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Fun, to say the least!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: August 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The Conquerors is a great expansion. With five new civilizations, new units, better game play... its just more fun. The reason I rated it 4 stars instead of five stars is because I think they still could have done more. yes, the new civilizations and units make the game more fun but its still the same game. Even though I took a star off the rating I would still buy this product. The age of empires: the conquerors is a great expanision, it makes the game more fun. heck, thats what expanisions are for arent they?

Do not buy this game if you want to keep your partner

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: December 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought my partner this game as she liked the AOE2 original version...she squealed as she opened the box and I though: 'Great, at least I have done sonething OK for once!'. How wrong I was. She pushed me off the PC to load the thing, despite my unfinished work on my PhD thesis that I thought was top priority. She loaded the thing and that was the last I saw of her three weeks ago, building the occasional Wonder, fighting the Byzantines, killing the Franks, vanquishing the Britons, I cannot take any more. She sits engroossed for 3/4 hours per night, logging in as she gets in from work and logging off to come to bed. She is good enough to do it for England! I sit there, ignored, an ageing PC widower, listening to the clanking of arms, the hors cry and the sound of screaming and dieing men, you can even here the blood curdling urrghhhh! She has forsaken me for the mediaeval world and I regret buying this game. I am afraid Pandora's Box has been opened so I can only warn you.

THIS GAME IS SERIOUSLY ADDICTIVE!

Damn great game, too addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ok, every aspect of this game is perfect, especially The Conquerors which just made it even better!

For those of you who like fast paced games, this is for you. It is in real time, meaning you have to handle about 20 things at the same time. For those of you who like slower games, this might be a little too fast for you, I'll say stick with turn-based games AFTER YOU HAVE TRYED A DEMO OF THIS GAME.

Like I said, every aspects of this game is great, even to the smallest things, like Music!! When you are playing the game, you don't even heard the music, but one time I just stoped and listened to it (after I tried stopping 253 times, literally! but if you want to, just look though the file and there is the mp3 of the whole soundtrack (I BURNED IT ONTO A CD!! And my friends loved it! Of course I didn't tell them it was from a computer game!!!)

Just be warned, this game screwed up my life (almost, I had to go into theropy) and it is highly addictive! But that is what makes my favorite game of all time (until Age of Mythology comes out (3rd installment in the series)). It will probally screw up your life, but I NEVER REGRET GETTING THE GAME, NEVER!!!

Just my 2 cents, :-)

good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing this game since 4 months and its a great game. This game is nothing but reality.

First of all you have to start from the core. You will be given few villagers and a town center. You need to assign the villagers to collect food, gold, wood and stone. Collecting the food helps you in creating more villagers who build houses,castles, do farming etc. The new villagers come from the town center. Wood is needed to build houses and some other military equipment. When you fall short of food or stone you can buy them by exchanging the gold from the market. Stone is used to construct castles and gates for your empire.

when you start the game you will be in the Dark age, where you have to gather the minimum requirements like farm and houses to the villagers. You can build barracks from where the army comes.

In the next age (Feudal age)you need to build a market where the exchange can be done and a black smith. These are known as feudal age buildings, you need to build atleast 2 feudal age buildings to go in to the next age.
You can even build an archery or a stable. Bowman and other archers come from the archery and horsemen and other cavalry come from the stable. You need to start building your militray units slowly. If you are playing in a map where there is water you can build a dock to produce food boats and war ships.

In the next age which is known as castle age you need to build a castle and an university. The castle acts as a protection. If an enemy comes near it he will be shot with the arrows. You need to do lot of researches in the black smith and university to upgrade your army units.
The more researches you do the more powerful your army units become. You need to build a monastry in this age, the monks come from the monastry. These monks are helpful in getting the relics which yield a lot of gold and they also help in healing your wounded military units and villagers. They can even convert the enemy villagers and military units in to yours, but you need to do some researches.

The final level is the imperial age where you attack the enemies with your army which includes trebuchets (these are specially designed for damaging the castles), bowman, cavalry units and other swordsmen and expand your empire.

The speciality of this game is you are given several civilizations. Each civilization has its own specialities. Like in BRITONS civilization the long bowmen are unique, the aztecs are famous with their eagle warriors etc. You can choose whatever civilization you want before starting the game.

One more good feature of this game is, the villagers are given independence, for example if a villager has finished collecting stone at one place, he automatically moves in to another place to collect the stone.

Thus overall this game is an excellent game. You dunno the time while playing this game.

One of my all time favorites!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors is definitely one of my favorite games. It is a simple starategy game, easily picked up by beginners, but able to challenge the most talented gamers.
This game is much better than the first AOE game, and is a great addition to the second. Five additional civilizations, new technologies, and new units are at your fingertips, and the game play is also improved. Don't let the out-dated graphics stop you from playing this game. It is truly a masterpiece.
If you have played any of these similar games, you should feel right at home with AOE2: Empire Earth, Age of Mythology, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds.

