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Age of Empires: Collector's Edition

Age of Empires is a real-time strategy game where players build a great civilisation out of an Ice Age tribe over a period of 10,000 years. Players accomplish this by exploring their surroundings, conquering…

30 October 2000

Age of Empires: Collector's Edition is an adventure developed by Ensemble Studios, released 30 October 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Age of Empires: Collector's Edition is

Age of Empires: Collector's Edition is an adventure game developed by Ensemble Studios and released in 2000. It was published by Microsoft. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Genie Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Age of Empires requires the player to develop a civilization from a handful of hunter-gatherers to an expansive Iron Age empire. To ensure victory, the player must gather resources in order to pay for new units, buildings and more advanced technologies. Resources must also be preserved, as no new resources become available as the game progresses, meaning if you cut a tree down, the tree will not grow back. Twelve civilizations are available, each with individual sets of attributes, including a varying number of available technologies and units. Each civilization has technologies unique to them, so that no civilization possesses all the technologies possible within the game. A major…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Age of Empires: Collector's Edition launched on 30 October 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike and Escape from Monkey Island.

Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island.

Official trailer

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When did Age of Empires: Collector's Edition come out?
Age of Empires: Collector's Edition was released on 30 October 2000 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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