Age of Empires

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Summary: Perfect
Review: The Age of Empires, Age of Kings, Age of Mythology series is definitely the best ever sires of real time strategy games. In all versions of the game you are allowed to control both the armies and economies of your nation. You can build buildings, creature soldiers or peasants, even priests. Your peasants you command to do the different menial tasks such as farming, mining, and building castles. While your armies roam the land either defending your peasants, sieging enemy castles, or raiding their peasants. Priest have the power to convert both peasants and soldiers. If you like being king of the world, this is for you. Finally, I just want to differentiate between the games. Age of Empires is the oldest of the games and should run on any computer, but I wouldn't recommend the game without either the Rise of Rome Expansion Pack or just buying the Age of Empires Gold Edition. These two correct many problems with the original Age of Empires. Next game up the latter for medium computers is Age of Kings (that's what I'm still playing.) It can run on just about any computer with sixty four megs of ram and a two hundred megahertz processor. I use it on a five hundred megahertz and a one point four gigahertz. Next game up is the Age of Mythology. This introduces a whole new realm of playing to the sires. This one you civilization chooses different gods to worship and is given power from them. Unfortunately you only get two really spectacular god powers each game and you can only use them once, but then it keeps the game to more strategy and less luck and wildcards. (It is fun to get the wildcards when you have them though!) This game should have a processor of I would say at least a six hundred and a graphics card at least thirty two megabytes; and lastly this is not the game for everybody. I still use Age of Kings/Conquerors not because of my computer, but because I don't like all the crazy stuff in Mythology; I think it distracts from the medieval battle tactics. Really choosing between Mythology and Age of Kings is just a matter of personal opinion. I'd say download both demos and try them both; or if you have the money to blow, buy them both. Either way I think you'll love both of them. Well that's all for me. This is just a general over view don't take my words as gold check out the specs and requirements yourself. I just wanted to help point you in the right direction.

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Summary: good strategy game
Review: This game has alot of good strategy in it. After playing starcraft and other streatgy games made by blizzard studios, this game is very good. but if you like this game then you should REALLY get the expansions!

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Summary: Incredible....
Review: This game has it all. Different types of units, decent graphics, and TONS of possible strategies. The fun part about this game is that there are soo many possiblities. The newer games like AOE2 are just too balanced. There aren't any strategies besides a typical well-balanced army. But in AOE, anything can win. That's the beauty of it. It's not overly balanced. The game isn't going for realism, it's going for fun. For instance, there is a strategy where you can win with a cavalry rush. Attacks with one kind of unit work in AOE. But not in AOE2. The possilibty of an extremely early rush in this game are slim, but are still possible. This game is truly a masterpiece. And if you want to play online, OK! There are usually around 2,000 people playing this game on the Microsoft internet gaming zone. Buy this game, you won't be dissappointed.

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Summary: Great Game that rarely gets boring!
Review: This game is great! There are so many different difficulty levels and there are lots of different options so that you can play the game in lots of different ways. It also has great graphics!

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Summary: Best Game
Review: This game is one of the best, although there's room forimprovement, like your computer enemies being way more developed whenyou start a game. I disagree with one of the reviews cause AOE's got some of the best cheats - the laser people, a laser shooting car (BIGDADDY), etc. The mist of war is one of the only stupid things in the game. END

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Summary: The Best Game of the Century
Review: This game is perfect for strategy. You are in full control of the Empire you are building. The graphics are realistic. The people look just like real people. There are tons of ways to win. Age of Empires is a must buy!

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Summary: What a game!!!!!!
Review: This game pioneered the way for all the other strategy games. This was the classic that won game-of-the-year awards left and right. Jaws were dropping like flies. This game revolutionised strategy gaming forever!

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Summary: An awesome game
Review: This game pioneered the way for all the other strategy games. This was the classic that won game-of-the-year awards left and right. Jaws were dropping like flies. This game revolutionised strategy gaming forever!

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Summary: fun game
Review: this is a fun game i like it a lot but if you are wondering if should buy this game go to Microsoft.com and download the demo it gives you some of the level free.

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Summary: Great Game But Could Have Included Other Empires As Well
Review: This is a great game, but it made me wonder why it excluded the Empires of the Americas, like the Aztecs, Mayans, or Incas