On the multiplayer end of things, three new game types pander to both the strategist and economist. The first, King of the Hill, starts with a monument in the middle of the map, which must be held for a certain time period. You know the drill. The second type, Defend the Wonder, is a frantic attempt to take and keep possession of a single existing wonder. The high-powered catch is that everyone starts in the Imperial Age, with all technologies researched and huge resources.
And the last, Wonder Race, awards victory to the player that constructs their first Wonder. Feel like a change of scenery? Why not trash your friends in the Sea of Japan?
Or France, or Iberia? Oh, and did we mention that every culture in the game now has its own unique technology? Some of these can put an attractive spin on former civilizations you might not usually play.
The Byzantines, for example, can research Logistica, which gives their Cataphracts triple damage. The Persian technology Mahouts, unsurprisingly, increases the speed of War Elephants. And new global technologies such as the Thumb Ring improves archer accuracy and Heresy causes your units to die when converted, instead of joining the enemy side will also give you and your opponents a leg up to mayhem.
It manages to improve on the original, adds a helpful and interesting stack of new features, looks quite gorgeous and offers as much scripted gameplay as The Age of Kings. Unfortunately, the actors providing the voice-overs have once again all been hired from the Dick Van Dyke School of Crap Accents. New campaign games are all well and good, but let's face it, they don't add that much longevity.
Fortunately, Conquerors adds some spice to the standard single and multiplayer games by sprinkling in a mix of new races, units and technologies.
One of Age Of Kings's strengths is that the civilisations are distinguished not just by different colour schemes and graphics, but also by the technologies and unit types available to them. This is also the case with the five additional civilisations Aztecs, Huns, Koreans, Mayans, and Spanish that are included in Conquerors.
Huns for example, on account of their being nomadic and preferring to sleep on their horses or with them, depending on their personal preferences , do not have the ability to build houses. Instead they begin each game with a pre-set limit to their total population. The net result of these differences is that playing each civilisation is a unique experience, and you really do have to use your brain to take advantage of their strengths or overcome their weaknesses.
Of the new civilisations, only the South American races are blessed with new graphics. What's really going to breathe new life into your multiplayer games though, are the new game types. King Of The Hill places a monument at the centre of the map and has the players ranged round the outside. To win, all you have to do is capture the monument and hold it for years. Well, not quite. The monument is always difficult to get to in the first place.
It might, for example, be on an island in a large expanse of water. So first you have to figure the best way to get to it. Then defending it isn't quite as straightforward as it might at first I appear either. That's largely because you are not permitted to build in the immediate vicinity of the monument, so you can't simply capture it and wall it off.
The other two new games seem to have been designed for those who love resource management and those who don't. Wonder Race does away with combat altogether, and has everybody living in peace and harmony. Well, almost. There's still something of a competitive spirit among neighbouring civilisations as they race to be the first to build a wonder and win the game. It's all about how quickly you can gather those resources and how well you spend them.
If you're an aficionado of big battles and the Wonder Race game sounds as if it will bore you to tears, then Defend The Wonder was made for you.
In this game variation every civilisation begins in the Imperial Age, and all with a ton of resources to encourage rapid build up of forces. One player though, begins in a walled-off area with a wonder at the centre, and has to protect it for years. Meanwhile, the other players are doing their level best to get together some heavy siege machinery with which to break in and spoil the party. Wonder race is another game mode, which involves building a wonder before your opponent completes his — wonders can be destroyed before they are completed, thus making the game hard for both sides.
New maps in the game include more real-life maps, based on actual locations found on earth. Additionally, tropical and winter areas jungle and snow respectively was a key missing map terrain in Age of Kings. This was introduced in this new expansion. Despite the graphics being identical to the first AOE2, new gameplay additionals include all-new, much-needed civilizations including the Aztecs, Huns, Spanish, Koreans and Mayans.
We might have the game available for more than one platform. First of all, you want to enable DirectPlay on your computer. Secondly, right click on the icon for the game launcher and click on properties. Press ESC to close.
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