You still have the game being divided into a primary skirmish mode and a number of historical campaigns dedicated to linked scenarios which are slightly more freeform in nature. You still have unit triangles of some being more effective than others. You still have the same process of developing an economic engine which eventually turns into a sprawling thing, used to fuel a military which can destroy your opponents. The company worked on developing what it considered to be the ideal version of the original concept of the series and in 2001 produced Empire Earth.įor that reason, a lot of Empire Earth's core features are basically similar to Age of Empires. So he took the Director of Operations (Dara-Lynn Pelechatz) and the two of them founded Stainless Steel Studios in 1999.

But one of the guys on the dev team, Rick Goodman, thought that if they were going to make another game where you developed a civilization through a long period of human history, you might as well go all the way and include ALL of human history. The majority of the dev team began work on the sequel Age of Empires II as listed in the previous review.

So most of the people who worked on it with Ensemble Studios wanted to continue the idea in one form or another. Jossar posted: So Age of Empires did really well when it came out.

Space empires 2 lets play