You can speed the game up further, or drop it down to normal speed, but for 2018 the “Fast” speed does seem like a good compromise, maintaining the spirit of the original but making the pace more palatable for modern players. The game also seems to default to “Fast” speed-everything moves maybe 1.5x as fast as it did originally. Population limits have been increased, which makes for larger and more impressive battles. There are also some neat quality-of-life changes. It looks phenomenal, with Forgotten Empires bringing the visual fidelity up to the level of Age of Empires II HD. As I wrote in our hands-on with the multiplayer beta last month, “I like to think the sign of a good remaster is whether it looks the way you remember a game looking in your memories.” Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is definitely that, and more. Which is not to take anything away from the quality of the actual Age of Empires: Definitive Edition remaster.
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Once you’ve played one match, you’ve seen almost everything Age of Empires has to offer.Īll of this makes perfect sense in the context of “This is a real-time strategy game from 1997,” but as a hook for 2018, and with a fully-fleshed remaster of the sequel plus new expansions already available? A bit harder to swallow, maybe. Every faction plays pretty much the same, with minor differences to movement speed or villager yield, and while that undoubtedly is easier from a balancing standpoint it also can make the game feel a bit stale. Fighting against Egyptians fielding Roman Phalanxes never ceases to be a bit weird, and is directly at odds with the history-first tone the game tries to establish. That aspect has gotten even more prevalent with the release of multiple Age of Empires II HD expansions- The Forgotten, Rise of the Rajas, and The African Kingdoms, each of which added unique architecture, even more unique units, and so on.Īge of Empires: Definitive Edition feels a bit barebones by comparison. Each civilization in Age of Empires II had unique units, which could really change the balance of matches. IDG / Hayden DingmanĪge of Empires II also does slightly more with its factions. Age of Empires lets you build walls, but has no equivalent gate structure-meaning you can either wall yourself in and never leave, or simply use walls as a chokepoint instead of an actually meaningful barricade. I find myself missing a lot from Age of Empires II. Fact is, Age of Empires II HD does exist, and I’ve been playing it for almost five years now-and it’s a better game. That said, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is more interesting to me as an archival document than a game proper. Basic real-time strategy ideas, and the tutorial seems incredibly long and drawn out by today’s standards.
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It’s basically the Age of Empires tutorial campaign, teaching prospective players how to use their villagers to build structures, chop wood, farm crops, construct military camps, use those camps to train troops, attack neighboring factions, and so on.
Take the “Ascent of Egypt” campaign, for instance. Every faction, every campaign, is informed by historical context. That’s part of what I loved about the series. History has always been so intrinsic to Age of Empires though.
You could certainly argue names like “Phalanx” and “Legion” are just fancy set-dressing, the units indistinguishable from their Age of Empires II counterparts. That separation might not matter if you’re concerned only with mechanics. By contrast, Age of Empires II focused on the Medieval Era and early Renaissance, while Age of Empires III focused on the Colonial Era.
Thus the original Age of Empires focused on ancient history-the Hellenic Greeks, Egyptian Old and New Kingdom, the Phoenicians, Persians, and as of the Rise of Rome expansion, the Roman Empire.
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