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Fun but short
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User
As much as I enjoyed this game, I was saddened that it only took a little over a week to beat.
The single player campaign was very interesting to play. My favorite section of course was the Eqyptian campaigns.
I HIGHLY recommend this game to anyone that enjoys the "Age of _____" series.
It's only the best game that mankind has invented.
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User
To make a long story short I'll just say I have never ever played a beter game.
The end of an era.
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User
When is comes to RTS, it doesn't get much better. Unfortunately, I think this format has run it's course. The designers of Empire Earth tried to put a new twist on things, but it was still just a glamorized version of Age of Empires.
AOM pushes the graphical detail about as far as noticeable, and threw in a few extras for gameplay, but after all is said and done, it's just another glamorized version of AOE.
If you're a die-hard AOE fan, you'll enjoy the eye-candy of a very familiar game. If you're looking for something totally new in the RTS genre, you'll probably have to keep looking.
OVERALL SCORE: (B-/C+)
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Not as good as, Age of Empires, too fake/hokey, not nearly as much fun to play. Only improvement is the farmers only need to be told to start a farm once, not every time the farm is exhausted [big improvement in game play].
OVERALL SCORE: (B-/C+)
PLAYABILITY: (B+), PLOT: (C-),ACTION/COMBAT: (B-), ANTAGONISTS: (C-), Graphics: (A-),AGE LEVEL: (PG)
Starts great, gets repetitive, not a real whole pile to do..
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User
The game starts well much like any of these RPG Sim games do. Build your town, increase its population, build more structures, updrade everything, develop an army, send them all off to war. Direct who they should fight along with some strategy.
However for all its upsides and fun the game has a lifespan of about a week or two at best and unless you really love it you may find yourself quickly looking for another game for variation. To be honest I enjoyed 50% of this game but then it just got too repetitive to continue playing it any more and the point + click... see how it works, sometimes becomes just straight forward button bashing and sending men off in droves to fight some war and really, that is it. Create buildings, create creatures, create men and send them off to war and keep an eye on the basic utilities so that you do not run out of wood, food and gold.
Good but not exactly a ground breaking RPG game although it is a lot better than other RPG games out there, but sadly the initial joy becomes bordom. This was actually one of the few highly-rated 5 star games that did not live up to the hype for me and I wanted it to. I really wanted to enjoy this game but it does not tax the brain enough and the tug-of-war monotony does come on pretty fast.
don't ask questions just buy it
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User
When i got AOM i thought it was the best game.i was wrong.AOMT
(age of mythology the titans)is better.microsoft out did them
selves.it's really fun destroying your enemie's town with a
titan.the units are balanced pretty good.i like the new god
powers.it's fun to time warp your buildings which you can only
do if you worship kronos who is an atlantean god.i think the
greek titan is the coolest titan.mirror towers are really
cool.instead of fireing arrows mirror towers fire a laser beam.
if you like AOM then you will love AOMT!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent game
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User
We bought this game for my son's birthday. It was not expensive and sort of a whim purchase. The game out of the box requires Rosetta (it's not a Universal binary), but if you apply the free patch from their website, it will upgrade the game to a Universal binary. This makes the game much more stable and enjoyable to play.
We had purchased Civ IV: Warlords and this game; my son has hardly even touched Civ IV since we bought this.
good game... bad online play
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User
The game itself is pretty good. The graphics are very nice and detailed and the singleplayer campaign is pretty good and lan play is good too. But i rate it 3 stars because the "Ensemble Online" network for online play is terrible! the community is very small (compared to battlenet/wc3) and you can't even join any online games at all if you are behind a shared internet connection (ICS, NAT, proxy/router) !!... even with the latest patches i still cannot join any online games. this is the case not only on my pc, but my family's pcs (all behind shared internet) and my friends computers that are also behind shared internet access. Hopefully they will fix this with a patch (although from the reading the readmes in the latest patches it seems like they are avoiding the problem).
So overall its a good solid game if you like playing alone or on the lan, otherwise expect trouble if you access the internet behind a router/nat and wish to play online.
Don't buy unless you enjoy frustration.
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 3 / 13
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I really have enjoyed age of empires, but this game is one big frustration. I have not been able to actually play the game. It always stops responding after two or three minutes into any part of the game. Microsoft's customer service has been of no use yet. Their general suggestions is to upgrade everything. When I get a game I don't want to take all day to download updates so it will work on my computer. My computer passes the requirements posted on the side of the box. Maybe they think everybody buys a new computer every month or so. I have been reading on newsgroups and forums and there are many buyers with similar problems.
It might be a fun game if I every get it to run. Save your money until Microsoft comes up with a new version or a patch that will fix it numerous problems.
WOW [but it is really short]
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User
this is the BEST BEST BEST game i ever played. now, i don't bleieve in all this mythology crap but this game rocks!!
recommended to every single kid in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!
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