In cooperative play quest rewards are only given to those players who have the quest active. Upon the completion of the quest's objectives, the player can continue exploring the map to recover any remaining treasure chests and is only required to return to his or her capital city when he or she feels everything has been accomplished. There are challenge missions which progressively get harder and include in game time limits. Win conditions often include complete defeat of your opponent, the building of a wonder, or getting certain units to a specified point on the map. Upgrades are also available for most units depending on how you've specialized your tech tree. Units are produced by a variety of buildings. Usage of villagers and careful management of wood, gold, stone, and food are critical to success. Age of Empires Online is very much in the same subgenre as StarCraft and other resource management-heavy real time strategy games. This is also where items can be equipped, crafted, and sold.Īfter a quest is started from a city in either singleplayer or co-op, the player is loaded into a separate map. Quests are accepted from NPCs in the various cities and capital city. This is where most of the RPG aspects are introduced. Similar to the commercially unpopular Age of Empires III, the capital city is persistent and can be constantly upgraded, added to, and expanded. Every player had a capital city which acted as an out-of-mission hub. The game could be played in singleplayer, co-op, and player vs. Gameplay A Greek Capital CityĪoE Online's gameplay was similar to other Age of Empires games despite the mild change in art direction. The game was a persistent real-time strategy with numerous role-playing elements. While the game was technically free-to-play, premium civilizations and content cost money. The game was eventually released on August 16th, 2011. Development was later passed over to Gas Powered Games. Age of Empires Online started development with Robot Entertainment, a private studio created by Tony Goodman, the founder of the defunct Ensemble Studios, which originally created the Age of Empires franchise.
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