man, it's all about age of empires 2... unfortunately, I was never able to play online for some reason... I had to download some kind of newer version (even though I had the expansion) and then when I clicked on download, it didn't work... I've tried a few times since then, still can't play online... oh well... it's fun just beating the crap out of computer players... especially when you make 7 enemies all on one team against you, and put the difficulty pretty high... man, that's hard!