Age of Empires Collectors Edition

Forge an Empire that Spans the Ages 

Product Information

Lead a civilization to glory across the millennia by choosing your path to greatness.  Battle alongside legendary heroes as you conquer rival empires.  Discover new technologies, chart your course well - form the Stone Age to the Imperial Age - and your legacy shall live forever!


Product Title Included

• Age of Empires: The Ancient World
• Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome Expansion Pack
• Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
• Age of Empires II:  The Conquerors Expansion Pack

Product Overview

Age of Empires: The Ancient World

Age of Empires is the epic award-winning, real-time strategy game spanning ten thousand years where players are the guiding spirit in the evolution of a small Stone Age tribe. Starting with minimal resources, players are challenged to build their tribes into great civilizations.  From the Stone Age to the Age of Iron, build your tribe into a flourishing empire over the course of 10,000 years of real-time evolution.

Features:

• Compete against opponents for the limited resources used to build and manage your civilization into a powerful empire.
• Direct a research path that leads to the economic, military, or naval technologies best used to achieve game goals.
• Build powerful armies from dozens of military units including warships, chariots, and war elephants.
• Command one of 12 ancient civilizations - from Egyptian to Greek - all with unique attributes based on their historical counterparts.
• Choose from multiple gameplay options including more than 40 present scenarios, individual campaigns, or randomly generated games.
• Challenge a sophisticated and and adjustable artificial intelligence for endless replay value.

Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome Expansion Pack

Created by the developers of the award-winning real-tie strategy game, Age of Empires, The Rise of Rome lets you play an active role in directing the ascension of the infamous Roman Empire. Experience all the greed, intrigue, conflict, and power as you create the most feared and celebrated civilization in history, The Roman Empire.

The Age of Empires Expansion: The Rise of Rome is the add-on to the award-winning, best-selling real-time strategy game Age of Empires. Focusing on the legendary Roman Empire, the Rise of Rome will challenge veterans and novices alike to wage war on an epic scale with four additional civilizations, several unique units, new technologies, and new campaigns, including the showcase campaign that focuses on the Rise of Rome itself.  Gather your forces, a new Age is upon us.

Features:

• Herald in Four New Civilizations - An expansive world is at your feet and four new civilizations are here for you to command. Take charge of the Carthage, Palmyra, Macedonia, or Rome in huge battles of historical conquest.
• New Units on the Front Lines - Time to draw up alternative battle plans because the Rise of Rome will usher in a new era of strategy for Age players with several new units to challenge your tactical thinking. Now, you have even more options for historically correct carnage with the additions of the Armored Elephant, Camel Rider, Fire Galley, Scythe Chariot, and Slinger.
• All New Roman Architecture - Take in the glory of the Roman Empire with dozens of new buildings, including fan favorite and Roman wonder of the world - the Roman Colosseum.
• The Long March to Total Conquest - Immerse yourself in four totally new campaigns made up of over a dozen additional scenarios. Included will be the showcase campaign that focuses on the Rise of Rome - togas not required.
• Expanded Technologies - Dazzle your opponents with four new researchable technologies such as Logistics, Martyrdom, Medicine, and Tower Shield.
• Gigantic Maps to Explore - To make gamplay even more challenging and competitive, a larger map size has been added to the existing maps. In addition, several new map types will be available, including mountainous highlands, a large island, the Mediterranean and a peninsula for a diversity of play.
• Epic Music and Sounds - Several new CD-quality musical tracks and sounds will be included, adding to the heroic flavor and enriching the gaming experience.
• Internet Play for up to eight players via the Microsoft Internet Gaming Zone, over a LAN or modem to modem.
  

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is the sequel to the award-winning, best-selling real-time strategy game Age of Empires. Age of Empires II spans a thousand years, from the fall of Rome through the Middle Ages in which players lead one of 13 civilizations into greatness. In Age of Empires II, you can command any one of 13 mighty civilizations. These include the Britons, Byzantines, Celts, Chinese, Franks, Goths, Japanese, Mongols, Persians, Saracens, Teutons, Turks, and Vikings.  Each civilization has unique attributes, strengths and weaknesses, buildings and technologies, as well as a unique combat unit based on its historical counterpart. Be sure to try them all to find the civilization that best suits your playing style.

The game keeps the epic scope of Age of Empires' game play while evolving the combat and economic features.

Features:

• Battle alongside heroes of the day - Strive with one of following heroes to victory: Joan of Arc, William Wallace, Genghis Khan, Saladin, and Barbarossa.
• Command one of 13 mighty civilizations - Includes the Franks, Japanese, Byzantines, Vikings, Mongols, and Celts. Each with unique attributes, buildings, technologies, and specific combat units based on its historical counterpart.
• Choose the path to greatness - Will it be an economic path created out of craftsmanship, trade and diplomacy? Or a military route of siege and naval warfare? Or by building a Wonder of the World that will stand the test of time? 
• Conquer a worthy opponent - Over the MSN Gaming Zone, LAN or modem. Or a nearly human artificial intelligence opponent in single player mode.
• Lead swiftly and with ease - A comprehensive learning campaign helps you to get easily into the game. Production queues, gathering points and customizable hot-keys make it fast and simple to manage your forces and plan battles.
• Build a rich empire - A market-based economy gives you new options to buy, sell, and speculate on resources or trade with allies.
• Lead with cunning and might - Place your military units in formation or give them intelligent stances and commands to add interesting tactical choices.
• Create your own scenario - The Map Editor allows you to build your own massive campaigns.
• New and bigger lands - With the random map generator you will always have new lands to explore and conquer, no matter how many times you play.

 


Age of Empires II:  The Conquerors Expansion Pack

Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion is the official add-on to the award-winning, best-selling real-time strategy game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. Focusing on legendary leaders, The Conquerors will challenge veterans and novices to wage war on an epic scale with all-new civilizations, unique units and technologies, and campaigns based on infamous conquerors such as Attila the Hun, El Cid and Montezuma.

Expand your empire and rule the world.  Experience the adventure of the Spanish Conquistadors as they enter the exotic lands of Aztecs, or relive the destructive force of Attila's hoards of pillaging Huns.

Features:

• 11 New Units - including the Huns' Tarkan, the Koreans' War Wagon and Turtle Ship, plus the Aztecs' Plumed Archer.
• 26 New Technologies - one for each civilization, including Chinese Rocketry and British Yeomen.
• New Game Types - experience new challenges with "Wonder Race", "Defend the Wonder", and "King of the Hill"
• Real World Maps - based on geographical locations such as Britain, France, and Italy
• Command Allied Computer Players - use chat commands to order allies to attack, tribute resources, and build an economy or military.
• Smart Villagers - villagers work smarter, build walls more intelligently, and gather resources automatically after constructing a drop-off building.
• Farms Automatically Replant - queue farms so they replant after being harvested.

Windows Requirements

• Windows 95, Me, 2000, CP
• 166 MHz processor
• 64 MB of RAM
• 680 MB free Hard Disk space
• DirectX compatible Sound Card
• 16 MB Graphics Card (Onboard/Integrated graphic chipsets and laptops are not supported)
• DirectX 8.1 or higher
• 2X CD-ROM drive