Age of Empires II: The Conquerors (W32)

Age of Empires II: The Conquerors

Platform: Windows 32 Year: 2000 Developer: Ensemble Studios Buy: Amazon

For other games in this series, see Age of Empires.

Age of Empires II: The Conquerors was the expansion pack for Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (W32). New features in the expansion pack included a smarter villager AI, the ability to automatically replenish farms once they were exhausted, ships moving in formations, ram garrisoning and smarter siege weapons. Other additions were maps based on real world locations, the ability to make custom random maps, a few new map types and four new campaigns. There were also new game types added: King of the Hill, Wonder Race, Defend the Wonder and Last Man Standing.

It also introduced two new world civilizations with a new architecture style, in addition to three other civilizations that were added. In an attempt to make the civilizations differ more from one another, each civilization also received an unique technology.

Screenshots

The title screen. Pre-game campaign story screen. A little village. Capture those towns. History of the Spanish. A castle under siege. Time to retreat.

Music

VGMPF Album Art

All the music (save for Droppin' tha Trou and The Bovinian Derivative) in the game has been created using a Boss DSS-330 synthesizer and an E-mu ESI-32 sampler, and finally the mixing and editing was done in SoundForge. The songs were produced in CD audio quality, but there was also a separate MIDI track produced in Cakewalk which was used in the demo version of the game. Also, because the game uses CD audio you can actually just put the CD into your CD player to listen to it. Just skip the first track which is the program.

All song titles have been confirmed by Stephen Rippy. Both the CD and the MIDI songs have been recorded, with the 1st track being the CD quality music and the 2nd track the MIDI songs.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
101	Quest for Jam	Stephen Rippy	1:01		Download
102	Pork Parts	Stephen Rippy	3:06		Download
103	The Monkey Book	Stephen Rippy	3:30		Download
104	Tide Me Over Warm 'em Ups	Kevin McMullan	2:51		Download
105	Voodoodoodoo	Stephen Rippy	2:55		Download
106	The Bovinian Derivative	Kevin McMullan	3:09		Download
107	Case in Point: Paste	Stephen Rippy	2:58		Download
108	Seamus & Chamois	Kevin McMullan	3:24		Download
109	Shookies in the Bank	Kevin McMullan	3:09		Download
110	Basura! Basura!	Stephen Rippy	2:42		Download
111	Neep Ninny-Bod (Mix 2)	Stephen Rippy	3:16		Download
112	Uluzah	Stephen Rippy	0:54		Download
113	Carne y Helado	Stephen Rippy	1:19		Download
114	Rich Corinthian Leather	Stephen Rippy	0:46		Download
115	Droppin' tha Trou	Stephen Rippy, Kevin McMullan	3:57		Download

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
201	Quest for Butter	Stephen Rippy	1:00		Download
202	Case in Point: Paste	Stephen Rippy	2:56		Download
203	Bass Bag (Single Mix)	Stephen Rippy	3:10		Download
204	I Will Beat on Your Behind	Stephen Rippy	2:53		Download
205	Operation Monkey	Stephen Rippy	3:17		Download
206	Machina del Diablo	Stephen Rippy	3:00		Download
207	Ride, Lawrence, Ride!	Stephen Rippy	2:36		Download
208	T Station	Stephen Rippy	3:08		Download
209	Neep Ninny-Bod	Stephen Rippy	3:04		Download
210	Uluzah	Stephen Rippy	0:41		Download
211	Rich Corinthian Leather	Stephen Rippy	0:43		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Litude
• Recorder: Litude
• Game Credits:
  • Music: Stephen Rippy
  • Music: Kevin McMullan
  • Sound: Chris Rippy

(Source)

Albums

More Music From the Ages 2000-05-11 Ages Compilation 2000-10-30

Game Rip

Format	Download	Size
	Download	58 KB

The soundtrack is CD audio on the game disc. However it has been combined into a single track with the tracks slightly overlapping each other in order to save space. Because of this the tracks have been ripped from the soundtracks where they are completely separate; they were ripped using EAC. The MIDI soundtrack is located in the .\sound\midi folder of the demo version and was converted with dBpoweramp Music Converter.

CD audio is too large to store in it's raw format, besides, the recording sounds almost the same as the rip and as such only MIDI files are included. The MIDI is type 1.

Releases

USA Title: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Platform: Windows 32 Released: 2000-08-25 Publisher: Microsoft Corporation     Germany Title: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Platform: Windows 32 Released: 2000-09-01 Publisher: Microsoft Corporation     UK Title: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Platform: Windows 32 Released: 2000-09-?? Publisher: Microsoft Corporation

Links

• mobygames.com/game/windows/age-of-empires-ii-the-conquerors - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.com/pc/914421-age-of-empires-ii-the-conquerors-expansion/ - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Empires_II:_The_Conquerors - Wikipedia.

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Notable Songs	Open - Age of Empires (W32) • Quest for Butter
Notable Personnel	Stephen Rippy • David Rippy
Notable Companies	Ensemble Studios • Microsoft