MODERN TIMES-- Dwayne Mueller had high expectations for Ensemble
Entertainment's Age Of Mythology, and had been looking forward to
the promised enhancements to the Age Of Empire-style game of which
he was a fan. But after purchasing the mythical beast-based
strategy game and playing it for three days, Dwayne was ultimately
disappointed. It was "way too easy" in his opinion.
Age of Mythology, the new real-time strategy game by Ensemble
Studios.
Right from the initial level, Dwayne had used the available cheat
codes to give himself all the resources he needed (food, wood,
gold), and used the advantage to build-up his armies and defenses
almost to the point of invincibility.
Using cheat codes and hot-keys, Dwayne was able to rapidly advance
through the ages and maximize his technologies before his computer
opponents even had a chance to get started.
"I'm a little disappointed," said Dwayne. "I thought that with the
heroes and the mythical units, this game would be more challenging
than other real-time strategy games; but after I gave myself
unlimited god powers, the enemy buildings would quickly collapse
under my earthquake attacks, and the advancing units would all die
from my continuous lightning strikes."
"The enemy hardly had the chance to reach my nigh-impenetrable,
watchtower-littered fortress, and I rarely had the opportunity to
use my reserve divisions of elite units," shrugged Dwayne.
Using the advantages of the cheat codes, Dwayne quickly advanced
through the Greek, Egyptian, and Norse campaigns. And even playing
on the hardest difficulty setting, "Titan," the game offered him
little challenge.
"I expected the computer to react better against the battalion of
colossus units I built in the first few minutes of the game, but it
offered little or no resistance," shrugged Dwayne. "The A.I. just
wasn't good enough to beat me."
After waltzing through the single-player maps, easily defeating the
inferior computer opponents in each of the Supremacy, Conquest,
Deathmatch, and Lightning game types, Dwayne regretfully
uninstalled Age of Mythology and went back to playing Return To
Castle Wolfenstein...in god-mode.
