Age of Empires 2 Official Expansion: The Conquerors
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Video Game Reviews of Age of Empires 2 Official Expansion: The Conquerors
Customer Review: Makes a Good Game Even Better
Summary: 4 Stars
Let's get this out of the way first: Age of Empires 2 was an excellent game that didn't need much in the way of an expansion pak. However, the Conquerors adds new features and races and cleans up the interface. It also polishes up the few blemishes on the original game (like the constant need to reseed farms manually). Overall, this was not a dramatic overhaul to AOE2, but then again it didn't need to be. Given the price this is a smart purchase if you own AOE2, just don't expect a whole new game.Customer Review: I'm back to playing until 3 AM again....
Summary: 5 Stars
I've logged hundreds of hours playing every campaign and every conceivable custom scenario of Age of Empires, the Rise of Rome, and Age of Kings. Yet, I almost didn't buy this final expansion. That would have been a mistake. This add-on is definately worth the money for the dedicated AOE gamer.First of all, you get three new six campaign scenarios (Attilla the Hun, El Cid, and Montezuma.) The sixth campaign of Attilla (the invasion of the Italian penninsula, is the one of the toughest to beat I've ever seen.) The real fun, however, are the separate great battles that you can fight as single stand alone sessions: Tours (732), Hastings (1066), Manzikert (1071), Lepanto (1571), etc.
The other great thing about this expansion are the great new units that you get. The Spanish finally have mounted musketeers and priests- it is amusing to use them in custom scenarios against the formerly "invincible" units like the Teutonic Knights and the Turks. Plus you get to fight New World campaigns against the Aztecs and Mayans. You can also finally shelter your men inside the seige rams- which makes much more sense than having them wail away on a stone wall in the open....
I know that it is advertised that the villagers are "smarter" than in the past. While they do repair breaches in the walls faster, they unfortunately seem to still chop through defensesive screens if you don't keep an eye on them.
I've already stayed up to three in the morning, twice, playing this game, so I'd say that it will probably hold your interest for awhile.
Customer Review: Best CPU Game Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been playing AoE for as long as i can remember and I still lover it. Everyone should own it. AoE is a must buy!Customer Review: jlb77 is not smart, this game is a great expansion
Summary: 5 Stars
First, I must critique.
Here's a review I read:
"Reviewer: "jlb77" - See all my reviews
I have played Ages of Empire II: The Age of Kings, over and over again. I was getting kind of bored with it so I thought the expansion would be great. What's so new??? Not much that I could see. I'm the non-conquerer type who likes to get the relics or the wonder so I found nothing new. Definately nothing worth paying for the expansion. Maybe if you are a battle kind of player it might be different."
Here's my review:
The guy who wrote that review is an idiot. Who goes and buys a strategy medieval warfare game if they don't like to battle? What kind of "non-conquerer type who likes to get the relics or the wonder" gets any kind of war game? It's like a man giving a bra a bad rating because he's not a woman. Besides, new features include:
-New civilizations (like Central American civilizations and Europeans from the age of exploration)
-New units with new spacial abilities (such as the "kamikazi" Sabotuer man)
-New maps
-Incredibly useful new features such as pre-reseeding your farms
-Being able to tell a villager to build a resource camp and having him automatically begin to gather that resource when he has finished building (as opposed to just standing around idle like an idiot from the other game)
-Being able to change the population limit to 200 in created scenarioes (a very useful feature).
This game runs the same as Age of Kings, but it has all those great new features (by this time, Age of Empires 3 is out, so the features aren't all so new, but they improve so much on the original game).
Customer Review: Not too much to add, but still worth it!
Summary: 4 Stars
This expansion is just that. The features it adds (new cultures and techs) will seem random to the new or infrequent player. However, if you let yourself learn AOEII, then Conquerors is worth all the money.Graphics: 4/5 No upgrade here
Gameplay: 5/5 The Techs and Cultures it adds keep the game going
Controls: 4/5 No upgrade here
Tech Tree: 5/5 Niche add-ons help
Story: 4/5 A simple Microsoft campaign, but it's the thought that counts.
Overall: 4/5 Not too much to add, but every gain helps.