The Sims 3

Sims 3 goes steps further into breathing new life into your Sims. With greater opportunities come greater challenges to raise your Sims, as you want. Is it possible?
There’s more to your Sims’ lives in The Sims 3. Enjoy the challenge of short-term and long-term goals and then reap the rewards! Based on personality traits, skills, and career choice, your Sims have short and long term Wishes that provide constant fun challenges, things to do and achieve. You have the ultimate freedom to choose whether or not to fulfill their destiny, giving them lifetime happiness and rewards. Will your Sim attend the right training exercises, salute the right military personnel, and skyrocket from a lowly Latrine Cleaner to a high-flying Astronaut? Will they hit the sports stadium, impress the talent scouts, and make winning plays that catapult them from a Rabid Fan to Sports Legend? Maybe your Sim will perfect their guitar skill, headline concerts, and be worshiped by legends of fans who propel them from the life of a Roadie to Rock Star status. Your Sims’ destinies are up to you!
In The Sims 3, your Sims’ lives no longer revolve around the home. Open the door and discover a new town alive with possibilities. Every Sim has a unique personality including your Sims’ neighbors, co-workers, and friends. Your Sims can meet new neighbors on a brisk morning jog; visit their best friend’s home for a dinner party, take the family for a day of sun in the park, or even take that hot new Sim they’ve met for a romantic sunset picnic on the beach. Cultivate life-long friendships and stormy rivalries. As you explore your Sim’s surroundings, who knows what might happen! Your Sims might run into an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, a long lost pal, or a fierce rival. The town is open for your Sims to explore! The neighborhood itself has a personality, created in part by the unique personalities of the Sims.
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Shattered Suns

Cushioned between two giant nebulae there lies a fertile region of space known as the ‘Cradle of Life,’ from which all known life emerged on seven distinct worlds. Each world developed in isolation until one species on each planet developed the intelligence and technology to explore beyond its terrestrial boundaries. After thousands of years of space travel, all seven intelligent species developed a long history of trade, immigration and cultural exchange. But all this changed with the development of space gateway technology, which allowed ships to travel vast distances instantaneously. As the second Imperial War comes to a close, the known universe is carved up between two great empires. The last free sector falls to the overwhelming might of empire and a rebellion is born. Fleeing from the conquering occupation forces, one brave captain finds the means to hide and survive until the time is right to fight again. You are that captain, Captain Max, and with the help of the underground resistance, the black market and countless brave citizens longing for the return of their freedoms, you begin to build a new fleet of freedom fighters. Your hopes are that his minor rebellion will grow into a massive uprising, but that hope is far from certain. Unknown to you is that new undiscovered technologies may lay hidden that will play a part for good or ill in the uprising and that eventually, betrayal may have just as significant a part to play.

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1 Star SHATTERED INDEED…
This summer PC Gaming was one disappointment after another. Unfortunately SHATTERED SUNS is no exception.

The graphics of this game are so dated and simplistic that I had to go back to the original Empire Earth to find something to compare them with! Homeworld 2 and even Homeworld: Cataclysm (a decade old game mind you!) had much better surfaces, shadows and afterburners. Not to mention gameplay…

SHATTERED SUNS interface feels clumsy and counterintuitive. One needs to micromanage everything as the AI (if existent) has flatlined. The camera will leave you seasick. And the advertised “ship customization” is nowhere near the Galactic Civilizations 2 standards: you can simply add defense or attack points to your predesigned ships, that’s it! Lucky us they did not decide to name them “hit points” and “THACO” and hype it as a space cRPG…

On a final note, the relative speeds of planets and ships is a joke - but this game has much bigger problems than…relativistic inconsistencies. No amount of patching can fix this one.

My advice: go with Sins of a Solar Empire instead, or, even better, replay the Homeworld series.

1 Star Very disappointed
I am very disappointed. I thought it would be more fun then it is. It can be very difficult at times to control where you are wanting to go.

1 Star A Giant Step Backwards
I was given this game as a gift, so at least I didn’t personally get ripped off. But this is awful. The game controls are clunky and non-intuitive, and the graphics are utterly primitive. Late-80s DOS space games had graphics almost as good. The options for strategic design are weak and not well-detailed, despite the product description. It’s hard to believe that such a low-quality software product is being sold in today’s market. Stay away.

