A game that doesn't quite make it to the top.
User Rating: 6.8 | Age of Empires PC
Right, so here's Age of Empires. Here's what I think. Gameplay 7/10: It's fair at best. It can be very exciting, yet it can also be very boring. For instance, a large battle is thrilling, yet watching your workers mindlessly move back and forth, collecting resources, is mind-numbingly painful. Graphics 8/10: The graphics are OK, actually. The interface could be better, but it’s fine as it is. They are one of the finer points of the game, with the clean textures, and good unit mapping. Sound 5/10: Yech. The sound is pretty bad here-as it gets repetitive. The same sword clang heard for the 1,000,000th time is really, really damn annoying. The music is ok, though. Value 6/10: I’d bet you could get this at a very good price somewhere. Even so, I wouldn’t recommend picking it up. There are plenty more good RTS games out there-ones that you should pick up instead. Tilt 7/10: Meh. Once you’ve beaten it, there’s really nothing to go back to, unfortunately. It’s an OK game, just not a great one. So, in my final words: Let this one pass. Its sequel is so much better-get it instead of this piece of failed ambition.
