Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Game Reviews
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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
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Overall Critic Score:3.7132
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Critic Reviews
When I some months ago Microsoft had released Age of Empires and later then his younger brother AOE-Rise of Rome, my dreams about the real good strategy came true. Third series of Microsoft`s released strategy start in dark age and finished in...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at Gameguru Mania
The main mode of AoE2 is to complete a series of scenarios for the game, but I never really got much from them. Sure, it was a lot of fun leading Joan of Arc and William Wallace on their journeys, but I was more of a fan of the free moving quick battle...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at Thunderbolt
In almost all ways, The Age of Kings expands and nearly perfects the already proven AOE formula. A few remaining AI and path-finding glitches are a bother, but overall there are very, very few things that one can fault AOE 2 for. This is easily the best...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at Game Revolution
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The AoEII environment is extremely rich in detail. Even more than the original, details on buildings are captured right down to the dead leaves resting on the rooftops....read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at Gaming Age
Sometimes you play a game and question if the developers even play computer games. The interface is atrocious, the manual is about as useful as the crud hawked on late night infomercials, and you're constantly questioning the design decisions. Don't...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at PC Game World
Trivial shortcomings aside, Age of Empires II: Age of Kings is a good-looking and feature-full 2D RTS that manages to provide hours and hours of solo or multiplayer gaming enjoyment. The kicker? With its extremely lean system requirements, you don’t...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at Electric Playground
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings ("AOK" from here on, for brevity's sake) is the "A.D." mirror image of the "B.C." Age of Empires. Games are scaled to cover 1,000 years, from the Dark Ages to the early days of gunpowder. It hews steadfastly to the...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at PC Gamer
Although Age of Kings runs at higher resolutions and looks cleaner and sharper than many of its similar predecessors, you'll find that there's nothing foreign about its appearance....read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at GameSpot
Archers are good at medium range attack, but weak at hand-to-hand combat. To get past an enemy wall, you can use a battering ram, or catapult over it. This may all sound obvious, but it forces you to have a range of units in your arsenal - no single unit ...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at Eurogamer
You begin your empire-building task in this real-time strategy game as a small tribe on an unexplored map. By discovering resources and putting your clan to work harvesting them, your empire steadily develops. As time passes and your civilization grows,...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at AllGame
The various units and structures are fairly detailed -- the structures much more so than the units. There are a few different 'sets' of structures, and a unique unit or two per side, but for the most part, the various empires look very similar. For...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at Game Vortex
Thanks to a simple, efficient, and intuitive interface, the management of armies and villagers is extremely easy. Unit AI is solid, and unlike in Age of Empires, there are virtually no unit path-finding problems. Units in Age of Kings know where they're...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at GamePlasma
with all the research you need to make them truly effective) to use close to the front line. In the end, my only real problem with the game's overall balance was the fact that the "produce a lot of troops and sling them at the front gate" strategy is sti...read the complete Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings review at IGN
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