There are three additional single player game modes, and multiplayer is supported. There are five historically-based campaigns, which constrict the player to specialized and story-backed conditions. Players aim to gather resources, which they use to build towns, create armies, and ultimately defeat their enemies.
The Age of Kings is set in the Middle Ages and contains thirteen playable civilizations. The Sega Dreamcast port, by Konami, was canceled. A PlayStation 2 version was released by Konami in 2001, and a Nintendo DS spinoff, Age of Empires: The Age of Kings was developed by Backbone Entertainment in 2006. An expansion, The Conquerors, was released in 2000. Released in 1999 for the Windows and Mac OS operating systems, it is the second game in the Age of Empires series. For the Nintendo DS game, see Age of Empires: The Age of Kings.Īge of Empires II: The Age of Kings (often shortened to The Age of Kings, AoE II, or AoK) is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft.
