Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Microsoft Review

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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Microsoft
4.6 stars
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forthereviews's Review of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Microsoft for PC

7th May 2004

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Graphics
    4 stars
  • Addiction Level
    5 stars
  • Multi-player
    Yes
Good Points

Pretty much everything. The scenario editor lets you make some awesome games like rpg based games and bloods. I like the economical dominance in this game. In a blizzard game, no one ever makes more than 15 worker units. In this, I aim for 120-150 villagers in a 200 population limit game. There is actual defense in this game as well. You can garrison your villagers in town centers or towers/castles to increase their attack and protect them. It's just plain awesome.


Bad Points

Bad points? Don't no what you're talking about. If there is, it's probably that people who play skill-less RTS games like anything made by blizzard can't comprehend strategy in a strategy game.


General Comments

Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings is by far the best game--strategy or not--ever. It is so worth the money, I bought it almost 2 years ago and I still play it all the time. You can never stop getting better at it. The thing that makes it better mostly is the economy. You can never have enough villagers, nor can you run out of resources. There's like 5 ways to collect food, 3 ways to collect gold, and only 1 for stone and wood. The graphics aren't great because its like 5-6 years old, but if you have a good graphics card there still alright. I would very highly recommend this game, and if you don't like it you must have had one lobotomy too many, or forgot your medication this morning. WANRING: this is for players with skill.

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