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Preview By Dan

           Age of Empires is a great new strategy game coming out
           from Microsoft and Ensemble Studios. It is a real-time
           strategy game that is greatly influenced by Warcraft. You
           can create buildings, make your own towns, chose
           between different civilizations, attack other people, and so
           much more!

           This is another one of those game types I've seen a lot of
           recently. This one looks to be promising! You can build
           walls and defense towers so you can protect your
           buildings and structures. You can't always put a wall
           around everything you build.

           In this game there is an effect on just about everything
           you do. For example, the population of your civilization is
           controlled by the number of houses you have. Though
           there is one exception of how many units you can create,
           the limit is 50. This limit means you have to balance out
           the number of your units. If you ever have a unit you don't
           want to keep, you can always destroy it just by hitting the
           delete key.

           The game uses a 3D terrain. If you take a look at some of
           the screenshots to the right, I think you'll be convinced
           with the graphics for this incredible upcoming game!
           Which is pretty impressive considering it runs with 256
           colors.

           Of course a game like this must have multi-player modes.
           Yes it does, it has two to eight players that can compete
           against each other online or a two player game by
           modem. Now we have to wait before we can play.