Age of Empires 2 - Age of Kings (PC)

I have always wondered how it would have been living among the ancient civilizations. Their buildings, the soldiers, and their costumes. We have been watching movies about them and watching their animations on the TV but the experience isn't the same. But after playing age of empires, the age of kings, I was totally amazed! You get to have villagers, build buildings, make your army and eliminate your enemy. Microsoft as tried to make the experience as realistic as possible. You have to collect resources and then use them to develop your civilization. To make it more close to reality, you have to conduct researches to enhance your army. There are buildings ...  Read the complete review

I have never been a great fan of Real-Time Strategy games of the C&C clan. With many, I tend to find that a map is often won or lost on the basis of who can set up production fastest. Thus, even with a possibly superior strategy (both military and economy-wise), a slightly slower player would always be at a distinct disadvantage. A better economy results in a superior military potential, which is often enough to win the game. As far as typical AI is concerned, the computer is usually brilliant at production, and rather bad at military operations. Not that this matters much, though, as the computer throws seemingly endless numbers of men into attack, until ...  Read the complete review

Age of Empires has remained one of my most treasured games since its arrival quite some time ago. I have always been a huge fan of over-head strategy games like this one, and seeing as this game has taken on the theme of an exciting medievil battle experience, I decided to carry on playing it through to present day! When you first enter the game you'll come across the opening cinematic intro, a fast passed battle with 'o.k' animation (since the game is now pritty old), this is basically there to get you pumped up for a nice long play. Once onto the main menu a player can chose between several options of play. These include, campaign mode, where a ...  Read the complete review

This is the sequel to the original game and the prequel to the recently released Age Of Empires 3, but how does it compare? The precious game did have its faults in the amount of options and tactical options that you could go down, but it was still a great game. But for me this is the best in the age of empires series, with castles, knights and great campaigns. The basis of age of empires is to build up a large town and army and then go out into the world and destroy the rest of the opposition, or if you're not one for the brutality of war, then you can build up treaties with allies, or build a wonder and keep it for about half an hour. Thus is the amount of ...  Read the complete review

Age of empires II (in my opinion) is a truly great game. The range of options is astounding. Usually on a strategy game you can play one or two campaigns but this has five! Each one has six long and challenging levels or there about. There is a choice of many different groups that you can lead such as the Britons, Celts and Japanese. Each one has its own special unit and abilities. The range of units on the game is equally astonishing: In the Stable: Scout Cavalry are very fast and cheap mounted units. They do not have a very strong attack but if used in large numbers they can be very affective. The Scout Cavalry upgrades to Light ...  Read the complete review