Age of Empires: The Age of Kings | 
| From: Majesco Sales Inc.
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $16.94
You Save: $3.05 (15%)
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Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 1147
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: Military and Historical Strategy Games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: 01393
Model: GBA AGB P KYGE
UPC: 096427013938
EAN: 0096427013938
ASIN: B0009R1SQY
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Command one of five different civilizations - The Britons, Franks, Mongols, Saracens, and Japanese | | • | Take control of special hero units, with historical legends like Lionheart, Robin Hood, Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan, and Saladin | | • | Over 65 different units to command, from bowmen and monks to hand cannoneers, mercenaries and samurai | | • | Construct & upgrade buildings like town centers, mines, universities and Wonders to help units learn new skills | | • | Research over 50 different technologies -- chemistry, ballistics, siege craft and spying |
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Product Description
Age Of Empires: The Age Of Kings is a portable version of one of the best-selling RTS games ever! You'll command five different civilizations, as you move from the Dark Ages throughthe Middle Ages, with one goal in mind: Domination of the known world. New combat advisor gives you advice on campaign strategies Gain empire points to unlock maps&units and improve emperor rank Multiplayer scenarios allowing up to 4 players to battle each other wirelessly
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| Customer Reviews: Read 60 more reviews...
 The Nintendo DS Game Of 2006 February 28, 2006
Reuben Gathright (United States)
101 out of 107 found this review helpful
I have logged 30 hours with this game. I do not think I will ever play Advance Wars DS again. An amazing array of units, buildings and research options all come together seamlessly. An experienced strategy gamer cannot play this game without falling in love with its meticulous attention to detail.
The missions provided with the game are very challenging. For example, the Joan of Arc tutorial provides a map where you lift the seige of Orleans by destroying 3 castles. I quickly used ranged units to destroy an English castle near the city. The english respond by sending in another eight mounted Knights! Since I only had weak ranged units they were quickly defeated. I had to restart the mission and capture nearby mills before I attacked the castles. The mills allowed me to create stronger units to fight off the surprises waiting for me later.
The ingame library provides a history of all the characters, kingdoms and units in the game.
A three phase custom game setup, provides the player with a multi-part toolset to give hours of entertainment. You get 25 victory points for every AI opponent you beat. So, if you decide to take on 3 AI opponents at once, you'll get 75 points if you win. The AI does have programming weaknesses. Keep in mind that you are playing on a battery operated computer. The processing power required for a better AI is simply not available.
The points can be redeemed to unlock more maps and special characters.
Pros:
1) Library of medieval history was fun to read.
2) Exciting soundtrack
3) Rich graphics
4) No need to use stylus!
5) Large selection of maps
6) Highly Replayable!
7) Indepth tutorial mode, no need to open manual
8) The game is an exceptional value at $30.
Cons:
1) The game did lock up once.
2) No custom map building.
 Great Gameplay, but random lockups spoil the fun April 2, 2006
S. Jacobs (Ashburn, VA)
44 out of 53 found this review helpful
I've been playing Age of Empires for a couple of weeks and have been largely impressed. The tutorial mode is good and the user interface is solid. Since people have covered the positives in glowing detail, I'll delve into the negatives a bit.
GIven the small real estate available, the interface is good. It would be nice to be able to zoom in a bit in order to get better control over your units. It would also be nice to be able to rotate the map.
My biggest gripe is the beta release quality. The game has locked up at least 10 times during play and about 3 times using the save and quit feature. Majesco's response to the latter problem is to save only, then power off. No solutions yet to the random lockup issue.
I'm pretty disappointed in the quality of this game. We can't exactly go out and patch the cart, now can we?
It appears that Majesco is going to have to do the right thing and replace the bad cards with more stable code.
Updated Lockup Problem Workaround June 7, 2006
Robert Fries (Delaware)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
From the Majesco support forums:
The save/quit issue seems to be caused by having an empire name of 2 or 3 letters in length.
To Avoid the loss of data and the Black screen issue our current suggestion is to edit your user profile.
Make sure the profile is more than 3 characters long (That's 4 or more letters or symbols)
This work around should prevent any data loss while playing age of kings.
 A very glitchy experience March 18, 2006
n8 B (Bake-O, CA USofA)
17 out of 22 found this review helpful
I bought this game after reading all of the extremely positive reviews comparing AOE to Advance Wars: Dual Strike.
After playing one match (and losing since I didn't read the instructions), I paused and pressed the quit option. My game immediately froze and made a humming sound. After turning it off, the game would NOT restart.
After taking the game back the same night and getting a replacement, I played a 2 hour long battle. But again, when I went to save my progress (and progress points!), the REPLACEMENT game froze and made a humming sound, and also refused to turn on again.
The game had some good qualities and ideas, and an amazing Library feature, all while converting a RTS to a turn based game like Advance Wars. And I know not every person will get a glitchy game or have any negative experiences with theirs. But based on my experience, I cannot give this game any higher than 1 star.
When they work out the bugs ... March 8, 2007
R. Wilcox (Batavia, NY USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
First of all, I'm about to send back to Amazon my second copy of this game.
When you first get it going in the DS, it's amazing! Graphics, turn-based system, and really fun. But after you complete a mission you normally want to save your game correct??
WRONG!! If you select "Save & Quit" from the options menu it actually shuts the game down, only to never work again! Out of two games I have massed about an hour of game play!
You try to turn it back on and it actually shuts down after the initial load screen. This was curious to me, especially after my second copy did the exact same thing that the first did. I went investigating. According to one of the professional gaming magazines, this is a very COMMON problem with the game. If you select "Save & Quit" it actually damages the game disc, not allowing you to play the game any longer. Unfortunately without the game developers including this little tidbit, you can ruin multiple copies of this game:
***WARNING*** - There is a known fatal error in this game. There can be times where the game will freeze after selecting Save & Quit. DO NOT SHUT OFF THE DS. Doing so will result in fatal corruption of the card and failure to boot. Plug it in, leave it on, and do all you can (mash buttons, leave for hours) to get it to unfreeze. Advice from the developers is to MAKE SURE YOUR PROFILE NAME IS 4 OR MORE CHARACTERS LONG. It appears short names cause this problem. Most players also avoid the Save & Quit option entirely, just to be safe: Instead simply choose "Save", then once saved, turn the DS off.
Good luck to those who buy!!! You may want to keep the above warning taped to your case!!!!!!!!!
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