When did Empire of the Ants come out?

Empire of the Ants was released on 20 April 2000 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

Empire of the Ants (2000) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Empire of the Ants

Empire of the Ants takes you into the undergrowth of the frantic world of colonization and dominance within the insect kingdom. Build up huge colonies, lead your armies into battle for supremacy, hunt down…

70 20 April 2000

What Empire of the Ants is

Empire of the Ants is a simulator game developed by Microïds and released in 2000. It was published by Infogrames. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Empire of the Ants takes you into the undergrowth of the frantic world of colonization and dominance within the insect kingdom. Build up huge colonies, lead your armies into battle for supremacy, hunt down food, and breed to improve your numbers. Featuring 11 missions, 13 different breeds of ant to control, and numerous units such as exploding soldier ants, queen's gunners, and doorkeepers. Real-time effects include winter and summer seasons, rain, wind, and night/day. Beautifully rendered 3-D graphics depict a lavish insect kingdom. Play alone or in multiplayer mode over a network. Innovative AI reproduces the instinctual behaviors of every insect.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Empire of the Ants holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Empire of the Ants launched on 20 April 2000, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death, Breath of Fire IV and Power Stone 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death, Breath of Fire IV, Power Stone 2.

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