Quote Originally Posted by Byzantine_Prince
If the game is anything like those screenies then I don't know why they kept the name Age of Empires. Seriously there was only one Empire at the time, the French. There was Prussia as well but it's not really a major part. Well I guess you could pass off Russia as well but that's stretching it.

Quite untrue. Since I think the game will take place from ~1492 to 1??? (do not know the end game year), that allow them to have many empires (Catholic Spain, HRE, Ottoman, Austria-Hungary, Russia, etc. but not France ^_^)