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It's an Action-Packed Strategy Experience!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 25
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Age Of Empires is an incredible game! It will entertain strategy gamers for hours on end with its many missions and endless variations of Death Matches. Parents can buy this for their children too. Each mission is based on real battles in history and it gives a historical summary of what really happened at each battle. The different civilizations all have different weapons and if you want an easy game there are cheat codes galore. THIS GAME IS A MUST-HAVE!

One Word: Spectacular

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 25
Date: November 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If there was a better game out there I wish somebody would introduce it to me because AOE is the best game of its time. I recently bought AOE 2 and although it is ok, I don't find it half as fun as its predecessor. The bottom line: Buy Age ff Empires now!

Missing One Thing- People

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: December 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires is the best strategy game I have ever played. It takes you through time to fight in historic battles or build your own empire to conquer other people or your computer. I am very pleased MacSoft made a Macintosh version of this game. Dispite its exellence, it is mising one thing... people. I have yet to find one place online where I could play another person. If you are thinking about buying a game for your Macintosh, get Age of Empires, it is a great game and I'll look forward to playing you.

a knockoff of the more interesting Civilization

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: January 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I can't really see what the appeal of this game would be when you could just buy Civilization II. Yet again Microsoft steals someone else's idea and doesn't carry it off very well. The mac version is a pretty horrible port, and doesn't follow Mac user interface conventions at all. The mouse cursor gets stuck now and then, too. Laying out the empire isn't nearly as interesting as in Civ. The warfare aspects are OK, although the defender gets such a big advantage that wars tend to be inconclusive unless one side just wasn't prepared. I guess some people might like the real-time format better than the turn-based format of Civ, but personally I just find that half the time I'm bored because nothing's going on and the other half of the time too much is going on at once and I get messed up.

Very fulfilling RTS title

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: February 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Historical conflict has been the basis for many a PC and console title. But none deliver the goods better, in my opinion, than Age of Empires. Sure, it's a Microsoft game for Mac, but I don't think much about that as my Persian hordes roll into Greece. There have been many comparisons between AOE and the widely-popular Civilization 2, but it's like comparing Apples to... ummm... PCs. AOE is a true real-time strategy, which means you control your villagers and send them to collect food, wood, etc., and you control your armies which (if they're lucky) collect decapitated enemies. Civilization is more a political-military board game, with turn-based play and not as dynamic a control system as AOE. Not that this is bad--both games are a lot of fun to play. But I think while Civ 2 wins on the side of depth and scope, AOE wins on the side of excitement and playability. The only strike I have against AOE is the fact that the units all look and act the same, regardless of what civilization you play as. Using a legion of samurai to beat back a Hittite advance would have been wonderful.

This was a great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: February 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Boy, Microsoft really outdid themselves! When I opened the box and started the game, I was expecting something like StarCraft, simple and completely based on battles. However, I was soon exposed to intense strategy and huge amounts of details. For an example, units on elevations do more damage and vice versa. Also, much of the game is concentrated on the gathering of foods, minerals, and the researching of technology. This is no bash 'n brawl game for former Duke fans. This is hardcore strategy. So, I advise you to buy this game. This has kept me adicted since summer when I got it, and in my opinion, its better than Civilization II. (Why all the hype?)

A good game but...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires is a well made game. With 12 Civillization This game give a varaity of choices to win (or lose) a game. When a player is used to one civillization they go to a another one or tries new strategys. This is a long lasting game. However this is not good as window's version. the reason is I could not find anyone to play on-line. Most stardagy game tends to be boring only playing with computers. The only problem is noconvieant way to find players which is not the game's fault.

A good game but...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires is a well made game. With 12 Civillization This game give a varaity of choices to win (or lose) a game. When a player is used to one civillization they go to an another civillization or tries new strategys. This is a long lasting game. However this is not good as window's version. the reason is I could not find anyone to play on-line. Most startagy game tends to be boring only playing with computers. The only problem is noconvieant way to find players which is not the game's fault anyways

It is a Good Name

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It is a really good game, the graphics are great. I love it when you see your army of 15 horses marching in and attacking everything. Its really fun, althugh for Mac you can only play against Macs and it is also pretty annoying the Population Limit it has. You also can not build a whole army at once you have to build it soldier by soldier.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: December 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Quite simple this is the best stratagey game on the market, period.

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