

Age of Empires II game had built-in support for thirteen playable civilizations, all featuring their unique units (two per civilization), visual style, and preferred tactics for establishing This included five historical single-player campaigns, three additional single-player modes, and a fully-featured multiplayer. Set in the Middle Ages and with an ability to move to newer historical periods such as Dark Age, Feudal Age, Castle Age, and Imperial Age, the game offers players an incredible variety of challenges in the single-player campaign missions and an incredible variety of tactical clashes in streamlined online modes. Developed on the upgraded version of the Genie Engine that powered the original version of the Age of Empires in 1997, this sequel managed to improve upon almost every aspect and gain the reputation of one of the best RTS games of all time. The new Age of Empires has a size of 168MB and will only be available as digital download from the Windows stores.Age of Empires 2 (also known as Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings) is a celebrated real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published byįor home PCs in 1999. The game progress is saved between multiple Windows 8 devices if you should have more then one and it will feature in-game purchases to accelerate game play.



The player has six civilization to chose from, each with their unique cultural units. The goal of the game is the usual you’re used to from the series, gather resources, build your castles, forts and armies and then attack the enemy players for the victory. The new game also allows you to connect with your friends through the Xbox Live portal and compete for the crown. The new game is specially designed to take advantage of touch-based devices with lot of swipe functions. Age of Empires: Castle Siege will be a Windows 8 exclusive and is a joint developed game between Microsoft itself and Smoking Gun Interactive Game Studios. It will be fully presented at the PAX Prime 2014 that starts in a couple of days. Microsoft has far from abandoned their child Age of Empires and is readying a new version of the game.
