Ancient empires takes you to the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, India & China, and the near east (middle east).
In this game pirates have taken ancient treasures and hidden them and the only way to find it is to find your way through the mazes, puzzles and booby traps of each of 5 levels within each civilization. Each preceding level gets more and more difficult as new creatures emerge to try and stop you and there are moving walls and conveyer belts to stop you along the way.
Ancient empires takes you to the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, India & China, and the near east (middle east).
In this game pirates have taken ancient treasures and hidden them and the only way to find it is to find your way through the mazes, puzzles and booby traps of each of 5 levels within each civilization. Each preceding level gets more and more difficult as new creatures emerge to try and stop you and there are moving walls and conveyer belts to stop you along the way. Everything from ladybugs, ants, to spiders falling from the ceiling to a giant praying mantis firing a fireball at you! The user’s character can use his force field to avoid these creatures and flip switches and hit ceiling
buttons to get through each level's challenges.
The main goal in each level is to gather 6 artifacts and upon completion a secret door appears and must be found to exit the level. After going through the secret door the user will have to put together a puzzle of some historic artifact of the civilization's level that you are playing. The puzzle is fairly simple and when complete the user then has to decipher another challenge by selecting which piece of the puzzle is missing to go to the next level after which you go to the next level and repeat the process.
Upon completion of the first four levels of each ancient empire the user then has to complete the rest of the levels for each empire. When this is completed there is a fifth level for each empire which is more difficult than the previous four so new strategies will be needed to get through the levels. And finally when all the fifth levels are completed there is a final level in which when completed you will have beaten the game.
There is a special surprise for when you do beat the game, which I will not reveal in this review. In case you were wondering about difficulty and the game being too easy there are two difficulty levels to choose from at the beginning of the game a normal mode and an expert mode so the game has pretty good replay value and can be challenging to even older users in the expert mode. Another good learning game from the learning company and it is definitely a classic.
