The only review, this should give you heads up.
Lets chop some more bad stuff away by ignoring the first Age of Empires and just installing 2 and playing its expansion pack but its a great game and well worth 20 bucks. Now I can't mark it to high because I haven't played the multiplayer. The best bit is you don't need the disc to play it and number 2 doesn't have the same atrocities of AoE 1.
So AoE 1 with its expansion pack Rise of Rome and AoE 2 with the Conquerors expansion pack, 4 additional tracks to play on your media player and a nice orange box with a reasonable price tag. The one final atrocity Ensemble did was by leaving you with no manual whatsoever, only some Ubisoft advertising.