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Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Microsoft EAN: 0059556137975 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Item Dimensions: Label: Microsoft Manufacturer: Microsoft Model: 559-00105 MPN: 559-00280 Platform: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98 Publisher: Microsoft Release Date: March 07, 2002 Studio: Microsoft Variation Description: Age of Kings Features:
Accessories: Editorial Review: Product Description: Age of Empires II is the sequel to the award-winning, best-selling real-time strategy game Age of Empires. Age of Empires II spans a thousand years, from the Dark Ages to the late medieval period, in which players control the destiny of humankind from the fall of Rome through the Middle Ages. The game keeps the epic scope of Age of Empires' game play while evolving the combat, economic, trading and diplomacy features. Starting with minimal resources, players are challenged to build their nations Amazon.com Review: When it comes to vast, kingdom-spanning ambition, you can't do better than Microsoft's Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. Microsoft went all out to create this real-time strategy game, and it fairly hums with gorgeous graphics, sophisticated AI, and challenging scenarios for the novice and experienced player alike. The point of the game is to shepherd your fledgling civilization to world domination, using war, trade, and exploration. You start with the bare minimum to get going, and you've got to balance your people's needs with your desire to be a little Napoleon. The Age of Kings gives you a ton of new units and technologies to enrich your strategic options. Each scenario is placed accurately within history, but you're also free to create your own. The multiplayer format is robust, allowing up to nine players to share a world. When battles commence, you can take control of every aspect of your workers and soldiers, sending them running for shelter in the town center, ordering them to defend a watchtower, or setting their combat stance to "aggressive" for free-for-all sword smashing fun. When you're not fighting, find your idle peasants with a mouse click and send them back to work chopping trees, rounding up sheep, fishing, or mining gold and stone. As you acquire more resources, you can improve your soldier's gear and skills, start to trade more efficiently, and make life better for everyone in your empire. You can choose from 13 groups to manage, from the Japanese to the Teutons and Franks. Each group has unique units and special characteristics, making this a game that changes every time you play it. If all this sounds complicated, it is. New players may be intimidated by the range of choices, but the teaching scenarios are very helpful in conquering the controls. Age of Empires II is a sophisticated, gorgeous successor to the wildly popular original. It's a real feather in Microsoft's cap--a world-building game that will hold you captive. --Therese Littleton Amazon.com Product Description: Age of Empires 2 spans 1,000 years, from the fall of Rome through the Middle Ages. Players control the destiny of 1 of 13 civilizations. The game keeps the epic scope of Age of Empires' gameplay while evolving the combat and economic features. Developed by Ensemble Studios, Age of Empires 2 features the expertise of Bruce Shelley, codesigner of Age of Empires and the hit strategy game Civilization. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An excellent choiceAge of Empires II has been always my best game ever. I bought the collector's edition about 5 or 6 years ago and played it almost every week. Last year, I found out that someone had stolen the Age of Empires II CD and I had to stop playing as the game needs the CD in order to run. I decided to buy it from Amazon and I got more than I have bargained for; I was expecting only one single CD of Age of Empires II but I got the whole collection (Age of Empires I, II, Conquerors). I am really happy ... Read More Rating:  - Overrated RTSI bought this about a year after it came out, mainy through the glowing praise it seeemd to get from games magazines.( PC Gamer even went as far as naming it the 4th greatest game of all time in 2000) And I have to admit at first, it's easy to like. Interface is easy and clear, gameplay is fairly easy to learn, and graphically it's quite engaging in it's "little computer people on model railway scenery" style. After a few weeks play though it's shortcomings as a "strategy" ... Read More Rating: - Awesome.This is one awesome addictive game. I love it. Girl or Boy. 10 or 35. Its a great game period. The storyline kepts you playing forever and you cant stop. The graphics are fine...they dont bother me...I like them better than the 3rd one...I just like them overall. This is an awesome game. Get it. Rating: - One of the greatest games out there!!!This is, quite simply, an addictive game. It's not one of those games where you stick your head around the corner and BAM you're dead because the enemy blasted your head off with an AK-47. It's one of those games where you start out about as weak as you can be without actually being dead and you have to build up to the point where the enemy cant get three steps into your city because they were hit by a cannonball from your strategically placed bombard tower. You start out with three villagers, ... Read More Rating: - The Best Strategy Game Of All Time And One Of The Best Games Ever MadeAge Of Empires 2 is a masterpiece. Regardless of any complaints anyone has made about this game, there is no arguing. This one of the most fun, addictive, and satisfying games ever made. You can play it for months. I played it for over a year, then came back and played it for another year. It's probably the most addictive game I've ever played. Not Mario, not Zelda, not the great Doom, not Quake or Half-life or Warcraft or even Grand Theft Auto has ever had me as hooked as this game. Microsoft ... Read More |
