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Best Strategy Game Ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 27
Date: August 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires II is really fun. I've played a lot of strategy games, and this one is the best. WarCraftII, StarCraft, Majesty, WarCraft, Civilization, Centauri. But none of them were this good. The Graphics are really nice, and the gameplay is fun. It's really easy to use too. The Campaigns span over many civilizations and different time periods. It's a lot more fun with the expansion though, so I recommend that you buy the Gold Edition. There are many many civilizations to play around with, so gameplay has no end. The option to make your own maps and Campaigns is a blast. You can also choose different paths to take your civilizations along. You could make a huge trading community with large farmland. Or you could take control of the world with huge armies. Although when you first start out, you don't make that many units,

but when you become more familiar with the game you will want to create larger armies, but the most units you can make is 200.
Good things:
-Nice Graphics

-Good Music Track
-Easy To Learn
-Difficulty Levels
Bad things:
-Cannot Create Recources In Map Editor
-Strict amount of units you can create. (Only 200)
Over all Age of Empires II is a great game. It is definitely worth the money. I recommend it to all ages.

Inifnitely fun, but technically flawed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 28 / 33
Date: December 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've lost significant hours of my life to this game. That's how fun it is! I'm not even much of a gamer. Unfortunately though, 1) multiplayer isn't supported between Mac and PC, and 2) multiplayer doesn't even work well between two Macs. A friend and I (both running Mac OS X v10.2) tried multiplayer with version 1.0.4, the latest version, and we kept getting "out of sync" errors. Based on the reviews here and on the web, multiplayer problems seem to be common. So be warned. Kudos for the native Mac OS X application, though; I hope they can fix the multiplayer problems in a software update.

Great game. Single click difference.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 19
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game for the PC or Mac. I actally prefer the Macintosh version because you don't have to do complex key-strokes or left-right click. The one button Apple mouse does it all much simpler.

While the graphics of some similar games can be and are better, this remains one of my favorities. The game remain true to the time periods of the game. In contrast, Microsoft's Rise of Nations quickly moves through the Ages so you can end up with aircraft shooting down footsoldiers with spears. It doesn't make much sense.

Age of Empires graphics, and sometimes humorous sound, are always entertaining. The various prayers and incantations of the monks are always great entertainment. Having owned the game for several months now, and sometimes playing for 8-10 hours at a time, I still haven't completed all of the permutations and combinations. The game remains interesting and challenging.

That said, this is a more sophisticated game than something like WarCraft. If you are just getting started in this genre of software, you might consider starting with WarCraft (or StarCraft if you prefer Sci-Fi up and over above Sci-Fi down and under with Orcs).

Newer games like Age of Mythology have greater detail, but can also be slower as they require more computing resources. And the great complexity sometimes detracts from the game more than adding to it. Age of Empires offers the best balance of quality, speed, and great fun in this genre.

It's about time...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

(...) I can say that AOE 2 is my second favorite game of all time, it is so well done... You get to control civilizations from the Britons to the Turks to the Byzantines, and build swordsmen, archers, knights, and castles; what could be more fun? Unfortunately, it took 2 years from the time it was released on the PC to get it over to the Mac. It's here now, though, so we can finally play it.

It's not be the best port in the world, but at least it's there, and it hardly if ever crashes after you update CarbonLib. Besides, you can just save your game when important things happen in it... Aside from getting a PC, there's no other way to play it, and I definitely recommend this as a must-have for anyone who plays games on a Mac.

One last thing: For some reason, the hotkey for gate and archery range are both 'A', so you have to change it under options to '/', which is what it's supposed to be...

Great Game, but with a lot of bugs

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: November 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

At last. A Mac version of Age Of Empires II. Altought it is a great game it seems that these guys didn't have time to finish it before October, 31 (shipping day) and shipped the beta version. I get an "Unexpectely Quit" error all the time (Tried it on different machines), and this [is bad] when you are playing a multiplayer game. I hope they fix it soon.

One of the best strategy games EVER.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: September 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As simple as that.
I've been playing this game for ages. Ever since the beginning of the first age of empires and the rise of Rome, I've been following this game.
It's given me, my family & friends endless hours of entertainment. I've also played other "age of...." games, but none seem to pair up with this one.
It's basically all the same idea. You start with low resources and a few villagers, and have to build from there & fight your opponent. You can follow the campaigns or play multiplayer against each other, or teamed up against the computer. You can also play deathmatch if you prefer.
You get to pick a civilization, and each one has its own unique characteristic and feature. From the Huns to the Greeks, Spanish, Aztecs, Britons...and a whole bunch more!
The game has already been out for a while, and still is better in my opinion than the newer "age of..." games. I've tried newer ones but cannot pair up with this one.
I recently bought a Mac, and this game shortly after it, only to be dissapointed that I could no longer play with my brother in multiplayer mode using a PC.
Other than that, there are no other flaws to the game, and it plays as well as the PC version. I rate it 4 stars instead of 5 just because of that, multiplayer between Mac and PC is not possible.
Here's my honest recommendations: If you like to play, if you like adventure, strategy, then give this game a try if you haven't already. You'll enjoy every minute of it and won't get bored of playing.

AOE2 Gold is awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires 2 Gold is one of the best games I have ever played! With the 5 new civilizations to control, new campaigns, new game types, real world maps, and many new changes to The Age of Kings, the Conquerors expansion pack adds 10 times more excitement to the already thrilling game. For anyone who doesn't mind a little blood, this is a stupendous game that every gamer must have!

One of the best games ever ... but ...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 25
Date: July 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires (1, 2 and the Star Wars versions) are prehaps one of the best strategy games available for any platform. You will find yourself spending countless hours playing this game.

The only problem with this series of games is ... that you will find yourself spending countless hours playing this game. This is how one forgets to sleep.

No Mac/PC Multiplayer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In answer to some reviewers here: no Mac/PC Multiplayer possible. Only Mac/Mac. Destineer says they're trying what they can do about it. Honestly, I suspect there's some Microsoft policy involved here. Why else is inter-system multiplayer possible with far most other games?

A game woth it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires 2 is a cooooool game. If you have already played AOE 1 then you will really like this game. Instead of a population of 50 in AOE1 you can have a population of 200. You can build your economy very quickly in this game and can create a mighty army in this game. When I played this game I found out that it has serveral cool campaigns also. The campaign of Genghis Khan was very difficult due to lack of resources but otherwise very good. But in the difficulty of between moderate and hard is only when you enjoy. Rest are either too easy to win or too hard to win. The recorded game had helped me a lot in acheiving a lot in this game.

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