the world and enjoy the exitement. Play it over the internet and laugh at your opponents. Loose with honour and role-play your way out of the shame.And as for the "other people", there are some good cheat codes. Buy it...
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Summary: Good, but not great...
Review: Good, but not great... When I got AOE2 from a friend of mine I found it quite good. You could choose from a selection of campaigns, and the tutorial showed you all the 'ropes'. You could protect Joan of Arc on her journey to the King on help the Scots protect their lands and more besides these. However, I finished AOE2 extremely fast, for a strategy game- in a week. Also, there were certain things that I found extremely frustrating in this strategy game: - You had to 'baby-sit' your units. If you didn't keep looking at each unit, some would stop their tasks (like chopping wood for houses), when you were checking the soldiers. Call this being kept on your toes if you like but in my opinion, it just caused tiny problems that totaled to one mess. The least that could be done could be to put up a message immediately after a unit becomes inactive! -Secondly, when you start the next scenario your wood, food, gold, etc. get reset to the present scenario's default settings. So even if you had 15,000 gold in the previous scenario, you might go down to 5000 gold in the present one! Well, everyone has an opinion and that's mine- so don't kill me! I'm not saying the game is bad. It's quite good. You could build empires and fight enemies using medieval styled armies. You could explore terrain and the textures and colours of units and terrain were rather good. The story lines for campaigns weren't bad either- quite interesting and motivational in fact! And the game didn't get boring but held your intention throughout. It still doesn't rate 5 stars though. SOME 5 STAR STRATEGY GAMES ARE: the Civilization series, Imperialism 2 and Majesty.
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Summary: Cool down the Computer after this one!
Review: Man this game is breath-taking.You start it and then you get going and you don't want to turn it off.The graphics are top of the line.The game play is real strategic and time consuming.It isn't some bang'em up blow'em up game.This actually takes thought and time.There many diffrent ways to play the game.Plus there many diffrent people to use and to go through their role.Buy it you wont be disapointed and if you are then say this review didn't help.
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Summary: The surprise hit of 1999
Review: I have to admit, the original game didn't really impress me all that much. So I wasn't holding out very high hopes for the sequel. So you can imagine my stunned surprise when I found out that Age of Empires 2 (AOE2) was a surprisingly good game. The biggest improvement in the game was the user interface. I think AOE2 has the most advanced user interface ever introduced in a real-time strategy game. It makes it extremely easy to control the formation and behaviour of your troops, and queing units is a snap. The second strength is the AI, which (along with Dark Reign) is the most complex in any game to-date. The AI will respond to attacks on its own bases, and it will send large strike forces against your armies. However, AOE2's greatest weakness is its lack of a cohesive single-player campaign. Instead of a series of missions linked with a cohesive storyline, you have several separate campaigns, each centering around a different empire. So the missions are more like skirmishes than really cohesive campaigns. Regrettably, Starcraft is still the king when it comes to single-player campaigns. For the above stated reason, I must remove one star. Other than that, AOE2 is a game every discerning computer strategy gamer should have on their PC.
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Summary: Oh Yeah
Review: This game speaks for itself so all I have to say is, IT ROCKS!
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Summary: Awsome
Review: This is the best game I'v ever played! The campaigns are sweet. They are actually based on real historical campaigns like Joan of Arc. It's awsome that you can save multiplayer games!
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Summary: WOW
Review: AOE2 is incredible in how well it improves on AOE. The graphics are better, there are more units, the historical campaigns are challenging and fun. The one gripe i have is that the campaigns are very challenging, but this is still an awesome game. If you are a fan of the original AOE, definitely check this out.
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Summary: What can I say?
Review: That already hasn't been said? Coming from Age of Empires I had certian expectations about the quality of gameplay and interaction. I have to be honest and say those were all shattered. Microsoft has definatley stepped up to the plate on this one, making the charecters and story lines more interesting and complex. This game takes the expectation of your typical rt strategy game and truns it into a RT Rpg Strategy. The AI on this thing is so enhanced you really don't want to be caught with your pants down, and the graphics, well, don't get me started on them. I must say, this is a great game, an awesome sequal to Age Of Empires I. MS has certianly raised the bar as to gameplay, graphics quality and style of real time strategy games. I can't wait untill the next version!
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Summary: Age of Empires II
Review: This game is a very good strategy game based on real world history.the graphics are spectacular and the computer controled charachters are realistic. I give my rating of 4 stars because the program had certain conflicts with my system.Do not let my rating make you think that this is not a must have game. If you must know, it is a "MUST HAVE" game.This is an exellent game and I would recommend it to any strategy lover.
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Summary: AWESOME GAME!
Review: THIS GAME IS GREAT GAME. IF YOU LIKE EMPIRE BUILDING AND ENEMY KILLING, THIS IS THE PERFECT GAME FOR YOU.
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