Age of Empires II

THE GOOD:
Deep,never gets old,good graphics,great sound

THE BAD:
The MSN gamingZone the best place to play it online recently stopped supporting it.

SUMMARY:
Age of Kings will forever be one of the best strategy games of all time. The insanely addictive gameplay, wealth of tactics, the historical accuracy and the satisfaction of conquering just make it incredible. Seriously this is deeper than Deepy Mcdeep and his adventures at the bottom of the ocean.

AoK's graphics are better than average for strategy games. All units are instantly recognizable and animate smoothly. Fighting animations look good and so do all villager animations such as chopping wood or fishing. The backgrounds are drawn bitmaps so zooming in and out isn't available. It looks great though with details such as patches of leaves left around cleared forests and skeletons left around. Even dead units look great with the corpses hanging around and rotting slowly to show where a huge battle had been fought, and by looking at ...

THE GOOD:
Many Civilisations to choose from.
Graphics improved.
Build your own unique army.
A lot of fun to play with friends.

THE BAD:
Some resources like rock are most of the time in small amounts.

SUMMARY:
I havent played that many games similar to Age of Empires II but comparing this game to them it rocks. The most important thing that is great about this game is that you can choose from different civilizations and there are a lot of cool things that you can create if you have the right amount of resources. Resources are pretty easy to get especially food and wood. The only resource that can get pretty tought to find is stone because they dont have a lot of it in the game and that is one of the main resources besiedes wood that you need to succed it the game. The graphics have some what improved since the last one. The other cool thing is that if one of your buildings or walls or whatever gets damaged you can always send some of your people to fix it up which is awesome and it comes pre...

THE GOOD:
Different civilisations from the first game
More units and technologies
Unit unique to every civilisation
Castles

THE BAD:
Length of multiplayer games

SUMMARY:
This game is the sequel to Age of Empires. It has the same principles but has added many more things in. There are more units, some the same and some new ones, more technologies and in general the whole game just seems bigger. There are still the single player story missions where you can rein act famous scenarios like Attila the Hun's campaigns, but most of the fun will come from the multiplayer matches to the death.

The foundations of your base are still the villagers who are required to build and repair all your buildings. You need to collect resources (food, wood, gold and stone) with them. Like before they aren't particularly strong although you can give them 15 more hit points and 1 armour point fairly on which can mean the difference between life and death when you come under attack. As you advance through the ages yo...

THE GOOD:
Japanese army, nice big battle feild, the ways you can and have to keep your economy up....

THE BAD:
the graphics arent the greatest....

SUMMARY:
I really only picked up this game because I heard it had simallar action to the battles in Warcraft...So I decided to try it out, and the game is great...only when you play as the Japanese Army...MUH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! >.> <.< Well you can tell thats my main force...I really liked how there was a wider battlefield than to WarCraft....plus the armies were in greater numbers than WC...:/ but not as much bloodshed as there should be...and the technology growth is kinda lame..I wish it stayed in the Fedual Era troughout the game....but oh well...i like to have Asian battles sometime..the Mongols v.s. Chinese v.s. Japanese...much fun yes...plus you can have greater teams...The story/campaign is kinda lame...but oh well I only play it for the samurai killing action..^.^

THE GOOD:
graphics are alright exept you dont need them because you cant see the faces of the people up close so there's no point.I also like the random map where you can play against the computer and also try out different civilazations i've only had it about 2 weeks so i havent got board of it and i dont think i will.

THE BAD:
well i have only tried one campaign so far the Joan of arc one i found it really boring so i just couldn't be bothered doing any others so now i'm only playing the random maps or just making a map in map editor.

SUMMARY:
i like it how you start off at the dark age and work up to the imperial age and look at how all the buildings looked at the time.its also good that you have to collect the food,wood,gold and stone its really realistic.But all in all i think this game is great.

THE GOOD:
Graphics a great improvement over the original...

THE BAD:
but still not quite up to the mark.

SUMMARY:
Due to some unfortunate circumstances I found that my computer hardisk had crashed and all the games loaded had been uninstalled. The only CD I had available was the AOK one.
Perhaps it is a bit of an insult to Aok that I only bothered playing this game when I had no other alternative. Well anyway on to the review.
So we go bang into the gameplay..with an interesting, fastpaced introduction you are left with quite a few choices on the screen. You can learn to play, do a skirmish or play a campaign. I played the learning campaign first in which you have to command William Wallace's forces from 'humble beginnings' to an 'empire which can stand the test of time.'
The bad thing about the campaign is that the population limit is automatically set to 75 which is a right pain in the backside. For this reason I spent most of my time in the Regicide mode in which you can choose the pop. ...

THE GOOD:
Where to start? There's lots of different races to play as, from all over the world, and they all have their own units, as well as units shared by everyone. The buildings, though the same for everyone, look slightly different depending on the area that nation is from. The strategy involved varies from person to person, place to place, races to races, and difficulty levels to difficulty levels. The way you play is totally up to you, this game allows for all sorts of fun extra things too, aside from the premade scenarios you can play, there's also regular play mode, where you choose the people you are, the people you fight, and the place you fight, along with other details, as well as an edit mode, where you can make your own scenario, as specific, or complex as you want!

THE BAD:
The only thing wrong is there simply WASN'T ENOUGH!!! I can never get enough of these games, and they never allow you enough places and people to fight. Along with a lack of specific building types, a...

General/Summary: Well, after hours upon hours of playing, I have come to the resolution that this game is pretty good.
The game follows in the footsteps of Age Of The Empires 1. Much of the way the game works is the same: the player controls his or her team of villagers in order to generate enough materials so that the villagers and soldiers the player generates can go fight and kill all of the soldiers and villagers all of the opposing team has. For the most part, the object of the game is to kill the other team, but not always. The player can also win in other ways, depending on the scenario.
There are also a lot of differences from the previous game and this game. First of all, the game takes place during the dark ages, a shift in time change from the first game (which took place during and before the Roman times). Secondly, because the game takes place in a different timeperiod, there are several new technologies and different civilizations from the first game. Finally, the game i...

Age of empires 2 is a very good RTS, in my opinon it's one of the best available.
The game has alot to offer and doesn't require a really good PC to run smothly which is good for me.
If you are to get this game i would also advise getting the conquerors add on, it makes the gam even better.
In conclusion i would advise most people to give this game a try, i'm sure most people would be pleased with it.

THE GOOD:
Many Civilisations to choose from.
Improved Graphics.
Campaigns.
Map Editor.
Historical Accuracy.

THE BAD:
Graphics, though updated, are behind the times.
Performance on low Spec machines (fixed in patch).
A.I. shouldn't apply for Mensa.
MICROSOFT!!!!

SUMMARY:
RTS. Three little letters that spell long hours of boredom, and repetitive gameplay for me. I do not like RTS games. Nor, in fact, do I like Microsoft, they've bullied their way to the top of OS providors, and release buggy products that crash more than a child's first kite. So, RTS games, and Microsoft, two of my least favourite things.

So imagine my surprise when, because I was bored one day, I loaded up the demo for the origional Age Of Empires, and when I next looked at the clock, found that several hours had passed. The Age of Empires series is, quite simply, excellent. The first game started you in the Stone Age I think, and advancing through several ages. The sequel takes it even further, you are in the middle ages.

The sin...