Age of Empires: Gold Edition

Microsoft’s Age of Empires: Gold Edition is a real-time strategy classic that bundles the original Age of Empires with the Rise of Rome expansion on one disc. Spanning more than 10,000 years of history, it adds three new campaigns focused on Rome’s brutal battles, along with four new civilizations, ...

Age of Empires tasks you with growing a civilization from a small group of hunter-gatherers into a sprawling Iron Age empire. To win, you must gather and manage resources to afford new units, buildings, and increasingly advanced technologies. Careful planning matters because resources are finite: as the match continues, no new resources appear—if you cut down a tree, it will not grow back. The ga...