You played Age of Empires 2 and you found it boring? Great, then you can skip this one.
User Rating: 6.4 | Age of Mythology PC
Age of Mythology is one of these games I completely missed on it's release. On the look for a new RTS (needed a alternative to the modern setting of Generals) I spotted this game here and after reading all this positive reviews I thought this must be the game I'm looking for. Unfortunately it's not and now I tell you why. Back in those days when Age of Empires was brand new it was on of the best RTS games around. I played it very often at LANs and it had a refreshing but also comfortable feel to it. A few years later Age of Empires II was released and I realized that the game wasn't fun anymore. Everything just got very very boring and the gameplay had an huge ammount of unnecessary upgrades, unnecessary because it just altered some attributes with no graphically nor a sound feedback. This is ok, most games have them but here it felt overdone just to many stuff which makes the game unnecessary long and as I said before, boring. So you might think "what the hell, this is Age of Mythology not Age of Empires II". Well, thats the point, Age of Mythology basicly is Age of Empires II. The same look and feel, the same huge amount of boring upgrades, the same boring fights, the same system in unit mixing. Ok, you have some heros, creatures/units and godpowers you can play with but they not necessarily adding more gameplay depth. And for the heros they respond with the same boring phrases that are also used by your normal soldiers, yawn. So they are miles away from the cool presentation like it was in Warcraft III for example. And while I talk about presentation I may give a littlebit feedback about the singleplayer campaign. For the 5 hours I played it I must say that the ingame cutscenes and dialouge are also nothing special. Actualy I wanted to skip them and I'm usually the person who likes cutscenes. They're just not interesting here. For the multiplayer part I can't really say what it's like I haven't played that by now and I'm tending to skip it entirelly. So what's left: If you're the type of player who likes a slow gameplay, a huge ammount of unit upgrading and you can stand a very economical and repetitive unit sound then go ahead. Personaly I had 4 coup of coffee in my 5 hour session with that game and still felt sleepy. And as soon as I'm finished this review here the game will go back to the Age of Mythology or in other words, simply get's uninstalled. 
