A good Warcraft clone set in ancient history.

User Rating: 6.5 | Age of Empires PC
By afpabon | Review Date:
Age of Empires is a game where I have a very particular opinion. It's a good game, and the theme is great. No one had ever put out a game set in ancient (real) history, and Ensemble did it, with mostly good results both evoking the real period and keeping it fun.

The game, however, suffers from several issues:

The first one is it's lack of originality. The game plays exactly as Warcraft II did 2 years before. In fact, Warcraft II visuals and responsiveness were actually better than in AoE.

The second one (and in my opinion, bigger one) was that despite having 12 playable "races", all of them played exactly the same. Not only that (Warcraft 2 had two sides with mostly equivalent units), the units actually looked and sounded the same, no matter your side. It looks almost as if they wanted to aim for something bigger, but ended up not doing it.

So, despite being a rather good game, it's got some serious flaws that make it feel half-baked.

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