Hours of enjoyment.
User Rating: 8.5 | Age of Empires: The Age of Kings DS
Age of Empires: The Age of Kings is a great turn based strategy game for the DS. This game will have you gathering resources, building a kingdom, and raising an army to take down your opponents. In the main campaign it uses true historical events which i found to be rather dull and uninteresting as a games main story. Ididn't enjoy the story's because it was such a simple and rundown version of these great historical figures lives. Besides the main campaigns story it also throws some variety into its missions. Some missions are your basic build a town and army to wipe out your enemy, some missions are escorting, and others are about getting from point a to point b without getting your army wiped out and with inability to produce more troops it can get very challenging. The combat system feels like a game of rock, paper, scissors where one soldier is stronger over another type of soldier. I found myself saving my game often because the game would sometimes experience lag during the combat animations or the screen would freeze forcing me to restart my DS. Sometimes pressing the "B" button would fix this. I have also had a few occasions as to when it would tell me that it was unable to save my progress, once again i would find myself forced into turning my DS off and on. With that aside its still one of the best turn based games for the DS and it has a lot of replay ability.
