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Summary: For all you AOE, AOK and AOK:Conquerers Fans
Review: I'm an avid AOK:Conquerers player and I NEVER thought I would find a game that would blow it away. I've found it!!! The graphics are stuning. The detail in the buildings is extreme. The trees really look like trees. The peasants and military units perform their tasks with an almost lifelike grace. Rifles, cannons mortars etc. all have different sounds and all produce puffs of smoke when they fire. The artillary bombardments are spectacular; actual explosions and clouds of smoke and flying debris when they hit a target. The ships are very lifelike, especially in their movements. Forget the 200 maximum on units... I just finished my first run thru on this game and had a maximum population limit of 1000 and could have gone higher. There are also LOADs of unit upgrades. On a scale of 10 I rate this one a definate 12!!
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Summary: THE VERY BAD GAME
Review: I know this has probably been said but I decided to say it again. No matter how good this game was on its own I couldn't play it at all without first thinking Age of Empire. Don't get me wrong the missions are unique and challenging(sometimes enormously hard). But I somehow feel like I have played the game before. The game is wonderful and this one had the decked stacked against it from the outset, to bad. My impression-A decent game that could have been a great game
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Summary: Age of Empires warmed over
Review: I had high hopes for Cossacks, given the claims the manufacturers made, but found it to be basically the Age of Empires engine with updated graphics and a different period in time. It has been entertaining to watch how the updated weapons are handled, but the AI is a bit [poor] at times. If you haven't gotten tired of the Age of Empires games then you'll probably like Cossacks. On the other hand, Cossacks does not represent any significant new challenge. You might enjoy the new graphics, the new units, and the new time period, for a while.
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