BAR is a data file used by Age of Empires III, a strategy game where players control units and build empires. Ages of Mythology is a mythology-based real-time strategy game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The games score was written by Music Director Stephen Rippy, and artist Kevin McMullan. The game was released on October 30, 2002 in North America followed by a European release. .BAR files may include game data, such as textures, music, fonts, text, and other game settings; serves as a file container that holds game data. .BAR files can be extracted by the popular Dragon UnPACker universal game archive extractor.