Age of Empires is one thing, but Civilisation...
I got IV a couple weeks ago. I never thought it was possible to be so addicted to a game. It is just... sublime.
What is Age of Empires about? Is it a good game?
I am interested in getting a good game that I will not get tired of. I like the Nintendo style of games better than xbox/ps2 games....
Age of Empires is a series of games in the Real Time Strategy genre, which means the game world is a landscape and somewhere on it your chosen race/civilisation/tribe sets up camp, which grows larger, begins producing military units, or setllers that can found new towns, and so on. Elsewhere on the board are other races/civilisation doing exactly the same thing, and the aim of each game is to either wipe them out, wipe one in particular out, perhaps by allying with another, or destroy/create a particular target.
Age of Empires is a historically themed RTS - the first was set in the ancient world, the second in medieval times and this one during the colonisation of the new world, which is your larger objective as one of a bunch of European nations. AoE III has had some great reviews, and is particularly stunning to look at for an RTS, so you should definately give it a look.
