![]() ![]() Overall I feel like the game delivers on its initial promise giving you that AoE experience you fell in love with all those years ago. While the look is similar to the old game, you can clearly see the assets are higher resolution, making the Classic mode an absolute joy of nostalgia. In this mode, the game reverts back to the old graphics, old sound files and static non-zooming camera. Luckily the game has the option of playing in Classic mode. While the new sound effects added to the game is welcomed and really well done, I found myself missing the old sound just too much, and I found the new audio files distracting to the point that I really didn’t like it. Some may find that endearing, but I found it frustrating after so many years of playing other RTS games with better pathfinding and AI. The AI and pathfinding, for example, is still precisely like the old game. It’s been such a long time since last I played AoE that the core mechanics feel archaic and old. There is definitely some rose-tinted glass watching going on here. The game may look brand new but feels old. However, much like the old car, there are drawbacks in just putting a new engine into an old shell. There are other changes, like attack movement added to the game, and you can now queue unit building, plus the farms are replenished by a right click. That is a big change and makes all-out war extremely hectic. Apart from the obvious bug fixes, you would come to expect, the population cap has been lifted from 50 to 250. There are a bunch of gameplay tweaks as well. There is a stark contrast when looking at the two versions side by side though, and it’s only then that you really get to appreciate the graphical step-up the game has made. But everything feels very similar to the old version. All the buildings still look familiar, though they have received an update, the units have much more detail to them and the terrain is fantastic. The game looks visually stunning but still the same. And that’s what AoE feels likeįirstly the graphics overhaul is fantastic. Those cars look and feel like the older versions of themselves, yet runs more modern and better. Those cars that get the new engines and new suspension and stuff. Right, I’ve played about 3 hours of the game last night, and here are my first impression thoughts:Īge of Empires Definitive Edition feels like one of those old cars that have been built up and made more modern. ![]()
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