Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (PS2)

mh:awesomegames:Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft, released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. A PlayStation 2 version was released in 2001, exclusively for Europe and Japan and was published by Konami.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Graphics, particularly animations, are notably worse than in the original version.
 * 2) Out-of-sync sound effects.
 * 3) Inferior audio quality, both in sound effects and music.
 * 4) Does not have any of the content from The Conquerors expansion despite being released a year later.
 * 5) The control can be confusing.
 * 6) The HUD covers half of the screen, forcing the player to constantly move the camera around.
 * 7) Stiff cursor control, making many things much more difficult to do.
 * 8) No chat HUD. How are you supposed to tell the AI to give you resources?
 * 9) Slightly lower FPS. While not that bad, still annoying.
 * 10) No map editor.

Good Qualities

 * 1) It's Age of Empires at the end of the day, and plays like it.
 * 2) Excluding the map editor, all content from the original game is present.
 * 3) You can connect a mouse, making this game much easier and playable.
 * 4) The music and SFX, in spite of lower quality, still don't sound that bad.
 * 5) This is the first time Microsoft published on other consoles.
 * 6) * Minecraft is second time that Microsoft published on other consoles.

Reception
While the original version of Age of Empires II received universal acclaim, the PlayStation 2 version received negative reviews from players citing the above reasons.