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Pros: Rooms, furniture and clothing. Phytotherapy as a new skill. Opens the way to holiday destinations.

Cons: Granite Falls lacks life. Only 5 new lots.

Pros: Its premise. Freedom. Lots of content. Its aesthetics.

Cons: Daily tasks get boring.

Pros: An interesting take on the Homeworld fiction. Beautiful and practical world and unit design. Solid tactical gameplay in open areas. Great use of elevation and scale.

Cons: Can be hard to find a good camera angle. Occasional path-finding issues for units.

Pros: A blend of strategy and resource management. Dynamic seasons. Multiple winning conditions. Innovative turn-based battle system.

Cons: Instances of the game crashing upon launching. Doesn't upscale the text after changing to a higher resolution.

Pros: Great looking units and world. Lots to do. Interesting strategy. Deep resource management.

Cons: Hard to see which unit is which zoomed out. Combat is stiff compared to some competition.

Pros: Ability to create parks. Please or nauseate park-goers. Works great. A lot of content. A lot of content.

Cons: A little old.

Pros: Realistic physics simulation. Create and destroy planets.

Cons: Can be complex.

Pros: The return of a great classic. Long campaigns.

Cons: Expansions missing. Disappointing graphics. Map generator missing. Overall bad remasterization.

Pros: Great look and style. Novel setting and tale. Lots of twists on a classic formula.

Cons: Slightly clunky controls. Effects of the arcane can be hard to grasp.

Pros: Changes improve all element of the gameplay. Technically excellent. Combat and unit variety is much greater.

Cons: Increased system requirements. Slow loads.

Pros: Graphics achieved. Cooperative multi-player mode. Fortress management. Cooperative multi-player mode.

Cons: Lack of indicators. Awful interface.

Pros: The technical implementation. Fun and addictive.

Cons: The physical aspect of the vehicles. The game’s lack of support. Additional vehicles require payment. Maneuverability has not been updated in this version for Windows.

Pros: Completes the brilliant campaign. Technically excellent. Classic real-time strategy action.

Cons: Problems with troop AI. No cover system.

Pros: Better graphics than the previous version. More to do than with AOE 2. Repetitive tasks are less annoying than with AOE 2.

Cons: There are still some repetitive tasks that are required even in later stages of the game. The game could have used more story modes. You may still win by building massive armies and having them attack at once.