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Genre: Real-time Strategy (PC)	Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Developer: Ensemble Studios	Release Date: Oct 15, 97 [North America]
Theme(s): Historical	Perspective(s): Isometric
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Background:
Play one of history's twelve mightiest civilizations. Each Civilization has strengths and weaknesses and can researched different technologies. You are the guiding spirit of a tribe that predates one of the great cultures of antiquity. Your goal is to build your tribe into a mighty civilization that can vie for world dominance. You can establish alliances with other civilizations, exchange tribute, and establish trade routes. Other civilizations are controlled by human or computer players.

Features:

Achieve victory in multiple ways: win by building a wonder, by destroying your enemies or by being the first to reach an objective
Command one of twelve civilizations, including the Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, Assyrians and Babylonians. Each civilization has unique attributes based on their historical counterparts.
Choose a technology path. Age of Empires lets gamers choose from numerous technological paths to help lead their civilization to greatness. Military or economic path are possible.
Players get to see the real-time results of their game play decisions, assigning tribe members to hunt, explore, conquer or build.
Players can conquer or cooperate with existing tribes in a multiplayer environment via the Internet (through the Internet Gaming Zone), over a LAN or modem-to-modem.
Players have over 10,000 years of real-time evolution to build their tribe into a powerful flourishing empire.
A fully integrated scenario editor lets the player create his/her own scenarios and campaigns.

Min System Requirements:
Minimum PC Requirements:

CPU Type: Pentium
CPU Speed in MHz: 90 MHz
RAM: 16MB (Windows 95), 24MB (Windows NT)
Hard Drive Space: 130MB
Sound Card: Windows compatible
CD Drive Speed: 2X (gameplay), 4X (cinematics)
Modem Speed: 28.8 Kbps
Video Card: Local bus
Video RAM in MB: 1MB
Graphics Type: SVGA
Color Depth: 256
Graphics Resolution(s): 640 x 480
Compatible Devices: mouse, keyboard

Multiplayer System Requirements:

Modem Speed: 28.8 Kbps