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Empires: Dawn of the Modern World

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World is a 2003 history-based real-time strategy computer game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and released on October 21, 2003. Considered an unofficial sequel to Empire…

80 21 October 2003

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Stainless Steel Studios, released 21 October 2003 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Empires: Dawn of the Modern World is

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and released in 2003. It was published by Activision. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World is a 2003 real-time strategy video game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and published by Activision. Set in a world-historical period that extends from the Middle Ages to World War II, the game tasks players with guiding one of nine rival great civilizations to victory. The game contains both a single player campaign as well as multiplayer gameplay mode.
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How it plays

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

How it was received

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World launched on 21 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

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When did Empires: Dawn of the Modern World come out?
Empires: Dawn of the Modern World was released on 21 October 2003 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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