So many of you might heard about this game, many of you might been playing this game till it's closure (like me). Few day ago I saw a gameplay of this game on youtube and I got so much memories about it and how much fun was playing this game. So I started to do some researches about the game in 2017. And I found a fan made project called Project Celeste so basically this is a fan made project where the people behind it bring AoEo back from the dead. It's still work in progress and there is some bugs with it... (friend list not working, multiplayer is kinda playable and etc...) but the guys behind the project gives us the opportunity to play CooP with our friends and other people which are playing the game. Basically it's the same game totally FREE. So if any of you guys loved the game go on PROJECT CELESTE web site and download the game FOR FREE.
About the game:
Age of Empires Online was a multiplayer online real-time strategy game developed by Robot Entertainment and Gas Powered Games, which released on August 16, 2011. Based upon the gameplay of the Age of Empires series, it was originally developed by Robot Entertainment, but on February 24, 2011, Gas Powered Games, the creators of Supreme Commander, took over production. The game was published by Microsoft. The game was free-to-play—it was free for users to play, though premium content could be earned or purchased, such as access to special items and blueprints, and more quests and features.
Age of Empires Online, like its predecessors, was a real-time based strategy videogame. The game featured much of the gameplay of the series, with the addition of a massive multiplayer online gaming element. The player possessed a capital city for each started civilization, that continued to exist when the player is offline. Also, the game featured a great quantity of new content, such as the ability to craft items with earned materials and trading with other players. The main gameplay revolved around the player developing a civilization from its birth to its peak and fall. To assure victory, the player had to gather and preserve resources to spend on new units, buildings and more advanced technology.Civilian units, called villagers, were used to gather resources (hunting, fishing, farming, forestry, mining etc.).. Resources could be traded, and also "spent" to train units, construct buildings, and research technologies.
Game closure :(
On January 3, 2013, it was announced by AOEO Trajan (Kevin Perry) via the official community blog that Age of Empires Online had finished its development stage and was entering its support phase, and in September 2013 Microsoft Studios announced that the Age of Empires Online servers would be shut down on July 1, 2014. Producer Kevin Perry gave a presentation at the 2013 Game Developers Conference explaining the reasons for AoEO's closure and why he believed its business model ultimately failed, that being mostly due to the content being too expensive to create for the small daily active userbase.
AoEo Project Celeste gameplay:
