A total disappointment to alot of Age Of Empires fans.
I played the demo for a couple of hours to try and get the feel for it. I just couldn't find my heart accepting it. Nothing revolutionary, I would rather play Age of Empires II or Age of Mythology. I mean it was fun having all your little farms together and having different ores and things to collect and drop off buildings..but now it seems like you can have an Infinite farm with infinite gold farm, and the wood is ofcourse all over the place as usual(nothing wrong with wood). It's just to easy how you gather supplies now, there is no point in venturing out for more resources because of the inifnite food farm and gold farm.
and the Trading post seems kinda..stupid..they are like control points from WH40k (I read that from another review, and also found it myself to be true).
Most of the time its send out infantry to attack each other and artillery to take down the buildings..yes the same as AoEII but there is nothing special about it. kinda gets repetative.
Personally I dont like it how its all european civilizations. I liked having the Arabs(saracens), Persians, Japanese, chinese, Etc. More variety in buildings and units, etc.
Microsoft totally disappointed me by this game..And I thought they would get it right like they did the other AoEs and AoM.