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User Rating: 8.3 | Age of Empires: The Age of Kings DS
Gameplay: With the release of Age of Empires 3 in 2005 and set in the colonial era but, this game takes the conquest back to the medieval ages. The game features five different playable factions: The Franks, the Japanese, the Mongols, the Saracens, and the Britons. But with the lack of fractions will make up with the ability to recruit unique mercenary units from other nations. You can recruit Persian war elephants, Viking berserkers, or rifle-wielding Turkish janissaries. In the single player campain mode it mixed the storys ofJoan of Arc, Minamoto, Genghis Khan, Saladin, and Richard the Lionheart accually quite well together. The stories mostly unfold between missions, but they're well written and engaging. The campaigns can last you more than 20 hours, and at that point, you've still got skirmish matches and multiplayer battles to explore. The battle sequences are alot like the clashes between armies in Advance Wars, but in time, you'll want to skip them because it's almost always the same. Graphics: Graphics are ok. They are in 2-D and are quite colorful. Also everything is set up like the PC game of Risk where you have to move groups of your units around on the board and fight the enemy and such.
Sound: The musical soundtrack is really done well but they become repetative after a while. Also the voice acting is also done quite well I might add.
Value: All in all this is suprisingly entertaining and has a good replavalue condidering how the game plays. The only thing that I don't like is the repetative battle sequences and music. I give this game 8.3 out of 10.
