Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings for Windows

Pros: gameplay dynamics, races, balanced units
Cons: micromanagement in early stages

what sets aoe2 apart from other rts games? the main thing is balance. in red alert 2, the first person to build up an army of prism tanks wins. aoe has counter units for every unit. there are 13 races to play as opposed to starcraft's 3; red alert's...

Pros: Faster, easier to learn
Cons: Too Big of Buildings

When I played this game for the first time I literally couldn't get up from the computer. I loved how it let you learn your way into the game with the William Wallace starter. It was much more fun to play with all of the new soldiers, and weapons you...

Pros: Great Graphics, Better Control
Cons: Need to much gold!

Definitely a game to buy! In fact we have two copies of the game so we can play this game networked on our computers!

In Age of Kings you build a civilization by making villagers, buildings and armies. You can assign villagers to do...

Pros: excellent presentation and gameplay
Cons: multiplayer consists of small windows to set up games, and is a bit sluggish

I purchased Age of Empires 2 a few months ago and when I loaded it up, time seemed like only a memory. I spent hours playing it and admiring the ground breaking gameplay. The graphics are incredible as I said. You can even see the individual stones that...

Pros: Vey fun to play. Period.
Cons: Be careful not to get addicted to it though.

Age of Empires is the first RPG strategy game I ever bought for my computer, way back in 1999. Because of this, I now have a serious taste for RPG games, which I play whenever I can. Age of Empires is based on the world after 476 AD, when the already ...

Pros: great graphics, challenging, vastly different empires available
Cons: you can play this game for hours and not realize it

Age of Empires II: Age of Kings is a superb strategy/SIM/action game. You can choose from many different empires, each empire has a different look and feel to it. Each empire has it's own strengths and weaknesses. You can play multiplayer online, or...

Pros: Very entertaining and easy to learn
Cons: A few bugs which need to be fixed

I bought Age of Empires II with high expectations, after I had enormous enjoyment out of the original game and I wasn't disappointed.

The idea of the game is still the same, guide your civilization to power and wealth. The time frame of the...

Pros: Constantly entertaining
Cons: None

Age Of Empires II is one of the most fun strategy games that I have ever played. It takes place during a very intense period in time in the castle days. So therefore, you must act accordingly and destroy as much as possible. It follows a very...

Pros: Rebuild farms in one click, more units, more buildings, more special units and features, formations for your army.
Cons: Computer often surrenders fast in deathmatch and random map

A great sequal to a great game. New interface, units, strategy, and more. When you start off you think it is exactly like the original, but as you get going you realize that it is nothing like it. Being able to garrison units inside of buildings to...

Pros: great game and multiplayer
Cons: complicated and gliches, but they can be fixed by download

I got this game as a gift, but they bought it because it was the best strategy of the year. This game has excellent graphics, the story lines are great, the different civilization is interesting, the ability to play on the internet is good because it is...

Pros: easy to learn, difficult ot master. Very fun
Cons: nothing, a perfect game

Hey, for those of you debating over whether to buy AOEII or not I have on thing to say:GET IT NOW GET IT NOW GET IT NOW!!!!!!
*ahem* Well, this game has to be one of the best stragtegy games ever. IT is a very complex game with many different...

Pros: Fun multiplayer, you get WarElephants!
Cons: Slow campaign

I have always been a fan of Age of Empires so when AOE2 came out I jumped on the chance to buy it. This game is the cleaned up version of AOE. It has much better graphics and improved control over units. The new races are all slightly different and...

Pros: Depth, Ease of use, Graphics, Animation, Balance
Cons: Tough on anything but the 2 easy levels

Real Time Strategy games took off right after the enormous successes of Warcraft II and Command and Conquer. During that period when everybody was jumping onto the bandwagon, Microsoft put out Age of Empires. And, unlike many of the other RTS games, it...

Pros: Many more units and options
Cons: Resource hog

As an avid AOE and AOE:ROR fan for the last year and a half, I had really been looking forward to AOK. I checked out the screenshots and the animation of the trebuchet ("treebucket") on all the websites. So as soon as it came out, my husband...

Pros: Everything.. knights, castles.. what more do ya want?
Cons: Takes over your life!

Yeah. So I know this has over three hundred reviews already, and I likely won't add anything Earth shattering to any of those, but sometimes you run across something that you just have to write about. Age Of Empires II is just such a game. Appar ...