Playstation 2 | Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

Unlockables

Press 'Enter' to open the 'Cheat' menu then enter the following passwords to unlock the corresponding effect in the game.

Unlock 1000 Gold:
ROBIN HOOD

Unlock 1000 Stone:
ROCK ON

Unlock 1000 Wood:
LUMBERJACK

Unlock 1000 Food:
CHEESE STEAK JIMMY'S

Win Campaign:
I R WINNER

Lose Campaign:
RESIGN

Destroy ALL Enemies:
BLACK DEATH

Commit Suicide:
WIMPYWIMPYWIMPY

Unlock Saboteur Unit:
TO SMITHEREENS

Unlock VDML:
I LOVE THE MONKEY HEAD

Instant Building:
AEGIS

Kill Opponent:
TORPEDO (1-8)

Disable Fog of War:
POLO

Reveal Full Map:
MARCO

Birds turn into Super Dogs:
WOOF WOOF

Control Animals:
NATURAL WONDERS
(activating this password will mean you lose control of humans and only boars and wolves can attack).


Shortcut Keys
Press the following hotkey to activate the corresponding effect. Build Immutable structure:
Ctrl + P

Speed Construction:
Ctrl + Q

New Resource Menu:
Ctrl + T

View Ending:
Ctrl + C

Advantage in more Bases

1) To gain an advantage build more than one base. Increase the size of the base you start out with ensuring it is completely fortified and has at least two castles.

2) Send a fast moving unit or scout cavalry to the other side of the map from your base.

3) Secure the area then send a villager to build a castle at that location and fortify that base. During online play this will be useful if your enemy knows where one of your bases are located.

4) When you are allies with others save your resources. Don¹t build a market, this will avoid giving away resources.

Faster building, reasearch or units created.

When you are building or researching something, e.g. Upgrade to fortified wall in the university. Click on the upgrade, then on the right hand side, by the building name,there should be a percentage of the research process, put the cursor on the percentage and press X repeatedly on the percentage. The percentage speed should double.

PS. I think it works on the PC version but you might as well type in "aegis" to get instant build, or research and so on

Easy victory

You need lots of supplies to do this in campaings some levels can be hard so here is a good way to protect heros make loads of camps round the map and it will be harder for the enemy to attack.

Save Resources

When you ally with other players, don't build a market.

Extra base to attack

Get an army together mostly archers and around 5 villages,, send your army to attack and tell your villages To build a castle close to the base then send 23 archers to go inside the castle.

Tell your villages to build a stone wall around you castle leaving a one space Gap between the castle and wall now construct those long range siege weapons.

Build some towers if you want and get your villages to make a gate (lock in encase it open when a villager is to close) better if the wall, towers and castle are up graded first

Expensive I now but it will give you a strong hold in the enemy base

You can use this technique to take over a large amount of resources
To stop you enemies and to give you all the resources you need....