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Age of Empires II: The Conquerors

by Ensemble Studios·published by Microsoft

25 August 2000Teen21
PCWindows

Reader score

8.4/ 10

79 votes

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Gallery

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About

Age of Empires II: The Conquerors is an add-on for Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings adds five new civilizations, including two from America, the Mayans and Aztecs. It also adds eleven new units such as the halberdier (an answer to the powerful paladins) and eagle warriors, which are used by the Mayans and Aztecs instead of stable units; a unique technology for each civilization including Kataparuto for the Japanese (increases Trebuchet fire rate and pack/unpack speed) and Zealotry for the Saracens (increases hit points for camels and mamelukes); and several new general technologies, such as Bloodlines, which increases the hit points of mounted units, and thumbring, which increases the rate of fire and accuracy of archers.

Several game balancing tweaks have been added too, for example janissaries have had their attack increased, and mangonels don't auto attack if some of your units could be hurt. One of the biggest changes, however, is the villager AI has been changed so they now gather after making a drop off building...i.e. after making a lumber camp they will start to chop wood.

It also adds three new types of play, such as Wonder Race in which the goal is to build a wonder before anyone else.

Ways to play

Modes

Single playerMultiplayer

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric

Engine

Genie Engine

Expansion for

Included in

Age of Empires II: Gold Edition

Game details

Business Model

Commercial

Supported Systems/Models

x86 (32-bit)

Drivers/APIs Supported

DirectDraw

Media Type

CD-ROM

Input Devices Required

Mouse

Input Devices Supported/Optional

Keyboard

Multiplayer Options

Internet, LAN, Modem

Multiplayer Game Modes

Bots, Free-for-all / One-on-one (VS), Team

Number of Offline Players

1 Player

Number of Online Players

2-8 Players

Save Game Methods

Manual Save

Miscellaneous Attributes

Audio CD Tracks

System requirements

Min. CPU Class Required

Intel Pentium

Min. OS Class Required

Windows 95

Min. RAM Required

32 MB

Min. DirectX Version Required

DirectX 7.0

Min. CD-ROM Drive Speed Required

4X (600 KB/s)

Min. Video Memory Required

2 MB

Video Modes Supported

Full screen

Video Resolutions Supported

800×600, 1024×768

Box art

Also known as

AOK:TC — Informal/Slang

Age of Conquerors — Informal title

AoC — Common abbreviation

AoE2:TC — Common abbreviation

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Facts

Publisher

Microsoft

Released

25 August 2000

Platforms

PCWindows

Age ratings

ESRBTeenUSK12ACBG8+ELSPA3+SELLTPCCE (IGAC)M/6

Standing

Top 24% by visits

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