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Shouldn't get anything less than 5 stars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the greatest game ever on PC! Age of Kings blows Starcraft,Warcraft, Command and Conquer, etc. away! nothing compares. I like Starcraft, warcraft, and all those games, but they're nothing like Age of Kings.

great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is o ne ofmy favorites. It uses interesting history with good gameplay. there is one problem. if you have a bunch of cannon galleons, make them stand ground. the enemy puts a fishing ship near them, the cannon galleons will follow them, trying to destroy them. cannon galleons are only good against buildings, so it takes forever to destroy it. the fishing ship goes to the enemy dock, full of powerful ships, wiping your ships out. the cannon galleons are still shooting the fishing ship, so they don't fight back. i would still recommend it.

WOW!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Will I don't own the game but my friend does and we play it every chance we get when we can find the cd. are favorite age is the Castle Age with the War and Elite War Elephents.

age of empires 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game ruls! if you dont have it get it now!i think the gameplay is outstanding! not somthing to pass up!

in short this is a good game

Great game, but AOM is even better!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm revising my original review where I originally gave this game 3 stars. After reading more about strategy and tactics I discovered that this game is much more fun than I gave it credit for. I realized that my own shortcomings were to blame and not the game. An excellent and fun addictive game that I recommend. This was my original review:

I only gave this 3 stars because it turns out I don't like real-time games as much as turn-based games. If you're like me and you don't like real-time games where everything moves super fast and you don't really have too much time to plan things out, then you won't like this that much, because you need to be quick on your feet! But if you like that kind of thing, then you'll love this. Hope this helps. If you prefer turn-based, try Civilization III (have a fast computer!) or my personal favorite Call to Power II (some people don't like this one as much, but I love it!)

A rush to play....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you love history, and you love strategy, and you love it happening all in real-time, you'll certainly enjoy this time-sucker. And I DO MEAN time sucker! Especially when you and your opponent(s) can resource and defend their economy well, even after several waves of attacks. Talk about dancing!

My only complaint on the game and genre, as a whole, is that it soon becomes a game of "whoever can level up the quickest and get to the next Age" usually wins. In this instance, I suddenly long for turn based games like Advanced Wars, or even Chess, where time is allowed for thought-out, planned-out strategy. But this is just personal preference, and should be taken as such. (Maybe I SHOULD enjoy those turned-based games more often before playing this to counter-balance my likings and dislikings...hmmm.)

The bottom line advice- buy this game as an educational device as well as for something that will be truly enjoyed by the real-time strategy fan. And I recommend buying the "Age of Empires II: Gold Edition" where you get the game and its expansion pack for nineteen dollars and ninety-five cents. Don't just get Age of Empires II: Age of Kings. You'd be cheating yourself out of bug fixes and game balance tweaks, as well as new civiliations and other small but truly worthwhile goodies.

Great Strategy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Great Storyline, Great Visuals, Great gameplay. The AI is fairly smart and pretty ruthless. The expansion pack is good too, but the units of the new and the old sometimes don't mesh very well- Mounted Conquistadors with Guns can generally slaughter basic tribal archers.

fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The one player mode in this game is a little more fun that the starcraft, warcraft, red alert one player modes. Internet multiplayer is great. The game is deep enough to be fun and challenging, and easy enough to get good at quickly. Buy it!!

Yes, AOE2 does deliver your need for strategy games, but....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Start with villagers, some resources, a town center and build up you little outpost into a great center of trade, diplomacy, and a place where enemies, who want what you have, are going to destroy you! this is what Age of Empires 2 is all about. you start from scratch, with just some mere villagers. you gather up resources to build an army to conqueror and defend. its really like all real-time strategy games. however, unlike some of its counter-parts (ahem... cough starcraft warcraft cough) it has a lot of the same buildings and lots of the same core units. in warcraft and starcraft, every race has different resources gatherers whereas in Age of empires2, you always have the same villager. in AOE2, the only differences between races would be unique units, and unit/tech trees. each race has their own econonic boosts and disadvantages. the unit/tech tree that i am talking about is that each race can make a certain unit and research a certain technology that another race cannot. for example: the chinese can build bombard towers, but the celts cannot. the chinese can build Camels, while the celts cannot. however, celts can research much stronger infantry technology, including weapons and armor advancements, while the chinese cannot. overall, you will have lots of fun playing this game no matter if you have played both starcraft and warcraft previously.

not great replay value

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is OK, but i just don't like it's replay value, it's really hard to pick up again afetr a month. i wouldn't recomend that you get this.

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