A poor Warcraft 2 clone which resembles more of a mod than an actual game.

User Rating: 2.5 | Age of Empires PC
By schlitze_is_god | Review Date:
Take your basic RTS game, throw in more resources to mine, make all the units look pretty much the same within all the available factions, and make every sound effect painful to the ear (imagine if Ke$ha/Gaga/whatever-poop-is-being-foisted-upon-the-airways had responsibility for recording the sounds for the game).

Yeah, there are population limits, which limits the size of forces, but overall this game plays like every other: mine X resources, build a town (and expand, via technology, going to a new "age"), build army, charge at enemy (which is hard as the path finding in this game is terrible if I remember correctly), finish mission. Do this numerous times= you got an RTS. There is no real strategy, just ATTACK! No finesse (like using spells in Warcraft, or movement in Myth) necessary.

It is nice that the game tries to teach the player historical events, but it's all wrapped up in an awful game that no one should every have to play, but that earns a point in my book (a strange phrase... I have no book :/). Also the priests have a comical animation when healing, so .5 is justified.

But regardless of the fine points of the game, the fact is: it still sucks.

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