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That Special Feeling

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires is for me, very special. It was the first video game I had ever played, and I must say, for a first, it was pretty damn cool. I marveled at this game for hours, and indeed, still do today. I recommend this game to anyone who is just getting used to computer games simply because it is really simple, but by no means is it easy....

Age of Empires was the first RTS (Real Time Strategy). This game took the world by storm, and infact is the best selling PC game of ALL time! The reason for this, I think, is the playablility. The random map engine allows players to have tens of thousands of maps, not to mention that the computer AI reacts differently in every game, and there for plays differently, leaving the player with nearly infinate different games.

Basically, this game is really good for the gaming newbie, and will serve as a great tutorial on how computer games work and how to beat them. Its almost like if you play these new games like Halo and Medal of Honor and such, and then you go to play Mario, and its hard as hell. In Mario, you dont have all those little things to make your life easier, its all skill. The very same can be said for this game. Its still fun for me to come back to it every now and then, and I find that as I get older, i appreciate it more and more. I strongly reccomend you give this game a try.

An epic game of empire-building and conquest!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: April 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

"How will you rule the world? Conquer enemy civilizations? Discover the world's secrets? Accumulate wealth? As the guiding spirits of a Stone Age tribe, follow one of these paths to build the greatest civilization on earth". When reading this on the back of the CD case in the store, I new I'd love this game. You can research paths that leads to the economic, military, or naval technologies best used to achieve the game goals. You can command one of 12 ancient civilizations, from Egyptian to Greek. Each with there own unique attributes based on their historical counterparts. This game is always challengeing and has a sophisticated and ajustable artifical intelligence for hours of fun and replay value. My only complant is if you have played the newer Age of Empires, don't play this. You'll be bored in minutes. This game is for the rookies who are looking for a good conquest game. For a 1997 game, the graphics and sound are very good. This is a must for those rookies out there.

If you miss the Classical World

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

_I played this early edition of Age of Empires for years before Age of Empires 2 (Age of Kings) came out. Then I gave it away. After a while I came to miss the classical units like the Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans. Both the fighting units and the architecture had a quality that the later medieval version lacked. So, when this low priced jewel case version hit the shelves I bought for old-time's sake. I wasn't disappointed.

_Sure, there are functions that are missing from the later versions, but 90% of the engine is there. If anything it is more challenging to play the earlier version- it takes more skill to compensate.

_On the other hand, you will miss things like functioning gates, exchanging goods at the market, gunpowder units, and increased artificial intelligence of the opponents and workers. My primary irritation is not being able to send units into battle in definate formations like lines and squares. But then, it can be challenging to get around these limitations.

Very good, but not as good as Age of Empires II

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: October 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Very fun real time stratagy game, but I would recomend
AGE OF EMPIRES II: THE AGE OF KINGS over it any day.

THe best of the game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This gam,e is awsome, no comparison, because is not only a game it's also an guide for study and lerning experience, I am not the only one who played at my house , my son had learned a lot using it too. Thanks for this to amamzon.com

Good, but I spoiled it by playing the sequel first.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is good. It probably woud have been better if I hadn't played and LOVED the sequel first, but it's still good. Pretty good graphical effort, and cool units, but I couldn't identify all the things that you could get because no civilization has everything and there isn't a technology line (meaning you can't see all technologies and units. I couldn't figure out how to get a chariot before I realized I had to research something.) It was a letdown that they didn't have a history guide because I'm really interested in that sort of history.

Overall thought:
Buy this but only if you don't have the sequel, and if you like this get the sequel. ;)

Excellent Strategy Game and Good History

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Fun and entertaining as well as informative. This game keeps my attention for an hour or two every time I sit down to play it. It also made me so intrigued about the historical events surrounding the premise of the game that i bought a World History book and have been reading that as well. This is a great strategy game which explores many of the different elements of civilization(s) making for a truly interesting experience throughout.

A nice game,but could be better.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires is about empire building. It isice to take part in actual historical events that happened a long time ago and build your empire. The game play is nice but the computer always tries to overwhelm the player into loosing so quickly. If the gameplay was a little easier, that would be nice.

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There is an element of this game (and age of empires 2) that must strike some primal chord in me because I've been playing it for ten years and I still enjoy it tremendously. The newer similar games use a different interface and I just never liked them as much

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