Age of Empires
Age of Empires is a series of historical real-time strategy video games, originally developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. The first title of the series was "Age of Empires", released in 1997. Seven titles and three spin-offs have been released.
Age of Empires
Bungie chose Ensemble Studios to develop "Halo Wars", an RTS game based on their "Halo" series. They said that one of the reasons they chose to work with Ensemble was because of the "Age of Empires" series. They also noted that Ensemble was the perfect choice "to realize the original vision of "Halo"", which started life as an RTS.