In this game, players control a society to achieve victory. Players can control the population to establish or repair a building or resource gathering. Players can also control the troops to move, make a formation, or attacking an enemy patrol. Population and the resulting forces / upgraded in certain buildings.

In this game there are four types of resources, namely wood, food, gold and stone. Wood needed for building, setting up the fields (food source), and train archers. Food and gold needed to train residents and troops, as well as find a technology. The stone needed to build facilities such as defense of the stone fortress, towers and walls.

The game begins in the dark ages and ends at the imperial era, which is the beginning of the renaissance. Whole consists of four days. The more advanced a society, then they are able to train troops or find a technology that is more modern and diverse. To progress from one era to another era, it takes a large amount of resources.

There are four game modes, age of kings campaign (campaign Age of Kings), random map (random map), The conquerors Campaign (campaign updates from the campaigns of the Age of Kings), and custom campaign. At the age of kings campaign mode the player plays a leader for a historic win wars. Historic war that can be played, among others, Salahuddin Ayyubi in the Crusades, the conquest by Genghis Khan, and others. Random map is a standard game where players attempt against the computer to achieve some targets, called the condition of victory. The conquerors campaign the player plays a war of conquest undertaken by Montezuma, El Cid, Attila the Hun, Henry V, Yi Sun-Shin and Erik The Red.

In this game there are also aspects of diplomacy. Players can trade, alliance and declare war against another player or computer.
  



 

Minimum System Requirements:

CPU:

Multimedia PC with Pentium 166MHz or higher processor

RAM:

32 MB of Ram for Windows 95, 98, ME, 64 MB for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000

VGA:

Super VGA with 2 MB of video memory

OS:

Microsoft® Windows® 95/98/Me/XP/NT 4.0 with service pack 5

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HDD:

80 MB of available hard disk space (in addition to the original Age of Empires II required disk); additional 100 MB of hard disk space for swap file

Sound:

Sound card, speakers or headphones required for audio

Resolution:

Super VGA monitor supporting 800x600 resolution

ODD:

4x speed or faster CD-ROM drive

Network:

56.6 Kbps or better modem for online play