Oh c'mon Gamespot-you under-rated this majorly.

User Rating: 9 | Age of Empires PC
By racho | Review Date:
Well I could be biased, since this was one of the first pc games I played(I was roughly 8 back then). Nevertheless, I would still love to play this game again! It was addictive and easy to play.

Although there were different city building and RTS games such as civilisation and Ceasar 3, I feel that AoE is one of the most memorable games I've ever played.
Different races, skrimishes, campaigns, death match? I miss them all. These offered heavy replay value, and experimental factors for a gamer, thus the 100 hours+ of gameplay.
And then the humour kicked in with the cheat codes:Big Daddy, photon man, Big Bertha, peppperoni pizza? ok im starting to sound like a creepy AOE geek- but if a game aint fun, I wouldn't even remember these things.

The first version is truly a long lasting classic, and for a game that is made back in 1997, to me it was impressive. The healing priests' voice is funny btw.

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