User Reviews (121 - 131 of 279)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

Good, but not great...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: July 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Good, but not great... When I got AOE2 from a friend of mine I found it quite good. You could choose from a selection of campaigns, and the tutorial showed you all the 'ropes'. You could protect Joan of Arc on her journey to the King on help the Scots protect their lands and more besides these. However, I finished AOE2 extremely fast, for a strategy game- in a week. Also, there were certain things that I found extremely frustrating in this strategy game:

- You had to 'baby-sit' your units. If you didn't keep looking at each unit, some would stop their tasks (like chopping wood for houses), when you were checking the soldiers. Call this being kept on your toes if you like but in my opinion, it just caused tiny problems that totaled to one mess. The least that could be done could be to put up a message immediately after a unit becomes inactive!

-Secondly, when you start the next scenario your wood, food, gold, etc. get reset to the present scenario's default settings. So even if you had 15,000 gold in the previous scenario, you might go down to 5000 gold in the present one!

Well, everyone has an opinion and that's mine- so don't kill me! I'm not saying the game is bad. It's quite good. You could build empires and fight enemies using medieval styled armies. You could explore terrain and the textures and colours of units and terrain were rather good. The story lines for campaigns weren't bad either- quite interesting and motivational in fact! And the game didn't get boring but held your intention throughout. It still doesn't rate 5 stars though.

SOME 5 STAR STRATEGY GAMES ARE: the Civilization series, Imperialism 2 and Majesty.

Oh Yeah

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: July 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game speaks for itself so all I have to say is, IT ROCKS!

The surprise hit of 1999

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have to admit, the original game didn't really impress me all that much. So I wasn't holding out very high hopes for the sequel. So you can imagine my stunned surprise when I found out that Age of Empires 2 (AOE2) was a surprisingly good game.

The biggest improvement in the game was the user interface. I think AOE2 has the most advanced user interface ever introduced in a real-time strategy game. It makes it extremely easy to control the formation and behaviour of your troops, and queing units is a snap.

The second strength is the AI, which (along with Dark Reign) is the most complex in any game to-date. The AI will respond to attacks on its own bases, and it will send large strike forces against your armies.

However, AOE2's greatest weakness is its lack of a cohesive single-player campaign. Instead of a series of missions linked with a cohesive storyline, you have several separate campaigns, each centering around a different empire. So the missions are more like skirmishes than really cohesive campaigns. Regrettably, Starcraft is still the king when it comes to single-player campaigns.

For the above stated reason, I must remove one star. Other than that, AOE2 is a game every discerning computer strategy gamer should have on their PC.

IT WAS OKAY

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was fun for awhile, but I enjoy faster paced strategy games better. (Stronghold, C&C) The graphics were great for their time, but show their age now. The sound is pretty good. The gameplay, as mentioned above, is not my style, so I didn't like it much. Overall a 3 out of 5.

Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Great game. Simple to manipulate and it makes you feel like you are God. Great too if you like this age in history.

Good For Real Time Addicts

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There`s no denying that AOE 2 is a great game . I have spent many a sleepless night staying up playing it . One word of warning: Don`t download any cheats from the internet !. I did this and it spoiled most of the challange of the game because I could award myself unlimited resources and arm myself with machine gun toting sports cars !

As good as the game is I could only award it 4 stars because I prefer turn based strategy games like CALL TO POWER . I also found the terrains a bit too similar for my liking . But if play turn based strategy games you`ll like AOE 2. If you play real time strategy games you will love AOE 2

Great RTS game... make sure you get The Conquerors Expansion

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has many great selling points. But like most other computer related things, it has its bad points. As far as castle building and war waging, its great. Set your town center, then houses, then get the economy going. Once you are set economically, build stone wall, archery range, a barracks, and a castle so you can build an army and defend your town.
You can even play as the Franks, the Japanese, the Byzantines, the Vikings, the Mongols, the Celts, and one of 7 other races. Each race has their own different building look and each race develops individual technological advances just like they did in real history. I.e. the Chinese develop gunpower later in the game.
The short commings of the game is based upon the weak AI. In this game, when your farm runs fallow (out of food), the villager just stands by idle. This is where the main advance of the Conquerors Expansion comes in. It allows you to queue up several farms so micromanaging doesnt affect the rest of the game. The last thing you need during a battle is to have to go have villagers plant farms.
There is a box set of the game and the expansion, get it. Or bypass the game all together and get Age of Mythologies. If you like medieval times with castles, nights, and kings, get this game.

Something to consider when purchasing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Just a bit of info for those intending to buy. I do not play this game at home because 32 MB RAM isn't enough to fight large battles or multiple team battles. Instead i play this one networked on the server at work. 32 MB RAM is the minimum you'll need if you want to do small battles with a minimum population. I have lost many hours sleep playing this game...

Great Historical strategy game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For any of you history buffs out there this is the game for you. Not only is the the gameplay easy to follow and understand the visuals and sounds are great. The campaign modes are actually fun to play! Whats up with that? The game is real easy to pick up and the many different difficulty settings alows you to get better slowly not get frustrated and bite you mouse in half.

My 2nd favorite RTS Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When i first played Age of empires i knew the 2nd one would be a hell of alot better than the first. It was so much better. The resolution was better, the castle age and imperial age are an excellent add on.(The dark age and fudel are just like the ones in age of empires 1.) The new weapons, buildings, castles are my favorite. This game has no end to the limits. Multiplayer is so much fun except when there is lag. This game deserves to be honored with 4 stars because of its authentic gameplay.

Review Page: Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Next 

Actions