Age of Empires: Gold Edition

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Customer Reviews:

Good deal [Posted on 2007-01-05]
i love this game, and its a great deal to get 3 other games for free!

Good but... [Posted on 2007-07-09]
First off, Age of Empires is an amazing strategy and war game. I can't even begin to describe how much you should get this game.

However, the version I got didn't come with the owner's manual and history. I owned a version for Mac (this versions pc) but the manuals really add a lot the the game. Make sure the copy you buy includes them. Thats my only complaint.

A classic real time strategy game. [Posted on 2007-11-22]
Age of empires came out in 1997 and is still a exiting game to play anytime.It is a game that never gets old but can get tedius sometimes.
1.The sound in age of empires is good for its time but now you can notice it is outdated but thats not that big of a deal because its old of course.Some sound is good such as lions growling in the distance but some sounds are obviously canned which is heard in cartoons etc.2.The graphics are solid for a 10 year old game and the citizen modles are 3-d and have good textures.The tedius part of the graphics is when citizens are close to each other or if they are near trees and the end of the map they will get stuck and will not get to their destination.3.There is good value in AOE but the population limit is only 50 but the positive thing about the pop limit is that every other nation has the same thing.There are good game modes for random map like wonder victory but conqest is a little tedius because in order to win you have to destroy every unit instead to destroy a town center.The campiegns are fun and there are many of them but even on easiest they are kinda hard and frustraiting but still have more options than a random map.Creating a scenario is most fun because you can have more than 50 people.For scenario creator you can have a 500 millitary fight on each side and can be very fun and exieting.
Overall AOE is a very good game and I would recommend it to anybody who likes real time stategy game or anybody who likes older history games.

Outdated [Posted on 2008-02-08]
I would probably have had more fun if I hadn't used Age of Empire II before this one. Age of Empire II/Conqueror has so many more functionalities. Not having these functionalities requires much more manual 'handling'. For instance, in AOE II, double-clicking on a unit will select all units of that type present on the screen. It wouldn't work with this version, very annoying. I played 15 hours, just to give it a fair chance, then I gave up. The disk will be forgotten in a drawer, too bad.

Cool game [Posted on 2008-09-10]
I love this game. Yeah, the campaign is way too short, but, in my opinion, it makes up for it with the scenario builder. If you don't like a campaign, then just make a new one! My brother and I always have contests to see who can make the most difficult yet fun campaign complete with story and everything.

So, yeah, it's a great game: sucky campaigns but the scenario builder makes up for that.

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