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Summary: Best Strategy Game....No Doubt!
Review: This game clearly wipes out any other strategy game out there. Age 1 was great...Age 2 is better! Why? Better everything! Better graphics, sounds, AI (how smart the computer plays), etc. Also, most popular game on the MSN Gaming Zone! If your a strategy fan, this is a game you don't want to miss. Every online game site, and magazine rated this game at least 9.0/10. And people complain about RAM? I got 48, and it runs good with 2 players. One problem, but it can be fixed: Computer surrenders. Just download an update from Microsoft, and done! Well, I'm off to play Aoe2!
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Summary: Taking RTS to a new level.
Review: This is an excellent game that takes the RTS game and really brings it to a new level. A few people have said that this game doesn't introduce many new bells and whistles, and those people are mostly right. However, the game takes the standard RTS game and adds enough depth to make it the civiliazation of real time gaming. The various races have very real strengths and weaknesses that have a profound inmpact on the game play. Each races unique unit is representative of real history (viking berserkers, mounted Mongel archers, english longbowmen, need I say more). There is a hugfe research tree that makes it difficlut to research all of the options making it necessary to make real choices to how you will approach the game. All of these options really open up how you can approach the game. You can sit back, play a defensive game, and go for a wonder win, or go on the offensive, either wearing your opponent down with nuisance atttacks on there economic areas, or marching in with the big win. Defensive stances and formations add another levle to the game play. While battles generally settle into muddled affaris (which I think is representtative of the era, take a look at the movie Braveheart) the intial set pu of the units is critical in battle and can make make a huge difference in wiining battle and getting slaughtered (if you don't beleive me, look at the difference in how long your troops last between line and staggered formations when being attacked by onagers). Overall, the enormous amount of depth that AOK adds to the standard RTS game makes this game a winner.
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Summary: Random map problem
Review: Good, good, good, but not perfect. My maximum complaint is that, in random map, the computer always surrenders after about 5 - 10 minutes. Otherwise, it was wonderful.
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Summary: AOK is AOK!
Review: Best strategy game! Teaches history as well as tactics!
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Summary: RTS at it's peak in monotony!
Review: Briefly: I've never played the original AoE. I've played RTS since the original Warcraft RE-defined the genre a few years ago. (There were horrid RTS titles before WC1...) I bought AoE2, expecting it to be a great game from all the reviews I've read. (Not the reviews on Amazon.com, but the editor reviews on nation-wide PC-game magazines which I tend-ED to expect fantastic criticism from.) I have to say I was really dissapointed. Not only that I bought the game, but generally dissapointed in the folks at Ensemble Studios. The graphics of AoE, and the music of AoE are in general, really nice. (There are some really annoying sounds that get to you after a while.) But in general -- this game introduces NOTHING new to the RTS genre. I've heard it said that this game does nothing but improve the graphics from the earlier AoE. I'd have to believe it. Especially since I was oddly reminded of Warcraft II while watching the various goings on in the game. (Not only reminded, but having flashbacks where I actually thought I was playing WCII.) That, combined with the fact that a single-player game set on a hard difficulty level can take up to six hours to complete, depending on the complexity of the scenario, makes this really, undeniably, dreadfully dull. I'm not going to say that the hardcore AoE2 fans out there are wrong -- they're most definately not. Obviously they've shown great support for this game. Personally, I love innovation, both in what I do, and what I experience. And from that point of view, AoE2 is a refinement of the RTS algorithm. It's got some new flashy things and shiny objects to make you "oooo" and occasionally "ahhh," but once you get past the initial pretty thingies, it's just another "canned money-maker," so to speak.
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Summary: the Sequel
Review: I think that it's much more complicated than the first one but the scale is much better because in the original AoE the people were the size of churches. Yes, this is definately the better of the two. It has got; better graphics, more AI of the opponents, you can now get formations, and of course that brilliant strategy is back on the screen!
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Summary: Age2 Aok is Great! GET THIS GAME
Review: I first got age of empires 2 on the day it came out and i have not stopped playing it ever since. Some games i have forgotton about but this one has kept me busy. I was creamed on the second level and then i had to ajust my strategy and now i am on level 3. This game is the best game i have played YET! I really suggest buying it.
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Summary: and i thought AOE was good!
Review: I have played starcraft, total anihilation, dune 2000 and they were okay but this one is the best game I have seen. Now the computer will actually do sensible things. If you are one for the RTS, turn based or thinking games you MUST get this game. All those little thing that aoe gamers like myself really missed are here. The learning campaign is a great way to get to know the game. The new style of scenarios work well. There is one or two things that din't quite make it (like roads) but the Ensemble guys need something for Age of Empires 3 :)
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Summary: actually about a 3 1/2
Review: I would give a four if it wasn't for some annoying things that happen in this game. After a while I realized that my army was blowing up MY army durring battle. When I tried to make the soilders hang back so they wouldn't get blasted they would run up again. I guess what I am saying is that whatever controls your armys when you are not is very idiotic. I don't know if people like it like this or not but I don't. Please don't get me wrong. I think this is a very fun game that is very addictive (it's 4:30 in the morning right now and I just finished playing). Anyway I would suggest that people buy this game because it really is interesting and fun AND challenging. Just be prepared to get a little frustrated but not too much because it isn't the worst thing that could happen and doesn't ruin the game, just makes it harder. My two cents.
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Summary: Wonderful game for beginner in strategies
Review: This is the first game like this that I've played and I'm totally thrilled with it! We also have the Age of Empires Gold Edition, but I like AoK much better. I'm still on the "easiest" setting, but I've been victorius twice. This is very engrossing and time literally flies by when playing it.
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