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| Ensemble Studios has done a stunning job with Age of Kings. They have made substantial improvements over the original which make AOK a great one of a kind game. For starters it seems to have very few if any major bugs or things that could have been improved on. |  |
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The immersion is great, with the fish jumping out of the water, the birds chirping. The visuals and sounds are great, the music is well compiled and is also intriguing. Each unit and building is detailed down to the pixel, the tree's and textures used on the land are also wonderful. The sounds and order sounds are also unique to each race and are given in that races natural voice. |
| The actual game play though is where AOK really shines, for starters there are 13 races each with various units. Some units the same for every race. But the units and buildings all look different for each race. Even though they do the same things. The combat options are a dream. You can setup groups and when using formations you can get your units to do what you want them to do. In line formation the siege weapons go at the back and the hand to hand combatants at the front and the archers in the middle. Box lets you encapsulate venerable units in the middle. Flank lets you attack the enemy from its 2 flanks and sagged lets you spread out your men to avoid being shelled to death by artillery. |  |
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To win players can do 1 of several things, the most aggressive killing all the enemy players. The least aggressive building a wonder or collecting all the relics. With 4 resources there is alot of resource management and also difficulty when natural resources run out. But you can still trade for more resources either with other players, allies or the market. |
| The skirmishes you have will also be great as you can play upto 8 players over LAN or on the Zone. Those 8 players can be any combination of Human or AI players also. |  |
| Developer : Ensemble
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| System Requirements Minimum P166, Win 95/Win 98/Win NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5, 32 MB RAM, 200 MB of hard disk space, SVGA monitor supporting 800x600 resolution. Video card that supports 800x600, 256 color resolution and 2 MB of VRAM, 4x CD-ROM, Audio board with speakers or headphones. Recommended Minimum |
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