Age of Empires 4 will be releasing in October, and we now know what all eight of the launch civilisations are going to be. Initially we were only told about four during the official gameplay reveal back in April, but as part of E3 2021 we learned about the final four.
Age of Empires 4's launch civilisations are meant to represent a wide breadth of cultures and polities that existed during the game's timeframe - which is from around the 11th century through to the start of the Renaissance. There is a European flavour to the launch roster, as three out of four of the launch civs are firmly within the borders of Europe. A fourth - the Rus - are an emergent culture from the inter-mingling of Scandinavian adventurers and the local Slavic population living in western Russia.
The remaining four Age of Empires 4 civs come from other parts of the world - North Africa and the Mediterranean, central/south Asia, and then the steppes and the far east. Plenty of areas don't have any representation though, such as North/South America, central and southern Africa, and parts of south east Asia and the Pacific.
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