Inspired by the hit PC title and built on the game engine behind the critically acclaimed Age of Empires: Age of Kings, Age of Empires: Mythologies will be the ultimate portable tactical strategy game with its refined gameplay, inspired design, fantastic multiplayer, and extensive replay value. Age of Empires: Mythologies for the Nintendo DS is a compelling new turn-based strategy game that challenges players to shape the destiny of three unique cultures in a fantasy world filled with mighty heroes, legendary monsters, and powerful gods. Players will lead their Egyptian, Greek, and Norse heroes to victory by raising massive armies, waging war, exploring new frontiers, and advancing through three distinct ages that offer fantastic new units, abilities, and god powers like lighting storms, earthquakes, and devastating plagues that players can call on to smite their enemies.

User Reviews about Age of Empires: Mythologies

My son loves Mythology. He plays this game more than any of his other DSI games. -- My son loved this game!

Age of Empires: Mythology is fantastic. My 13-year-old son loves the game. He also enjoys learning about the different gods and their myths. He particularly enjoys battling as Poseidon, because he has read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series by Rick Riordan, and he can pretend to be Percy, who is a son of Poseidon. My son has wanted this game for a long time, and I couldn't find it in stores. Luckily, Amazon had this game, and it has been worth the search. I highly recommend all the Age of Empire games because of the history lessons they give. My son talks about the history as much as he talks about the moves he can do in the games. His high expectations of Mythologies was fulfilled. -- Awesome action!

The AoE concept is excellent and the game is conceptually well designed, but the more I play the game the more I recognize design flaws. The scenarios and campaigns, for the most part, are rather easy--easier than "Kings" if I remember correctly. Once you play through those at the normal and hard levels, they aren't much fun to play again. So I turned my attention to the Skirmish games where I found the most challenges and enjoyment. Unfortunately, it only offers three player options (Romans, Egyptians and Norse), the heroes have only one innate power each and most or bland if not useless, and there are a very limited number of maps and the maps play by far the largest role in gameplay. If this game had a "random map" feature like Civ, I could play it endlessly (like I do Civ). But it doesn't.

Regarding the design flaws, I've found that in the Skirmish maps, Norse computer opponents are unable to properly advance so they are cannon fodder, which leaves you only Greeks and Egyptians as meaningful foes and thus not much variety, especially when you are playing Greek or Egyptian. (Combined with the limited maps, the skirmish games go from being the best feature to the worst.) Also, the scoring system and accompanying graphics seem to confuse itself frequently so often you invest time in a long, hard-fought battle only to find yourself with a score of -36428. If they'd include perhaps one more player option, an option for random maps, and cleaned up those two design issues I would have given this game a SIX. As it is, I give it a four for gameplay and a three overall because I got bored with it far sooner than I should have. -- Great gameplay, but like "Kings" design is flawed

I would rank this right up there with FFTA2, Civilization: Revolution, Advance Wars, and AoE for the DS. It's a must-buy for DS turn-based fans. The new graphics make it even better than AoE 1 for the DS. -- One of the top 5 Turn Based Strategy Games on DS