Playable alpha for real-time strategy game 0 A.D. released
Nine years after it was first conceived and designed on paper, WIldfire Games has announced the arrival of a first alpha version of its free cross-platform, real-time strategy game 0 A.D. The historically-based game is similar to Microsoft’s Age of Empires, in that users create and build civilisations and must defend them against their enemies. The game focuses on the years 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. and includes six unique civilisations and several multi-player modes.
According to the developers, the alpha 1 release, code named “Argonaut”, is “a close approximation of a playable game” and it includes aggressive units that automatically attack enemies on sight.
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