A Age of Empires series occurs as popular franchise of historically precise real-time strategy computer games, started within 1997, developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. 4 titles (from either which deuce come expansions) were published, & the fifth 1 is in the works.

Age of Empires and Rise of Rome

Age of Empires was one of a number one games in the genre to utilise "historically accurate" units & settings - RTS games typically apply fantasy settings, like Warcraft or science-fiction like Total Annihilation, while faithfullness to historical details was supplementary present in turn-based strategy games like Colonization or The Great Battles series. It was as well one of the 1st to have a isometric learn from, when virtually all coeval games utilized top-down or even variants.

A game is placed from either a Stone Age until the Iron Age, where 12 (+ tetrad by having a expansion) definitive civilizations by having unique attributes.

Age of Kings and The Conquerors

Discharged around 1999, Age of Kings introduced several newly features rather gates for bulwarks & the Rock, Paper, Scissors battle system. A game period goes from either a Dark Ages until the early Renaissance, a expansion including the Spanish conquest of South America, using a sum of Long dozen civilizations, + 5 fresh civilizations with the expansion.

It utilizes a equivalent engine when a number one game, however using big & further elaborate faerie for buildings & supplementary objects & more varied settings.

Age of Empires III
Potential to exist as freed in October 18, 2005, exclusively limited references is known on a third title; which is potential to handle a European colonization of the Americas, from a number 1 explorations of Columbus until the dawn of the Industrial age. It is a 1st of the series to have a 3D engine, which is likewise using the Havok middleware engine.

Age of Mythology

Discharged within 2002, although not formally a share of the Age of Empires series, Age of Mythology wwhen universally seen as Age of Empires II predecessor, also high-pressure been gazed at sustaining Age of Empires connotation. Developed per equivalent studio & producer (Ensemble Studios and Microsoft, respectively), it was universally closely linked. Unlike its predecessors, Age of Mythology has less of a center historical accuracy, since existence invented. Notwithstanding, by owning a release of Age of Empires III not being known as Age of Empires IV, Age of Mythology could be forgotten within a series.

Related titles

Rise of Nations - Also from either Microsoft, however developed by Big Huge Games. Empire Earth - Also by Rick Goodman, developer of the number 1 title in the series.