1 Star OMG
I played Homeworld a long time ago. After that there was Homeworld: Cataclysm and Homeworld 2. All three of them were great games and provided tons of three dimensional fleet battles. Other games came after that as well. They were clones and IMO were not as great, but each of them tried to improve upon the concept of three dimensional space conflict. One game that I remember specifically was O.R.B. (Offworld Resource Base) It was a little bit of a step up but I remember that it got a lot of flack because it did not do enough to surpass it’s Homeworld counterpart at that time. It was still kinda fun but it was a ‘too little too late kind of thing’.

Shattered Suns… is a game that does not improve upon any concept in use today. In fact, it goes so far as to backdate graphics, camera control, playability and compatibility about TEN YEARS. Thats right. This game sucks so incredibly bad that the first ten minutes I was honestly wondering what the back story for the games development was. Who would honestly sit down and say to themselves ‘Okay, the game does not have ANY of the advantages or playability features that EVERY SINGLE 3D space RTS game IN HISTORY has had. Lets just ship it for twenty dollars less and a little note that says we’ll fix your game later when we have the time.”

I tried so hard to find the good points of this game. I really did. There was a hope that the ‘Ship Customization’ portion of this game would go one step further then all of it’s predecessors by allowing players to make their own ships. If that was true, it would be the only part of this game which equaled or surpassed every similar game in the past ten years.

Unfortunately the ship customization feature consisted of (Shields + or -) and (Armor + or -) You see… you customize the ship by spending resources on this ship. Customizing is as easy as clicking on the plus icon or the minus icon. But even that is a pain as they make you click on armor first and then on the plus button. Additionally, if the unit does not have the correct research to accomplish this, it doesn’t even tell you. It just highlights in red and sits there. Nothing about this game is intuitive. Docking a ship with a moon requires that you select the ship, click the follow button, click on the moon and then unclick the follow button so that the ship actually docks with the moon when it gets close enough instead of just following the moon around.

That is a direct quote from the tutorial!!!!

Seriously guys. In the words of PCGamer, Avoid Like The Plague.

4 Stars Give it a chance…
I guess I’m going to be going against the grain here, but I really liked this game. I think that it’s getting fairly negative reviews because a lot of people are just turned off by the graphics, and I suspect that others just don’t get the controls. It takes a bit of getting used to, but after some learning how to deal with objects that are constantly moving I find that the game has a lot to offer.

I really like the huge range of customization that the ships in the game afford the player. Rather than the standard one or two different versions of a unit that most other games in the genre have, this game really lets you customize a ship to a great degree. There are literally hundreds of different combinations you can make to a ship, and that customization is accurately represented on the ship model in the game. It’s pretty impressive how many different units you can have flying around, all with a specialized ability or task that they are equipped to handle.

the use of moving planets is a cool part of the game, and it really makes this different from most RTSes that give you a standard playing field to wander about in. Depending on if you’re a run-and-gun type of player, or a careful “turtle” who holes up to build your forces before attacking, you face a vastly different battlefield due to other planets rotating into close range. Since I’m a turtle, it kind of keeps me on my toes because I never know if I’m safe or not.

Most people out there aren’t going to go crazy over the graphics, but I’m not one of those people that really cares too much about these things. I think a lot of people like to claim that “it’s not about the graphics”, but I think that if this game had a bunch of whiz-bang effects they would have rated it higher (I’m not just talking about here on Amazon, but on the gaming sites as well). The graphics were fine to me, but my computer isn’t a tricked-out rig so I don’t really go for the graphics-heavy titles anyway.

All-in-all I really like the risks that this game took, and I think that it offered a good path away from the same-old stuff like other games in the genre. It seems that a lot of people aren’t willing to give it a chance, but if you’re into an RTS with a deep customization scheme and a lot of different offensive tactics, you should give it a try.

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Call of Duty World at War

Go to war in the final tension-filled, unforgiving battles against a new ferocious enemy in the most dangerous and suspenseful action ever seen in WWII. Call of Duty: World at War completely changes the rules of engagement by redefining WWII gaming. It brings an uncensored edge to combat, as soldiers face the most harrowing and climatic European and Pacific battles. From the remains of Russia and the ruins of Berlin, to the beach and jungles of the deadly Pacific Theater, the volatile action takes on added depth as you employ new features that previously were only available in multiplayer, including perks, rankings and online stats in up-to full four-player cooperative gameplay.

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Bought 2 copies and feel doubly stupid
This is my first product review ever.

I actually bought 2 copies of this game so we could play co-op over the LAN.

