Age of Empires II, Gold Edition - PC

For those that played the original Age of Empires, this will not require that much of a learning curve as most of the general game play mechanics were kept the same which is good for those that like hotkeys. The main differences other than the graphical is of course the content: new time period and new ethnic groups/empires. As you proceed from the Dark ages to the Feudal, Castle and finally Imperial you are faced with the same task as the previous iteration of collecting food, wood, stone and gold which are then used to research technologies, construct buildings or create units.Female villagers are a first in this series as they are able to do all of the same tasks as the male counterparts. Buildings have been improved to a more adequate scale from the first game (no longer is a villager the same height as a house). Population limit has also been increased (for those that chose to) up to 200 now. Each civilization has it's own unique castle unit(s) as well as technologies which make it so that the players plan carefully on whether they will be on the offensive or defensive.The AI sees a major improvement when switching from Moderate to Hard and finally Hardest difficulty setting. There are numerous gameplay modes from the traditional Deathmatch or Random Map to Regicide, King of the Hill and Wonder Race.Overall a great and addicting title that can also be played online via a few hosting services (no longer via MSN Gaming Zone).

Admittedly, I am not a gamer and not incredibly patient. This game, which I am just learning, seems ponderous and time consuming. Creating this, collecting that, yada yada yada. I feel like I started this tutorial 12 years ago and am only halfway through it. I would much rather see fast numbers than human figures who go and do this and that. It also wastes a lot of memory on gratuitous preliminary screens that are not necessary.The play screen is awkward, in that the mouse moves the map if taken up, left, or right. But it only moves it down if taken through the 'administrative' area, to the edge of the overall screen.Watching all these fairly nicely rendered figures work and travel is driving me insane with impatience. And the voiceover in the tutorial is really annoying. It appears that I do not get the choice of who (what character or force) I'll be.I am not sure if this is a bad game, or that this type of play is just not for me. I am used to quick and iconic results, as in Risk II, which I really enjoyed, but which kept crashing almost every other game.This thing takes up over 175 megs on my hard drive, and yet I still have to have the disk in the drive to play. The whirring disk annoys me, too. I guess that's because I assume it is wearing out my CD-ROM drive.I suppose this one will wind up in the stack of similar games I've bought and do not play. Like I said, I'm not much of a gamer.

Si tienes windows 10 no corre ni en modo de versión anterior

The whole series is well done

Unhappy,had to return it...It doesn't play on windows 10

I hoped it would run well on my new computer. It did not meet my expectations. I took it off and set it aside.

I still think the Age of Empires series was one of the best. Warcraft pretty much started this genre of games but every other company were just copycats of it and Age of Empires made the best copycat up until Dawn of War 1. AoE 2 is nostalgic gaming in the genre now but it was one of the best while it lasted.

I grew up watching my father play this game and ended picking it up myself young in life and have been playing it ever since. This game has stood the test of time; even the graphics, I consider, are pretty nice looking given we are in the age of 3D. I love the big selection of civilizations you can choose from and how each have their own special technologies unique to them (and the fact that you can select to have ALL the technologies available and really hash it out on equal footing) and the different difficulty levels of the AI. This is a really great game to play against your friends; if you haven't tried Age of Empires II (AoE) then you are SERIOUSLY missing out on a lot of real-time fun. It's a MUST HAVE!