Age of Empires: The Age of Kings

THE GOOD:
Challenging game play in campaign mode, different odjectives for most maps in campaign mode, ability to play multi-player using one game and one D.S. system.

THE BAD:
No naval units, no "create a map" mode, units from certain civilizations look very similar to other civilizations, touch screen can get too crowded with units.

SUMMARY:
Graphics: It is not a bad effort here. The 3D fields are nice along with the units and building. Terrain details are fairly simply though as are the backgrounds for the battle animations. There are a few times when the battle animations will be a little slow. Frank and Briton units look the same, and Mongol and Sarcen units look the same. Finally, the touch screen becomes too crowded at times with units making it hard to see what exactly is happening. (2.8/5.0)

Game Play: Controls are easy to use and learn whether one uses the control pad and buttons or uses the touch pad with stylus. There...