I was such a COD fan. COD1, COD1:UO, COD2, COD4. They were all great.

COD5 stinks. I can’t believe that I can’t get my money back. We have two computers that easily meet the minimum specs, but the game is essentially unplayable with incredible long, long load times and choppy performance if you’re patient enough to wait for the game and level to load. We both run COD4 at the highest settings with super smooth game play.

I combed every forum and tried every possible fix. Forget Activision’s own site. It’s worthless.

I think I’ll put the DVD’s in the shredder. That’ll surely be the most fun I’ve had with this game.

4 Stars A good WWII sim, with Co-op
I know the software developer got raked over the coals for Call Of Duty 3, but this was a good game. By splitting the 15 missions between the Eastern Front and the Pacific Islands, you get to alternate flavors.

I’ve never been a big fan of the Call of Duty “limitless enemies until you move to the next checkpoint”, which is one of the few things keeping this from a 5 star rating. If you attack a small bunker, Japanese soldiers should not be able to continuously pour out of it like its a circus clown car. But the overall game is tense, action-packed and has a wide variety of missions.

The zombie level is a bit disappointing after playing Left 4 Dead, but still an interesting spin. If the loading screen didn’t announce what it was, it would have been a fun one to surprise my friends with who had just got the game when we did a LAN session.

The flamethrower is great for the trench fights. You SHOULD be able to pick one up from a German flamthrower that you headsniped, but I guess they are saying it is too much for your Russian peasant brain to handle. A pity that. Plus, it seems strange that the Russian you play is considered to be quite the hero, yet he never gets past the rank of Private.

The single player was enjoyable, but coop brings it to an all new level. Most of the time I am stuck with single player due to time constraints (playing on a laptop at lunch) but online and LAN games are the best. I am very glad they made a coop mode, instead of just the team versus team or deathmatch modes. Now, how about a sequel letting you play as Germans or British in North Africa?

5 Stars COD has done a good job again
All I can say is I am still playing it and it is cool with the zombies, flame thrower, bazooka and bayonet action. Graphic are good especially when you use the flame thrower. Thank God they made a PC version I have them all now and hope the next one they dont wait to put it out in PC as well as Xbox playstation versions. The game is worth playing.

2 Stars No Controller Support
I picked up this game for PC because I really enjoyed it on XBOX 360, but don’t feel like spending the money for the console. The box for this game states that it has game controller support, specifically support for the XBOX 360 controller when used via USB in a PC. This is not the case, and the PC version actually offers no game controller support, despite the fact Activision says it does on the game box. Just a heads up. I was pretty disappointed, and got a pretty lame excuse back from Activision when I inquired about it.

4 Stars Great Game
COD5 is a great game with great graphics, especially with DX10. If you can find the game for under 40 bucks– get it, u’ll love it.

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Rock Throne Drum Stool

360-Degrees Swivel Seat / Sturdy Chrome Plated Base and Rubberized Feet

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Fantastic!
Bought this throne for my “Rock Band Drummer”son for Christmas. Great product, saved my stools, fast response time for delivery, good price, great value.

4 Stars Keeps you up.
While this isn’t the most sturdy, it serves its purpose. Easy to adjust and comfortable to sit on.

5 Stars Excellent!
The Drum Stool makes me feel like a real drummer. It sits a bit low so it took awhile to get used to. I love it!

4 Stars Good for Rock Band play
This is much better than the piano stool we used before for our son to play drums in RB and RB2. It is much more comfortable and it can swivel (or not) as the user chooses. I am unsure if it will hold up to hard use. I guess we’ll see.

2 Stars Not tall enough…..
Stool doesn’t go anywhere near high enough for reliable use for an above-average height (5′10″) guy to use with the drum set. Returned it within a few days.

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Warhammer Dawn of War II

Experience intense hand-to-hand & devastating ranged combat / Command an elite strike force / Co-Op Multiplayer / ESRB Rating M Mature Customize your Space Marines with persistent leveling and unlockable special abilities Utilizing Relic’s proprietary Essence Engine 2.0 to deliver cinematic visuals, detailed graphics and special effects

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition turns you into a citizen, a criminal, an architect, a mayor, even a god — bringing you deeper into SimLife than ever! As you create railways, ferries, plan out streets, you also get to use that transportation in a series of great new driving missions

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5 Stars Greatest Game Ever
This has to be the greatest game I’ve ever played. I’ve had it for almost five years, and I still play it. Unlike most games, it doesn’t get boring after you’ve played it a lot. I love it, and I’d definitely recommend it.

