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unusual facts about Age of Empires: The Age of Kings


Age of Empires: The Age of Kings

The Age of Kings allows the player to command any one of five historical civilizations: the Britons, Franks, Mongols, Saracens and Japanese.


Age of Empires: Mythologies

Each has three “major” Gods to choose from before each game, these being Zeus, Hades and Poseidon for the Greeks; Ra, Isis and Set for the Egyptians and Odin, Thor and Loki for the Norse.

Cultural depictions of Edward I of England

Edward is featured as the main antagonist in the cutscenes of the tutorial campaign of the 1999 video game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.

Greg Street

He also worked with Ensemble Studios on the Age of Empires series of real-time strategy games, during which period he was also known by the screen name "Deathshrimp".

MSN Games

For the following 5 years, the Internet Gaming Zone would be renamed several times and would increase in popularity with the introduction of popular retail- and MMORPG-games, such as UltraCorps, Age of Empires, Asheron's Call and Fighter Ace.

Portugal 1111: A Conquista de Soure

The game, a historic real-time strategy game similar to Microsoft's Age of Empires, was published by the Portuguese magazine Visão, and was released in 2004.

Rick Goodman

He is best known for the RTS games he designed, such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth.

Their first project was Age of Empires (AoE), in which Goodman worked as Lead Designer.

Sandy Petersen

There, he has worked as a game designer on several of their Age of Empires titles, including Rise of Rome, Age of Kings, and The Conquerors.


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