Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings for Windows

Pros: Empire Earth dramatically improves the genre
Cons: EE Won't be released until November

As an avid AOK player Empire Earth really changes the pace. Although the premise of Empire Earth is little different than AOK the units, ages and strategy is entirely different.

The beta lets you play from the renaissance through to World War...

Pros: Great gameplay, solid controls, thoughtful sounds, cheap!, makes you think and pick apart your opponents
Cons: single player mode is way too hard, or way too easy.

If there's one thing I'm thankful of, it's that I graduated from college before this game came out! I doubt that would have even graduated if I was playing 4+ hours of AOK a day, on top of the 5 hours of Street Fighter. =P Anyhow, back then I had...

Pros: Historical, easy to learn and play, several campaigns to choose from
Cons: Graphics won't take your breath away

Be all of the great leader from the past
We have all heard of Joan of Arch and Khan, now with this game you can play them, to try to rewrite history. Well that may be taking it a little far, but the game does do a good job in following the...

Pros: More scenarios, larger scale, refined graphics and sound
Cons: In single player mode, the computer has the ability to resign from a scenario

I would like to start out by saying that Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is the best Real Time Strategy Game on the market today. It was a great follow-up to the game which revolutionized the Real Time Strategy Game Genre (Age Of Empires).
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Pros: Great Gameplay, Good Graphics, Entertaining Sounds
Cons: Can Be a Little Confusing at First

I just recently bought Age of Empires II: Age Of Kings because I liked Age of Empires I so much, I and heard a lot of good things about the sequel, so I downloaded a demo. After spending hours playing the game, I went out and bought the...

Pros: Good unit movement, tough AI, lots of variety, and can play on an older PC
Cons: computer allies not too effective

With intelligent unit AI, challenging game play, and lots of variety, Age Of Empires II - The Age Of Kings is a great Real-Time Strategy game.

One of the first things that attracted me to AOE2 was how it handles unit movement. If you group...

Pros: gameplay, missions ,
Cons: processing power much more than the previous version

Age of empires II (in my opinion) is a truly great game. The range of options is astounding. Usually on a strategy game you can play one or two campaigns but this has five! Each one has six long and challenging levels or there about. There is a choice of...

Pros: new civilizations, new units, new features
Cons: play so much I forget to do my homework

Age of Empires II is a phenomenal game that even surpasses the achievements of its predecessor. Age of Empires II combines the best of what the original Age of Empires had and adds some wonderful new features, namely the idle villager button that lets...

Pros: FUN
Cons: can be hard

Age of Empires 2

In my opinion, the greatest strategy game of all time. For those of you who havent had the pleasure of learning about AOE2. Here's a little beginners layout.

It's the Dark Age, Whether you choose to delve in the...

Pros: Bigger and Better than the original
Cons: Gets boring at times

At first, I wasn't much into real-time strategy games, I was more of an action guy, until a friend of mine kept talking about games such as Command and Conquer so many times until I went "might as well". I got Age of Empires just because of...

Pros: Complex and challenging, excellent graphics and sound, excellent multiplayer support
Cons: Some bugs, steep hardware requirements, may be overly complex for some

I should say right off that I really never played the original Age of Empires. I was more of a Starcraft player, one of my favorite games of all time. AOE2 may end up sharing that title, however.

The story line of the game is that Rome has...

Pros: Entertaining, great multiplayer
Cons: Digital crack

In college I slept through 90% of my 8:30 a.m. history classes. History was boring and had nothing to do with computers or medicine.

Seven years later, I find myself keenly interested in ancient and medieval civilization - people, cultures...

Pros: Alexander Panzhin
Cons: alexp@takas.lt

By Alexander Panzhin

This was the best game ever did I play. The game depends not only to a quantity of army , but on the level of Evolution. The gameplay itself is very simular to Age of Empires I but the evolving opportunaties are realy high...

Pros: Great Game, great graphics, great strategy!
Cons: Requires a lot of memory to play how it was intended :-(

Wow, this is a GAME!

I have for years been fond of computer role playing games, and games like Civilization and Sim City, and When Age of Empires came out I was sure impressed. When I recently purchased a new PC...

Pros: great historical facts incorporated into this game
Cons: none

In my humble opinion Age of Empires II has passed the original Age of Empires by a huge margin. Age of Empires II(AOEII) picks up where Age of Empires (AOE) left off. Beginning with the dark age and ending with the imperial age combines actual...