Age of Empires: The Age of Kings

"I See A Line In The Sand"

Yeah its another Age Of Empires game. But for starters its not on the PC. and second the game is slow. Really slow. Slower than a fat man running a mile.

Graphics:4/10
How ever these are graphics I don't know. Looking at your troops and the bottom screen (which can support better graphics) is put to shame. The Troops look like a big piece of poo on your screen making it difficult trying to tell what you just got. Luckily you can tell if they are mounted or have a sword or bow and arrow. For the next game at least make it nicer graphics wise. And the top screen graphics look a lot better.

Difficulty: Hard/10
The Reason it get an Hard out of ten and instead of a score is because thats what this game is. The training mode is ok. It gets you through the basics like building and attacking. But once you reach the Japanese part of the game which clearly states EASY on the difficult for this campaign you are turned to the game which anythings thats not with will keeping attacking you until its dead. I was on the second part of the Japanese missions. Fifty days passed before I said oh **** that.

Game play:6/10
The game play is ok. I mean its understandable why they didn't go real time but when you play with such a limited amount of space to move you'll be playing Age of Empires three because its faster. You Can research one thing a day. And the pain that it is to gain gold is not funny. You will have enough food to end world hunger before you reach a thousand gold if your lucky to even get to a thousand gold.

Over all if you like the difficultly cranked up to 12 then go right on a head of us. But if your like me and hate having to wait so long pass and get something else. Because you will be pulling your hair out if you can't stand the pressure. So its up to you if you really like the series then try it. But don't buy it unless your sure you like it.

Reviewer's Score: 7/10, Originally Posted: 03/06/06