Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is almost everything an Age of Empires fan could think they want. Unless they want the castles from Age of Kings.
An introduction: AoE:DE takes the original 1997 game, throws in its expansion Rise of Rome, cleans up the visuals, makes a few UI changes and sets it loose in 2018.
haven’t played this game in years, so it’s been interesting sitting down with it well into the 21st century and finding how much of it still works, and how much of it doesn’t.
Age of Empires was a strategy game that mixed the frantic clicking of WarCraft with the technological advancement of Civilization, combining them into an RTS that was bigger, bolder and smarter than most of its late-90s competition.
At the time, it was a revelation. Two decades on, though, and you can maybe understand why we’re going so long between Age of Empires III and IV.