Age of Empires comes from the co-designer of the best-selling game Civilization, and this book is written by the author of Sybex's top-selling books about Civilization and Civilization II. Author Jason Rich concentrates on one scenario, the Egyptian, throughout the book and shows how the strategies that work for Egypt apply to all the other scenarios in the game. Extensive coverage is also given to multiplayer gaming and teaching gamers how to design their own scenarios with Age of Empires.