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Age of Mythology

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

All I can say is I love Stragey/War games! The graphics were decent and the game play was amazing. Whenever I want to relieve a little stress and I have some time to burn this is defintely one of my goto games to play.

Fun for LAN parties and new age family game nights.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We play this over the home network, the kids on their PC's against me on my evil monarch machine (as they dubbed it).
The game is not about blood and gore but about strategy and tactics and cooperation. My 7 and 10 year old now both beat me (alright alright, I am somewhat dim) and everytime we play the game gets us all excited. We build big armies, strike alliances or fight foes together.
If you have not tried this game and used to love Risk as a game then this is amazing stuff. The graphics are also exceptional.
Check the game ratings out with a search engine. This is one of the best in its category. Also note that we bought it for less that ten bucks.

You will need a disk per machine to play multiplayer (unless you're inot downloading cheats and hacks) and certainly to play online: 1 disk per player.

Age of Mythology - Fun at many levels

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My son and I have played all of the iterations of Age of Empire. Age of Mythology uses a very similar game play experience as AOE 3. I have to admit, though, using the cheats makes this a real blast. Without the cheats, the computer just gets too many god powers going to let your team get strong enough to compete well (but that's the challenge, right?) I use the game on an older Windows XP with no trouble. The graphics and sound are excellent. The game features some really cool "X" factors that take this to a whole new level above the AOE games.

Inexpensive Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game on the recommendation of a friend and I am soooo glad I did. It was addictive. And not a cake walk to complete. (which I like)

Forget Warcraft III, check this out!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 69 / 82
Date: August 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am a big Age of Empires fan, and I think it is a great improvement going to 3D images in Age of Mythology. The basic idea is that you can choose one of three civilizations; Egyptian, Greek, and Norse. Each civilization has a choice to worship one of three main gods, and as you progress through the ages you can choose a minor deity to worship. Each god and deity gives your civilization technologies, unique units, and one god power. This can make the gameplay more diverse, even if two people are fighting with the same civilization.
A resource called "favor" has replaced stone, it is generated in different ways among the civilizations. Mythological units such as Minotaurs, Valkyries, and Giant Scarabs can be trained, provided you have a good amount of favor. There are so many differences between AOM and AOE, it would take a while to tell them all. Gameplay should be easy players to get used to, and even easier for AOE veterans. Bottom line: This game looks like it's going to be a hit! I recommend that anybody who likes strategy buy it.

This is a GREAT game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 49 / 58
Date: February 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game! I've just gone through the entire tutorial and wow, even IT'S great. The tutorial is more of a series of stories, based on Greek mythology, which take you through a learning process without being patronizing. Nor do you even notice that it's a tutorial ... you get so immersed in the game itself.

It is similar to the other war strategy games out there -- Civilization III and Empire Earth, but it's different -- from the mythic creatures you get to use in battle (medusa to cyclops to hydras), to the mini-movies in between that give voice to the characters you're using.

The tutorial gets progressively more challenging and more detailed -- it, in itself, can make you lose about 8 hours -- and incorporates the plot from the previous lesson you've learned. It furthers the storyline, in other words.

This game is huge. The tutorial is but one tiny part of its whole. You can then go on to play different combat scenarios; play as Greek, Egyptian or Norse fighters, and explore various worlds of mythology and its creatures.

The graphics are nice. Nothing like you'd get on Two Towers for XBOX, but with great detail and fluid motion, seamless design.

This particular collector's set comes with mythic posters, a little plastic minotaur, a dvd on how the game was made, along with a music CD and heirarchical settings map for the various cultural "teams" (Norse, Greek or Egyptian). I personally could have done without the extras, but for the keen game player, this might be the set for you.

But it also comes with a pretty neat little book about mythology.

The beauty of this game is not only the ease of play and the increasing challenges, but the fact that it's expansive ... HUGE ... you'll be playing it for a long time, as opposed to other war strategy games out there that have a finite playability.

Check it out. It's a great game.

3 more years of fascination coming up...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 36 / 41
Date: October 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If there is one thing the Age of Empires series achieved that almost no previous strategy games have, it's longevity. Games come and games go, but Age of Empires has remained installed on my computer for 3+ years and it still gets played regularly. This longevity has been achieved through supreme game balance, great variety, and amazing depth and complexity.

In this vein, Age fans welcome Age of Mythology, Ensemble Studios' latest strategy game that uses the core principles behind their previous games, but spices up the mix with ancient lore and mythology and adds all of the trimmings that go along with it. Greek heroes like Jason and Heracles join the fray against fierce medusas and enormous golden colossus beasts. Egyptian pharoahs fend off giant scarabs and powerful Avengers of Horus. Norse Valkyries and frost giants march into battle against mummies and war elephants. And this is just a taste of what the game has to offer.

