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The second mac game I ever played, and I absolutely loved it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think I'm what's known as a 'casual gamer'. I grew up (18 now) on pc games like Caesar 3 and the original Sims. Recently I received a macbook and bought this game. It's very fun. In the campaign mode you control a group of fighters and heroes who travel from place to place, building up towns and armies to defeat great civilizations throughout mythological history. It's real-time strategy, so it can really test your nerves, but you can choose from four levels of difficulty to work at your own pace. I would recommend this to anyone who likes rts games or who likes city-building games and is willing to try something new.

Age of Mythology

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We have two kids (age 8 and 10) who really like this game. They have other friends their ages that own it and like it also. Despite it's teen rating, we have felt the game was fine for our kids to play, and it familiarizes them with aspects of mythological beings. While there is warring that goes on, it does not involve guns and thus doesn't seem quite as violent as many of the other teen rated games.

Just as addicting as Age of Empires

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game plays similar to the Age of Empire games. The graphics are incredible and the mythical creatures look awesome. Few minor play details that I like better in the Conquerors expansion of the Age of Empire games that I would like to see incorporated here. Bewarned, if you like the Age of Empire games, you are going to be just as addicted to this one.

What can you do to improve on the first installment?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Admittedly, the first Age of Mythologies was a game with gobs of charm, especially for myth fans, and the expansion pack adds things that weren't there before. A new civilization; the Atlantians; steps worth, worshipping the Titans, eventually leading to the release and re-imprisonment of Kronos.
But that's basically as far as this installment goes. New civilization. New fighters, citizens, Gods and Myth units, and new missions, but virtually nothing else is added.
The only thing I noticed that was new about the OTHER races is that now the races can each summon a titan. But don't expect to see any new Norse, Greek of Egyptian units other than that.
That's my second-biggest problem with this installment. My first is that there was only ONE new civilization, and it wasn't even one that appeared in real myths. Atlantians were around in some of Plato's dialogues, but they were never said to worship the titans, and none of the new scenarios (such as the summoning of Gaia) can be found in conventional mythology.
Since Age of Mythology has come to be the only RTS to chronicle mythological worlds, it puzzles me that they should confine themselves, even in the add-on. The Titans, interesting though they may be as a God set, are still from Greek Legends. I had hoped the Sequel might get into some of the Russian or Gothic myths. Perhaps the Chinese or Japanese Gods, of even the Incan or other Native-American Gods. There were so many cultural myths left untouched by the first Age of Mythologies, and the Add-on does virtually nothing to correct that.
Still, although it isn't much of a step forward from the first installment, it's far from a step back. The additions increase the options the player has, and thus playability. Still, I thought that for an add-on, it was rather small-time.

Will Not Run on Non-Administrator Accounts

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Beware: This program, like many other recent games, will ONLY run on an account that has administrator privileges on Windows XP or 2000. That means that in most common home settings, school settings, or in public facilities with shared computers most users will not be able to play this game. If you have configured your home PC, for example, so that only you can perform potentially damaging administrative operations and have protected it from accidental damage by your kids by giving them "limited" accounts (a recommended "best practice" you should certainly be following), your kids will not be able to play this game. Similarly, if you have configured computers in a school in the obvious way, with only certain staff given administrative access and all others limited to "user-level" access, then only the administrators will be able to play the game.

Note that although I agree with the general consensus that Age of Mythology is a good game, my feeling is that it this limitation is a fatal one that should have been noted on the box (it is not) and thus I cannot give this product more than a single star, because it simply does not work in scenarios that it should be expected to work, and there are no warnings to this effect anywhere on the box or in the documentation...

my review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you like the original Age Of Mythology then you will absolutely love the expansion.The new god powers look awsome,and there are some neat opportunities if you like to create your own scenarios.
So if you are into Age Of Mythology then you should definitely buy this game.

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???

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