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 | Title : Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings
Author : Microsoft
Release Date : 19991024
Binding : CD-ROM
Regular Price : $19.99
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Editorial Reviews :
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.
Buyer Reviews :
'Age of Empires II' has been named on many many PC top ten lists, and for good reason too! Simply put, this is just an amazingly fun and interesting game. 'Age of Empires II' will take your breath away, it's a must own for any PC gamer, or even someone who's never played a computer game! Anyone will love this.
There are many levels of difficulty, which is excellent. Once you master one level or strategy, you can change the settings (and certain characteristics in the game, such as what type of terrain you get, which makes all the difference). You must manage any one of thirteen civilizations, ranging from the Turks to the Vikings. Each civilization has it's own unique benefits and drawbacks and their own style of buildings and armies. You collect natural resources, advance through ages by meeting requirments in your stockpiles, create workers, explore, conquer, build an army, make allies, engage in trade and battle, and so much more! The graphics are some of the best I've seen in a strategy game and always keep you involved with the game.
You can also choose certain types of games. A campaign game involves a certain sort of goal (like escorting Joan of Arc to the king). Their is a death match game, where you duke it out with other empires, and so much more. There is a delightful training game which involves the famous William Wallace teaching you the basics of the game, I found this to be extremely helpful.
(by Emily Todd)
Features/Technical Specs :
* The sequel to the award-winning, best-selling real-time strategy game, Age of Empires
* Strive to victory with heroes, including Joan of Arc, William Wallace, Genghis Khan, Saladin, and Barbarossa
* Command 1 of 13 mighty civilizations including the Franks, Japanese, Byzantines, Vikings, Mongols, and Celts
* The Map Editor allows you to build your own massive campaigns
* Conquer a worthy opponent over the MSN Gaming Zone, LAN, or modem
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