It’s since received a score of 81 on Metacritic.

Six years after that game’s release, Age of Empires 3 was then released to PC in October of 2005. As a result, strategy games have held a special place in my heart, and it’s a genre that I’ll always find time for. Yes, the amazing AOE 2 was basically a free game. The first real-time strategy game I played was Age of Empires 2, and that was because it came as a free game in a cereal box.