Compare Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings for Windows to Age of Empires III: Gold Edition for Windows

When it comes to vast, kingdom-spanning ambition, you can't do better than Microsoft's Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. Microsoft went all out to create this real-time strategy game, and it fairly hums with gorgeous graphics, sophisticated AI, and challenging scenarios for the novice and experienced player alike. The point of the game is to shepherd your fledgling civilization to world domination, using war, trade, and exploration. You start with the bare minimum to get going, and you've got to balance your people's needs with your desire to be a little Napoleon. The Age of Kings gives you a ton of new units and technologies to enrich your strategic options. Each scenario is placed accurately within history, but you're also free to create your own. Less

The Age of Empires III: Gold package includes the complete Age of Empires III game and its first expansion pack Age of Empires III: The War Chiefs. In Age of Empires III players choose to guide one of eight Old World powers, and manage their empire from a European home city, while all of the base-building, battles, and conquest take place across the sprawling untamed wilderness of the Americas. Age of Empires III: The War Chiefs adds enhancements and introduces three civilizations. Less