Age of Empires II Gold Edition
Build one of the most powerful civilizations of the Middle Ages into a flourishing empire in this bestselling, award-winning real-time strategy game. Includes both Empires II: The Age of Kings and Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion.
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Overview
Includes both Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings and Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion.
Raise Armies
Lead with cunning and might. Train your people to be infantry, knights, throwing axemen, cavalry, archers and more. Control all your military's strategy and tactics in intense real-time battles. Create formations, coordinate attacks, flank your enemy's infantry, lay siege to their castles and more.
Forge Alliances
Join forces with other civilizations. Establish trading blocs. Create a global strategy of conquest and survival.
Grow a Thriving Market Economy
A market-based economy lets you open up new avenues of trade with your allies and create new methods of conquering your enemies. Form a rich empire by establishing markets, buying and selling resources and pioneering new trade routes.
Construct Wonders to Stand the Test of Time
Can you build the Cathedral at Chartres? Charlemagne's Palace? The Hagia Sophia at Constantinople? Keep it standing long enough and you can win the game.
Features
- Create your own new maps, or play historically based campaigns with figures like William Wallace, Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan, Barbarossa and Saladin.
- Experience the adventure of the Spanish Conquistadors as they enter the exotic lands of the Aztecs, or relive the destructive force of Attila's pillaging huns.
- The Conquerors Expansion adds five new civilizations, four new campaigns, 11 new units, 26 new technologies, real-world maps and much more.
- Join the worldwide community of Mac Age of Empires II players by playing multiplayer games on Game Ranger.
System Requirements
- Mac OS 8.9 to 9.x or OS X v10.1 or later
- 233MHz or faster processor
- 64MB RAM
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Most Recent Reviews
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Age of Empires II Gold Edition
Awesome!
Written by KY
Mar 16, 2009
The game works great on my apple computer
(37 of 44 people found this review useful)
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Age of Empires II Gold Edition
Runs great
Written by MB from Newberry
Dec 29, 2008
I suggest for those having issues that they try installing the patch that is linked on Apple's site if they haven't already.
I h…Read moreave a Macbook with Intel Core 2 Duo and 4Gigs of ram on 10.5.5 OS X and it runs great.(49 of 55 people found this review useful)
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Age of Empires II Gold Edition
Great single player.
Written by AS from Redmond
Dec 25, 2008
First thing I think I should warn anyone of is that you CANNOT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM PLAY MULTIPLAYER GAMES WITH PEOPLE THAT HA…Read moreVE THIS GAME ON A PC. You'd think that it'd be compatible over a simple LAN or an IP connection, well it isn't. They don't tell you this either. So I am. I was trying to set up a game with someone over TCP/IP that was running it on a PC, and after 15 minutes of failed attempts and trying everything with the Firewall and internet connection settings, I did some Googling. Turns out, Microsoft didn't want to give Macsoft some of their code or something and so multiplayer only works with other Mac computers. LAN is also not even provided in this version of the game, the only options for multiplayer is TCP/IP, or GameRanger, the new Zone.com I guess. This is an online service similar to battle.net available for Mac and PC users, but again, no cross-breeding. You can only play with other people on your OS.
Other than that issue, this is a great game. I used to own this on PC and I see no other differences, the single player has been converted flawlessly. It runs smoothly on my 1st gen iMac. The installation is a bit weird, but it gets the job done and the game runs well. All the music, sounds, and graphics are the same. And the AI, from what I can remember.
Also, if you're not on an admin account with this game, you need to have Read & Write (including all enclosed items) privileges for the entire folder in which this game is located on your HD. Otherwise, the game will force quit whenever you try and start playing. This too took me some trial and error to figure out.
Most new games being released now are released for Macs and PC's, so these problems shouldn't continue.
But hey, this is a '90's PC game redesigned for Mac computers. Can't expect 100%, not even from Apple.(81 of 92 people found this review useful)
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Most Useful Reviews
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Age of Empires II Gold Edition
This Game is worth buying
Written by KD from new lenox
Nov 29, 2006
deftenitly, its like warcraft, but more interactve so there reason for each of ur actions. This game is also much more challenging…Read more than any other God Mode complex game that i have ever played.
(388 of 584 people found this review useful)
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Age of Empires II Gold Edition
Awesome Classic
Written by MP from Overland Park
Nov 24, 2006
This remains a great game. It has evolved over the years into one of the greatest strategy games of all times. Even with the eme…Read morergence of AOE III this game is still a favorite amoung realtime online strategy gamers. Try this classic you won't be dissapointed.
(356 of 536 people found this review useful)
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Age of Empires II Gold Edition
Awesome Game, Buy Two!
Written by BK from Decatur
Nov 21, 2006
This game is a complete classic and the expansion pack makes it even better. My son and I have a great time playing cooperatively …Read moreon our two macs over airport. I love it.
(355 of 537 people found this review useful)
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