Age of Empires is one of the first games of the type to use real historical units and scenarios for the development of the storyline, which makes it really attractive. Players have to choose among twelve different civilizations from the Middle Ages (Egyptian, Shang, Greek, Persian, Hititas, Phoenician, etc), to make them rise and advance towards the conquest of the whole world.
v1.0 [Mar 1, 2008]
--Idle Villager Key - Pressing the period ( . ) key selects and centers the view on a villager or fishing boat that is not assigned a task. Pressing ( . ) cycles though all idle villagers and boats in the game. This is a keyboard-only command; there is no on-screen control for it.
--Shang Food Cost - The cost of a Shang villager was reduced to 40 food. The amount of food the Shang player starts with was reduced by 40.
--Phoenician Woodcutting Bonus - Phoenician villagers now work 15% faster. In previous versions of Age of Empires, they worked 54% percent faster.
