Posted Jan 05, 2006 at 12:00AM by Mike S. Listed in: Previews
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Jeux France has gotten ahold of a lot of screenshots of Age of Empires for the Nintendo DS. Age of Empires: The Age of Kings boasts turn-based strategy gameplay as players move from the Dark Ages through the Middle Ages with one goal in mind: domination of the known world.

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Command one of five different civilizations: the Britons, Franks, Mongols, Saracens, or Japanese in this Nintendo DS game.

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Lead over 45 different types of units into battle -- from bowmen and monks to hand cannoneers, mercenaries and samurai, and control special 'hero' units such as Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood, Joan of Arc and Genghis Khan, whose special 'hero' powers affect the entire battlefield.

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The DS version allows players to construct and upgrade buildings to help their units learn new skills and create resources for their civilizations, as well as research over 50 technologies to advance their civilization.

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Multi-player scenarios allow up to four players to wirelessly battle each other.

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   by kura (Unregistered) - 1999-11-30

Man these guys made some major changes to AoE, looks more like Advance Wars with info and battle animation on top screen.

These changes for better or worse, time will tell. It had better be the former though, AoE is one of my favourite series and I dont want it screwed up!


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   by nightshade15 (Unregistered) - 1999-11-30

definitely, and I wonder if they'll go for more than just LAN games and go all the way. That would be incredible.


   by (QJ. NET Staff) - 1999-11-30

...looks like a dumbed down civilisation...


   by (QJ. NET Staff) - 1999-11-30

Hmm, This looks like Advanced Wars For sure, only Medievil times.
It doesnt look worth the time (Almost)
if i had a DS i would try it out.
I like both PSP and DS, both have their advantiges and AoE would NOT be a great game for the DS... I can see That Worms Game being alittle more Ideal for the DS, but this seems less then original then anything...
I'll rent the game then borrow my friend's DS to see whats up, cos i got the money to buy the DS and i'd love to play MKDS on WiFi.




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