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Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: December 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I had high hopes for this game. It looked nice on the box, and the prospect of controlling ants in a realistic fashion sounded like fun. But the game has major flaws.

First of all, the tutorial is highly inadequate, and unless you download a patch for it, it does freeze, just like another reviewer said. I've tried to play the game for two evenings now, and can't get past the first mission. Now I'll admit, I'm not the best strategist, but I successfully made it through Age of Empires which was far more complex than the first mission in this game. You only have to kill one thing, a praying mantis, and no matter how many warrior ants I throw at it, it won't die. That's frustrating. And the interface isn't very nice. It's hard to tell if your ants are really attacking at all, and hard to control them. I should also mention that these warrior ants are the only ones you get to control. You cannot directly control workers.

That's all outside the anthill. Inside you can only use menus to control things, and to me it doesn't make a lot of sense. In some cases you can't see what's happening, and in others you can see it, but it doesn't make any sense.

Some may like this game, but I would suggest passing it by. Especially if you have to pay the full [price]. It's DEFINITELY not worth that.

I Already Uninstalled It

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 31
Date: August 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately, this game was a big disappointment. A fair warning--this review is based on hardly playing the game at all. The tutorial was just about all I needed to see to convince me that I didn't like this game. Rather than a full written review, here is a list of some of the things I disliked about the Empire of the Ants:

1) The game locked up on me during one of the tutorials;

2) Whenever the game is started, it turns your sound all the way up to the maximum. This is *way too loud* so one of the first things you'll have to do every time you play Empire is to turn your speakers down;

3)The depictions of the ants you control look too much like, well, ants. They're ugly, crawly things & are in what looks like constant random motion. In addition, they can be hard to pick out against the background;

4) The background itself is a static image & is also rather unattractive.

As for other issues, the above-ground gameplay seems to be standard RTS with more different kinds of ants than you thought existed--missile ants, melee ants, elite ants. I don't remember any of this from my college zoology course, but ants were never my strong suit. Below-ground, you set policies for your workers & tell your queen what kind of ant eggs to lay.

The ads for this one looked & sounded nice but the presentation & design shown here are a big disappointment. In an evening's worth of play--most of which consisted of looking at the tutorials (until they locked up on me)--I went from anxiously looking forward to playing this game to having no qualms about uninstalling it.

Maybe someone who has played more of the game than I have will like it--but until then: beware!!

Excellent game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: August 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Like many other reviewers out there I had trouble playing this game at first. I found it incredibly hard because i wasn't sure of what to do. I recently started playing it again and I find once you get the hang of it, it is very fun and not that hard. It really challenges your strategy skills and it is the only 3d ant colony game we have (for now, more on the way I hope!).
Buy this game, it is worth the money if you give it a chance.

fun but very frustrating

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

ok i like the game but the tutorial doesnt help very much. its fun and different but diffucult and somewhat confusing. i can get food for my anthill but i cant figure out how to get supllys for it. its neat but its hard to play correctly. I bought it because of the book which is my favorite book. I wouldnt recomend it to an unskilled stratagest.

fun and challenging

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: December 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

at first this game was to confusing so i didnt play it but lately i have been playing it and it is great. its fun when you figure out how it works. I listened to the tutorial a second time and now i understand it. Just give it a second chance it is quite fun and different, kindof like age of empires only with ants and bugs and stuff, for those who like difficult strategy maybe think of this game.

It's an ok game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this knowing there was something not right with it. About the third misson in the game you are made to do something impossible. I want say what but lets just say I tried everying and I'm a little peeved. Well the game might be fun against a human but I cant seem to beat the comp on skrimage. Anyhoo I wouldn't recomend to go jump and buy this untill you've read what acouple of people think.

One of the best since sim ant

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 15
Date: July 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've been waiting for this game to come out for the past six months and after playing the demo I'm still eager to buy it! I would only reccommend this game to those who enjoyed sim ant, this game really just takes it to the next level.

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: June 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It was very cool. Much better than the sims. That was a game I will never forget.

Waste of money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: January 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I was so impressed with the book. But this game is a waste.

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