In order to train military units, such as axeman and hoplites, you need to send villagers (i.e. Diplomacy is essentially non-existent, though paying tribute (in the form of resources) is a viable tactic in online multiplayer. There are a few different ways to win the game, but the most common way is by exterminating your opponents. The Tool Age in the game is more or less analoguous with the Neolithic c.q. A unique feature of Age of Empires, which has naturally found its way into its sequels and spin-offs, is the “Age” concept: collect enough resources (food, wood, stone, gold) and you could “age up”, moving from the Stone Age to the “Tool Age”, Bronze Age, and finally the Iron Age. This very first instalment in the Age of Empires series is set in ancient times and allowes players to take control of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. Playing it again, it looks and sounds exactly as I remember the original game, even though it has obviously been massively improved. Last february, more than two decades after the game was first published, a new and remastered “definitive edition” of the game was released that completely updates the games graphics and sound, while keeping the original gameplay intact. The original Age of Empires was developed by the now-defunct Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft all the way back in 1997. But like Civilization and unlike other RTS games of the time, such as WarCraft and Command & Conquer, it offered something fresh and interesting to those of us hungry for a good-looking historical wargame to play on our computers.

Unlike Civilization, you didn’t play in turns, but instead built up an economy and raised an army on-the-fly. The Age of Empires series was once a colossus in the genre of real-time strategy games.

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