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Summary: Frighteningly addictive
Review: "Frighteningly addictive" sounds like advertising blurb but it sums up this game perfectly. I can easily spend 8 hours straight playing this game. It really can affect your lifestyle. Why? Imagine a game of chess-a game itself which absorbs millions of obsessives. Now-instead of chess pieces, imagine cartoon sprites walking around at your bidding. Instead of a board imagine a vivid and reallistic selection of geographies. Now imagine a thousand years of history, the economic and millitary evolution taking place in the blink of an eye. The software allows you to construct a literally infinite number of potential scenarios-for this reason you could never "finish" the game, another challenge always exists. Moreover, you will find no one or even set of strategies exist which make certain of success in all games. This game is considered the classic in its genre and has spawned more feeble imitations than virtually any other. Get the original-its still the best.
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Summary: The Best Stratgy Game of All Time
Review: Age of Empires Two is a wonderful game filled with adventure, suprises, but above all stratgey. You could quest into a random map game with a goal to conqure. Or journey into a redacide game where your king must be kept alive at all costs. But finaly, in possibly the most creative action in gaming history, you can command Joan of Arc in her quest for France, Gengis Kann for China, or Saladin and his Arabian battles. Age of Empires Two is possibly the best game of all time and deservies an admarable five stars!
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Summary: One of the best games for random play
Review: Age of Empires II has a particular strength: its "standard game." A number of variables may be set by the user or left to random selection (such as nationality and geography). This provides a nearly limitless combination of foes, allies, and landscapes on which to play. Each of the approximately 15 nationalities has unique abilities - imagine Starcraft with 15 alien races instead of 3. Turtling is limited by the trebuchet - a huge catapult - and cannons. If you get the game you will want the expansion as it allows more automated farming and provides new races such as the Aztec. MS is on the right track with this very impressive game.
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Summary: Age of Kings review
Review: Age of Kings is the awsome sequel to the first Age of Empires game. If you like ral-time strategy games this is for you. Takes so much skill that its hard to beat the first mission. Like slaughtering people? Great game for that too. You can hack away as much you want. Most cheats don't worf though. Try enter plus robin hood for the ultimate award. 1000 gold!!!!!!
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Summary: Simply the best real time strategy game out there!
Review: I can't say enough great things about Age II. It's the best real time strategy game available right now. Internet play is a breeze and quite interesting with shifting allies and enemies. You can't go wrong if you like the real time games like Command and Conquer or Starcraft. Buy it!
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Summary: The Best Game in the World
Review: This is the best game I have ever played. I play it every day.My friend downloaded the demo and I thought it was fun so I got it.If you like strategy this is the game to get.The only bad thing about it is that it`s so addicting.I think everybody should get this game
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Summary: ITS AWESOME
Review: the stars says it all. I barrowed this game for my friend for just 2 days and im addicted! this is very worth while. this is my all time favorite game!!! GET IT! some people think the sims is a good game, and i have to addmit for about 3 weeks it is awesome but the sims its the same thing over and over. this game you have more than plenty of options. you can even play multiplayer and play on the internet against other people. The only problem is the amount of sleep you loose while playing the game. while your playing it is soooo exiting and entertaining that when you think 15 mins has gone by it has really been 2 1/2 hrs. get this game is my say in this review. trust me its worth it, hope this helps:)
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Summary: Probably should be in the hall of fame...
Review: Age of Empires is the best game I have ever played. First of all, it's very wide ranged. I'm in seventh grade, and my thirdgrade brother is as good, if not better at it than i am. its true that it takes a while to learn, but not a terribly long time. if you're a stratagy maniac, and you don't have this game, you are missing a vital piece of your collection.
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Summary: This game is truley the best game I've ever played
Review: Each day, I would play this game for hours. This game is my favortie game ever. Here are the advantages:1. Although graphics aren't important, they made the graphics in the game better than the first one. 2. I think this game is better than the first one, because in the FIRST one, they had no unique unit, I think that the unique units are awesome and creative idea. 3. Each CIV is really different. 4. Multiplayer games are the highlight. But facing the computer is always cool too! 5. This game keeps you entertained, there are so many things you have to do in the game. I've been playing this game for about 1 month and a half or so(maybe 2) and Im still a rookie. 6. The manual is very helpful and educational but very fun to read. It tells you about each CIV(civilization) and each unit, building, technology, unit's strengths and weaknesses, etc. 7. Loss of sleep is the only disadvantage!!! 8. I reccomend this game, just dont play it too much, your family will get annoyed!!!
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Summary: A Great Game!
Review: Overall, a great game. AOK is one of the games involving the most stratagy ever. AOK touches on most of the aspects of all Real Time Stratagy games, such as resource management (4 different types of resources) and possesses elaborate battle-related units and formation, giving you a comforting amount of freedom in terms of ordering your units around. However, there are a few flaws that take a little away from the game, but not enough not to buy it. The first isn't exactly a flaw, just something to take note of. There are like 20 different teams, each very similar, but different as well. Everyone can get the same type of units, just some teams can't get these units, and so on, so the differences and uniquenesses of the different teams doesn't vary that much. Also, each team has only one special unit that absolutely no one else can get. Also, you had better have a good memory because you have to memorize every little thing about every little unit if you want to do well. (And there are a lot of units.) For instance, almost every fighting unit has some sort of bonus or another against other units. So, for example, Skirmishers have a bonus against other archers, Samari have a bonus against other special units, etc. It's an easy game to play, but a hard game to play well. I can now fully enjoy it because I have memorized everything, such as each unit's hit points, attack, and most important, range. Without learning this fast you have to spend hours comparing ranges of yours guys to their guys to see if you can out-range them, and if you can't, if you have a strong enough guy to beat up the guy you're trying to out-range, and if your guy has any bonuses against the type of guy you're going against, and if that will sway the battle, and then if there's multiple different types of guys you have and multiple types of guys they have, and if there's any of yours or their buildings near by.... You can get a feel for the amount of almost "Work" this game is to play well. Many people are content to sit back and gather resources and build one unit an hour and say they like it because it's easy and then wonder why they aren't doing well. Well. Second, buildings burn if they get to a certain health level regardless of what unit you're using. So if you're attacking someone's farm with a guy with a sword, when the farm's health gets down enough it will start burning. Also, the fire doesn't do anything, it's just for show. In other games like Starcraft when buildings started to burn they would slowly loose health, but in AOK fire doesn't do anyting. Also, I've heard from an unreliable source that the graphics from Age of Empires : The Rise of Rome were far superior to that of Age of Kings. I do admit, the graphics are rather lacking when it comes to if you want better graphics, or if you want to be able to see your units. With the resolution set on 640 by 480 one building takes up the whole screen, and still the graphics aren't that good. You change it to 800 by 600 but then the graphics are even worse. Graphics in games like Red Alert 2 or The Moon Project are 10 and 50 times better (respectivly) than AOK, and they are both stratagy games, although there isn't much stratagy in Red Alert 2. I keep convincing myself this game is worse and worse. I think I really should have rated it a 3 star.
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