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THIS IS A GREAT GAME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love playing startegy games and i thought this was the best ever! you have to get this game! + they have really cool cheats on it.

Grate!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Wow. I only have the demo, but it's still incredibly popular in my school, where we play it at lunchtime every single day. Even in the demo, the gameplay is awesome, so I'd say buy it if you have the chance.

Out of the box. . .and back in again

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: May 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Boring, tedious, and pointless. A mere shadow of the far superior Civilization (pick any incarnation). Why would anyone want to sit and watch people chop wood and carry carcass meat around the screen? Why does this game freeze my computer? Why do foreign civilizations appear from nowhere (always with better weaponry) and bombard me for no reason-with no hope of diplomatic recourse? I realize that with diligence, this game may be playable, but I was already spoiled by years of playing-you know.

THE BEST MAC GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best civilazation game ever!! Even though it sometimes crashes on IMac's, In aoe you can choose from random map games to scenario builder to death match to playing ageanst other people in multi player. After about a month or two of playing you end up likeing one army over others and liking different warriors. THe only real dissapointment is that there is no aoe 2 for mac's yet. THe first time I played this game I sat down at about 9a.m. and didn't get up until about 3pm later that afternoon, this game is very addicting and time flys when you play it. HINT: STAY AWAY FROM THE CHEATS!!!! they end up completely ruining your playing experience and make the game so much easier. So if you want a real challenge stay away from the cheats!! THis game is deffinately worth the money and is good to play when you want to waste time or when you are really bored. The combat in this game is amazing sence every army is very different and even though it takes a little while to get to the combat part. In random map you start out with very few resources and only three villagers that you have to put to work to gathering wood, food, gold, and stone to build a strong civilazation and advance through the ages. In death match you start with a ton of resources that will almost allways last you through the game. In this you also start out with only three villagers but you don't need to gather resources and you can more easily get to the later ages. In death match the combat is hard late in the game and it gets almost impossible if you run out of any of the resources. If you are in a rush for somthing and you have 15 minutes to kill this is not somthing you would want to do because chances are you wont stop playing for another hour or two. SO OVER ALL THIS IS DEFINITELY THE BEST GAME EVER!!

its a good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: May 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

when is it going to be in stock i want to buy it now

Great animation, informative; try Civilization instead.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got this beacause I enjoyed both Civilization and Alpha Centauri, and it had come highly recommended by some of my friends in the PC world.

The animation and attention to detail is really great, and kind of hypnotic, mostly because of the music. The time required for development of technology is pretty considerable, however, so you just kind of sit and watch these little guys truck around for the bulk of the playing time. This slows gameplay to a virtual crawl.

The intelligence that moderates enemy activity is pretty rudimentary - I found it easy to avoid being attacked simply by not going within a certain distance of another civilization until I had a decent sized force, which, of course, took more time. Once engaged, however, moving the individual units was fun, if not a little chaotic. And the indivudal units just attack whoever is near them, whether that's a enemy or a building. The diplomacy settings are appalling basic: they are radio buttons which simply assign a value to each opponent: ally, neutral or enemy, which is usually not enough to get them to stop attacking you for a bit, only to stab them in the back, heh, heh.

Lastly, I more than a little put off by the "slash and burn" tone of the whole game - there's no penalty for simply cutting down every tree to make buildings and weapons, and exhausting every resource. (Oh, right, this is a Microsoft game.) In Sid Meier's excellent Civilization and space counterpart Alpha Centauri, you really have to watch your consumption levels and pollution. I find that this keeps me interested and coming back to play multiple times.

If you really like slick animation at the expense of gameplay speed and little snippets of historical information as the payoff for a level, then go ahead and try Age of Empires. If, like me, you like the intricacies of building an actual empire, then STICK WITH CIVILIZATION OR ALPHA CENTAURI. The animation may not be as good, but that's what movies are for.

!!THE BEST!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best strategy games ever. It has great graphics and is challanging and exciting. The first time I played it I sat down at my computer and didn't get up for 3 hours!!! It's a great game because there are many civilizations to choose from and they all have different army units. The real challanging part is you have to gather resourses to complete your army and advence through the ages. Over all this is by far the best game I've ever played!!

Problems with iMac

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this a week ago since I heard great things about this game and having played Civilization a Call to Power. After installing it, it kept prompting me for the cd even when running the program off the cd itself. I wrote to tech support within the hour and have yet to hear back. I can however play the scenarios and found Civilization to be more challenging with better game controls. I often lost member of my civilization and had to scroll the entire map to distinguish to dark blue dots from the black dots. Overall, I am not impressed and will stick with Civilization games in the future.

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.

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.

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