Best PC Games Ever

This is one of the classic real time strategy games and cannot be omitted from the best PC games list. I’m gonna come right out and say that this is one of my personal all time favorites as well. Who knows how many countless hours I’ve spent razing buildings and creating massive armies to obliterate my enemies.

In Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings, you have the choice between 13 civilizations from which you can build a great empire and dominate anyone who stands in your way. Each civilization has different unique attributes. Some civs have access to certain warriors and others have access to another set of warriors. Everything is very balanced in the game and no one civ has a definite advantage over the others. Each one can be used effectively to wipe out any of the others. This is the beauty of such a complex game. It would be so easy to have a lopsided civilization, but instead the equilibrium is kept. Each civ also has their own unique unit that only that civ can get. This makes you want to play each of the 13 civs just to see what they have to offer.

You can choose to play from the very beginning in what is called the Dark Ages. You go through 4 different ages as you progress, getting better and better fighting units. You build a wide range of buildings from farms and town centers to castles and fortified walls. You are able to build ranged units that fire projectiles and also hand to hand combat units. You can even build ships such as fishing boats and giant war ships. The game is incredibly varied and that is part of why so many millions of people enjoy playing it.

One of the best parts is the multiplayer aspect of the game. There are giant online communities devoted entirely to Age of Empires and clans compete against each other to see who is the quickest to advance through the ages and destroy the competition. You can easily get addicted to the game and spend hours on end fighting it out with your friends in an LAN game at home, or over the internet with strangers.

Because of the variability of the game, the complex easy to learn but hard to master, really fun multiplayer, and just overall greatness of the game, I have absolutely no qualms in pronouncing this as one of the best PC games ever. It definitely makes the list and I’m proud of it.

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