![]() In effect, any faults AOEII may have are niggling at best and don't critically affect the intense and absorbing qualities of this real-time strategy success.įor those who like historically based strategy games, look no further than Age of Empires II. The designers have "fixed" the majority of major complaints levied at the original Age of Empires and, in one fell swoop, have improved the product immensely while incorporating significant features in nearly all aspects of gameplay. While not perfect, AOEII contains no sharp-stick-in-the-eye game busters or fatal flaws that suddenly leap at you after hours of play. ![]() This brings me back to the subject of this review, Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, a game that incorporates the best features of the real-time strategy genre and manages to avoid the numerous pitfalls that often lessen a gamers experience. In light of this discouraging and dismaying trend, the release of a RTS game free of any major problems is a significant event. Unfortunately, with this increased capability comes the logical downside, a necessary evil of modern-day gaming - the obligatory patch or patches that soon follow on the heels of the original game release, usually fed by fan feedback through on-line forums, e-mails, news groups and so forth. Who can blame the designers for trying to take advantage of every new possibility as they forge games with more and more capabilities and scramble to pack their products with the latest enhancements and technology of game design? This might be expected, though not excused, due to the complexity inherent in most new titles as the limits of computer gaming technology expand in ever widening increments. Far more the exception than the rule, this happy event occurs much too seldom in practice considering the tremendous number of computer games released each month (circa 1999). Every so often a game comes along that manifests itself as a reviewer's delight. Takeout Weight Curling (2002 Global Star Software) Abandonware blurb. Microsoft Pinball Arcade (1998 Microsoft) Abandonware blurb. ![]() Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 (2001 Microsoft) Abandonware blurb. ![]() SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition (2003 Maxis) blurb.txt sc4_sn.txt SC4DELUXE1.ISO SC4DELUXE2.ISO patch638.zip nocd.zip Sims_sn.txt THE_SIMS.ISO Livin' Large = ep1_sn. SimTower - The Vertical Empire (ver 1.0) Abandonware blurb. Railroad Tycoon II - Platinum Edition (2001 PopTop Software) Abandonware blurb. Midtown Madness (ver 1.0) Abandonware blurb. ISOĬities In Motion Collection (ver 1.0.22) Abandonware blurb. ISOĪrmagetron Advanced (ver 0.2.8.3.3) Freeware blurb. The Definitive RCT Reference Guide = This is an extensive sub-categoryĪge of Empires II - Gold Edition (1999 Microsoft) Abandonware blurb.However, there are a few games that really are a better in their Windows variants, and those are the games we have chosen to offer here. These include games specifically designed for Windows 2000, as well as 32-bit and older 16-bit Windows games that will run under Win2k (some DOS games are also playable under a Windows 2000 command-line with some tweaking, but they are not listed here because they are not intended to be run inside a Windows OS).Īll these offered Windows games will probably also work properly under Windows XP (Sorry 64-bit Windows owners: Microsoft has dropped support for 16-bit Windows software).Īnnoyingly, many Windows games are simply higher-system-requirement followons to previously released DOS games, and most of the new title franchises lack much in the way of game play uniqueness (if different graphics are all you are really seeking, it would be a smarter choice to play the games designed for modern video game consoles). Games found here are compatible with Windows 2000.
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