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Addictive...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I play nearly every night online. I'm a huge fan of the Age series. Been playing since the very first one. Easy to pick up. Fun to keep playing day after day... especially online. Having the ability to create your own scenarios keeps it fresh.

Sad to say.. but I bought a new computer PRIMARILY because I played this game so much and wanted to get an edge online with faster board speed.

Wicked good.

BETTER than Warcraft III by far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hi! I've been a long-time fan of AOE and AOK. I've always enjoyed these games. Now, Age of Mythology does not disappoint me.

In Age of Mythology, there are 9 civillizations--three cultures (Greek, Egyptian, or Norse) and three gods for each. As you advance, you get to pick minor gods to worship, giving your civillization different bonuses, "Myth Units," and "God Powers." These are incredibly fun. Myth units are very powerful, and have great special attacks (for example, minotaurs can gore enemy units, flinging them high into the air and dealing extra damage--watch them bounce!). However, they can be countered by heroes. In other words, against regular armies, they can destroy dozens, but if there are heroes in that army, they may die quickly.
God powers are incredible too. They are one-time use powers that do some type of beneficial thing for you--whether offensive or defensive. For example, an offensive GP might be meteors, while a defensive GP might be rain (which makes farms more efficient).
Graphics are incredible, too. You can rotate and zoom in and out, and everything is incredibly smooth. Units are smaller than in WCIII, but you can still tell the difference between them, and there are usually many more of them onscreen at a time.
If you liked the previous ES games (the AOE and AOK games) then you will probably like AOM. i don't see why people keep comparing AOM to WCIII. They are two different types of games. WCIII is based on micromanagement--its an RPS or whatever. AOM is pure RTS. You still need micromanagement, but its not as based on a few units (your heroes).
In conclusion, AOM is a wonderful RTS. It is about the best model of a perfect true RTS you can get. If you prefer controlling a few units at a time and using a lot of micromanagement, you might do better with WCIII. But personally, I recommend this game overall by a long shot.

Too Quick to Beat

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I like games that require thinking and logic and hard work to win. This game is much simpler to understand than Civilization, and is that much more boring. Most of the time, all I could do was sit around and watch my resource count rise. I won this game in under an hour, and I see very few reasons to play it again.

Ensemble Drops the Ball

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: February 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a veteran player of Age of Kings (AOK), the previous version of this game and looked forward to the release of Age of Mythology (AOM) with anticipation. AOK was historically educational, extremely addictive and graphically beautiful. Unfortunately--as it happens with many products that achieve near perfection--the upgrade turned out to be a disappointment. A ton of cheesy supernatural characters and special effects have been added without improving gameplay. Unlike AOK, this game will appeal mostly to those 14 and under. Here is my take in a nutshell.

PROS:

1. Amazing graphics when it comes to the depiction of water and special effects.

CONS:

1. Maps have gotten smaller.

2. Units are out of proportion and often bigger than temples and buildings.

3. No controls for unit formations or finding idle workers.

4. Fantasy characters and effects lend a cheesy look and feel to the whole package.

5. Overall poor gaming experience.

6. 3D capacity is limited to a single camera setting.

Should you buy this game? If you are very young, it may be a good bet. It has many cool monsters and stuff in it. If you are over 15 and would like a more intellectually engaging experience, there is Medieval Total War, Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin and of course, AOK. AOK is now a real bargain. I don't think I will get bored with it until Age of Saddam Hussein comes out-possibly next year???

BUY THIS AS SOON AS U CAN

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 26
Date: October 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME FOR THE PC EVER
IF U LIKED AGE OF EMPIRES YOULL LOVE THIS
BUY IT NOW OR YOULL BE MISSING OUT
THE GRAPHICS R GREAT THE SOUND IS GREAT AND THE UNITS ARE AS COOL AS EVER

Bugs of Mythology

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 21
Date: November 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'll tell you what I think of this game as soon as it lets me finish a match without crashing.

Call me crazy, but I don't think you should have to have a degree in computer science to get a GAME to work. If you have the requirements (which my PC MORE than has), the game should run. You shouldn't have to worry about your BIOS or DMA or whether Virus Scan is running to be able to play.

I had problems with this literally from install. Then I couldn't do little things like adjust the resolution so that I could actually SEE the units. Not that it mattered since it would freeze my entire computer to the point of needing to unplug it a before I even got into the game itself. This one's going back to the store until I find out they debugged it enough that the average layman can install it and actually play.

The Titans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A great improvment on an Excellent game. Only disappointment is that you can't access the same titans from the campaign in the quick game and that the titans aren't named. I think that they should be, afterall, they are Gods. I'd also like to see a patch that gives you access the the Norse Giant Hero. He was pretty cool. But the Roles of the heros are great and The atlantean army is awesome.

Does not work!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 22
Date: November 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The previous Age of Empire games worked fine on my computer, but this one evidently won't because of my video card. This could have been avoided if the packaging had offered more details, but game companies these days would rather let the buyer not beware and then let them get stuck with trying to get their money back. Forget any help from their customer care, either!

AOM - Great game, not as good as AOE...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I like the game, but I think its a little disappointing because it doesnt seem as good as AOE. Probably just me but....

Best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is e best game that i have ever seen. Even though i don't like how microsoft does thinks i have to say that they did an excellent job with this game.
gamer from football own:
How did you buy and beat the game on october 24 if it wasn't released yet?

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