age of empires II

by **s.s. one person** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 9:01 pm

if you guys wanna try the trial version of AoE click here

by **Camel toe joe** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 7:35 am

ummm that game has been out for a very long time... and besides i suggest you try here instead. It is basicly the same as aoe ii but with a couple of new civ and some nice new faetures.If any of you guys want to play the full version let me know I'd love to kick your guys asses...actually i'm out of practice i better not say that

by **Mr. Yuck** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 9:14 am

yep...both have been out for a long time... Age of Mythology is the newest version of the franchise...with Age of Titans to follow...

among my favorite games

by **s.s. one person** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 3:57 pm

really? i got an email from msn saying that the trial version of AoE II just came out ..... well thanks

by **Camel toe joe** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 4:50 pm

try the conquers it better then AoE II a couple on nice improvements. AoM is a bit diffrent game but very similar, checking that site i saw they have an expansion for AoM alread...news to me

by **{CN}Doomfarer** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 11:05 pm

Any of you guys try Empire Earth? It's been out for quite a while as well... Just looking for some comments... I need a new offline game to play that won't bore me to tears and won't cost me $50 to buy.

by **s.s. one person** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 11:37 pm

do any of you guys play command and conquer red alert, tiberian sun or the regular one? starcraft is a good one also. nox is a ok. whats empire earth? i think ive heard of it before

by **Mr. Yuck** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:21 am

Originally posted by {CN}Doomfarer
Any of you guys try Empire Earth? It's been out for quite a while as well... Just looking for some comments... I need a new offline game to play that won't bore me to tears and won't cost me $50 to buy.

actually Doomy, I've been waiting for some sort of review as well...

by **Camel toe joe** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:52 am

I didn't really like empire earth, I prefer AoE II the conquers and I have played red alert and it'a pretty good game

by **Keekanoo** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:38 pm

I've played AoE original up to deluxe gold. Great game. Well researched. Seemless in a lot of ways. Unfortunately, the A.I. even on it's toughest setting bottle-necks troops to hot spots. I HATE that in games. All you have to do is ambush its troop-colums and it's toast.

Empire Earth is a fabulous game that's poorly put together. Good graphics all around. I loved the transitions from preolithic to post-modern warfare. The A.I. in Empire Earth on it's toughest settings is a serious psycho-path with Genius intelligence. I've never beaten it 1-1 without serious tweeks to my advantage. It probe-attacks. Withdraws. Does pincer attacks with more than two prongs. Not unusual to see the A.I. do a air strike, land forces on the beach AND storm the front gates. Very nasty. The post-modern gimmicks were far-fetched and cumbersome, I found. The game has one of the best variable manipulations I've seen in any game. It's spawn-creations of maps is excellant as too are the sizes of the maps--the Huge is REALLY REALLY huge. Great if you love long wars. Expect to sit down for ten hours if you want to remember where everything is. Command and Conquers Generals pales in comparison.

by **Keekanoo** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:50 pm

I should have added--get the deluxe version of Empire Earth if you can. They call it something else. I've currently got it loaned out so can't remember what they refer to it as. Anyway, they only came out with the original and then the 'deluxe' or whatever add-on.

Shame the game didn't catch on. I've played a lot of building-bases kinds of games (Total annihlation, Star craft, all the Command and Conquers, Dark realm, that orcs and human game that I can't remember the damned name of, etc). Empire Earth felt like a game that they ran out of money half-way through making it. But what they did manage to put together is, in my opinion, the best game of that genre ever produced.

If you like tough fights, I'd recomend the Close Combat series by MicroSoft. Very well researched with realistic and tough battles emulating scenarios out of ww2. You don't build bases but rather select items that were available during those scenarios. It's an over-head style game like the building-bases kind.

One of my all-time favourites, though the graphics suck and you have to read the 200 page manual or forget it, is X-com Apocolypse. This game will draw you in better than a cheery fire, a bottle of bourdou and a decent Cuban cigar.

by **frankk6969** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:12 pm

Originally posted by Keekanoo
that orcs and human game that I can't remember the damned name of

Warcraft is the name of that game. :freak:

by **Keekanoo** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 3:27 pm

I just noticed in a gaming store today that Microsoft has come out with a game which looks exactly like Empire Earth and AoE. It's called Rise of Nations. Appears to stop in the modern era, or slightly earlier, say around the 70's.

Has anyone purchased this?

by **(SEETHER)** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 5:51 pm

I agree,

If you like AOE then you will love Empire Earth.
Rise of Nations is also very cool.

:flame:

(SEETHER)

by **Keekanoo** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 6:29 pm

Seether, give a run-down on what Rise of Nations is like. Is it much different? Worth shelling out the bucks for?

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