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It's an Action-Packed Strategy Experience!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 25
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Age Of Empires is an incredible game! It will entertain strategy gamers for hours on end with its many missions and endless variations of Death Matches. Parents can buy this for their children too. Each mission is based on real battles in history and it gives a historical summary of what really happened at each battle. The different civilizations all have different weapons and if you want an easy game there are cheat codes galore. THIS GAME IS A MUST-HAVE!

Missing One Thing- People

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: December 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Age of Empires is the best strategy game I have ever played. It takes you through time to fight in historic battles or build your own empire to conquer other people or your computer. I am very pleased MacSoft made a Macintosh version of this game. Dispite its exellence, it is mising one thing... people. I have yet to find one place online where I could play another person. If you are thinking about buying a game for your Macintosh, get Age of Empires, it is a great game and I'll look forward to playing you.

Very fulfilling RTS title

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: February 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Historical conflict has been the basis for many a PC and console title. But none deliver the goods better, in my opinion, than Age of Empires. Sure, it's a Microsoft game for Mac, but I don't think much about that as my Persian hordes roll into Greece. There have been many comparisons between AOE and the widely-popular Civilization 2, but it's like comparing Apples to... ummm... PCs. AOE is a true real-time strategy, which means you control your villagers and send them to collect food, wood, etc., and you control your armies which (if they're lucky) collect decapitated enemies. Civilization is more a political-military board game, with turn-based play and not as dynamic a control system as AOE. Not that this is bad--both games are a lot of fun to play. But I think while Civ 2 wins on the side of depth and scope, AOE wins on the side of excitement and playability. The only strike I have against AOE is the fact that the units all look and act the same, regardless of what civilization you play as. Using a legion of samurai to beat back a Hittite advance would have been wonderful.

This was a great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: February 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Boy, Microsoft really outdid themselves! When I opened the box and started the game, I was expecting something like StarCraft, simple and completely based on battles. However, I was soon exposed to intense strategy and huge amounts of details. For an example, units on elevations do more damage and vice versa. Also, much of the game is concentrated on the gathering of foods, minerals, and the researching of technology. This is no bash 'n brawl game for former Duke fans. This is hardcore strategy. So, I advise you to buy this game. This has kept me adicted since summer when I got it, and in my opinion, its better than Civilization II. (Why all the hype?)

One Word: Spectacular

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 25
Date: November 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If there was a better game out there I wish somebody would introduce it to me because AOE is the best game of its time. I recently bought AOE 2 and although it is ok, I don't find it half as fun as its predecessor. The bottom line: Buy Age ff Empires now!

a knockoff of the more interesting Civilization

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: January 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I can't really see what the appeal of this game would be when you could just buy Civilization II. Yet again Microsoft steals someone else's idea and doesn't carry it off very well. The mac version is a pretty horrible port, and doesn't follow Mac user interface conventions at all. The mouse cursor gets stuck now and then, too. Laying out the empire isn't nearly as interesting as in Civ. The warfare aspects are OK, although the defender gets such a big advantage that wars tend to be inconclusive unless one side just wasn't prepared. I guess some people might like the real-time format better than the turn-based format of Civ, but personally I just find that half the time I'm bored because nothing's going on and the other half of the time too much is going on at once and I get messed up.

THE BEST MAC GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best civilazation game ever!! Even though it sometimes crashes on IMac's, In aoe you can choose from random map games to scenario builder to death match to playing ageanst other people in multi player. After about a month or two of playing you end up likeing one army over others and liking different warriors. THe only real dissapointment is that there is no aoe 2 for mac's yet. THe first time I played this game I sat down at about 9a.m. and didn't get up until about 3pm later that afternoon, this game is very addicting and time flys when you play it. HINT: STAY AWAY FROM THE CHEATS!!!! they end up completely ruining your playing experience and make the game so much easier. So if you want a real challenge stay away from the cheats!! THis game is deffinately worth the money and is good to play when you want to waste time or when you are really bored. The combat in this game is amazing sence every army is very different and even though it takes a little while to get to the combat part. In random map you start out with very few resources and only three villagers that you have to put to work to gathering wood, food, gold, and stone to build a strong civilazation and advance through the ages. In death match you start with a ton of resources that will almost allways last you through the game. In this you also start out with only three villagers but you don't need to gather resources and you can more easily get to the later ages. In death match the combat is hard late in the game and it gets almost impossible if you run out of any of the resources. If you are in a rush for somthing and you have 15 minutes to kill this is not somthing you would want to do because chances are you wont stop playing for another hour or two. SO OVER ALL THIS IS DEFINITELY THE BEST GAME EVER!!

Grate!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Wow. I only have the demo, but it's still incredibly popular in my school, where we play it at lunchtime every single day. Even in the demo, the gameplay is awesome, so I'd say buy it if you have the chance.

THIS IS A GREAT GAME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love playing startegy games and i thought this was the best ever! you have to get this game! + they have really cool cheats on it.

It is a Good Name

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It is a really good game, the graphics are great. I love it when you see your army of 15 horses marching in and attacking everything. Its really fun, althugh for Mac you can only play against Macs and it is also pretty annoying the Population Limit it has. You also can not build a whole army at once you have to build it soldier by soldier.

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