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PC - Windows : Age of Mythology Reviews

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Below are user reviews of Age of Mythology and on the right are links to professionally written reviews. The summary of review scores shows the distribution of scores given by the professional reviewers for Age of Mythology. Column height indicates the number of reviews with a score within the range shown at the bottom of the column. Higher scores (columns further towards the right) are better.

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Age of Mythology kicks...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am very suprised with age of mythology! The graphics are supreme. You can see every unit and building very clearly. The choice of animals is exclent. They have the approate animals for the approiate landscape. The sound track and music is awesome. when you click on a building you hear the approiate sounds. For instance if you click on a forge you hear a clang of metal. The units even say a few things if you click on them. skipon! overall Age of Mythology is very impressive. I am happy to have it. 5 stars for sure!

Best of it's kind!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you've played both Age Of Empire games then you will get a sense of what this game is like. It's the same type of game play with a twist, and it's much more difficult than Age Of Empires 1&2, which I could defeat in my sleep.
You basically spend most of your time gathering resources. Food does not feed your people but is used to fund villagers, military, and various improvements. Wood and gold is for buildings, etc. and to pay for items and improvements.
The best thing about this game are the Gods, God powers, and myth units. You first choose a culture(Norse, Greek, or Egyptian) then choose a God to worship. Each God comes with his own special power and set of improvements. Be careful invoking God powers, you can only use them once! But the myth units are the most fun to use. If there was no population cap, I would have my entire army made up of myth units. Ahhhh, there's nothing quite like the sound of your giant octopus crushing the docks and ships of your enemies!
Some of the cons about this game are the lack of more cultures(there are only three), and how many population slots some of the myth units take up( some take five slots!). The game also slows down quite a bit after you reach the Mythic Age and no longer have any improvements to research. It would also be great if some of the resources(trees and gold mines)could regenerate instead of slowly disappearing one by one. They made the schools of fish inexhaustible, why can't they do that with other resources?
Despite these problems, Age Of Mythology is a really great game and I would recommend it to anyone.

Excellent game, different and more strategic than Warcraft 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought Warcraft III when it first came out, and make no mistake -- I love the game. In fact, when I first looked at Age of Mythology, I was a bit disappointed. I was always a fan of Tolkien and loved fantastic creatures and magicks, and while WC III plays to that love very energetically, AOM if anything seemed rather subdued, with all the civilizations and units looking similar.

But as I started to play Age of Mythology, I have to say I found it fantastically deep -- in many ways, deeper than Warcraft III. First of all, the civilizations really do have very different strengths with very different personalities -- the Egyptians have quick but thin-skinned mortal units, but powerful defenses, exotic units like chariot archers and war elephants, and field perhaps the most fantastic and deadly mythological creatures in the game -- everything from giant eagles to mummies to crocodiles that shoot searing beams of light. The Norse are quick and crafty horseback riders with no archers but the ability to decimate other units with lightning quick strikes and constant movement. Their unpredictable mythological units -- like packs of hungry Fenris wolves or the Valkyries, who double as warriors and first aid doctors -- add spice to their play. The Greeks are the Orcs of the Age of Mythology world -- their troops are tough and powerful and run over the armies of the other civilization if they catch them in the open field. Their mythological units embody this crushing philosophy as well, with minotaurs, cyclops and colusses rounding out their army.

The nice thing, too, is that the game is not prone to mass rushing, moves a bit slower than Warcraft III, and yet not so slow that it isn't as exciting or surprising. Because maps are bigger and units can be reproduced very fast, I find that battles tend to see-saw more in an exciting fashion in this game -- in WC, I found (often, but not always) that if you lose against the initial hero or huntress rush in the first 4 minutes, you've pretty much lost the game.

Check out the game. It's worth it. Hey, I wouldn't spend my time making a fan site about it if i didn't like it a lot, would I?

