Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion

by Microsoft Game Studios

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• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000066BUW
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,396 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm back to playing until 3 AM again....,, March 1, 2004

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OAKSHAMAN "oakshaman" (Algoma, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion (CD-ROM)

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 defensive 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.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent single-player and a multi-player game, July 29, 2004

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AJ (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion (CD-ROM)

Age of Empires-Conquerors trial, did all things that were missing with the earlier AOE-2. With more than 10,000 hours of playing, the most important upgrade from the earlier AOE was villagers behaved more intelligently. They reassigned themselves when their farms were empty. There was the introduction of a much needed farm queue that helped when one was in the end-game phase when more importance is to wars, and one can easily forget about economy then. The newer civilization were fun to play with. Specially the awesome Spanish armada and the Powerful Aztec monks. The Spanish priests who rode donkeys were original and contributed much to the gmaeplay and the story. Added bonuses to the game were the Quests of El-cid, Motezuma etc. which are very good, and which will engross you for sometimes days... And to top that off there is the notion of unique units like the teutonic knights that have the highest hit points in the whole game(17+4=21) to the regenerating berserkers!!!

AOE-CT is a must buy for all AOE players and even strategy players. Playing it on a LAN increases the fun!!!The only "Slight" disadvatages of the game i think is the Unit balance. Sometimes a huge army of Paladins can run through a whole city, cos there are almost unstoppable, unless the defender possess such an army. But sadly not all civilization have the ability to have a horse army ;-(. Cheers, but it is easy to set a civilization to use all the possible technologies.

With all the better unit advancement and better gameplay it has from its predecessor, its worth the upgrade.
AOE-CT gets a 5 star because of the excellent gameplay, in both single player and multi-player version, it features and its value for money!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, August 2, 2005

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion (CD-ROM)

this game is the most awsome game ever. it is sort of realistic the civilizations are real civilizations. it isnt that easy either i hate games that are too easy it has diffulculty levels. with the level diffulculty you can make it too easy too hard and just right. you can play in real places that are on earth. the places are never the same (except the real world places in the game) for example if you did rivers as a place and did it again the rivers would be different the trees would be moved etc.