OK it's not as smooth as AOE 2 or AOE conquerors, it's lacking in military formation and sometimes units wander off and do their own thing. But isn't that better than then standing there and being hacked to death just because you haven't told them to do otherwise. I love the AOE series and thought for 7.99, what the hell, I can afford to loose this amount of money on a crap game but what a delight I have found. Building units once you get to grips with the AI is good fun, the guilds option where you are forced down one route makes you really think about what you are going to do next where are some other RTS games allow you to make these mistakes and still blast your oponents away. Graphics and animations are excellent.
Sound effects are good enought but the music is a bit tedious.
The game is very addictive and you need minimum of 10 hrs to complete a mission ie to destroy all your enemies,there ar small, medium,and large maps with easty,hard,and very hard, game play options every civilisation has own strength and weakness,but they are evenly balanced. I told everyone about how awesome it would be when I got it. Surely enough when the game became availible I got it and was more than a little dissapointed. One good spot about the game was the gameplay. Tzar was pretty good in the ways of military.