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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 on our two macs over airport. I love it.

392 of 580 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.

75 of 104 people found this useful

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.

394 of 578 people found this useful

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 than any other God Mode complex game that i have ever played.

429 of 629 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Does not work...

Written by NN

Jan 2, 2007

On my Mac, running the latest OS X.4 the game does not work.
On a Partition with X.3 installed it just works fine.

67 of 128 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Decent Game, Some Corners Cut

Written by GM from Southlake

Jan 11, 2007

This game is worth a look. I would be lying if I said it wasn't fun, but I find it has limitations that should have been seen to.

First, there is no 'attack move'. You are doomed to getting your groups to attack a particular unit, the units will not intelligently charge and pick their own targets. It is much easier to micromanage from that as needed than to pair off units for attacks. There was no excuse on this matter, Blizzard Entertainment's Starcraft had this feature back in 1999—two years earlier.

Second, fortifications can be frustrating to build. Between terrain elevations and the height of structures, it can be difficult to build defenses of much intricacy. Holes can hide from you for enemies to sneak through, frustrating defensive innovation. See Stronghold for a game that does a fine job of fortification-building.

For all this, AoE2 has its share of good points. It had the most advanced simulation of fortification building in its time looking to the Medieval era. It's still fun. Unit queuing and rally points are also a plus. The AI also has its moments (no other Ai I can think of in an RTS has units do hit-and-fade attacks), though its base-building methods are non-sensical.

So, if you're looking for another game to add or catch up on, this is it. There are other games out there that make a strong case for themselves though, so make sure there's not something else out there you'd rather have even more.

48 of 96 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.

74 of 104 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

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

65 of 99 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Confused...

Written by JB from Kettering

Sep 10, 2007

This won't work on my macbook pro with an intel core duo. And I'm kind of mad because I just bought this and for 30 bucks, it should work.

52 of 88 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!

126 of 214 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

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.

221 of 383 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.

152 of 257 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Gotta X don't waste money

Written by MW from San Antonio

Feb 18, 2008

Love this game but every time I have tried ta load get NEED MORE SPACE ON HARD DRIVE. My drive has enough room but the program doesn't want ta load. Save your money till they decide ta FIX the program.

113 of 247 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.

49 of 78 people found this useful

Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Does Not Play On MacBook Pro

Written by TA from Staten Island

Jun 12, 2008

I bought this game and every time I tried to run it on my New MacBook Pro I got a crash, then error saying video card could not initialize. What a waste of money. But hey its from Microsoft so everything they make crashes.

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Age of Empires II Gold Edition

Horrid but Fun

Written by JT

Jun 13, 2008

This game is amazingly fun! When I played it for the first time I was shocked at how amazing it is!
But when i played it more often, it constantly crashed when saving and exiting. Also, when I played one of the campaigns, it went to the wrong game, and it deleted my progress on that campaign (sheesh!)! And when I play for a really long time the colours go crazy!
But even though it had some very serious issues, it is still a really fun game. Buy it because it's cheap, and only if you can stand some problems.

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