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Great Game but Sucks on Intel Macs!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I used to play this game all the time on my power pc iMac and recently bought it for my MacBook Pro and it ran slow as a mother! I was super bummed because I've got 256mb of vram and 4gb of system ram. Unfortunately and I hate to say this, stay away if you've got an intel mac!

Impressive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: April 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

An impressive strategy game for the macintosh platform. It could stand a new version with better graphics, unscaled buildings, and in general much larger scale.

A lot of fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: January 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Very funny, it's pleasant to get a game as this one. I'm already waiting for the new edition pack.About Freezing, At the beginning.

What I expected (kind of)

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had played a PC based demo before, so I was acquainted with the game and it was kind of what I had expected. However the game crashes about 60% of the time as soon as it starts and I have to restart it to be able to play. I doubt it is some hardware related issue since the remaining 40% of the time it plays well. I have a 12" Powerbook G4 on which even much more demanding games (as far as hardware goes) run such as Call Of Duty 2 or Doom 3.

Freezes Up for no good Reason

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 27
Date: April 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game looks good. But, it doesn't run well. It is seriously buggy.

On a G4 with 1Gb of memory running 10.2.8, the game starts up, but then freezes when I attempt to lay track. Contacted MacSoft, looked up bugs on their site --- NOTHING. It would be great if it worked.

Solid game but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game looks great and is easy to learn and jump right into play. I founf the lack of a storyline a bit boring.

You can download single player scenarios or create your own to add to your game experience.

Rise of Nations

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Its fairly similar to other games of this genre. Lacks some of the humour and personality of similar games. Competent, reliably coded, and runs at a decent speed even on slower Macs. Multi-player games are fun.

Great game - but crashes all the time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Really enjoy the game when it works, but it crashes so often that I can hardly play it. Using a PowerBook G4 with OS X.4.7.

One of the greatest strategy games in the world

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is great overall: excellent graphics, excellent sound, and it never gets boring because the experience always changes depending on the scenerio you choose. You can play as Napoleon or Alexander the Great, an American Revolutionary or a Russian Czar, or any number of world leaders past and present. You really have to plan ahead to devise strategies to defeat your enemies. You can change the outcome of historical battles -- I have made Napoleon conquer England, America take over South America, the Russians win the cold war, and the Bantu take over the world. The only downside is that it takes a lot of computer memory.

Mediocre at best

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 28
Date: February 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I bought this game, I didn't realize it was just another version of Age of Empires. The game now advances to the modern age and other than some graphic upgrades, the game is unchanged. Big disappointment since I've been playing Age of Empires for some time. Now you know.

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