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Summary: A great followup expansion
Review: This game just adds more of what we like in the age of empires series. My only gripe here is its additional civilizations are all somewhat similar in my opinion. However, if you liked age of empires 2, you can go wrong.
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Summary: Age of Empires 2 the Conquers
Review: This is a great game that will hold u fast in front of your computer for hours upon hours. There are very few games like this one in the fact that it is very exciting to play and you control every action. The one promblem i have with this game is that the AI is not extrodinary, this is because it does not try to find the glitches in your strategies. This leads to a low replayability. Though with its custom scenario creaters and open play games you never really can get to that point where you have to replay. Also you can play this game on the internet and this just adds to the excitment. I would recomend this game to anyone who enjoys startegies games, especially ages 10-15
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Summary: A Classic
Review: When I first got AoK for Christmas a few years back and started playing it, I was confused since it was my first real time strategy game. However, there's really not that much of a learning curve to this game, and I quickly began enjoying myself more and more. The graphics in the game are astounding and I still think that they are better than most games on the market today. Sound is great and it blends right into your experience. Managing an empire comes so easily with the well-designed interface, you won't even notice it. If you like RTS games or are just looking for a game to suck your time away :) look no further. I can't tell you how much fun I've had over the years building up armies and going into battle. Battles can last less than an hour or can go on endlessly. One time I played a game vs the computer on Hardest, 3v3, on Team Islands. It took over 6 hours! Actually, I made sure it lasted longer than it should, but still... The naval battles are excellent--players have huge navies with all types of ships, just like what sea battles were like hundreds of years ago. As for recreating history, AoK/Conq excels there as well. You'll feel as if you were in that time period. If you are someone who doesn't think that this game would be for you (1% of the population), I would suggest Age of Mythology (also by Ensemble Studios; I play it about the same as this game) or Rise of Nations (which I've started playing; it seems more complex but just as fun). AoK/Conq is one of those classic games that will last and I highly recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: Not an improvement :-(
Review: I truly enjoyed the original version -- I did NOT enjoy this one. Basically, it's the same game as the original, repainted in a different color. You get more of the same stuff, except it includes adaptations to other cultures. Other than this, swordsmen still do what swordsmen did before, likewise with archers, catapults, priests, etc. The farmers are just as annoying to manage as they used to be. There are some **minor** cute additions, but for the most part, IT'S THE SAME OLD STUFF. Worse: I used to be able to play at different levels with the original game -- I cannot with this one. I get clobbered in short order regardless of what I try to do. Strategic hints? None to be found... Forget diplomacy -- that didn't work either. No idea at this point how to play at at "Moderate" (read: Impossible) level. The "Standard" level is (as expected) not much of challenge and becomes boring pretty fast. Sure, there's gotta be some strategic silver bullet to play at Moderate level, but at this point I'm frustrated enough and thoroughly underwhelmed with AoE #2 + Conquerors to bother figuring it out. It's straight to eBay as far as I am concerned. BH.
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Summary: Best CPU Game Ever
Review: I have been playing AoE for as long as i can remember and I still lover it. Everyone should own it. AoE is a must buy!
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Summary: awesome
Review: To the person who gave this game 3 stars-you are so wrong! You think it's boring because you don't fight. The game is a lot more fun if you actually fight to win. But if you don't get any relics, you lose in about 300 game years. Building a wonder is also boring because you don't get to fight. War is what the game is all about! Even playing the demo version was awesome! Besides new cultures and stuff, there's even new animals! Jaguars are one of them. If you don't have Age of Conquerors, buy it! (that is if you do have Age of Kings.) If you don't have AOE II The Age of Kings and you want The Age of Conquerors, you have to buy both. Anyways, BUY THIS GAME!!!
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Summary: Not too much to add, but still worth it!
Review: This expansion is just that. The features it adds (new cultures and techs) will seem random to the new or infrequent player. However, if you let yourself learn AOEII, then Conquerors is worth all the money.Graphics: 4/5 No upgrade here
Gameplay: 5/5 The Techs and Cultures it adds keep the game going
Controls: 4/5 No upgrade here
Tech Tree: 5/5 Niche add-ons help
Story: 4/5 A simple Microsoft campaign, but it's the thought that counts. Overall: 4/5 Not too much to add, but every gain helps.
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Summary: AWSOME
Review: this game is the greatest! i have been playing it for about 4 years and dont think i dont have a life. it is realistic and a lot of fun. if u dont like it for some odd reason, go milk your cat.
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Summary: The best Sires of Real Time Strategy Games
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: Another Success
Review: I played Age of Empires I for about 1 year and i decided why not get Age of Empires The Age of Kings and the Conqueres. I never played just Age Of Kings so i wasnt burt out of the game. First i beat all the historical campains. It tokk about 1 month. I started playing on the internet and that was fun for about 2 month. Then I discovered the map maker. I learned how to make triggers and i put abunch of maps in a campain. This took about 2 months. For about 1 year and 5 months i played the Age of Empire games. These are good in graphics and game play. I would recommend this to anyone.
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