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"帝国时代" -- Simplified Chinese spelling

"世紀帝國" -- Traditional Chinese spelling

"Tribe" -- Working title

"Diguo Shidai" -- Chinese title

"Dawn of Man" -- Early working title

"AoE" -- Abbreviated name

"Age of Empires: Un juego épico para crear y conquistar imperios" -- Spanish tag-lined title

"Age of Empires: Ein Spiel über große Zivilsationen und Eroberungen" -- German tag-lined title

"Age of Empires: Bâtissez votre civilization." -- French tag-lined title

"Age of Empires: An Epic Game of Empire-Building and Conquest" -- Tag-lined title

"Age of Empires 1" -- Retroactive informal name

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In, players are able to manage a tribe with their mouse. Command them to build houses, docks, farms, and temples. The player advances their civilization through time by learning new skills. The game allows the player to advance through the Ages: The Paleolithic (old Stone Age), the Neolithic (new Stone Age, or the Tool Age), the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. If the player would rather get away from the historical aspect, the game offers a random terrain generator and a custom scenario builder.The game has four resources: food, obtained by either hunting, foraging, fishing, or farming; wood, which must be logged by hand; stone, which must be mined; and gold, which can either be mined or obtained through trade with other players.As a real-time war game,naturally revolves around gathering resources and producing units.

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Computer Gaming World March 1998 (Issue #164) – Outstanding Multiplay of the Year June 2001 (Issue #203) – Introduced into the Hall of Fame

Game Informer August 2001 (Issue #100) - #81 in the Top 100 Games of All Time poll

GameSpy 2001 – #14 Top Game of All Time

GameStar (Germany) Issue 12/1999 - #14 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking

Interactive Achievement Awards (Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences) 1998 – Computer Strategy Game of the Year – Won 1998 – Interactive Title of the Year – Nominated

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April 2000 issue - #21 in the Readers All-Time Top 50 Games poll

Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (Entertainment Software Association Germany) 1998 - Gold Award for selling more then 100,000 units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 1998 - Platin Award for selling more then 300,000 units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland



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appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.The demo released is worth getting, even for those owning the full game. It includes a tutorial campaign featuring the Hittites and two maps not present in the full version.Being a RTS, it's surprising the printed manual in the UK release only covers the game basics, but the game includes a large online help file worth hundreds of pages of both game and historical information. Guess it's true that digital informationsave trees."Multiplayer mode" inis actually something of a misnomer. It is possible to create and play a multiplayer game with only one player.In 1998,has won both the Gold- and Platinum-Awards from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 units (Gold) and more then 200,000 units (Platinum) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. As the Gold-Award is not counted into the Platinum-Award, both awards total in between 300,000 and 700,000 units sold.