Product Description
Microsoft's exciting new Age of Empires is an epic game spanning eons, in which the player is the guiding spirit in the evolution of a small Ice Age tribe. Starting with virtually nothing, the player is challenged to build the tribe into a great civilization. Players can conquer or cooperate with existing tribes in a multiplayer environment. They can choose to battle on land or sea, or they can establish peaceful relations and trade resources. With AGE OF EMPIRES: INSIDE MOVES as a guide, players are armed with strategies and secrets-some straight from the developers and not available elsewhere-that give them a winning edge. The Inside Moves series editor is Robert Lock, an authority in the PC Gaming world and the founder of Compute! Books and the Game Player's family of publications.
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Microsoft Age of Empires: Inside Moves (Inside Moves Series)
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Pr; 1997-11
- Label: Microsoft Pr
- Studio: Microsoft Pr
- ISBN: 1572315296
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 6 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #2490533
Avg. Customer Review:
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great book for beginners. 1998-09-17
Comment: This book is just what the novice player needs. It provides the tips and strategies necessary to make the game enjoyable rather than frustrating. Well written and nicely illustrated, the book carefully details the individual scenarios within each campaign, allowing the player to develop the basic knowledge and skills for more advanced play.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Don't waste your money. 1998-04-19
Comment: If you read the review on the back cover you think you are getting a great book, but MS Press must have written their own on this book.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Yeah...useless book 1998-03-22
Comment: Figures. Can't believe I read the reviews and bought this book anyway. Sheesh. Like, 3 frickin pages in the whole book about multiplay and not nearly enough about advantages,disadv of each culture.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Great for starting out... 1997-12-29
Comment: This strategy guide is mostly filled with detailed, well-written explanations helping you to beat each scenario in the campaigns. It does very well on that, but there are few general playing/multiplaying tips, and scant descriptions of units and buildings.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Misleading Cover 1997-11-18
Comment: The book I purchased was shrink wrapped, and, if I could have looked through the book briefly, I wouldn't have bought it. I was looking for tips, tricks, tactics, and strategies mainly geared towards multiplayer gaming. One sentence on the cover claims "Full of play-tested tactics and strategies, 'Microsoft Age of Empires: Inside Moves' will be your guide--providing you with strategic hints, statistics, and tactical assistance neccesary to lead your civilization to glory." I disagree. There are very few useful strategic hints and no statistical tables. Finding the cost, hit points, attack value, armor value, and range of a unit cannot be accomplished easily with this book. The book contains one chapter labled "What Every Emperor Should Know." This chapter briefly describes the units and structures, but it leaves out all the marine units and provides very little new information to me. Most tactics from Warcraft II apply to the gameplay described in this chapter. The cover does not mention single player campaigns, but single player campaign strategies occupy about 200 of the 280 pages in the book. I expected that it would contain campaign tips, but this was overwhelming. The book provides two multiplayer strategies--both completely worthless. The book contains far more historical information on ancient civilizations than multiplayer tips. I wasn't concerned about ancient emperors; I wanted to improve my gameplay. I would recommend this book to a beginner mainly concerned with the campaigns or perhaps to a person "researching" ancient civilizations. I rated it so low because I didn't fit into the two categories above. The book has very good campaign assistance and good historical reference. ;)
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Microsoft Age of Empires: Inside Moves (Inside Moves Series)
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