Ensemble Studios

Control your tribe with the mouse. Make them build houses, docks, farms, and temples. Advance your civilization through time by learning new skills . The game allows for the player to advance through the ages expample.stone age,tool age, bronze age. If the player would rather get away from the historical aspect, the gameoffers a random terrain generator and a custom scenario builder. The game has four resources: food, obtained by hunting, farming, or fishing; wood, which has to be logged by hand; stone, which has to be mined; and gold, which can either be mined or obtained through trade with other players As a real-time war game, Age naturally revolves around gathering resources and producing units.

This package contains both Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings and Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion, along with some brand new maps as well as 3 recorded games by the masters of AoE, showing you the best strategy to win.

The Conquerors adds five new civilizations, including two from the americas, the Incas and Aztecs. It also adds eleven new units such as the halberdier (an answer to the powerful paladins) and eagle warriors, which are used by the Incas and Aztecs instead of stable units; a unique technology for each civilization including Kataparuto for the Japanese (increases Trebuchet fire rate and pack/unpack speed) and Zealotry for the Saracens (increases hit points for camels and mamelukes); and several new general technologies, such as Bloodlines, which increases the hit points of mounted units, and thumbring, which increases the rate of fire and accuracy of archers. Several game balancing tweaks have been added too, for example janissaries have had their attack increased, and mangonels don't auto attack if some of your units could be hurt.One of the biggest changes, however, is the villager AI has been changed so they now gather after making a drop off building...i.e. after making a lumber camp they will start to chop wood. AOK:TC also adds three new types of play, such as Wonder Race in which the goal is to build a wonder before anyone else.

It's one of the best selling series of its time. Now, finally, the entire Age of Empires set in one box, thanks to the good guys at Microsoft. Included in the box set is the original Age of Empires and its expansion, Rise of Rome + Age of Empires 2 and The Conquerors Expansion. Also included is a special Age of Empires soundtrack, which collects some of the best music from all 4 titles.

The box contains Age of Empires and The Rise of Rome expansion disc. Build Roman, Greek, or some other 10,000 years old kingdom with possibility of high-resolution, above 800x600 pixels, and great ancient melodies. It features 3 entirely new campaigns. Command one of 4 available civilizations such as of Carthage or Rome, and take over the world known territory of main importance. Expanding from stone ages to metal and bronze ages gives this game a certain time flow, and your troops automatically upgrade to next level of weapons and armour, as well as your buildings. Develop deadly tactics as you command legions of swordsmen, pikemen, catapults, cavalry, chariots and other higly-detailed units.

In Age of Empires II : Age of Kings (AOK as it is commonly called) you take control of one of thirteen civilizations, including the Chinese, Goths, Britons, and Vikings, amoung others. You start with a handful of villagers and, through expansion and careful handling of your economy, you can advance up to the point where powerful war machines and well trained masses of troops will be at yours to make and control. There are three distinct ways to play, one of which the object is to hunt and kill the other player(s) king, however there are a lot of options for each, anywhere from what type of map to start on (including coastal, gold rush, arabia, and rivers) to what the maximum amount of units are allowed. You can also play online at the Zone vs up to seven other players, or via a TCP/IP connection.

An expansion pack for the original Age Of Empires, includes 100s of bug fixes, more units, more civilisations and an updated interface.

After battling through the Age of Empires, it is time to go deeper into the history of mankind, and play in the Ancient cities of the true gods. Choose your scenario from three, the ancient Greeks, the Norse or the Egyptians, and build your new world into a true kingdom fitting for the Gods that your follow. But be wary of the evil that lives around your kingdom, as they wish to destroy you and your God. Many elements of the Empires series feature here, including the many economic options, an epic battle system and random maps. New to the series is a full 3D graphics engine, increasing the level of detail to include certain weather effects and the ability to play during any time of the day or night. During battle, you have the ability to not only lead an army full of hundreds of warriors and mythological creatures of all types, but you can also call on your God to lend a helping hand for a short period of time. Multiplayer maps are also included, allowing all-on-all or ally battles.