Age of Empires (AoE) is a history-based real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. The game uses the Genie, a 2D sprite-based game engine. The game allows the user to act as the leader of an ancient civilization by advancing it through four ages (the Stone, Tool, Bronze, and Iron Ages), gaining access to new and improved units with each advance.
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9/10. One of my first PC games, probably the best thing I ever got from a cereal box.
Never got good at the game and the genre is not for me, but I liked progressing my civilisation, and even playing around in custom mode, using the game almost as a city builder. Sometimes I’d stay Stone Age and have an expansive army of clubmen and axemen, trying to take on armoured phalanxes and siege weapons. And of course the cheats were classics.
Never got good at the game and the genre is not for me, but I liked progressing my civilisation, and even playing around in custom mode, using the game almost as a city builder. Sometimes I’d stay Stone Age and have an expansive army of clubmen and axemen, trying to take on armoured phalanxes and siege weapons. And of course the cheats were classics.