Age of Mythology (Gold Edition) (PC, 2004)

From Ensemble Studios™, the creators of Age of Empires and Age of Kings, comes Age Of Mythology. It is a game that transports players to a time when heroes did battle with monsters of legend and the Gods intervened in the affairs of mortal men.

Taking on the role of one of nine ancient civilizations, players guide their people to greatness by commanding all aspects of their empire : gathering resources, raising massive armies, waging war against enemies, establishing profitable trade routes, building new settlements, enhancing production or military might with improvements, exploring new frontiers, and advancing through four distinct ages.

Age Of Mythology : The Titans adds the Atlanteans to the existing Greek, Egyptian, and Norse mythologies that are present in Age of Mythology. A new single-player campaign will add yet another chapter to the expansive panoply of ancient folklore along with the addition of new scenarios. Atlantean players will be able to call upon the might of the Titan Gods (such as Atlas and Cronus) multiple times throughout the game. They may also upgrade human units to heroes. The expansion pack will introduce new items to the game : 12 God powers, 15 human units, and 12 formidable myth units.

The above-written portion is from a previously done review. To date, I still endorse the playing of this game. It's challenging, interesting, and rendered very well.

I love this game. Initially, I began playing the demo when it was first made available to the public. Then, I purchased the full-version. Several years later, I'm still playing Age Of Mythology (plus Titans).

This purchase was a replacement disc-set. I'd played the old set literally to death.

If you like warfare-type games along with mythology and the creatures that are related to the various ancient cultures, you will like this game.

I must admit a couple of things, though.

(These items apply to the player-made games only.)

The mapmaker potion is a bit challenging because several of the AIs do not like to function properly and give out fault dialogue boxes at the start of a player-made game. Yet, the end result of a properly-functioning AI is great.

The triggers are also an obstacle at times. If you don't supply the correct ones, your game will not end as it's supposed to. This results in your being forced to either go into shutdown status or forfeit which is a loss both ways.

Regardless, the game is well worth it.

Any other issues can be addressed to the Microsoft Corporation. A patch is usually made available for remedying glitches such as game hang or their technicians will assist you by providing a solution.

This product works well with Windows Vista even though there is no listing (yet) for this platform on the packaging. The Compatibility Wizard cures that problem at installation time.

It's a very fast installation for a 2-disc game. Rapid loading on startup. Easy gameplay.

Buy this game. You'll love it.

The graphics are a lot better than the older AOE's, but the story line the characters are centered around are a little corny. I didn't like the units that much. Since you are stuck in the ancient time era, you can't really upgrade to something very different and powerful, like AOE3, where you can upgrade to a lot of gunpowder units.

There is some good history about it. It shows the different units and strategies that were used during that time. It is a cool game if you are into greek, roman, egyptian, etc. mythology, but it wasn't for me. I never got into mythology that much,so I don't play it. If you really want to get a great RTS game, go the extra step further and buy Age of Empires III, which has more detailed graphics and better gameplay.

There is however, something really cool about AOM gameplay. Each civilization has different main gods you can choose from which change gameplay. Each of those gods has different lesser gods. A choice must be made when advancing throughout the ages as to which lesser god you want to worship. Each god offers different abilities, which brings more diversity, even between people playing the same civilization. I bought AOM because I thought it looked pretty cool, but when I did play it, it just didn't catch my eye.

Age of Mythology is a war-strategy game with a Sim-City flavor. It grabs your addictive gland like watching the flames of a fire will - as any worthy video game should. When you first see the game being played you'll find your head involved in the multi-layered levels of action even before you know it. Your forces REQUIRE your attention as their very survival depends on it! You'll rapidly gain deep knowledge of the game which is good because this is a deep game. Every campaign is so infinitely variable that individual style, decisions, technique make for a game that it can't be played the same way twice. And damn if the next time you play it won't be better with the new knowledge gained from this playing!
The only thing that bothered me at first was that there was a limit to how far out you can zoom while playing; but then maybe that is how it should be - even if you are playing a God.
Good graphics. Many different types of characters, soldiers, and mythological beasts. Many different mythologies and God powers.
Go! Fight! WIN! (Or, die.)

Ok so its an older game so lower graphics are a given, but once your past that the 3d map rotation is definately a plus, combine that with 4 very unique races and 4 very different ways to play the game and add in the sub gods for each race creates a very broad range of playtypes. As far as the feel of the game, the mytholigy setting is really a different feel from most rts games and that in itself makes this game worth playing, so I guess if your a fan of real time stratagy games this is definately worth the play.

I bought this game because I owned it when it first came out, and I wanted to start playing it again. It used to be one of my favorite games, and it still is. If you like this style of game, you will love this game. It's very cheap, and one of my favorite games I've ever played. The only bad thing about this game is eventually you will run out of different ways to play it, and you will probably get bored unless you come up with new creative ways to play it. Plus this is the gold edition which adds 3 new usable primary gods and a whole new race you can use. Plus it adds another campaign which extends your playing time. Anyways, overall it's an amazing game, and its worth the price of you enjoy this style of strategy game.