Age of Empires II: Gold Edition

Age of Empires II is a real-time strategy game that focuses on building towns, gathering resources, and creating armies to defeat opponents. The player takes control of one of thirteen civilizations, including the Chinese, Goths, Britons, and Vikings, among others. The player starts with a handful of villagers, through expansion and careful handling of the economy, the player can advance up to the point where powerful war machines and well trained masses of troops will be the player's to make and control.

There are three distinct ways to play, one of which the object is to hunt and kill the other player(s) king, however there are a lot of options for each, anywhere from what type of map to start on (including coastal, gold rush, arabia, and rivers) to what the maximum amount of units are allowed.

The Gold Edition includes:

- Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (base game, patched to v2.0a).

- Age of Empires II: The Conquerors (expansion, patched to v1.0b which includes the bonus maps from the box blurb).

- Three replays with recommended gameplay.