

New Campaignsįour new campaigns were added into the game. Smaller improvements were added, such as in the campaign, Hero Units were now able to regenerate health. Another significant improvement was the population limit for each player/civilization, which increased from 75 to 200. This is a feature still used in the third part of the series. Chat commands, a staple to the series were added to ask AI players for resources such as food, gold, stone, and wood or to tell their AI allies to attack the enemy. Other features were also added to aid in single player gameplay. This aided in 'micromanagement' which made the game easier and more accessible to new players. For one thing artificial intelligence was made more user friendly and was changed in order to be more intelligent. There were many changes made to the core gameplay in order to make it more user friendly. Many new features were added into the game, tweaks to the core gameplay were also put into place. The expansion pack was well received by critics and currently has an 88.5% rating on Gamerankings. The expansion pack requires Age of Empires II: Age of Kings to work.

Age of Empires II: The Conquerors is an expansion pack which adds a large variety of new features to the original game, Age of Empires II: Age of Kings.