Also, ignore negative comments about lack of autosave and crashing. If your computer is up-to-date and powerful enough, you will have no problem. If not, turn down the graphics settings and just save a lot. I used this game on an incredibly terrible computer for years without ever hating it.

4 Stars Great Game, but somewhat limited…
I ordered this game over a year ago and was really looking forward to it. I really don’t play games like this that often, but thought this one looked interesting. There was one problem right off the bat… the game didn’t have the registration number. I tried calling EA to get one and I never got past their crazy automated phone service. I honestly don’t think it’s possible to talk to a person there. I had to mail EA the back of my booklet and it took them almost 2 months to get me a new registration number. When I finally got it and installed it on my computer I was really happy. I enjoyed playing it and had to start watching myself, because I would zone out and end up playing for hours on end… essentially forgetting about other things. I did start to notice that, while highly entertaining, the game is very limited in some ways. Building styles for example are pretty repetitive and there you don’t have much control over them. Also, there are few ways to control what type of industry gets set up in your city. For example, limiting heavy industry zones to purely green technologies. These are just a couple of the limitations. I do enjoy the game still, but I would like to see some more control over the building styles and zoning details.

5 Stars Lousy Amazon Service!
i have always loved this game thats why i ordered it on Amazon. First they sent me the software with no registration number, i complained and i received excellent service from the CS representative and said he would send me another one in 2days. the replacement came in and guess what, it was the same freakin thing! still no registration number! i returned it and got my money back sans shipping and delivery..

5 Stars simcity 4 deluxe edition
i like playing simcity 4 deluxe edition.i play this game alot on my pc.the any down fall to this game is that you can not save any thing on it.

2 Stars A bit Disappointing
This new version is obviously breathtaking graphics wise, but disapointing when I wanted to run Famous cities like London.

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Left 4 Dead

Set in a modern day survival-horror universe, the co-operative gameplay of Left 4 Dead (L4D) casts four “Survivors” in an epic struggle against hordes of swarming zombies and terrifying “Boss Infected” mutants. Developed by Turtle Rock Studios and Valve, creators of the Counter-Strike and Half-Life games, the latest AI technology allows for multiplayer games of one to eight players.

A new and highly virulent strain of the rabies virus emerges and spreads through the human population with frightening speed. The pandemic’s victims become grotesquely disfigured widely violent psychopaths, attacking the uninfected on sight. As one of the “lucky” few apparently immune to the sickness, you, unfortunately, are also trapped in a city crawling with thousands of the bloodthirsty Infected. Alone, you’re dead. But together with a handful of fellow survivors, you might just fight your way to safety.

Players can play as a Survivor or as one of four types of Boss Infected, each of whom possess a unique mutant ability, such as a 50-foot tongue lasso or a giant belly full of explosive methane gas. The gameplay of L4D is set across four massive campaigns. The zombie population of each mission is choreographed by an AI Director that monitors the human players’ actions and creates a unique and dramatic experience for them on the fly.

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1 Star FAIL
LAGGY, many MANY glitches and exploits, yet another game milking the tired Source Engine, dedicated servers fail, the lobby fails. Campaign mode gets boring and lacks challenge, granted you’re with competent players. Versus mode is a bust, you’re either on a terrible team which rotates due to ‘ragequitting’ so there’s no chance for even a good player to get anywhere when there’s no cohesion, or you’re on a good team in which there is no CHALLENGE from the other team for just that reason above. The game is a mess and they need to update update update.

Spend your money elsewhere. Perhaps on a game which was put together with a little more effort, thought and love. This game lacks originality and probably cost less to produce than the price you would otherwise be paying for a copy. Better yet, if you own a game that runs on the Source Engine just download one of the NUMEROUS zombie mods that are equally playable and entertaining.

4 Stars Great Game - Fast Paced - Steam still Terrible
Left 4 Dead

Great game if you like to mow down a zombie hoard with your choice of weapon (machine gun, shotgun, rifle and double handguns). The story line is broken down into sections. The action is almost non stop - if you pause to catch a breath the zombie hoard will find you and your teammates. The AI in single player mode is excellent. I found the 3 computer players to be pretty effective - however they almost always follow you through the choke points so you will bear the brunt of the surprizes (generally a good thing but I did jump a lot from these surprizes). The story line is okay - you are working to get to safety from the zombies - however, like certain movies the plot line really only gets in way of the action.

