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     "Age of Empire"
This article is about the Age of Empires video game series.For the first game of the series , see Age of Empires with your own eyes. Age of Empires is a series of compter games developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Studios.The fisrt little of the series was Age of Empires, released in 1997.Since then, seven titles and three spin-offs have been released.The tiltles are historical real time strategy games, and their gameplay revolves around two main game modes: Single player and Campaign.They competed with another popular strategy series, Civilization, and are set amidst hostorical events. Age of Empires focuese on events in Europe, Africa and Asia, spanning form the Stone Age to the Iron Age; the expansion game explored the formation and expansion of the Roman Empire. The sequel. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, was set in the Middle Ages, while its expansion of the Roman Empire.The subseqeunt three games of Age of Empires III explored the early morden peroid, when Europe was colonizing the Americans and several Asian different apporach as a free-to-play online games ultilzing Games for Windows Live. A spin off game, Age of Mythology, was set in the same period as the original Age of Empires, but focused on myhtological elements of Greek,Eygptian and, Norse mythology.