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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 emergence of AOE III this game is still a favorite amoung realtime online strategy gamers. Try this classic you won't be dissapointed.

400 of 587 people found this useful

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 on our two macs over airport. I love it.

398 of 588 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Awesome!

Written by KY

Mar 16, 2009

The game works great on my apple computer

99 of 117 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Awesome game --- worth getting

Written by CV from St. Paul

Oct 1, 2007

This game is genius. It requires a lot of strategy, but is not to complicated. I run this on both a MacBook Core Duo with 512 MBs of RAM and an iMac DV 400 MHZ with 512 MBs of RAM and play against my friends online from across town whenever he borrows my MacBook, it is a great game and I recommend you buy it.

222 of 384 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

THE COOLEST GAME IN THE WORLD!!!

Written by MH

Jun 23, 2008

This game beats the third by far. Not only is it less but its great with the expansion packs. its better then 3 and has a lower price!!!!!get this game its worth all the money in the world!!!!

66 of 82 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Awesome Game

Written by DB from Newport

Jan 24, 2008

Awesome Game, BUY IT!!!!! i play it all that time. it has great graphics i play it on my powerbookg4 that is a pretty old mac about 6 years old but it works great. try it out you will like it.

153 of 258 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

awsome

Written by KF

Nov 21, 2006

This game is awsome it is a very fun stratagy game that makes you think in a fun way.

76 of 105 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

The best ever

Written by JT

Jan 13, 2007

This is so good it will make you cry how good the graphics are and the tension of a battle s so big you feel like you are in the battle.

75 of 105 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Great game

Written by LH from Ann Arbor

Sep 5, 2009

This game was a port from the PC version and includes the expansion pack. It's a faithful port. I had to buy a copy as it was my favorite game and when I switched, I wanted to run it on my Mac. I was never disappointed. By today's standards, the graphics aren't that great, but the game is so much fun it doesn't matter. Anyone who likes strategy games with many components will love this. It's not uncommon for games to go several hours in certain modes. My record is 6 hours so far. There are several game types such as regicide, campaigns, etc. I like setting up my own matches as opposed to playing the campaigns. They're interesting from a historical perspective, but not all that fun. There are many different cultures represented with different abilities. Some can gain fire ships, others have "turtle" like attack boats. You have naval and land battles and can build castles.

47 of 50 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

RAWKIN!

Written by JT

Sep 20, 2007

This game is perfect. I bought it and played till 2 in the morning. Build your own campaigns. Build massive armies. Explore countries and fight side by side of history's heroes such as joan of arc, Genghis Kahn, even robin hood. Definately worth buying. P.S. theres a killer cheat that you can drive a car and shoot people with a cannon. WHEEEEEE!

127 of 215 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

BEST GAME ON MAC!!!!

Written by CP from Mission Viejo

Feb 17, 2007

this game is one of the best...if you play Civ its way better oh an people the reason you cant turn on the soldiers is because you have to click advanced controls on the mini map area then you can tell your soldiers anything incuding deffensive stance, Agressive stance, and you can send them into battle when YOU say so

66 of 100 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Like So Totally Sweet

Written by TF from Peoria

May 20, 2008

When I had an IBM I had this game and I have always loved it, so when I trashed the junker, the game went to. So after I went MAC I got it, if your thinking about buying a game this is a big winner.

50 of 79 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

OMG!!!!!!

Written by HC from Wayland

Sep 28, 2008

the best age of empires title ever. the only thing that slightly rivals it is AOE 3, AOE 3 the Warcheifs, and AOE 3 the asian dynasties combined! a must get for any one who likes RTS games!

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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 HAVE 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.

125 of 141 people found this useful

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 have a Macbook with Intel Core 2 Duo and 4Gigs of ram on 10.5.5 OS X and it runs great.

77 of 89 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Great game!! but... old!

Written by YC from Santiago

Jan 16, 2007

This game is a classic! It's the best game on the world!!! But, now, there's the new version: Age of Empires III which haves better graphics!! Because the Age of empires II graphics are not so impressive... Anyway, it's a good game!! And, this pack doesn't ruine the game because we don't loose controls on units and all the stuff!!! Trust me, the expansion makes the game WAY better!! Think about the version III before buying this one.

56 of 98 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Fun game but doesnt work well with leopard

Written by JJ from decatur

Jun 17, 2008

This is an amazing game but it doesnt work with leopard there is a patch but not for the newest update 10.5.3 the patch only work for 10.5.1 so hopefully they come out with a new patch but until then i have a really cool looking coaster.

65 of 87 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Worth a try

Written by SJ from Forest City

Sep 21, 2007

I remember this game to have been much better on pc. The mac version lag's more and is full of bugs. The disc also behave's rather, irratically during gameplay. The graphics are bland, after having played age of empire's 3. But the history in the game is worth a play.

123 of 218 people found this useful