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Share Embed. Read Critic Reviews. Add to Cart. Add all DLC to Cart. View Community Hub. About This Game Age of Mythology The classic real time strategy game that transports players to a time when heroes did battle with monsters of legend and the gods intervened in the affairs of mortals.
Use mythological creatures like Minotaurs and Cyclopes to bolster your armies' strength. Call upon the gods for assistance in flattening enemy towns with meteors or scatter opposing troops with lightning storms. Recommended: OS: Windows 7, 8. See all. Customer reviews. Overall Reviews:. Review Type. All 23, Positive 21, Negative 2, All 23, Steam Purchasers 20, Other 3, Privacy Statement. Search Submit Search. Age of Mythology.
Game Menu. Age Of Empires. Read More. Age of Mythology: Extended Edition Trailer. While in Egypt, Arkantos learns the truth about Gargarensis: he hopes to gain immortality by freeing the Titan Kronos from Tartarus. They encounter Gargarensis again, and he traps them in a small valley with no escape. To conclude the campaign, Arkantos and his allies march on Atlantis, and Zeus bestows his blessing upon Arkantos, giving him the power to defeat Poseidon and Gargarensis.
Arkantos uses this power to kill a living Statue of Poseidon and Gargarensis. Poseidon, enraged that he failed, destroys Atlantis. Arkantos is unable to escape but is immortalized by Athena and becomes a god. An official campaign, The Golden Gift , was released as a download on Microsoft's website. The campaign follows adventures of Brokk and Eitri, the dwarves who appeared in the Age of Mythology campaign. The plot unfolds with both dwarves planning to create a giant Golden Boar as an offering to the Norse God Freyr.
While working separately, Brokk is approached by Skult also from Fall of the Trident who warns him that Eitri is making preparations to create the Boar without his brother, of which Eitri is also told the same about Brokk. As both brothers race to complete the Boar in the great forge, Skult steals the finished piece and hold it in Loki's fortress.
The brothers eventually assault the base and the Boar is eventually retrieved and successfully offered to Freyr. Ensemble Studios began work on their first fully 3D engine in parallel to their development of the first Age of Empires. Christened the BANG!
In developing Age of Mythology , Ensemble Studios decided to move away from the heart of the Age of Empires Series ; history, to avoid becoming stale and repetitive. This allowed them to work with new ideas. For the June Issue, in preparing for E3 , Computer Gaming World released Magazine featuring Thor on the front cover, the Age of Mythology Article had a whole pages worth of information that can be read here.
This article is the first piece of publically revealed Age of Mythology Information. However if one was lucky enough to gain the "Making of Age of Empires II" video, once can see the modelling of a now cut Norse Heavy Cavalry, called simply enough the Heavy Cavalry, making it the first true piece of revealed AoM content, back from sometime in According to Bruce Shelley they released numerous pictures every week videos, and other pre-release material because they saw it as "nurturing the community" and to develop hype.
The Story was at least changed several times, the most notable massive change being the switch of main characters, such as Misenus being replaced with Arkantos , other characters such as Mnevis, Achilles , and another unknown Cyclops Antagonist, Siegfried and another bandit called Shaba Ka being merged with Kemsyt The campaign structure changed at least 3 times, originally having some 40 scenarios, not including the cut Arena sub-campaign and the tutorials before being changed to 36 and finally Following the announcement of the game for September , [23] a trial version was released to the public.
In the trial version, the player could select any of the nine Gods available in the full version of the game. Age of Mythology underwent a large amount of play-testing during its developmental phase, as Ensemble Studios attempted to create a more balanced and competitive game than its predecessors. Greg T. Street commented that one of the reasons Age of Mythology is so popular is because the development team spent many hours working on the game through active testing, rather than just taking advice from a "faceless drone in another building.
In July it was announced that a Multiplayer Alpha would be released, this was given to a random, and chosen 10, players, and lasted for a month before closure. The sounds of Age of Mytholgy were designed in the way of using custom, recorded sounds instead of pre-recorded archive sounds or the use of synths , such as beating meat with real weapons and sledgehammers to be used as hack sounds, or recording penguins in SeaWorld Texas that was slowed down with other sound effects added to be used as the well known eerie souls in Erebus.
It was concluded that the best way to make it fair for everyone was to limit the use of god powers to one a game, compared to the original Hero that casted Godpowers system. The expansion was received well by critics and fans alike, though its rating was not as high as that of the original. A soundtrack to Age of Mythology was released on October 22, , under the record label "Sumthing Else". An example of this was "writing for a seventy-piece orchestra and then flying out to Washington to record it.
According to the Making of Age of Mythology, unlike previous Age of Empires games, Age of Mythology used real life instruments from the Ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Scandinavian eras, for a "Natural" feeling, some non-Antiquity instruments were used such as a Toy Piano for the credits song for example along with Indian Tablas and Persian Ney Flutes were used as well, despite being from areas the game did not cover.
In their review of the soundtrack, Avalanche Online stated that " Age of Mythology has an acustic [ sic ] sound that brings you back to the Earth's roots. The tracks appearing on the soundtrack are as follows: [30]. Age of Mythology was well-received by the public, reaching an estimated 1 million units sold within five months of its release. Age of Mythology received a score of 9.
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