AGE OF EMPIRES!!! (Age of Empires (PC))

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Product:	Age of Empires (PC)
Date:	05/08/01 (16 review reads)
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Advantages: Good Realism, Addictable

Disadvantages: none

The theme of Age of the Empires is the rise of the first great civilisations over the 12, 000 years that followed the last ice age. You are the guiding spirit of a tribethat predates one of the great cultures of antiquity. Your goal is to build you tribe into a mighty that can vie for world (game) dominance (victory). You begin the game in the stone age with a small tribe of villigers on anunexplored map. As you ove you tribesmen over the mapyou reveal different terrain types and locate sources of food, wood, stone, and gold, which villagers gather by hunting, fishing, foraging, farming, chopping wood and mining. You must gather enough resourses to build enough houses for your growing civilisation.

Constructing buildings lets you train military units and boats to defend your civilisation or attack other civilisations. Constructing buildings aslo lets you redearch technologiesthat benefit your civilisation, such as increasing the resources you can gather or the strength of you military units.

As you advance through the ages, you can build new buildings, create new boats and military units, and research new technologies.

You can esablish allies with other civilisations controlled by human or computer players, exchange tribute, and establish trade routes.

The winner of the game is determined by the vicory conditions of the scenario. You canplay a variety of predesigned single player campaigns, as well as single player or multiplayer randon maps or scenarios. Or you can use the scenario builder to create your own custom scenarios.

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