Frankly I appreciated the relative durability of the players from attacks - there are sections where an extreme number of zombies attack and on some it took me six or more tries to get through alive - that was great. Also there is a fair amount of replayability in the team mode - especially if you get on with one or more friends and create your own ways of defeating a playing a level - we often played wasteland which had the goal of killing everything before moving on (the computer does keep generating new zombies and new hoards if you stay in any place too long).

My only complaint is the Steam authentication system. I play my games on a laptop, often not connected to the internet. Too often Steam gives me some error message that locks out all steam games. This is unacceptable. I spent $50 to buy a game and Steam prevents me from using the game! I wish game developers would bag steam and go to the disk-based authentication - I have never been locked out of one of those games. To make it worse, Steam has the FAQ help section that is completely useless - all the solutions are “problems with my machine.” Steam Sucks!

Left 4 Dead - Great Game!

5 Stars Left 4 Dead Review
Great game, not disappointed. To play online, make sure you have at least 1.5Mbps down speed/256Kbps up speed. It’s what I have and it does get quite laggy at times.

5 Stars Amazing game
I can’t stop playing this game. I had gotten out of playing a lot of video games, but decided to try this one, noe I’m hooked. The only problems I’ve had were having to put in the code for the window size that the game launches in so my monitor would display it and Steam’s servers like to kick you and sometimes kill the mic mid-game. This only happens in multiplayer campaign for some reason.

5 Stars Fast paced team based excitement and fun
I followed this game since announced and after a year of waiting finally had my opportunity to play. I was not disappointed. There are 3 types of play available from single player campaign, multiplayer campaign, multiplayer team vs team.

The game plays as a horror movie with scares of hordes of zombies attacking and a quiet period before the next strike. In the single and multiplayer campaign modes you follow a scripted series of maps and contend with zombies and boss monsters. Boss monsters are zombies with specific special attacks adding more excitement to your run from point A to point B in each map.

The Team vs Team mode allows players to take on the role of a boss monster to attempt to stop the “survivors” from making it to point B. Team speak is enabled for those with a microphone making coordinated attacks and defending against monsters easier to perform.

The game requires Steam which is an online game purchasing client. Steam receives high ratings for keeping all your Steam enabled games up to date with the latest patches automatically. Although the game does not require internet access to play it is required for the Steam client and multiplayer game modes.

I rate this game 5 of 5. An enjoyable game that suspends the user in a movie until the climatic end fight and escape.

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World of Warcraft 60 Day Pre Paid Time Card

The World Of Warcraft 60 Day Time Card lets gamers enter the world of Azeroth for 60 days of real-time combat in an incredible fantasy setting.

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5 Stars Good, easy gift for anyone who plays WoW
At Christmas, I got this same thing for five people who play Warcraft, and they all loved it. For four of them, I wrapped up the box it came in and gave it to them. The fifth lives out of town, so I simply emailed her the number off the back of the card, which is all she needed. It’s about the only good gift that can be emailed.

4 Stars Gift for Christmas
I was not aware that my son would need to purchase anything extra to use this card but it does not work with the downloaded version of the game so we had to spend an extra $80 in order to use the card! Obviously not a problem that had to do with Amazon at all but just thought I’d let other parents know before they purchase the card.

4 Stars Loved it
Purchased this for my 15 year old for christmas…he loves WOW and loved this gift

5 Stars Good service, but there are better options
I ordered a card from here once. I got it about 3 days later, which is okay, but I found out that you can go and order from places like [...] and have your code right then and there. So yeah buying from here is great an all, but there are better choices.

3 Stars Good, but wasteful
My wife and I use these to keep our playing habit under control. We have to make a conscious decision every 60 days to keep going, and we get to keep our credit card information to ourselves.

As others have mentioned, however, this is extraordinarily wasteful. They are overpackaged and the entire package and everything in it hits the landfill the second the code is entered.

Ideally Amazon could just show us the code on their site; they’re doing a lot of other digital delivery these days.

Hence three stars: five, minus two for the sickening inefficiency.

