Rating: 
Summary: fun but very frustrating
Review: ok i like the game but the tutorial doesnt help very much. its fun and different but diffucult and somewhat confusing. i can get food for my anthill but i cant figure out how to get supllys for it. its neat but its hard to play correctly. I bought it because of the book which is my favorite book. I wouldnt recomend it to an unskilled stratagest.
Rating: 
Summary: I Already Uninstalled It
Review: Unfortunately, this game was a big disappointment. A fair warning--this review is based on hardly playing the game at all. The tutorial was just about all I needed to see to convince me that I didn't like this game. Rather than a full written review, here is a list of some of the things I disliked about the Empire of the Ants:1) The game locked up on me during one of the tutorials; 2) Whenever the game is started, it turns your sound all the way up to the maximum. This is *way too loud* so one of the first things you'll have to do every time you play Empire is to turn your speakers down; 3)The depictions of the ants you control look too much like, well, ants. They're ugly, crawly things & are in what looks like constant random motion. In addition, they can be hard to pick out against the background; 4) The background itself is a static image & is also rather unattractive. As for other issues, the above-ground gameplay seems to be standard RTS with more different kinds of ants than you thought existed--missile ants, melee ants, elite ants. I don't remember any of this from my college zoology course, but ants were never my strong suit. Below-ground, you set policies for your workers & tell your queen what kind of ant eggs to lay. The ads for this one looked & sounded nice but the presentation & design shown here are a big disappointment. In an evening's worth of play--most of which consisted of looking at the tutorials (until they locked up on me)--I went from anxiously looking forward to playing this game to having no qualms about uninstalling it. Maybe someone who has played more of the game than I have will like it--but until then: beware!!
Rating:
Summary: I Already Uninstalled It
Review: Unfortunately, this game was a big disappointment. A fair warning--this review is based on hardly playing the game at all. The tutorial was just about all I needed to see to convince me that I didn't like this game. Rather than a full written review, here is a list of some of the things I disliked about the Empire of the Ants: 1) The game locked up on me during one of the tutorials; 2) Whenever the game is started, it turns your sound all the way up to the maximum. This is *way too loud* so one of the first things you'll have to do every time you play Empire is to turn your speakers down; 3)The depictions of the ants you control look too much like, well, ants. They're ugly, crawly things & are in what looks like constant random motion. In addition, they can be hard to pick out against the background; 4) The background itself is a static image & is also rather unattractive. As for other issues, the above-ground gameplay seems to be standard RTS with more different kinds of ants than you thought existed--missile ants, melee ants, elite ants. I don't remember any of this from my college zoology course, but ants were never my strong suit. Below-ground, you set policies for your workers & tell your queen what kind of ant eggs to lay. The ads for this one looked & sounded nice but the presentation & design shown here are a big disappointment. In an evening's worth of play--most of which consisted of looking at the tutorials (until they locked up on me)--I went from anxiously looking forward to playing this game to having no qualms about uninstalling it. Maybe someone who has played more of the game than I have will like it--but until then: beware!!
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