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Problems with iMac

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this a week ago since I heard great things about this game and having played Civilization a Call to Power. After installing it, it kept prompting me for the cd even when running the program off the cd itself. I wrote to tech support within the hour and have yet to hear back. I can however play the scenarios and found Civilization to be more challenging with better game controls. I often lost member of my civilization and had to scroll the entire map to distinguish to dark blue dots from the black dots. Overall, I am not impressed and will stick with Civilization games in the future.

A good game but...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires is a well made game. With 12 Civillization This game give a varaity of choices to win (or lose) a game. When a player is used to one civillization they go to an another civillization or tries new strategys. This is a long lasting game. However this is not good as window's version. the reason is I could not find anyone to play on-line. Most startagy game tends to be boring only playing with computers. The only problem is noconvieant way to find players which is not the game's fault anyways

Great animation, informative; try Civilization instead.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got this beacause I enjoyed both Civilization and Alpha Centauri, and it had come highly recommended by some of my friends in the PC world.

The animation and attention to detail is really great, and kind of hypnotic, mostly because of the music. The time required for development of technology is pretty considerable, however, so you just kind of sit and watch these little guys truck around for the bulk of the playing time. This slows gameplay to a virtual crawl.

The intelligence that moderates enemy activity is pretty rudimentary - I found it easy to avoid being attacked simply by not going within a certain distance of another civilization until I had a decent sized force, which, of course, took more time. Once engaged, however, moving the individual units was fun, if not a little chaotic. And the indivudal units just attack whoever is near them, whether that's a enemy or a building. The diplomacy settings are appalling basic: they are radio buttons which simply assign a value to each opponent: ally, neutral or enemy, which is usually not enough to get them to stop attacking you for a bit, only to stab them in the back, heh, heh.

Lastly, I more than a little put off by the "slash and burn" tone of the whole game - there's no penalty for simply cutting down every tree to make buildings and weapons, and exhausting every resource. (Oh, right, this is a Microsoft game.) In Sid Meier's excellent Civilization and space counterpart Alpha Centauri, you really have to watch your consumption levels and pollution. I find that this keeps me interested and coming back to play multiple times.

If you really like slick animation at the expense of gameplay speed and little snippets of historical information as the payoff for a level, then go ahead and try Age of Empires. If, like me, you like the intricacies of building an actual empire, then STICK WITH CIVILIZATION OR ALPHA CENTAURI. The animation may not be as good, but that's what movies are for.

!!THE BEST!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best strategy games ever. It has great graphics and is challanging and exciting. The first time I played it I sat down at my computer and didn't get up for 3 hours!!! It's a great game because there are many civilizations to choose from and they all have different army units. The real challanging part is you have to gather resourses to complete your army and advence through the ages. Over all this is by far the best game I've ever played!!

its a good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: May 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

when is it going to be in stock i want to buy it now

Out of the box. . .and back in again

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: May 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Boring, tedious, and pointless. A mere shadow of the far superior Civilization (pick any incarnation). Why would anyone want to sit and watch people chop wood and carry carcass meat around the screen? Why does this game freeze my computer? Why do foreign civilizations appear from nowhere (always with better weaponry) and bombard me for no reason-with no hope of diplomatic recourse? I realize that with diligence, this game may be playable, but I was already spoiled by years of playing-you know.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: December 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Quite simple this is the best stratagey game on the market, period.

A good game but...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires is a well made game. With 12 Civillization This game give a varaity of choices to win (or lose) a game. When a player is used to one civillization they go to a another one or tries new strategys. This is a long lasting game. However this is not good as window's version. the reason is I could not find anyone to play on-line. Most stardagy game tends to be boring only playing with computers. The only problem is noconvieant way to find players which is not the game's fault.

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