Contest : Review Your Favourite Game Week 13
Hello to everyone in this noble community.
It is a pleasure to be able to participate in this contest. I will be talking about one of my favourite video game, which is ages of empire.
Well it was created by Microsoft. It was released in the year 1997. It is video game which is based on an ancient civilizations which makes the player their leader.
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Below is how the video game is; Age of Empires requires the player to develop a civilization or an empire on his own.To assure victory, the player must gather resources in order to pay for new materials like, buildings and more advanced technology. Resources found in the video game must be preserved, as no new resources become available as the game progresses. A simply example is trees that are cut down will not grow back. So the player needs to be more careful here.
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Twelve civilizations are available in the video game. Each has it's own individual sets of attributes or features including a varying number of available technologies and units. Each civilization has technologies unique to them, whereas no other civilizations has similar ability or resource.
A major parts of the game is the advancement through four ages. These are the Stone age, the Tool age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Advancement between ages is researched at the Town Center, and each advancement brings the player to discover new technologies, weapons, and units.
The game features four single-player campaigns in which the player is required to complete specific objectives. The campaigns follow the history of the Egyptian, Greek, Babylonian and Yamato civilizations.
Age of Empires allows up to 8 people to play the game online simultaneously.
The Player chooses to play as one of 12 civilizations. The civilizations are sorted into four architectural styles, based on East Asian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greek architecture.
The technology is researched at specific buildings. for example, in temples. Technological advances come in many categories, such as military upgrades, economic upgrades. Some technologies are not available to certain civilizations.
In this video game,technology plays a very important role in the strategy of the game. As a civilization progresses through the ages, levels. Technology becomes more and more expensive, which makes collecting the necessary resources to research them difficult.
Also players control a variety of civilian and military units. Most units can be upgraded through research e.g. stronger armor for military units.
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Villagers are the most basic units in Age of Empires. Their primary function is to collect resources, cutting down trees for wood, mining for stone and gold, farming, or fishing to acquire food.
Also the villagers can construct buildings and repair both buildings and are capable of engaging in hand-to-hand combat when necessary.
The Priests are non-combat units. Infantry units, such as clubmen, swordsmen, and hoplites use melee combat to attack at short range. Mounted units include chariots, cavalry, and war elephants. Archers, mounted or on foot, attack at range. Siege units are of two types: catapults and ballista. Catapults hurl stones which generate blast damage, affecting all units in a small area, and are especially effective against buildings and groups of units. The ballista is less damaging against buildings and units, but it fires faster and is cheaper than the catapult.
Fishing boats are similar to villagers in that they can gather fish. Merchant ships trade resources from the stockpile and exchange it for gold at another player's dock, with the amount of gold earned being relative to the distance between both docks. Transport ships carry land units from one area of land to another.
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The Town Center is one of the most important buildings in the game. Here villagers are created, and age advancement is researched.Most scenarios have each player begin with a single Town Center; the ability to build multiple Town Centers is unlocked by the construction of the Government Center during the Bronze Age.
Military units are produced at specific buildings relevant to their area. All sea units are created at the docks. Walls and towers are defensive fortifications. This makes age of empires one of the first real-time strategy games to include walls strong enough to form a feasible means of defense.
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Wonders are enormous monuments representing the architectural achievements of the time, such as the Egyptian Pyramids. They require huge amounts of resources to build and are constructed very slowly. Wonders can neither produce units nor conduct them.