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The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Game of the Year Edition

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition (GotY) for Windows is a compilation of this classic RPG game. Oblivion GotY will include the original version of the award-winning RPG Oblivion along with the official expansion, The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, and the downloadable content, Knights of the Nine. This new product allows players who have never played the 2006 Game of the Year to experience Oblivion for the first time with additional content. In addition, gamers can continue their existing games of Oblivion and experience the new quests and areas offered by the expansion and downloadable content.
Oblivion features a powerful combination of free-form gameplay, unprecedented graphics, cutting edge AI, character voices by acting legends Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean, Terrance Stamp, and Lynda Carter, and an award-winning soundtrack. Gamers can choose to unravel Oblivion’s epic narrative at their own pace or explore the vast world in search of their own unique challenges.
With more than 30 hours of new gameplay, Shivering Isles allows you to explore an entirely new plane of Oblivion - the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. Shivering Isles features a bizarre landscape split between the two sides - Mania and Dementia -filled with vast, twisting dungeons mirroring the roots of the trees they are buried within. Sheogorath himself looks to you to be his champion and defend his realm and its inhabitants from destruction as you discover all new items, ingredients, spells, and much more. The Shivering Isles features a bizarre landscape split between the two sides - Mania and Dementia -filled with vast, twisting dungeons mirroring the roots of the trees they are buried within. You’ll encounter more than a dozen new creatures including hideous insects, Flesh Atronachs, skeletal Shambles, amphibious Grummites. Throughout your adventure, you will discover all new items.
Knight

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5 Stars What can I say?
This game is incredible! The depth of gameplay, the graphics, the voice acting, the music, it’s all top notch and adds up to a very fun and satisfying experience. Although I have come across a few minor bugs and crashes playing this game on my Vista 64-bit machine, overall it is pretty solid.

5 Stars great PC game
This game is awesome. Unfortunately, on my machine it has to run on relatively low graphics, but it still looks good and is tons of fun. Strangely, the only time I’ve seen it crash is after I’ve chosen to quit.

5 Stars Stopped Working after 1 month
This is a great game but unfortunately within a month the pc keeps telling me “please insert Cd”. It isnt working anymore though other CDs work in my pc. This one does not work in other people’s CD drive either- what a waste of my money!

5 Stars Oblivion pc
Awesome Game. And you can download Mods for it at planet elderscrolls that add tons of hours to the game as if it wasn’t big enough or something.

5 Stars Great buy
I purchased this game a couple of days before I had to be back to college. I received it the day before i left, and was very pleased. The game play has been great, easily being one of the best games I have played in a long time. If you enjoy these kind of games, I would recommend this one. I have put well over 70 hours into it, and am still around half way done with the main quest line, with many other side quests to accomplish, along with 2 expansion packs in which I have not even started yet. This game is worth every penny you put into it.

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Age of Empires Collectors Edition Jewel Case

Age Of Empires Collectors Edition brings you the critically-acclaimed stretgy game. Control 10,000 years of human history and rewrite it to suit you. Players are the guiding spirit in the evolution of small stone age tribes. Starting with minimal resources, players are challenged to build their tribes into great civilizations. Choose a nation and guide it to world domination!

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5 Stars Great game; great price!
I have played these games ever since they came out and I truly enjoy The Conquerors, however, I play them all at different times. I like to create landscapes, and I prefer these landscapes to any of the followings Empire games. This package is a terrific purchase. In a move I lost Age of Empires II, so I was glad to see this offer.

4 Stars Great game, print your own manual
Here’s a helpful note on the packaging: This set doesn’t include the manual or technology tree fold-out. That’s probaably why it costs less than the AoE 2 Gold Edition. If you like to have the tech tree (building and unit upgrades reference sheet) next to you when you play, you’ll need to print your own. Just search online for “Age of Empires II manual” without the quotes and you’ll find the PDF to download from Microsoft or you can look for a one-sheet PDF tech tree by someone named Nethog. Or you can fork out double the amount for the Gold edition, which has less software but printed manuals included.

Other reviewers have said everything that needs to be said about the game itself. It’s a pleasantly addictive sequel to Age of Empires.

5 Stars Game Review
the game is excellent, a lot fun, one of the best games ever,

i would have liked a better more protective case for the cds, the case is very thin

i would have liked to receive the manuals for the games, they used to come with the cds before, like the one age of empires 3 now

4 Stars Awesome
The game is exactly as I expected. I was scared at first to buy it because I have Vista on my computer but it turned out it was compatable. Nothing funky to do with it, just put it in and there you go.

5 Stars A Classic Strategy
A great game and a true classic. The only flaw to the experience was that the jewel case was damaged in shipping.

Worth your time if you missed this one.

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