A great game, repairing the flaws of AOE I and still keeping the best of the original.
Als very nice is the fact that you are playing now in the Middle Ages, with more variation in weapons, in characters and so on, giving you a lot more tools to play with. You even are able to have some basic fireweapons, a nice thing to play with.
You get a very balanced game, only exception in my eyers is the cavalry, which is quite strong, a lot of knights can help you in winning a lot of battles!!
But certainly a classic game to hold very long in your collection. You can play it over and over again in single player or multiplayer (allthough for multiplayer I am afraid you really need to master the shortcuts and be very fast to have a chance to survive)
And, as an extra and to convince your wife/husband/mother/father, you will learn something from it and be only better in your next history test.