Golden Age of Empires

Golden Age of Empires is a real-time strategy game, serving as a "reboot" of the original Ensemble Studios' Age of Empires game. It is projected to be released for Microsoft Windows and have also an expansion called Ave Cesare.

* = exclusive in expansion Ave Cesare

Main Menu

 * Story mode
 * Domination*
 * Free play
 * Scenario
 * Multiplayer
 * Editor
 * Extras

Gameplay
Free play mode allows to customize any game in a real-time one-against-all struggle for global domination. Player can choose any of the civilizations present in the game, while choosing the civilizations for all the other 9 computer players (the max of players allowed for any game is 10). There also 5 epochs in the game: Prehistoric Age, Stone Age, Cooper Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.

Once in game the player will start with 3 villagers, plus a Town Center if the Normad option is not chosen.

Story mode
All scenarios can be seen here.

Story mode makes the player relive the origins of the most ancient empires of history. There are eight campaigns, plus 6 in the expansion, which also includes various scenarios called Great Battles.

Base game

 * 1) Children of the Nile, Egyptians, 8000 BC - 1075 BC
 * 2) Voices of Indus, Mauryans, 3300 BC - 550 BC
 * 3) Valley of Tigris and Eufrates, Babylonians,
 * 4) Empire of the Rising Sun, Yamato,
 * 5) Glory of Hellas, Greeks, 200 BC - 323 BC
 * 6) Dynasties of the Dragon, Shang, 1600 BC - 220 BC
 * 7) Soul of the Warriors, Celts,
 * 8) Sons of Baal, Phoenicians,

Expansion

 * 1) Rise of Respublica, Romans,
 * 2) Punic Wars, Romans,
 * 3) Ave Caesar, Romans, 74 BC - 30 BC
 * 4) Pax Romana, Romans,
 * 5) Hannibal's campaigns, Carthaginians
 * 6) The land of Chichen Itzà, Mayan,

Great Battles

 * 1) Cleopatra's resistance, Egyptians, 30 BC
 * 2) Pirrhus of Epirus, Greeks, 279 BC
 * 3) Teutoburg, Germans, 9 AD
 * 4) Brennus and Rome, Celts
 * 5) Hannibal Antae Portas, Carthaginians, 216 BC
 * 6) Brennus and Rome, Celts, BC
 * 7) Alaric and Ginserich, Germans, 410 AD
 * 8) Pelusium, Persians, 5. BC

Civilizations
Each civilizations has its advantages and architettonic style


 * Egyptians
 * Greeks
 * Minoans
 * Phoenicians
 * Sumerians
 * Babylonians
 * Assyrians
 * Hittites
 * Persians
 * Shang
 * Mauryans
 * Yamato
 * Choson
 * Celts
 * Nubians
 * Romans*
 * Carthaginians*
 * Germans*
 * Huns*
 * Vikings*
 * Mayan*
 * Incas*
 * Incas*