Age of Empires: Mythologies

Story

As in the original Age of Mythology, there are three civilizations - Greek, Egyptian and Norse - each with their own unique units, buildings, powers and methods of gaining favor. Each has three 'main gods' that you can choose from before each game - Zeus, Hades and Poseidon for the Greeks, Ra, Isis and Set for the Egyptians and Odin, Thor and Loki for the Norse. In addition, there are "secondary gods" for each deity, which the player can choose from when advancing an age. All gods grant the player unique technologies, perks, myth units and divine powers that are used to harm or benefit the player. There are three types of base units - humans, heroes and myth units, the latter two being mythical figures or creatures from the mythology and legends of the historical civilization. A rock-paper-scissors model determines which units are best against others; for example, humans are good against heroes, but weak against mythos units. Each unit also has a sub-category, such as heavy infantry or archers, which in turn are better against certain other units. Human units include hoplites or chariot archers, heroes include Odysseus and Ramses, and myth units include cyclops and giants. The campaign is divided into 8 scenarios for all three civilizations. The first, the Egyptian, revolves around Hatshepsut and her father Thutmose defeating Seth's son Setekh after investigating bandit raids near Memphis.