Excellent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played through CnC Generals, Warcraft 3, and Rise of Nations... some of the leading RTS titles today, yet Age Of Mythology has the right blend of depth and simplicity that makes it so much fun to play the single player. However, Warcraft 3 will likely beat it in the multiplayer easily because depth and balance become lot more important than simplicity and fun in that field. Overall, this is a refreshing title for casual and avid gamers alike.

For a quick comparison to the other two titles... Cnc Generals is a resource hog while AoM is smooth. Rise of Nations is tedious and a rehash of Empire Earth... or maybe Empire Earth was a rehash of Rise of Nations, only earlier in time. Whatever, AoM is better than both.

Great game impressive graphics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First off this game is great the cinematics are awesome. This also comes along with a few downfalls, if you do not have a substantial video card it is not worth getting. If you do not have a decent computer with at least 20 gigabytes of memory left on your computer I do not reccomend this. Plan to get a better video card if you do not have a good one with the game or else you might be seeing Age of Empires the first graphics.

Next Home Run From Ensemble Studios

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is an amazing game. There's the similar gameplay to the Age of Empires series that has sold 100,000s of copies with more appeal and advancements. New, more realistic graphics such as falling snow and accurate attack movements make this game even more exciting than the Age series games before it. Getting to choose exactly how you advance through the game gives a whole new level of complexity. There are endless ways to play by simply picking different maps, opponents, ways to win, civilizations, and how to play those civilizations. The detail and gameplay is an enhanced version of the Age series that I still play though it has been out for years. This is a must by for anyone with an interest in strategy games. Also, it has a great deal of history, good for students like me.

Well worth your money & time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was originally for my brother for his birthday, but i think i've played it more than him!!! It's so much fun! I've spent hours on this wonderful game, marveling at it's great graphics and many twists and turns. I have always been a big fan of ancient mythology and my favorite computer game was Zues, which came close to my myth satisfaction, but Age of Mythology is far better. One minute, I could be storming my enemie's lands with an army of Medusa archers in the Greek world, and the next, destroying enemy docks with a mighty water Krakken in the Norse world. If you're not into all the extra stuff(like my brother and I) I suggest not getting the collector's version. It's a lot of money for things that we just weren't interested in (for example, the movie poster and the DVD) so if you want an excellent game with a high replay value, get this game, you'll be sorry if you don't!

Excellent Graphics, Soundtrack, & Gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After reading reviews and researching this game before buying it, I can pleasantly say that it met all expectations! The soundtrack is great, the storyline interesting, and the graphics good quality. If I were to have ANY complaints at all, it would be that the ending was really short. Otherwise, I would recommend this game to anyone who is a fan of games like Age of Empires, Starcraft, Command & Conquer, and Warcraft. In my opinion, this one might just top them all...

one word = super

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Super. This is the only word I can use to describe this super-duper game. For one the graphics are super! The sound is super! And the gameplay is super-duper! Words do not eplain how I feel about this game. It's just so good I almost [wet] my pants everytime I start to play. In conclusion, I like this game!

RTS Games get better and better, and this is no exception!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of RTS games. (Age of Empires II, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, Age of Mythology, Empire Earth, and all the expansion packs in between) This is in the top of my favorites! This is like Age of Empires, only it has a mythological twist to it. You can call on god powers, create mythological units, get favor etc. Here are some Pros and Cons to it.

Pros:

Amazing Graphics
Detailed Gameplay
Great RTS
Call on more than 30 God Powers, which are awesomely detailed
Pretty much everything is real Greek, Egyptian, and Norse Mythology

Special Attacks (Throwing, jumping, etc)
Nice selection of maps
Great 32-level single player campaign
Good Cinematics
Good Tutorial

Cons:

Limit 10 houses

A couple of tiny glitches (one time I had a Mountain Giant, he was walking and suddenly he just started walking horizontally

And then in the campaign, it tells you to get 1000 wood, then build the Trojan Horse, I did that, then I got 1000 more wood and then the objective screen comes up again telling me to build the Trojan Horse again. Wierd huh?)
But both of them only happened once.

Well the game is awesome, so if ur an RTS fan, get this game now!


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