A good complex game, but it lacks the value to play it over and over.
User Rating: 8.1 | Age of Empires: The Age of Kings DS
If you are a fan of the Age of Empires series, you will notice this game is much different from the pc counter part. First off the turn based game play just doesn't feel the same as real time and the game feels much less fun without it. In later games, many teams and large armies end up as long boring times between your turns and your opponents. Another frustrated aspect is often times when playing in the middle of the game in single player or multiplayer, errors occur resulting either quiting or having to start all over if you forgot to save which can be annoying in long battles.
The graphics: Age of Empires Ds keeps a simple 2d grid style map, but armies are cluttered and look quite clunky when many are bunched up together.
Sound: The sound is mostly recycled noises from AOE2 and it is pretty noticeable that is okay but could sound better.
This game will be fun for a couple of weeks perhaps with 5 campaigns with 5-6 per campaign and random map. multicard and hotseat modes are nice to play if you don't get too many disconnection errors.
