Age of Empires Choose your favorite form of world domination in an epic game of empire-building and conquest!

How will you rule the world? Conquer enemy civilizations? Discover the world's secrets? Accumulate wealth? As the guiding spirit of a small Stone Age tribe, follow one of these paths to build the greatest civilization on earth.

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  • Build your tribe into a powerful, flourishing empire through more than 10,000 years of real-time evolution.
  • Create your own historically based conflicts with a fully integrated scenario editor. Command powerful armies in some of antiquity's greatest battles.
  • Direct a research path that leads to economic, military, or naval technologies best suited to achieving game goals.
  • Build powerful armies from dozens of military units including infantry, warships, chariots, war elephants, and archers.
  • Choose from multiple gameplay options including more than 40 preset scenarios, individual campaigns, or randomly generated games.
  • Conquer or cooperate with up to eight other players in multiplayer games via modem, LAN, or the Internet.

Top-Line System Requirements

 

Computer
Pentium 90 or higher microprocessor 		Operating System
Windows 95 or later or Windows NT Workstation 4.0 with Service Pack 3
Hard-Disk
80 MB of available hard-disk space
50 MB free disk space for swap file 		Memory
16 MB RAM for Windows 95
24 MB RAM for Windows NT Workstation 4.0
Drives
Quad-speed CD-ROM or faster - for cinematics
Double-speed CD-ROM or faster - for gameplay 		Display
Super VGA (for full 256-color support) with local bus video (with 1 MB VRAM)
Peripherals/Miscellaneous
Sound card with headphones or speakers required for sound
Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device recommended
28.8 modem or faster and Internet access (or Network card) for head-to-head play