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Age of Empires II is a real-time strategy game that focuses on building towns, gathering resources, and creating armies to defeat opponents. Players conquer rival towns and empires as they advance one of 13 civilizations through four "Ages": the Dark Age, the Feudal Age, the Castle Age (representing the High Middle Ages), and the Imperial Age (reminiscent of the Renaissance)—a 1,000-year ...
[1] [2] It includes all previous expansions from the original (The Conquerors) and HD edition (The Forgotten, The African Kingdoms, Rise of the Rajas). [1] [3] Players can choose between the original AI, the updated HD Edition AI that was added alongside the HD Edition of the game, and a newer AI developed for the Definitive Edition. [4]
From the original release to the second, Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, noteworthy improvements gained praise from several critics. [97] [98] [99] With the release of Age of Mythology the praise continued, [97] [100] [101] [102] and the fourth release, Age of Empires III, garnered even more. [103] [104] [105]
Combined sales of all Age of Empires games released between January 2000 and August 2006, including The Conquerors, had reached 4.1 million units in the United States by the latter date. [7] The Conquerors received a "Silver" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), [ 8 ] indicating sales of at ...
At E3 2019 Xbox announced that they are establishing a new internal studio which later named World's Edge. The studio was established in 2019 by Shannon Loftis, former Head of Publishing at Xbox Game Studios Publishing, to work on the Age of Empires franchise.
Age of Empires using the Genie Engine The Rise of Rome using the Genie Engine Age of Empires II using the Genie Engine The Conquerors using the Genie Engine. The Genie Engine is a game engine developed by Ensemble Studios and used in several computer games, such as Age of Empires, Age of Empires II and its expansions (but is not used in other Ensemble Studios games) and Star Wars: Galactic ...
Age of Empires was generally well received by critics, and scored highly on review aggregator websites [74] including an 8.3 out of 10 on Metacritic, [62] an 87% on GameRankings, [61] an 85 out of 100 on MobyGames. [75] Game Informer ranked it the 81st best game made in its 100th issue in 2001.
The game's second expansion, titled The Sultans Ascend, was released on 14 November 2023, including two new civilizations, the Byzantines and Japanese, in addition to four variant civilizations which feature Jeanne d'Arc, the Order of the Dragon, Zhu Xi, and the Ayyubids, and a new 8-mission campaign. [20]