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Yuck

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 26
Date: July 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First of all, The historical accuracy of the game is laughable. The missions are semi impossible. I hope that aoe2 is better done. Strategic this is not. Swarming your enemy with the best troups you can. Not at all what I had expected when I first heard about. Just about the only good thing about this game was the way soldiers look. I love the middle ages but this dumb attempt is laughable. For example, one centurion can knock out a war elephant. Give me a break. Another example is that the helepolis loads extremely fast. Impossible. What a helepolis was was a giant crossbow. If you have even a rudimentary knowledge of the medieval times you would know even crossbows were extremely slow to reload. Then you get this big helepolis that fires like a machine gun, come on.

This product was incredibly boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 26
Date: June 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There were not that many campaigns; some were way too hard and some were way too easy. The units were incredibly stupid, because whenever I sent boats somewhere they kept getting stuck in harbors, and the land units that I sent anywhere kept getting stuck behind allies' walls and allies' units kept bunching up and stopped me from moving anywhere. Once you've played all the campaigns, whether you win or lose, the game becomes incredibly boring. There were not that many new campaigns in the Rise of Rome. I suggest that people should buy Age of Empires 2 rather than this game.

humans are wierd, crazy,ect....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 31
Date: May 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Dear fool who made this game, This game sucks! what is your Problem! you make such stupid, pathetic, dumb, idiotic, imbecilic, Games. YOu know, some one could fail their calculus class, because they played this game. Shheesh! Like you Care! Why am I writing this any way? Good bye (in a not nice way) -some unhappy alien from Mars

Addictive, nice graphics, but mostly impossible to "win" at

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: March 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The first 6 times I played this game was enjoyable...even though I never was "victorious" even at the "easiest" difficulty level. But, being a patient, tenacious, and fairly intelligent person I just KNEW that I'd be victorious sooner or later, so I kept playing. After a dozen more times I was only able to "win" once. If you buy this game, I'd recommend playing it online with other humans. Because trying to win in the single-player mode is practically impossible.

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2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I would probably have had more fun if I hadn't used Age of Empire II before this one. Age of Empire II/Conqueror has so many more functionalities. Not having these functionalities requires much more manual 'handling'. For instance, in AOE II, double-clicking on a unit will select all units of that type present on the screen. It wouldn't work with this version, very annoying. I played 15 hours, just to give it a fair chance, then I gave up. The disk will be forgotten in a drawer, too bad.

Eh . . . I've seen better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First, this is an okay game. Is it fun? For awhile. Is it interesting? Sort of, if you're into world history. Does it captivate you and make you wish to play when you're nowhere near your computer? No.

Let me start with the pros. First, the graphics are good, if you consider how old the title is. The sound is also good, considering its age, though the unit response sounds are very boring. The gameplay is also not bad.

Now the cons. First, storyline, in that there is very little. You get a history lesson before and after every level. Keep in mind, I'm a huge history buff, but these were VERY boring. Example: "Egypt did this and this and this. They were prosperous." Yay. Good for Egypt. They could have done a much better job. Maybe introducing some characters, somebody who played a pivotal role in history. Rameses II is menioned, but that's all. The briefings are like reading a history textbook. *Yawn*

The gameplay, though not the worst I've seen, is often tedious. You don't really have a solid enemy, a la Warcraft II. It's more like: "Today, the Caananites are your friends, and the Babylonians hate you. Oh, but now the Caananites hate you, and the Babylonians don't care anymore." Once again, yawn. They could explain WHY Egypt and Caanan were suddenly enemies.

Overall, this is an average game from an average game company. Microsoft makes excellent software, but their games leave much to desire. Don't waste your money on AoE, get a game with gameplay and storyline, like Warcraft II or III, or, better yet, Starcraft.

Age of Empires

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun for a while, esp. if you are head-to-head with someone, but after a while it can get kind of dull. The villagers are just about the stupidest people you'd ever see! You can send them off to kill antelope and they will kill every antelope in the immediate area and then bring back the meat, but once all the antelope are dead and all the meat has been collected, they stand staring at the ground and don't go back to the village, so you have to go get them. As well, they aren't smart enough to walk around trees. They just walk into them and keep walking on the spot. It's a good strategy game but it kind of gets boring.

AOE just didnt mix

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: December 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is medicore. At first it seems good, but after a while, you get more and more things happening to you. Certian comp. allies always turn on you. The graphics are okay. the sound is something that you will turn off and listen to a CD instead. The controls are ok, and all together everything is fine, it just doesnt mix at all. You will soon leave it on you stack of computer games and will play more dencent games like Starcraft. i havnt played it in at least a month, and you shouldnt waste your hard earned cash for it. the history is great and makes sense, but after a space you get sick of all the same units; 14 civilazations all only 1 tech tree. They just make certian Civs. not able to get some units. Its sad. Now if youll excuse me, i have a good game to play called Total Annihilation. . .

Great when it came out

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Just because I only gave the game 3 stars doesn't mean this is a bad game, on the contrary, I LOVE this game, the only problem is with age of empires 2 and age of mythology out, I find it hard to go back and get the original, but it definatly is a fun rts and extremly user friendly at that (not overwheelming like some rts's start out) recommened for beginner rts fans but I'd buy the second one or age of mythology before this game. If you get this game, do yourself the favor of getting the gold edition with everything together.

Age of Empires: Microsoft's best series

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 19 / 23
Date: June 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires is an excellent strategy game for all who like strategy games. The gameplay is great, the graphics and sounds are stunning, and the city building and troop training will keep you entertained for months. It allows you to play campaigns, which are actually not superb, but its random map ability allows you to have a showdown that's different every time-a very uniquely good ability that actually never makes the game old. You can also build your own map and campaigns as well. You can even play others via the net, which is another fatcor which will allow you to play for months. If you like this game, I would also reccommend that you buy Age II: The Age of Kings. I think that Age of Empires was near perfect-thus Microsoft fixed all of its errors and made Age II, which is perfect. Thus, I highly recommend Age of Empires, and only a fool wouldn't get it with the expansion (in the Golden Edition), because it only improves on it.

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