"An excellent expansion to what remains as one of the best real-time strategy games to date" - Gamespot

User Rating: 9 | Age of Empires II: Gold Edition PC
When I bought this game I was looking for a great, addictive, fun, and a game that I wanted to be atleast familiar to Empire Earth style which I missed and of course, I got all that.

Lets start with somthing easy, the Music and Sound. Its not somthing that's easy to remember and almost everyone know's as the StarWars Theme, but as budget wise, it did its job well. There are some corny points in the game but that doesnt bring the game now in away in any shape or form. Also when you win quikgame or whenever you finish a game, in the stats section the music is sweet and in someways kinda encourages you's to play another round.

Next, the gameplay, which plays a HUGE factor in this RTS. The resources in this game are perfect and everything that you purchase with them is fair, not overpriced, and worked out perfect. The options in this game are wonderful, you can choose how many units the player can get, how much resources you start out with, what the building rate is, and much more. Its probably the most options If seen in a game.

Ahhhhhh, the campaign, one the Bad features of the game in my opinion. Its just not your regular campaign, first of all you can choose which lv you want to do, heck, you could do the hardest lv first and easiest lv last. Theres no order for you to do it in unless you want to.

Graphics are great. And also that it was made back in 2002!, some say that they may look blocky at first (as did I) but when you play more, you'll barely notice it and appreciate the good graphics.

As of course the Map Editor you can do alot in this and is a wonderful expansion to keep players more and more loving the game.

In conclusion as gamespot said "An excellent expansion to what remains as one of the best real-time strategy games to date" I second that totally and if your looking for a cheap, fast working RTS, this rts game, is the one for you.