Old game, but if you are into RTS, this is the ancestor!!

User Rating: 7 | Age of Empires PC
By MagicPhil | Review Date:
The game is now more than 10 years old and you notice it of course when playing. It's certainly not the perfect game, but it does the trick in giving you the tools to play in the AOE universum.

The several missions are fun to play, the first ones very easy to learn the tricks, but it will get more challenging and certainly time-consuming. To really play it will, you should be able to master very quickly your keyboard to have enough speed in the game.
If you are not able to do that, as I am, forget the online mode, cause you are killed before you know. However in single player, difficulty level is forgiving enough to have some fun.

I also own the other AOE franchises, I have to say that AOE II is better, but I do think that this original classic game earns more attention and reward than it now receives.

This game will be one of those classic games people will talk on in years to come!!!

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