"The best thing
about Age of Empires is that from what we've seen so far, it remains open-ended
and it works!"
Gamecenter, March 1997
You
are dropped into a stone-age world with little more than the cloth on your
loin…
your challenge is to build your tribe into a great civilization by obtaining
and managing resources and conquering or cooperating with other tribes.
After selecting a culture, you build your way up from a small Stone Age tribe
to a mighty civilization through economic and military means and applying new
technology. Choose wisely, your buildings and units will upgrade and improve as
you pass through ages such as the Tool Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age.
You can choose the ultimate glory to which you aspire:
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You are also free to choose the technology you will use to attain your glory
(or destruction) such as: archery, cavalry, naval warfare, siege warfare,
hunting, foraging, religion, and government (although you won't have access to
them all in any one game). Different strategies must be employed depending on
your ultimate goal. Many more technologies are available than could ever be
researched in the span of a single game.
Lead On!
I love power. But it is as an artist that I
love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and
chords and harmonies. --
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general, emperor. Quoted in: Havelock
Ellis, The Dance of Life (1923). From The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations:
Copyright (c) 1993, 1995 by Columbia University Press.
--
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general, emperor. Quoted in: Havelock
Ellis, The Dance of Life (1923). From The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations:
Copyright (c) 1993, 1995 by Columbia University Press.