Age of Empires II: The Conquerors

aka: AOK:TC, Age of Conquerors, AoC, AoE2:TC
Moby ID: 2195

Trivia

Janissary

Microsoft forced Ensemble to change the artwork for the Janissary unit in the Conquerors, because they thought the white dress and tall hats made them look like members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Online servers

The game's online servers (which were hosted on MSN Gaming Zone) were shut down on 19 June 2006 in the wake of MSN Games' shift from "CD-ROM matchmaking service" to casual online games.

References

With the series of Conqueror maps that shipped with the game, there is one of Texas. For anyone who doesn't get the joke, that's where Ensemble Studios is located. Of course, there is a little flag with the ES logo on it right over Dallas, and even a shipwreck where the designer Greg Street's old marine biology lab was.

Snow

Due to many people complaining that the new snow terrain in The Conquerors was ugly, a hack called NoSnow was released by m0d that removes all snow and ice from random map games.

Awards

  • GameSpy
    • 2000 – Special Award for Best Expansion Pack
  • PC Gamer
    • 2000 - Best Expansion Pack of the Year
  • PC Player (Germany)
    • Issue 01/2001 - Best Add-on in 2000

Information also contributed by Maw

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Trivia contributed by jeremy strope, Patrick Bregger, Plok.