"AGE OF EMPIRES," A WINDOW TO THE FUTURE

"AGE OF EMPIRES," A WINDOW TO THE FUTURE

"Age of Empires" is a game for PC with hideous graphics and able to work with "IBM” but, even with this disadvantages,  it is amazing. At first glance it seems a game of war between nations, but there is a great philosophical theory!
The historical time is the prehistory age, but as you can get resources you can advance the time until the age of castles (Middle Age). Every age has its advantages.

Regarding the game, you can choose between 20 different civilizations (I always choose Turks, because they have beautiful buildings) and you can choose between 3 modes of play: "get relics" you win if you get all four relics, "build a wonder": which costs a huge amount of resources, finally "conquest": you win if you kill all your enemies.
Now I have explained the general characteristics but you can also create your own world (I've discovered this application this weekend), make allies, build farms, became enemies (by monks), trade ...

I would say that the most interesting in this game, is learn to manage resources (gold, food, stone and wood) throughout the game. In this game, as in the world, every scenario has limited forests, limited mines, and limited fish in the sea and wild animals so the resources can be exhausted. If the resources are exhausted you can start to crying, you cannot create any building or any citizen or any soldier.... Therefore, I believe that this game resembles the real world: the excessive consumption of resources (to build wonders, cities, huge armies ...) just to destroy civilization itself. The best way of wasting resources is to make soldiers. And, similarly, if we continue consuming so much oil, wood etc ... we will lose Amazons, gasoline....

One thing I would say is that civilizations, controlled by PC, which has touched a place where there are a lot of resources, are destined to disappear. So, if you are starting to invest in wars you will disappear. I would say: it would be good for the world that the world’s leaders play regularly, so maybe we would not have so many problems.

By Dr. Ignasius Bofillus Atrolupitechus