This is a game review for AoE2 when it came out. I was just comparing the graphics for AoK and AOEIII and the exact same gushing came out of the reviewer.
Here's a sample:
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Graphics and Sound
3 words: Oh. My. God.
AOE2: Age of Kings boasts high resolution graphics, varying anywhere from 800x600 to 1280x1024. If you've got the juice to run the game at 1280 then by all means do so, because at 1280, the game is utterly breathtaking.
Couldn't help but laugh. But the graphics were that good.
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Ensemble certainly pulled out all the stops on unit animations as well. Every organic motion in the game looks as lifelike as if you were watching it happen live (hey you LA people - you've been to Medieval Times before!). Mounted cavalry look dashing as they gallop into fierce battle. Archers aim, pull and fire their deadly hail onto ranks of infantry. Ship sails billow as they move across the water and smoke puffs out of their cannon as they fire on other armadas or rake a salvo at the shoreline. Siege weapons have the most impressive looking animation. I can't help but gawk at the beautifully rendered trebuchet as it heaves boulders all the way across the screen.
Complete ownership
Those trebs have had it
ESO: oats
ESO2: dirtyoatmeal