Having taken part in the pre-release Alpha Test for this game, I can attest that the graphics are very nice. While maybe not as visually spectacular as Unreal Tournament 2003, Age of Mythology uses a very advanced engine where translucent waves gently wash upon the beach, units have detailed animations, snowflakes fall from the sky, sunsets bathe the world in an orange hue, and herds of animals go about their daily lives.

To sum up: if you enjoyed the Age of Empires series, or if you enjoy real-time strategy games in general, Age of Mythology is a must-buy. Just on time for the holidays too! This game will easily outlast all the other one-shot games that have been retired to your shelf to gather dust.

Great game. Buy it Now.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 28
Date: April 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wow!!! This is an all around great game. For those who never played Age of Empires, it puts you in control to create an empire with real ancient civilization. You must either create an army and destroy you enemy, or you can build wonders and collect relics to win. Age of Mythology has much better graphics then Age of Empires. Age of Mythology has a feel of Age of Empires but is different in so many ways. In stead of collecting stone,one of the resources youe gathered in Age of Empires, you collect the favor of the gods. Anyway, Age of Mythology requires alot more thought and planning. The new addition of units makes it much harder. Besides regular soldiers, You now summon myth units which can easily conquer soldiers, but then there are heroes which can go through myth units with ease. The last difference is that when you advance through the ages you choose gods which can greatly change the odds. You can destroy towns with earthquakes, destroy armies with electical storms, summon the mighty norse dragon, casting eclipses over the world and making myth units grow stronger,or something more peaceful like enchanting farms and making them grow faster. Anyway enough said. Brilliant campaign, great new units, buildings, and options. Great game overall. 5 stars. A++++++.

You can't go wrong with these guys!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: November 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ever buy a computer game install it and find out it is so buggy as to be virtually un-playable? You end up tweaking everything you can on your machine with little satisfactory results so you end up waiting for the proverbial "PATCH." Makes you want to scream don't it?

Not so with Microsoft/Ensemble Studios - these guys get it right, right out of the box and with Age of Mythology they not only shipped a stable game they have, in my opinion, produced the top RTS of all time. There is simply to much gaming goodness to go into all of it here, but some of the highlights that jumped out at me...

The game looks terrific. The user interface is smooth & beautiful. Makes you feel like you are driving a hand made Italian sports car. The music is a perfect fit for mythological times and some of it can only be defined as well.., "lovely." In fact my wife stuck her head in the game room and said, "that is haunting music, what is it"? At first she didn't believe it could have anything to do with a computer game.

You can play three civilizations Greek, Egyptian & Norse. And the different nuances are considerable. One civ is not just a rehash of the another with a bit of a different look. If you try to use the same tactics that were successful with the Greeks while playing the Norse you will go down to defeat. You have the option of playing a 36 mission single player campaign covering the Greek, Norse & Egyptian civs which is top notch but I suspect most hardcore RTS players will jump right to random map or multiplayer which may not be the best idea. Single player will give you insights that may be very handy before random map or going on-line.

The developers were very very smart with this game. If you are an Age of Empires fan you can dig right in and start playing Age of Mythology as both games have the basic RTS theme of rescource gathering, building, up-grading, attack and defense. But there is so much more in AOM - Do I want the standard infantary and ranged attack army or how about a mob of mythical creaturs to do my bidding? What major god do I choose to honor? What minor god? Do I want a magical underground tunnel that will take me immidiately to the enemy's gates or do I want that mind-blowing meteor shower instead. There are 9 major and 27 minor gods to choose from with differnt creatures and powers to be had. The permutations and combinations seem endless.

AOM will win RTS game of the year hands down and will likey be game of the year overall winner to boot.

Last item to consider, if you are buying the game as a Chrstmas gift go for the Collectors Edition, the extra money is worth it.

Thanks to this game, I now actually like RTS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: December 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Having never played any of the other 'Age' games, and the only other RTS in my resume is Warcraft I, II, and C&C, it definitely will take alot to get me to like an RTS game (Warcraft III...only went half way before I got uninspired).

I bought this game on impulse, like so many things I buy. Having read several positive reviews online I was hopeful. Having spent 16 hours straight after getting this game, I was hooked.

There really isn't much variety in units and buildings, but that's a good thing. Following in the veins of WCIII, you don't get to choose which civilization you can take on the Single Players campaign. You play through the boots of Arkantos (there are 3 missions where he is absent, though), a greek hero, but you spend around 10 missions each on Egypt and the Norse region, with the different gods and units of each. Each mission you play is different then the ones you've already played, keeping the game fresh til the very end. The difficulty level, however, is very daunting. Never played easy mode, but the difficult mode is hardly fair.

Although the God powers seem awesome, I played through the game using them only once in a while. But I found that if in a tough situation, using those God powers helped shift the tide of battle.

Enjoyed, and now on the look-out for other great RTS.

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