"So, within the Definitive Edition you have a whole new expansion, basically: you've got three new campaigns, a whole bunch of new missions, you've got four new civilizations to play with as well, so right there you're pretty much already at 10 dollars into the game." "Well, we sell expansions for the game as well and the expansions usually run about 10 bucks, right?" Isgreen tells me. Talking to Adam Isgreen, Creative Director for Age of Empires on the Microsoft side of things and Bert Beeckman, co-founder of Forgotten Empires, the studio that takes the lead on these remasters, the first thing I wanted to ask was why an HD owner would want to upgrade.
Thankfully, there is more to the Definitive Edition than that. Oh and you can also already play Age of Empires 2 HD, which tidied up the original's visuals and, according to its store page, brought in "improved AI, workshop support, multiplayer, Steamworks integration and more!" So if you're anything like me, that might've made you think twice. It’s also available on subscription service Xbox Game Pass for PC.The only problem with Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is that you can already play the original Age of Empires 2. On the whole, this is an excellent update which I believe will please lapsed players looking to return to an old favorite, as well as new players who are curious about a genuine classic.Īge of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is out now on Windows PC. AI enemies are less likely to feel like they’re cheating, or worse, to behave self-destructively.ĪI has come a long way in the last two decades, and Definitive Edition’s improvements in this area really show. Path-finding is much better too units generally go where I want them to go. Perhaps it’s this change that I like the most or, to put it another way, it was the AI’s limitations that I liked the least in the 2013 re-release of Age of Empires 2. In single-player mode, the game’s AI has been spruced up. Online play has also seen a lot of user interface improvements as well as a switch to server-based contests. The transition to playing real humans is now much smoother. Now, the transition from AI to human enemies is eased with a specific tutorial called Art of War, that can save a lot of dismal defeats online. There’s a bunch of hard lessons to learn about common strategies. Playing online is a totally different experience than playing computer-controlled opponents, almost to the point of being a different game. Transition to online play is now much easier
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