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Awesome on Windows, does not work on MAC Intel (only PPC)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is an amazing game, and i played frequently played the windows version when i was using Windows. However, the Mac version does not work on Intel Macs, only the old PPC processor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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!

Age Of Empires 2 Gold Edition The Best Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: March 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires is the best game in the world. It has very cool people that you can make. I highly recomend geting the expanchen pack it is not a teribly more money and it offers a lot more.

Fun... but for how long?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Like all the Age of Empires games, this one has its flaws- however, it is without a doubrt the best title in the AoE series. The addition of walls and garrisoning puts it far above the originals, the several added civilizations puts it above Age of Empire II, Not Gold Edition, and the simplicity and attractiveness puts it above Age of Mythology. If you're looking for a MAC RTS game, buy this one. Then buy Command and Conquer, Generals. You'll love them both.

Old Geezer is a Mighty Celtic Warrior

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I'm long in the tooth and can remember sorting keypunch cards and using a hexidecimal slide rule. My computer limits were reached when I would use EDLIN to change the AUTOEXEC.BAT files. After that, I relied on my son to load programs and explain the Internet.

However, AOEII (Mac) fits well with the "old age and treachery" beating youth and strength adage. I play against my son: I use the iMac and he uses his iBook (something about an Airport, LAN, whatever). AOEII provides a very wide range of options for command and control and enables an exciting gameplay. The tutorial campaigns are good - the first time through - and it gives the basic commands. Playing against the computer is also a nice learning path...but the real challenge comes in playing head-to-head against another skilled user: AOEII (Mac) is superb in that category.

The only downside was intially getting a number of "out of sync" errors that would collapse the game. However, an online patch fixed it and we've been game error free since then.

I have tried "World of Warcraft" and found it to have marvelous graphics and storyline, but AOEII (Mac) is absolutely great for a good two-to-three hour campaign that is just plain fun...and at my age that's saying a lot.

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