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Summary: BUY THIS GAME!
Review: My Dad bought this game because Starcraft was getting old, and when I started playing I was blown away! This game has so many factors that it takes strategy to win the levels. You have four reasouces: wood, food, gold, and stone, instead of other games in which you only have two resources. The graphics aren't great but they are pretty good for a top view game. When you are playing you have four ages (or stages) the Dark Age, the Fuedal Age, the Castle Age, and the Imperial Age. With an age change you get more warriors, buildings, and upgrades. Plus there is tons of civilizations with their own unique warriors and upgrades. Overall this is the best war game you can buy!
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Summary: This game rocks!
Review: I'd been playing AOE1 before this and it was one of the best games I'd encountered. This one totally blows it away. Better graphics, more tech capabilities and better civilization armies make this game worth every penny. For all those reviewers on this site who say stick with another game (Warcraft or Seven Kingdoms or whatnot), give AOE2 a chance.
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Summary: AI at it's best
Review: This is a much better upgrade and a very robust game. For all the players who might have enjoyed AOE's later concepts this is going to be an another great boon for them. Poeple interested in knowing some hsitory may also look up at this game and be proud to play "Historic characters" and can change HISTORY. As a whole this is a terrific game with some purpose.
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Summary: Late Nights With Kings
Review: 4:30am and three hours 'till I leave for work. I'll save this game after I get all my farmers working! I wish they would rebuild farms on thier own! It's now 5:00 am, I'd better get some sleep before work.
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Summary: Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings By Microsoft
Review: A Great game well worth every penny spent on it. The expansion improves upon perfection so instead of getting this I would get the bundle that includes this game and the expansion!
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Summary: what this game is about
Review: this game is awesomeive had it for a long timeits a fun mid evil game with many different units.you can do sceneros,games or even create your own game!it can also teach you abbout real live conquererors and knights. each place has differ unique units that others dont have such as... teutones have teutonic knights goths have huskarls the vikings have dragon ships and berserks.etc.....................................................the expansion is a lot beter and even more to learnsuch as atilla the hun, genghis khan,and el cid etc......by the way im not 1.
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Summary: Age Of Empires 2:Age of Kings
Review: Age of Kings is an excellent stratigic game. It just has huge buildings.
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Summary: My 2nd favorite RTS Game
Review: When i first played Age of empires i knew the 2nd one would be a hell of alot better than the first. It was so much better. The resolution was better, the castle age and imperial age are an excellent add on.(The dark age and fudel are just like the ones in age of empires 1.) The new weapons, buildings, castles are my favorite. This game has no end to the limits. Multiplayer is so much fun except when there is lag. This game deserves to be honored with 4 stars because of its authentic gameplay.
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Summary: Same Old Same Old
Review: There is nothing wrong with reinventing a tried and true formula but one would at least hope that the more annoying aspects would be winnowed out. Alas this is not the case. Some of the more annoying aspects of the game remain intact. I have yet to hear a positive word said about the ability of wimpy lowly monks to convert the most savage of fighting brutes. I play the game to see some action not a mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus fest. Where is the fun in that? Monks never lasted more than a few seconds on the battlefield yet here they are among the most effective of weapons? LETS NOT GO HERE FOR A LESSON ON ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS. History 101 this is not. Also I get rather tired and frustrated with having to continually tell my farmers to rebuild fields or my boats to drop nets. This is especially tedious during combat when I have to stop to read prompts telling me this farm or that has been exhausted. Some of the short cuts to victory and even some of the technologies should be optional in all scenarios. Building a Wonder and capturing all relics as victory conditions are just not good gameplaying. There is no excitement in this. There is also a curious bias in the way that so called special attributes have been assigned. The Britons seem to have been vastly under rated in the final (Imperial) age. Their technology research has been so limited that it makes them a none starter, the weakest of the bunch actually. Just ask the French how accurate that is. Despite being one of the first to use gunpowder as a weapon, the Britons are denied the use of advanced ballistic weapons. Jugding by the campaigns (Joan of Arc and William "Braveheart" Wallace") one suspects that the bias is not coincidental. One can apply similar inaccuracies to other civilizations, too many to list here. The transporting of troops across water is very limited. Some clans can only carry 10 at a time on transport vessels. This is not Kosher. It severely limits amphibious operations and makes for a very frustrating time. I can't command my troops when I am sorting out landing craft. Trying to get two or more transports to unload at once results in all vessels converging on one spot and queuing. The ones at the back wont move to the front till the one in front moves aside, which I have to order it to do. The creators of this game should study TZAR: BURDEN OF THE CROWN to see how technology and unit actions should work. Which is ironic because I am sure they borrowed heavily from A of E in the first place, they just interpreted it much more successfully. Don't get me wrong I like the game but am frustrated that improvements haven't met expectations.
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Summary: Great for little boys, too.
Review: Yes, this is a great game. But not just 13 years and up, like it says above. I have 5 year and 7 year sons and they would play from dawn to dusk if I let them. Jimbo turned down swimming today to keep playing (it is July in Los Angeles). And the first time I encountered his 'grip of steel' was when I tried to take control in mid-game. I'm over 40 and all three of us love the game, but none of us has ever 'won' a game. Yet.
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