Age of Empires II

Over the last week for class we have been playing Age of Empires II which is a game that is set in the dark ages. This week in class we talked about the dark ages in Europe and Asia so that we could get a better background when playing Age of Empires II. The game puts a big focus on building walls around your city and building up your military with knights and archers. You also have have to manage your natural resources by making farms, cutting down trees, mining ores, or even fishing and trading. To increase the cap for your population you have to build houses to be able to accommodate your city too. When you start the game you are thrown into a map with the number of other cities that you compete with determined by the size of the map that you want to play on, and then you are given a small number villagers to start your first farm and build your town hall which is where you make more villagers. After you get the basics set down then you get to decide how you want your city to develop, there is always the classic build an army and then go burn down your enemies Genghis Khan would have done, or you can build up you economy and just trade with the other cities and make allies the whole game. This game is a classic that has influenced many other similar copy cat games that have followed in its footsteps and is a great game for giving people an idea of how different kingdoms feuded back in the dark ages.