In Age of Empires II : Age of Kings (AOK as it is commonly called) you take control of one of thirteen civilizations, including the Chinese, Goths, Britons, and Vikings, among others. You start with a handful of villagers and, through expansion and careful handling of your economy, you can advance up to the point where powerful war machines and well trained masses of troops will be at yours to make and control.

There are three distinct ways to play, one of which the object is to hunt and kill the other player(s) king, however there are a lot of options for each, anywhere from what type of map to start on (including coastal, gold rush, arabia, and rivers) to what the maximum amount of units are allowed.

You can also play online at the Zone vs up to seven other players, or via a TCP/IP connection.

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Alternate Titles

"帝国时代II：帝王时代" -- Chinese title (simplified)
"世紀帝國 II：帝王世紀" -- Chinese title (traditional)
"AOK" -- Informal title
"AoE2" -- Common abbreviation

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User Reviews

SHEER GENIUS! This is my favorite game ever!	Maw (828)
The best RTS since StarCraft.	Anatole (52)
Definitely the best RTS to date. Nothing can match it.	ShadowShrike (313)
Real Time Strategy at it's best	Aki Zeta-5 (160)
One of the best RTS games of all time	Roberto Teichmann (372)
The best RTS ever made!	Charles Auger (3)
Fun....in the beginning	Boris Stovich (29)
The best medieval themed RTS of all time	Thiago Oliveira (90)
Something of a bore	paul cairey (340)

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The Press Says

Gamezilla	Oct 26, 1999	95 out of 100	95
Power Unlimited	Oct, 1999	9.1 out of 10	91
GameLand	Oct, 1999	9 out of 10	90
PC Zone	Aug 13, 2001	9 out of 10	90
Christ Centered Game Reviews	Jun 01, 2005		90
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Nov, 1999	89 out of 100	89
JeuxVideoPC.com	Oct 07, 2001	17 out of 20	85
CyberJoy	Jan 18, 2000	4.2 out of 5	84
WomenGamers.com	Nov 02, 1999	8.25 out of 10	82
ESC Magazine	Oct 15, 1999	8 out of 10	80

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Trivia

Dry dock technology decreases the amount of gold a trade cog brings back home. The reduction can be at least 33% in some cases.

It seems to be balanced with the ship speed increase so that the productivity of trade cogs remains about the same as before dry dock research. In some cases I had slightly better gold income (gold/second) before the research of dry docks than after. I did not make a thorough testing with many different distances, but what I did was test it in a deathmatch game too, to be sure it does happen in real games.

Source - From a post by SimMayor realsimmayor@geocities.com on the AoE2.com forum
http://www.coolboard.com/frame.cfm/mb=902460962910918

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