A solid expansion that adds and fixes a lot

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires II was already a very well done game and The Conquerors expansion fixes almost all of the few problems that The Age of kings had. A very welcome upgrade is that your villagers are much more independent. If you get some of your villagers to build a lumber camp, you don't have to tell them to start gathering wood when they finish. Right when they finish building it, they'll head for the nearest trees and start cutting them down. The same goes with mines and farms, giving you more time to tend to other matters. You can also set farms to automatically replant themselves. There are five new civilizations you can use ( Aztecs, Huns, Koreans, Mayans and Spanish). The Aztecs and the Mayans have buildings look very unique, but the other three are pretty much the same as the civilizations in The Age of Kings. As for new units, there are Eagle Warriors, Jaguar Warriors, Plumed Archers, Conquistadors, Tarkan, Petards, Missionary, War Wagons, halberdiers and hussar. There is also a new Korean unique unit, the Turtle Ship. There are some new powerful technology upgrades. There are also three new game types such as king of the hill, wonder race and defend the wonder. Other than that, the only real change in the overall game is the music and the little street that makes up the main menu, which is now covered with snow. The random map is still as good as ever and will keep you busy for a long time (at least it has for me). The new civilizations don't add a whole lot of new content and aren't much different then the ones that are already in The Age of Kings. Overall, I wish that the new civilizations had a more unique feel to them, but the new units and gameplay patches are worth it.

Age of Empires, Age of Kings: Conquerors

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best, if not THE best, strategy game for PC(or any platform/machine for that matter). You have a big selection of civilizations to chose from, and maps to play on. Not to mention plenty of campaings to play, from the mildy easy ones, to the frustatingly chalenging ones. And now on this expansion pack you have more. More units, more maps, more techs, more campaings and more civilizations. You can evan play on maps that are moddeled after real places on the world such as Japan, or central america. Villagers are smarter than the in Age of empires:Age of kings. They will automaticly go to nearby resources after building a mill, town center, mining camp or lumber camp. There are five new civilizations; huns, aztecs myans koreans and spanish. Each are unique and have there own unique unit wich no other civilzation has. The huns don't need houses. The spaniards have a missionary(as whell as the other unique unit), wich moves faster than the monk(But it can't pick up relics). The Koreans have two unique units; the turtle ship and the war cart/wagon. The aztecs don't have cavalry. However the aztecs have the powerfull jaguar warrior and the myans have the feathered archer(Not feathered but I can't think of the word right now). You can talk to your allies(and enemies, though they enemies don't uassually respond), and give them orders. There are several different victory options. Standered:You must defeat your enamies, capture all the relics or build a wonder. Wonder race:you cannot create military units, instead you gotta focuse on economy so you can gather enough resources to be the first to create a wonder. Conquest:Defeat you enamys. King of the hill:Control the wonder/monument in the center of the map for a certain amount of time. Regicide:protect your king from you enamys and kill theres. Death Match:you start with huge stock piles and then build up your military before battling to the death.
This game is just great. I highly(Very Very Very Very Highly) reccomend it. This is deffinately not a waste of money.
Note:You need Age of Empires II:Age of Kings to play this game.

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5 new civs? Or just the same stuff with a new look?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: December 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well, the install period is about half an hour. I know this because I got an entire episode of the Simpsons in. However, upon starting the game, I realized that it was indeed, a game within itself. It would have been a perfect stand-alone game, with only a few piques. However, I found out that it was indeed the same thing as the other civs. It was simply a new name, with new unique units, but the same general armies.

Perhaps this could be over-looked by some obvious things. One, this is set in a time when technology was very limited and chances are, if it worked, you used it. Two, you want to try making totally unique units and buildings for 18 different civilizations? Three, the game simply has too much more to offer, to sit and waste our time looking at this kind of non-sense.

Each civ has a new unique technology, as well as more developed team/player bonuses. Also, the rocks/paper/scissors relationship has been tweaked somewhat. Camels are now more effective against pikeman, and so on. Plus, Villagers now have more brains! They will build a wall from several locations, instead of tripping over each other, when a drop off site is created, they start gathering the resource, and they will stop and fend of a wolf instead of just walking. Also, the addition of 3 new game types, several "real-world" locales, and a whole bunch of other stuff, will keep you busy for months just trying to find all the new stuff.

I can't say much for the graphics, it still looks like AOE. The interface has been improved a little bit. Now you can send commands to your computer allies, and they will respond to a certain extent. Multiplayer engines are the same, and so is the campaign structure. However, all of this really isn't that evident as you explore all the other stuff that this game has to offer.

As always, peace! Brian.

What the heck?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 27
Date: July 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Why on earth are people writing reviews of a game that isnt going to be released for a month? It makes no sense to me! Why did I give it 5 stars then? I love Age2 and this game isn't any different except with some cool extras that make gameplay more fun...

A GREAT GAME !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games I've played so far. I started playing Age of Empires and ended up playing the whole sequel. I love games dealing with History. The best part about this game are the campaigns based on the life of various historical heroes & events. Age of Kings has equally interesting campaigns and so does Rise of Rome.

Another good thing about this game is that it has great replay value. The campaigns are very interesting but a little hard to play whereas random maps and scenarios are loads of fun and allow easy game play due to the numerous options available like choosing your own civilization, your opponents civilization etc. You let the villagers do some resource gathering, which aids in building up a powerful army. Exploring the map is pretty interesting and fun. The game play is loads of fun trying to manage the town's resources while you build up an army to crush your opponent's forces.

This game is a great buy. I'm completely satisfied with it.

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