Age of Mythology: Gold Edition

Age of Mythology Gold Edition, first released in 2004, is often available in stores and is the most cost-effective way to get the game. It includes both titles on a single DVD-ROM: - Age of Mythology - Age of Mythology: The Titans

AoM: Age of Mythology is a real-time strategy game about building towns and armies, training villagers and fighters, and defeating enemy units and settlements. Players expand and conquer rival towns and civilizations while advancing through four Ages. Starting in the Archaic Age, players can upgrade to the Classical Age, the Heroic Age, and finally the Mythic Age. Each Age unlocks new units and technologies that strengthen your settlement, but upgrades require paying resources and constructing a required prerequisite building. Age of Mythology features three playable cultures: the Greeks, Egyptians, and Norse. Each culture has three major gods—key deities such as Ra, Zeus, or Odin—and the player chooses a major god before the game begins. Each time a player advances to the next Age, they select a minor god, which is historically less significant than a major god. Minor gods include Bast and Aphrodite. Every god grants unique technologies, myth units, and a unique god power—a one-time special ability that can harm an opponent or benefit the player who uses it. AoM - The Titans: The story begins with Kronos, still trapped in Tartarus, watching the Atlanteans struggle to survive harsh winters in the Norselands after Atlantis was destroyed 10 years earlier in the events of Age of Mythology. Kronos sends an unnamed servant to the colony, who kills the Theocrat Krios and possesses his body. Krios speaks of a temple he saw in a vision. The Atlanteans leave the Norselands using the foretold temple, a Sky Passage, and arrive on a resource-rich island. There, Krios points out plant-covered Temples to Oranos and Kronos and convinces everyone—including Kastor—to worship them. This enrages the Greeks, who quickly attack. The Atlanteans retaliate by destroying the entire Greek colony. Survivors report the defeat to General Melagius, but the Atlanteans then invade his city, Sikyos, and kill him. As Melagius falls, his Egyptian and Norse allies arrive to support the city. Kastor decides they are too strong and retreats, choosing instead to strike their homelands while they focus on defending Greece. In the Norselands, Kastor destroys Norse temples and replaces them with Atlantean temples to display his superiority. He also destroys the Tower of Odin—Odin’s only stronghold on Earth—using a god power granted by Kronos. Some Atlantean forces sail to Egypt. Arkantos warns Queen Amanra that the Atlanteans plan to steal Egyptian relics. Amanra strengthens defenses around the relics, but the Atlanteans still manage to take them. Arkantos protects Amanra from Atlantean soldiers and tells her Kastor is being deceived, urging her to find him and help him. Meanwhile, Krios congratulates Kastor and reveals a Sky Passage that will place him behind Greek lines. Kastor enters and arrives on Mount Olympus. Using special temples that transform his men into different myth units, Kastor kills followers of the Olympian gods, including Odysseus. Afterward, the temple to Zeus on the mountain collapses. Back in Greek lands, the Titan Prometheus and an army of Prometheans from Tartarus devastate Sikyos. Krios arrives and explains that Kastor’s actions in Greece, Egypt, and the Norselands—combined with the invasion of Olympus—have weakened the Olympian gods’ control over these territories, allowing minor titans to appear. Krios then reveals his true form as a winged demon and servant of Kronos, and escapes.