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Age of Empires

By Microsoft Game Studios Free to try

Key Details of Age of Empires

  • Advance an entire civilization in this strategy game
  • Last updated on 10/04/97
  • There have been 0 updates within the past 6 months
  • The current version has 0 flags on VirusTotal badge_icon

Developer's Description

Age of Empires is a civilization-building strategy game with few competitors. Designed at Microsoft by the same people who crafted the award-winning Civilization, Age of Empires features advanced gameplay that's comprehensive enough for hard-core fans of strategic gaming, yet simple enough for the newest gamer to pick up. It also has breathtaking 3D graphics, unusual in this area of the gaming world. Start the game with only your powers of persuasion, and then get your tribe learning essential skills and adapting and developing important technologies to advance. In time, you'll reach out to other civilizations through peaceful trade or through combat and annexation. Age of Empires is anything but predictable--single out a scenario to play and repeat, and you'll be greeted with a different situation every time. This demo version allows you to play one campaign.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 1.0

General

Release November 9, 2008
Date Added October 4, 1997
Version 1.0

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT
Additional Requirements Pentium 90, Windows 95/NT, 16MB RAM, 80MB disk space (game), 50MB disk space (swap file), local SVGA bus video display (with 1MB VRAM), DirectX Drivers 5.0

Popularity

Total Downloads 5,349,845
Downloads Last Week 1,497
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