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Features
Like Age of Empires II, the game is set in the post-classical period. The start and end of the covered time frame is in general shifted slightly forward compared to Age of Empires II, from post-Migration Era to well into the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Migration Era civilizations like the Goths and Huns are missing, and equivalent civilizations appear in their post-Migration Era forms (i.e. French instead of Franks, English instead of Britons), and in the Imperial Age, units typically feature more advanced gunpowder technologies and armor designs. The list of notable features in Age of Empires IV includes, but is not limited to:
- Activated unit abilities
- Asymmetric civilization design
- Automatically generated paths and roads
- Grid-based building placement
- Fire mechanic for building destruction
- Landmark buildings for Age advancement
- Stealth Forest ambushes
- Stone walls immune to non-siege attacks
- Unit combat and movement on walls
- Unit Line of Sight (LOS) and movement limited by obstructions (e.g. forests)
- Unlimited unit selection cap
Campaigns
The game includes five (six for Xbox - the extra is marked with *) single-player campaigns themselves broken down into grouped scenarios. Each campaign covers the events of a historical period from the perspective of the particular civilization and accompanied by documentary-style narration and cinematics:
- The Normans
- The Hundred Years War
- The Mongol Empire
- The Rise of Moscow
- The Rise of a King*
- The Sultans Ascend<sup>x</sup>
Art of War
The Art of War is a special type of campaign across the series to help players learn the basics of the game.
- Early Economy
- Late Economy
- Basic Combat
- Early Siege
- Late Siege
- Advanced Combat
- Ottomans<sup>+</sup>
- Malians<sup>+</sup>
Civilizations
Age of Empires IV launched with eight civilizations. Two were added with the first free expansion and The Sultans Ascend each, with the latter also adding four variant civilizations. Two additional variants were added with the Knights of Cross and Rose expansion.
- Abbasid Dynasty
- Ayyubids<sup>S</sup>
- Byzantines<sup>S</sup>
- Chinese
- Delhi Sultanate
- French
- English
- Holy Roman Empire
- House of Lancaster<sup>K</sup>
- Japanese<sup>S</sup>
- Jeanne d'Arc<sup>S</sup>
- Knights Templar<sup>K</sup>
- Malians<sup>A</sup>
- Mongols
- Order of the Dragon<sup>S</sup>
- Ottomans<sup>A</sup>
- Rus
- Zhu Xi's Legacy<sup>S</sup>
- A : Anniversary Edition
- S : The Sultans Ascend
- K : Knights of Cross and Rose
Ages
Age of Empires IV has four Ages, with the same names as in Age of Empires II.
- Dark Age
- Feudal Age
- Castle Age
- Imperial Age
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- Name
- Age of Empires IV
- Release Date
- October 28, 2021
- Platform
- PC (Platform)
PlayStation 5 (Platform) - Developer
- Publisher
- Genre
- Real-Time Strategy (Genre)
- Franchise
- Age of Empires (Franchise)
- Aliases
- Age of Empires 4