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Age of Empires 2 Official Expansion: The Conquerors

Age of Empires 2 Official Expansion: The Conquerors

List Price: $24.95
Your Price: $19.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great
Review: this is a must buy. C. makes a great game even better. The new civilizations are great. BUY THIS GAME.!! :-)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is such a fun game!!!!!
Review: I started liking it when I tried it at my friend's house. and know I can't stop playing it! It has all these different types of people and different civilizations to be. There are campaigns where you can fight with El Cid or Attila the Hun! You have villagers to get you food, wood, gold and stone. There are also boats that you can send to attack your enemy, like Cannon Galleons or War Galleys. It's one of the most fun games I've played in my entire life!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An essential upgrade
Review: AOE 2: The Conquerers is more than just a simple expansion pack. It is really more like AOE 2.5. Like most expansion packs, it gives you scenarios and extra civilizations. What is different here is that they have improved the AI for many of the critical functions and added some new units and unit features as well.

The biggest improvement is the automatic farm reseeding queue. Now instead of having to build a new farm each time one is exhausted, you can order the Mill to reseed them by buying an up to 13 reseeds. You still have to check the queue from time to time to restock it, but it is a lot easier than building farms every two minutes. Villagers are generally much improved. After building a mine for instance, the builder immediately turns into a miner.

The best thing I can say about this expansion is that now that I have it, I won't go back to playing the game without it. It has everything that AOE 2 has plus features I find indispensable. Even without the new scenarios, it is an essential enhancement.

If you enjoy AOE 2, I strongly urge you to purchase this upgrade. It makes a great game even better.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great game for anyone...
Review: This game is one of the best games ever made... also this game makes you think a lot and that's fun... i got age of empire II and the most thing that i dont like was about the farms,but now is so easy!!! You don have to worry about the farms anymore finally!!! also includes 5 new civilizations and the villagers are more intelligents for example if they're building a lumber-camp, after build it they will go to gather wood inmediately,that's good... And also this game add a lot of things to research at the castle and the monastery... if you like Age of empires II you will like this expansion... so buy it and start play it...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Interesting but with some minor flaws.
Review: I enjoy AOE2, and the expansion pack is a fun addition. Of particular note are the new building styles and civilization-unique research advances, a logical step from the civilization-unique units. New civilizations provide one the power to greatly strengthen ground units or even settlers, and new areas provide lush backdrops to savage clashes. Smarter A.I. and new research advances means your priests don't waste all their conversion power working on the same person, settlers don't stand around piles of gold like idiots until you tell them to get to work, you don't have to constantly rebuild farms by hand, and well-outfitted light cavalry actually make fairly effective units.

One major gripe I have from AOE:2 remains: units in formation allocate themselves against enemies in a very foolish fashion; often chasing the lead unit while others attack them, or wandering around the outskirts of fights attempting to get to a unit in the center, while being attacked themselves. Unless told by the player to attack a certain unit, units should always at least stop to defend themselves (a similar bug occurs when you catch an enemy army en route and can just beat on them the entire way w/o reprisal). Another wise option would a 'priority' option, like having units drop everything they're doing to attack approaching onagers and priests. Likewise, the new manual states that your own onagers will attempt to avoid firing into areas where your own troops may be injured; I have found this to be incorrect. Indeed, they still seem to relish lobbing attacks at wandering horsemen into clusters of my own workers. In addition, converted units should upgrade normally as part of your army, instead of staying rooted in the Dark Ages or whenever. Lastly, and perhaps most bizarrely, the expansion pack deleted infantry options from grouped units; I cannot create formations or order units to hold ground, stay grouped etc. It may be unique to my system, but it is nonetheless a serious problem, particularly in comparison with the previous system. I can't even use the skull button to kill off frivolous or converted units. Go to a different portion of the map for even a moment and standing armies will run off after a passing horsemen and get killed by castles. All in all, the expansion pack is great fun with lots of upgrades to the prior controls, but it seems to have missed some glaring ones.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Conquerors is Compelling!
Review: Yes, I'll admit it: I am one of those people who has been chomping at the bit to get my hands on this expansion pack. I have spent hundreds of hours playing AOE,ROR,and AOK. I have only had Conquerors two days, but I've already finished the Montezuema campaign (I have to work and sleep you know). And I started Attilla the Hun before I went to sleep. We all know what a terrific game AOK is. What the folks at Ensemble have done is taken an already excellent game and made it better. By tweaking some of the old Civs and adding some unique units, they have given us reason to play some of the original Civs that we might not have been so found of (the Goths come to mind). They also added new Campaigns, maps, games (i.e. King of the Hill), and of course civilizations. I am not sure if there were improvements in the graphics, but the artwork of the tropical Yucatan peninsula rain forests and Aztec buildings is absolutely stunning. Microsoft and Ensemble have done it again. I better plan on getting a little less sleep for the next couple of months.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Must Buy!!!
Review: Anyone that purchase AOE2 must purchase this expansion pack.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: this is a very good game
Review: Im an age of empires fan.But I've only been for 5 months.but I can tell you that if you love Aoe2:the age of kings.then you'll love AoE2:The Conquerers.with 4 new campaigns and 5 new civilizations such as the Mayans,Aztecans,Koreans,and the Spanish.Plus 26 new techs.Also you can now garrison troops in siege rams.It should arive in abut two or three days.If you want to contact me abut this game.my e-mail address is Y2k bug200032525

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another Awesome Age !!!!!!
Review: This game is very very good. With the addition of the new civilizations, especially the mayans and aztecs, Micrsoft has taken the Age legacy and series to a different level. The game has obvious AI improvments as well as additions in the technology department. OVERALL: this is an outstanding game and very easy to learn and use for new age players as well as the weathered veterans! I am telling you...get it now!!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome
Review: All I have to say is that the expansion polishes up an already great game. It is worth getting if you have age of kings and love RTS games.


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