

Noticeable absences in the hot-keys list are the ability to select all of one unit type and to create custom unit groups. Gameplay is deep, involved, and addictive, though the one major addition-the ability to send special shipments from home cities-seems extraneous. In two single-player scenarios (building trading posts along a railroad track and defending a fort) and two skirmish maps (Texas and New England), you'll be collecting resources, raising structures, creating units, and bombarding your enemies. The ReadMe.rtf file includes a useful list of shortcut keys, but there's no introduction or explanation of the gameplay, so you'll have to find your own way. The Age of Empires III demo provides hours of fabulous real-time fun, but lack of documentation and instruction haunts the experience. The main resources in the game are food, wood, gold and stone.Age of Empires III is an historically-based real-time strategy game designed by Ensemble Studios, makers of Age of Mythology and Halo Wars.Īfter a lengthy installation, say a little prayer that your machine can handle this demo, because the system requirements aren't listed anywhere in the download package. To move from one age to the next, it is necessary to build some buildings and pay certain economic resources. In the Imperial Age, which is reminiscent of the early years of the Renaissance, the whole tree of technologies is available for a civilization and the civilization has reached its technological peak.

Each age provides improvements to the civilization, as unlocks various new units, buildings and technologies available for use. The player takes control of a village or city belonging to a certain civilization and guides it through 4 ages: the Dark Age, Feudal Age, Castle Age and Imperial Age. It was released in mid-1999 and is the second release in the famous Age of Empires franchise. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (abbreviated AOE2 or AOK) is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Games for Windows and Mac OS operating systems, and Konami for PlayStation 2.
