An expansion called The Forgotten added 5 new civilizations: Incas, Indians, Italians, Magyars, and Slavs. Regions Western EuropeanĪ high definition remake for Steam, Age of Empires II HD, was released in 2013. The shareware version is limited to the William Wallace Learning Campaign. In 2000, an expansion pack called The Conquerors was released, which adds 5 additional civilizations – making four civilizations for each region, and adding a New World region – 4 new campaigns, 11 new units, 26 new technologies, and a number of other improvements. Historical information is provided before and after every level, making the game educational as well as addictively fun. Creating units requires varying amounts of four resources, so players must chop down trees for wood, forage, fish, hunt, or farm for food, and mine for gold and stone. The player can bring his civilization into the next age to make better weapons, armor, and ships available. Players start with an empire that is in one of four 'ages' – the Dark Age, Feudal Age, Castle Age, or Imperial Age – which means that only certain technologies are available. Naturally, conquest is the ultimate goal. You command one of 13 historical empires and help them develop their economy, food supply, technology, and military. The second game in the popular Age of Empires series. *Internet access required for Internet play. To access the MSN Gaming Zone you need Internet Explorer 3.02 or later software or Netscape Communicator 4.0 or later. Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device.Ģ8.8Kbps modem (or higher recommended) for Internet* or head-to-head play. Local bus video card that supports 1024x768, 256-color resolution and 2 MB of VRAM. Super VGA monitor supporting 1024x768 resolution. Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5 operating system.ĩ0 MB of hard disk space additional 100 MB of hard disk space for swap file. Multimedia PC with Pentium 166MHz or higher processor.

Age of empire old version