Age of Mythology

[DestaliusDark]

 

 

 

Age of Mythology (commonly abbreviated to AoM), is a mythology-based, real-time strategy computer game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released on October 30, 2002 in North America and a week later in Europe.

A spin-off from the Age of Empires series, Age of Mythology takes inspiration from the myths and legends of the Greeks, Egyptians, and Norse, rather than from actual history.However, many gameplay elements are similar to the Age of Empires series. Its campaign follows an Atlantean admiral, Arkantos, who is forced to travel through the lands of the game's three cultures, hunting for a cyclops who is in league with Poseidon against Atlantis.

Age of Mythology was commercially successful, going platinum four months after its release after selling over one million units. The game's critical reception was generally positive: it scored 89% on both Game Rankings and Metacritic

 

Gameplay

 

 

Like many other real-time strategy games, Age of Mythology is based on building towns, gathering resources, creating armies, and ultimately destroying enemy units and buildings. In this way, players are able to defeat and conquer rival towns and civilizations. Players advance their tribe through four "Ages": starting in the Archaic Age, the player may upgrade to the Classical Age, the Heroic Age, and finally, the Mythic Age. Each upgrade to a higher Age unlocks new units and technologies for the player, which strengthens their settlement. However, upgrading requires a sum of resources to be paid and a certain prerequisite building to be constructed.

 

 

 

In this screenshot, an Egyptian town under attack by the Norse, defending itself using the meteor god power.

 

There are three playable civilizations in Age of Mythology: the Greeks, Egyptians, and Norse. Each civilization has three "major gods"—deities such as Zeus or Odin. The player chooses their major god before the game begins. Every time a player advances to the next age, a "minor god" is selected. Minor gods are slightly less significant historically than their major counterparts. Some minor gods include Bast and Aphrodite.All gods grant the player unique technologies, myth units, and a unique "god power"—A one-time special ability that can either damage an opponent, or benefit the player that uses it.

There are four major resources in Age of Mythology: food, wood, gold, and favor; unlike previous games by Ensemble Studios, this game does not include the stone resource. Resources can be used to train units, construct buildings, and research technologies, among other things. Civilian units—namely, the Greek villagers, Norse gatherers and dwarfs, the Egyptian laborers, and fishing boats—are used to gather resources. Hunting animals, gathering berries, harvesting livestock, farming, and fishing are all methods by which food can be gathered. Wood is gathered only by chopping down trees, and gold is gathered from either gold mines or from trade. Each civilization can purchase upgrades that increase the rate of gathering these resources. Favor is acquired in different ways by different civilizations: Greek players gain it by having villagers pray at temples; Egyptian players earn it by building monuments; and Norse players receive it by fighting/hunting animals or by possessing heroes. Resources can be exchanged at a player's market, with the exception of favor.

 

 

More info on AOM can be found here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Mythology

 

 

 

Gameplay

 

Age of Mythology: The Titans is a real-time strategy computer game expansion pack of Age of Mythology. It was developed by Ensemble Studios and released on September 30, 2003.

The Titans adds a fourth culture to the game, the Atlanteans, and three new major gods, plus new units, buildings and god powers. It also includes many new features, such as auto-queueing (allows indefinite training of units as long as you have sufficient resources), and the ability to summon a Titan, a gargantuan, godlike being that forms the game's focal point. Critics gave Titans an average rating of 84% according to GameRankings.

 

More info on AOM:TT can be found here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Mythology:_The_Titans

 

 

 

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Multiplayer

 

How to play AOM online.

 

The best one to use is the gameranger one. (Very easy to install, supports a big list of games, has many nice players , and good connections)

 

https://sites.google.com/site/aomfreeonline/

 

Or the hamachi way (More setup and annoying lag issues, very few players)

 

http://www.vpngamer.com/showthread.php/29-...-VPN-connection

 

Tunngle way (less setup then Hamachi, still more work then game ranger, might cause random lag and strange issues, has not many players.)

 

http://www.vpngamer.com/showthread.php/44-...-VPN-connection

 

 

 

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Discuss, in this topic about AOM and more.

I love this game, it has amazing gameplay and music.

It's great for many RTS fans, but beware when playing online.

 

Thye so called "Noobs" are not really noobs anymore these days.

They kick your ass, and the Pro players. Rape you

 

[DestaliusDark]

Has no one ever played this?

The community is f*cking giant xP

[Law0070]

Still a big community? i played it tons, loved the campaign, but it's a tad dated now

[DestaliusDark]

It's old, but the community is still big, and a lot of people still play it

 

[Chorup]

AoM is probably up there as one of my favourite games of all time. I still play it occasionally on gameranger.

 

I wouldn't say the community is giant. It was relatively small compared to the previous AoE games. Very underrated game.

[matajuegos]

I loved the titans (expansion), they likle to beat the sh*t out of everything; one of them punched a horse so hard that flew away, lol

[Gtaplayaminigun]

This game brings back so many good old memories. I loved the campaign of both aoe and aoe te. I loved the non campaign games too. I haven't played online multiplayer though, as the last time i played it was way back and i didn't have an internet connection back then.

[DestaliusDark]

The community as a whole is pretty big.

Gameranger is not the only place ;P

 

titans are fun, but actually they can be killed pretty fast with the right units, like any hero unit will do extra damage to a titan.

So if you spam hero units, yeah the titan is dead in no time xP