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Summary: Better then Perfect
Review: I had played AOE 2:The Age of Kings, and thought it was perfect.
although it lacked a few things, it was amazing. So, i had to buy this. I expected the same as what I got from AOE 2. I was wrong. It was a whole lot better than the last game. Whatever areas that were not good in AOE 2 were greatly enhanced.
1. No more holiday vacations: Villagers cannot be lazy after they build lets say... A Mining camp. In AOE2, once the villager builds the mining camp, they do nothing. Nowadays, they go straight to mining.
2. Newbies rock: The new civilliztions in this game are amazing. The Spanish aren't the coolest, but they were important in history and should of been in AOE2. The Koreans have really cool special troops. The Huns are great for anyone with an offensive stratagy. The Mayans and the Aztecs are dominat in the archer catagory. Overall, the new groups rock.
3. Reality: In AOE2, the campagins were fun, but i'd easily rather play a death match. Not in the expanison. The campaigns, for some reason, are alot better than the AOE2 campaingns. Once i start i can't stop.
So, overall, anyone who is into almost any type of game(with a few exceptions), this is the gasme for u.
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Summary: Worth Your Money
Review: Conquerors is a great addition to te Age of Epires Series. It includes five new civilizations, and three new campaings, plus a lot of other new units and upgrades. I'm only sorry that they came out with one expansion. Campaings now include scout reports, that tell you the color, and general location of every other civilization on the map. The new civilizations are loads of fun, especaly the Spainish. Each civilzation now has its own unique technology. This game is totaly worht the money. Buy it.
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Summary: What's so new???
Review: I have played Ages of Empire II: The Age of Kings, over and over again. I was getting kind of bored with it so I thought the expansion would be great. What's so new??? Not much that I could see. I'm the non-conquerer type who likes to get the relics or the wonder so I found nothing new. Definately nothing worth paying for the expansion. Maybe if you are a battle kind of player it might be different.
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Summary: Excellent strategy game!
Review: this game is amazing, it never gets boring, and is really fun. The new units are great, the new campains are great, but most of all, the action is great!
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Summary: Makes The Best Strategy Game Ever Even Better
Review: Age of Empires II is by far the greatest strategy game I have ever played. The Conquerors just makes it even better. It has many updated features, and includes new civilizations such as the Mayans, Aztecs, Huns, Koreans, and Spanish. It also includes many new units and buildings to go along with them. The only possible con is that the armies of all the civilizations are still very similar, but this is practically unnoticeable with the rest of the game being so perfect. This is one of the best series of games ever made. Once you start playing this game, you just can't stop.
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Summary: The Expansion Pack made Age of Empires UNCONQUERABLE
Review: We were rather neutral at first about getting the Expansion Pack (The Conquerers) for our beloved Age of Empires. We networked our home office, and believe me, you can get through a lot of bad winter weather and no television if you are keen to play military strategy games. We just loved Empires, in my opinion, the best real-time strategy computer game there is. But we were blown away by the Conquerers Expansion Pack. When we had installed it, we realized that this was NOW the most perfect RTS game, ever. The addition of five new civiliations, better maps, new technologies, improved AI and some really necessary upgrades made this pure playing pleasure. Here's what I loved that was added to Age of Empires: 1. The new civilizations (civs to afficionados.)
a.The Koreans have war wagons (shoot arrows) and armored turtle boats. Their towers are inferior to none, making them as strong as the Teutons in some respects.
b. The Huns need no houses, and are the Mongols on mega-steroids. They are fast and vicious. The Tarkans (elite unit) are highly destructive to buildings.
c. The Spanish have Conquistadors, mounted hand cannoneers, there are Missionaries on muleback. They can build like no one else, and the villagers are strong defenders.
d. The Mayans and Aztec: New World, so no cavalry, but fast and have archers that rival the Chinese Chu-ko-Nu. 2. Each civ now gets one, or in some cases, two "unique technologies" such as the ability to build unique (elite) units in barracks as well as the castle (The Goths.) 3. The "scratch-your-rear and smoke a cigarette" villager syndrome has been, at least, partially cured. Villagers who've finished building an ore mine now go to work (duh!) mining instead of having to be ordered to do so. They still seem to take cigarette breaks now and then, but the AI does work to send a house builder who is done building a hut, on to cut down a nearby tree. 4. The farms now replant. Clicking on the field icon takes wood and stacks up the replanted fields. No more annoying rustle of exhausted fields demanding to be replanted while you are in the heat of battle. (That is, if you have cut sufficient wood.) 5. The new maps include a salt swamp (New World feature) with interesting marshes and sometimes hard-to-traverse areas. There is a Scandinavian map, sort of a variant on a Mongolian map, a bit of water and fish, but limited food. There is snow, and footprints appear in the snow, a delightful graphic touch. Turkeys were added in addition to sheep, for New World food supply. Some civilizations were "rebalanced" to weaken a too-strong feature or pump up a weakness. In some respects, I think they overshot the mark. The Turks and Franks, in my opinion, were dumbed down too much. The turkeys on the New World maps are often plentiful, but the gobbling gets on my nerves after two minutes. All in all, we think this game is about as perfect as computer games get and we've had hours of yelling, screaming, sulking, revenge, disbelief, followed by reconcilation and rematches. In short, just the thing to bolster your marriage.
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Summary: Another installment in a near-perfect series
Review: Superb. Buy it and let it monopolize all of your free time! The smart farmers (they replant the farms after they tap out) are worth the price of the expansion all by themselves, everything else is just ladle after ladle of gaming gravy..
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Summary: Just as good as AOE 2
Review: If you didn't have to have a full copy of AOE 2 to play this expansion set, it could still stand on its own. This expansion is excellent--the designers tweaked many annoying features (like farm rebuilding--now it can be automatic) from the first two games. The graphics are even slightly improved--no mean feat. The sound is lush and amusing, the new civilizations and units are impressive, and new single player landscapes and missions are intriguing. There are so many new options in this game that I doubt I'll ever play AOE 2 by itself again! Plus, no technical difficulties whatsoever!
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Summary: If you like Age of Kings, you'll love this expansion!
Review: I couldn't believe at how much different this expansion was from the original Age of Empires 2. I must say that by the screenshots presented on the back of the box I was suspicious that this expansion wouldn't have much more to offer then the original. I was dead wrong. The expansion makes it much easier to replant farms, which in my opinion, was the greatest thing about it. Are you one of those people who like to make many farms, but are always having to replant, and spend most of your game hearing that annoying farm exhausted sound go off? You wouldn't have to worry about that with the conquerors expansion because in this game you can easily click on the mill, and que farms to be built (you'd have to have the wood) much like you would queue a new army, it is very time-saving, so that you can concentrate on building a strong army, and not concentrate on your farmers! The New civilizations on this game make it worth the 30 dollars that the game costs! There are the koreans, who have a seige wepon (with an attack much like a heavy scorpion) with more strength then a Palidan. With regular seige, even villigers can take them down, but with the Koreans "War Wagons" if you have 30 or more of them, you'll put up a great fight. The Aztecs have seige onagers, and a good UU agianst other infintry, although they CANNOT make horses..The Mayans cannot make hourses either, but if you like archers then the Mayans are a perfect choice for you, their UU is one of the best archers in the game. The huns are a calvary civilization that can make Palidans, and their UU is calvary with a good attack, and also huns don't have to build houses! The bottom line is that if you have Age of Kings, you aren't complete without this expansion pack.
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Summary: Dynasty!!
Review: I got AOK and loved. I just got this game and it is simply awesome! It improves AOK and the campaigns are simply cool. Overall this game is a must buy. Get it NOW! Run don't walk.
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