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Gandler Squire. Is there any site or online download market that sells digital download versions of AOE2?
Sebastien Dark Samurai. To my knowledge there are no places where one can legally purchase the game digitally. You'll notice, too, that each mission has its own graphics, unique buildings and many scripted elements, as well as a historic background for you to lose yourself in.
You will often march into a pitched battle between two massive armies, and although you won't be able to join in, you'll certainly want to watch.
It has to be said that some missions are very craftily written. I was stuck for a couple of hours on one where two British tribes were attacking my city and I had to destroy one of their castles.
Waging a war on two fronts, as you know, is pretty tricky. How, then, to keep one enemy at bay while taking on the other? I figured it out in the end. Age II is not always about brute force -you need at least half a brain as well. Thankfully, one half of mine is still active, if a little slow. Whether you play a full campaign, where your objectives are obvious and the means to achieve them are limited, or a deattimatch or random game where the scope is much broader, what is essentially so right about Age II is the balance of each of the units.
Laying siege to an enemy settlement isn't just about planting a line ot trebuchets or bombardiers and pounding a wall into the ground. Enemy archers, garrisoned in guard towers will make short work of them.
Then there's the knights streaming around the corner to worry about. There are so many subtle strategies that come into play that every assault runs the risk of facing a successful counter.
You can't be sure of anything. Just to illustrate this, there are 19 different infantry units, some of which are unique to the various races, but each is a specialist to some degree. Add to that the option to upgrade armour, strength and weaponry, and the fact that each race has its own innate strengths, and you can see that to get good at any one strategy with one particular race could take a great deal of time. What has always lifted the Empires gams above the norm has been the research elements.
Churning out village idiots armed with sharp sticks is of no use if you come face to face with a bunch of finely-tailored infantrymen packing 'hand cannons'. Unless you can counter them with sheer weight of numbers, you'll need to get researching. To get your hand on Hand Cannoneers assuming you've picked a race that can build them , you'll need to research chemistry, which means you'll have to have built a university in the Castle Age.
Not all research is military in nature, of course. One of the first buildings you'll assemble will be a mill to store food, allowing you to build a market once you advance to the Feudal Age, allowing you the benefit of trade. There are many more technologies available than in the first game: various types of armour, specific skills that boost particular units or extend their capabilities, and all the while you are building various units in the full knowledge that everything has a price, be it in gold, food, stone or wood.
In short, every element in the game -collecting, building, fighting, researching - is integrated almost seamlessly into one big gaming ball of loveliness. For sure, it's not perfect, but you have to realise that the game is aimed at all levels. If you've played the first game for any length of time, you can avoid the two lower difficulty settings for a start. In fact, due to one fat, annoying bug, the computer player will give up minutes into a deathmatch game set on 'easiest'. At its most difficult, the game is insanely forbidding - one for those who can pull off countless keyboard shortcuts at the same time.
In multiplayer games, of course, there are no such problems. And as with the singleplayer games, there are countless strategies open to each player. Walls and buildings are now harder to destroy, seige weapons are susceptible to any kind of attack, and infantry units are easily decimated by archers. Rushing certainly isn't impossible, but it is difficult to pull off - which is how it should be.
With the graphics, I was a little disappointed with some of the animations, specifically the larger units ships and siege weapons and their abrupt changes in direction as they traverse the map. Perhaps my only real criticism is that the Age II is essentially an update ot a two-year-old game. Many of the units are just ported over from the first game; the Monks, for example, who have the ability to convert enemy units to your side, are just a medieval version of the old Healers.
And the long-drawn-out castle sieges that characterised the period are too fast-paced for my personal taste. Whether you choose to invest in Age Of Empires 2will depend on a number of factors. If you never liked the first game, prefer more action-orientated strategy, or -like Steve Hill - can't abide games where 'it feels like you're in a history lesson', you certainly won't find much to light your fire.
If you wanted to be a real wanker, you could say this is merely Age Of Empires v1. And I think many people would agree with that. On the other hand, if you absolutely adored the first game and you aren't expecting anything radical from the sequel, you'll instantly find The Age Of Kings to your liking.
As you play the game, you'll be constantly discovering little enhancements, all of which add up to a finely tuned and perfectly balanced game. Overall, though, Age II pretty much covers everything you could want in a real-time strategy game. It's attractive, epic in scope and so endlessly varied that you'll still be dabbling in it two years from now. As the genre starts to embrace 30, Age Of Empires II is sure to be looked back upon as the last in a dying breed.
Without doubt, it is the best and to miss it would be a crime for which you should be hung, drawn and quartered. Although the dialogue for each of the campaigns is cheesy whoever did the Scottish accent for the William Wallace campaign should be shot , the sound is generally very good.
Many sounds remain indistinguishable to the first game, but now, instead of one voice for all the races, each civilisation has its own. The villagers, of course, as you would expect, have all the best lines and consequently are just as intentionally humorous as in the first game.
Not laugh-out-loud funny by any means, but certainly more interesting than the repetitive 'Yes Sirs' of other real-time strategy games. When building units, you can set gathering points for each building, to which each new unit will rally when produced or 'ungarrisoned'.
Even better, place the gathering point for your Town Centre on a forage bush and each new villager will automatically start gathering berries for you to stockpile in the nearest mill.
No longer will you have to spend ages searching for slothful villagers, either. Click on the 'Idle Villager' Icon and the screen will centre on any non-military unit that hasn't yet been put to work. Perhaps one of the best new features, for newcomers at least, is the option to pause the action at any time and take stock of the game. A quick stab at the F3 key and you can scroll around the play area, queue up orders and have a piss before resuming the action.
Neat, eh? As well as setting your armies to be either aggressive where they go berserk at the first sign of the enemy , defensive where they'll come back after chasing the foe for a short distance , or to stand their ground, you can also 'garrison' your archers and swordsmen in castles and barracks, so that from relative safety, they can rain arrows upon the advancing ranks.
At the ring of a bell, villagers can now be summoned to the town centre, whereas previously they were vulnerable to attack. One of the game's niftiest combat features allows you to form your grouped units into various formations, with cavalry at the fore, pikemen behind and seige engines trundling at the rear. All grouped units move at the speed of the slowest, with the hand-to-hand units breaking rank at the first sight of the enemy.
Reach the Imperial Age and each civilisation can finally build its very own castle, stick a few archers In there and be indomitable, at least until the siege rams come into view.
Each castle allows you to create powerful rock-hurling trebuchets, as well as the one unique unit available to each race: the British have Longbowmen, the Japanese Samurai, and so on.
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